continua (continua) wrote in tv_100, @ 2009-12-29 12:56:00 |
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Entry tags: | fandom: medium, prompt #106 |
The Pain of Others ( Medium, prompt #106)
Title: The Pain of Others
Fandom: Medium
Characters/Pairing: Cynthia Keener
Rating: G
Word Count: 162
Prompt: #106 - pulse
Summary: The pain of others is Cynthia's stock and trade
The pain of others is Cynthia's stock and trade, her business, and sometimes she wonders if that should bother her. But only sometimes. Not often.
She's good at her job, she knows, and she feels things, she does, but they're distant, muted somehow, the colors washed out. A happy ending brings her joy, a bad result, sadness. Putting a criminal behind bars gives her satisfaction.
But none of it really touches her, not really. She goes home, stays up late, waiting, listening. Sometimes she doesn't lock the door, just in case.
She doesn't like to sleep.
The pain of others is what keeps her alive, makes her breathe in and out, put one foot in front of the other. She looks straight ahead, stays in control, overcomes difficulties. She ignores the empty space in her heart, the sorrow that pulses through her veins like the beat of a drum.
She smiles reassuringly at the grieving parents. "We're doing everything that we can," she says. "Everything."