Nov. 16th, 2014


[info]marygoround

Wild Horses (Mary and Johnny)

Eventually, the planets blended together for Mary. It didn’t matter because there was always a new culture to learn. Always some threat or other to worry about. Her family was there, but Johnny wasn’t. She’d stopped hoping that she’d wake up and he’d be there a few planet hops ago. She’d even lost the hope that they’d eventually find a way to take the fight to the aliens and get them to send everyone home. Even if she was sent home, she wasn’t sure if it would be to her time period.

So when she woke up in a bed that smelled very strongly of Johnny’s shampoo, she thought at first that it was just another plan that the aliens had of screwing with her head. Once she had enough time to open her eyes and look around, she realized with a start that it was the motel room she’d been staying in before that angel spirited her away back into the past and started this whole nightmare.

It could be another fake Earth. The aliens had suckered them all in with that fake Electric City. She wasn’t going to just fall for it. Not this time. Not even when she got out of bed and spotted the all-too familiar cowboy hat on the table. Nor when she heard the hot water running in the bathroom.

She didn’t call out. Even as much as she wanted to. Instead, she just stared at the door to the bathroom. Waiting, perhaps, for someone to come out. Maybe this was just another forced roommate situation. If it was, then she really wanted to shoot whatever alien had put the cowboy hat here in the face. In spite of herself, her fingers stretched towards the hat, trembling. They hovered just a half an inch away, as if she couldn’t bring herself to confirm that it was just an illusion.

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