And When We Speak (andwhenwespeak) wrote in tv_100, @ 2008-08-18 16:58:00 |
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Entry tags: | fandom: millennium, prompt #53 |
Choose Life (Millennium, prompt #53)
Title: Choose Life
Fandom: Millennium
Characters/Pairing: Catherine
Rating: G
Word Count: 224
Challenge/Prompt: # 53 - denial
Summary: Catherine understands.
Notes: Set during season 1.
Catherine understands that the only way it's possible for Frank to do what he does is to pretend that it can't touch her and Jordan. That it can't reach them, is something far away, something from another world. Frank needs to believe that their happy yellow house is a sacred place, a place where bad things wouldn't even dream of dwelling.
And she lets him pretend, lets him delude himself, because she understands that to keep him sane, it's utterly necessary.
She worries, though. Because she knows Frank's work can't help but affect their lives. He can't help but bring home what he sees, what's in his head. It's with him, always, so it's with them, too.
Frank keeps his files in the basement with his computer and sometimes she swears she can feel them. The photographs, the words, the cases, the killers, lurking down there, twisting and oozing impatiently beneath her feet. Just waiting for their chance.
One day, she knows, Frank's work will come home to them and she'll be forced to act, to decide. Between her husband and her child and the thing that scares her more than anything, that terrifies her beyond thinking, is that she already knows who she'll put first, who'll she choose.
She knows, because she made that decision long ago, and she chose him. She always will.