continua (continua) wrote in supernatural100, @ 2008-09-23 17:28:00 |
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Entry tags: | prompt 15: breathe |
Just Breathe (prompt #15)
Title: Just Breathe
Characters/Pairing: Ellen, Bill
Rating: G
Word Count: 136
Challenge/Prompt: #15 - breathe
Summary: "Breathe," Bill would say to her.
"Breathe," Bill would say to her when she got scared, when she got angry. "Just breathe, honey."
"Don't you 'honey' me, William Harvelle," she'd yell back at him.
But now, she hears his voice. When she checks the mailbox, anxiously waiting for another postcard from Jo, when she feels her insides sink because there's nothing there, just empty space. "Breathe," she hears him say. "No news is good news, Ellie."
"Whatever," she mutters to herself, looking around to check that no one's heard her. Her neighbors already think she's crazy.
Sometimes it seems to Ellen that her whole life has been nothing but loss, but grief. Jo's not hurt yet, not dead yet, but it's only a matter of time, only a matter of when.
"Breathe," she tells herself. But it doesn't help. It never did.