continua (continua) wrote in prompt_100, @ 2009-12-07 17:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | #: prompt 109, fandom: sex and the city |
Friends Like These (Sex and the City, prompt #109)
Title: Friends Like These
Fandom: Sex and the City
Characters: Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, Samantha
Rating: G
Word Count: 261
Challenge/Prompt: #109 - timing
Summary: It's all in the timing.
"When it comes to relationships," says Carrie, punctuating her words with a drag on her cigarette, "it's all in the timing." She nods, exhaling a cloud of smoke.
The others ponder in silence for a moment, and then Miranda screws up her face. "But what does that even mean? 'It's all in the timing'? You could say that about anything, you could say that about nuclear physics or making lasagne, 'it's all in the timing'."
"God, you're such a lawyer sometimes," says Samantha, smirking.
"Fuck you," says Miranda.
Charlotte shudders visibly at the 'fuck', Carrie notes, but then gathers herself, saying, "No, no that's true."
"Bullshit," says Samantha, and Miranda laughs.
"No," Charlotte says earnestly, "because you could meet the love of your life, but if you meet them at the wrong time, then you miss your chance, and that's it, they're gone." Her eyes are wide at the thought.
"I've met the love of my life plenty of times," Samantha says. "And he's always been gone in the morning." She downs the rest of her drink, signalling to the barman for another. "Thank god for that."
"But what if he's the One?" says Charlotte. "What if it's fate? Or destiny!"
"If it's meant to happen, it'll happen," says Miranda, shrugging.
"That's exactly what I'm saying!" Charlotte says, exasperated.
Carrie raises her cosmopolitan. "Ladies," she says, "a toast. To destiny."
"Sure," says Samantha, rolling her eyes.
"To destiny!" says Charlotte.
"Whatever," says Miranda.
They clink their glasses, and Carrie watches them, smiling to herself. To friends, she adds, silently. To friendship.