Prompt: #002 - Death
Rating:FR15
Notes:Set in the S&R 'verse in the future. Will not make sense unless you've read at least one of the S&R fics
~ 17 August, 2031 ~
This was the death she always thought would kill her. At one time, the thought of losing Daniel would have sent her into a hysterical rage. It would have pushed her over the edge that she had walked on for so very long.
However, as she stared at the spot where her husband lay... She felt none of that.
She felt loss, but not the almost insane grief she had been so intimate with during those seven years after her high school graduation. Her heart ached at the thought of living without him. They’d loved each other for twenty-six years, been married for twenty of them. Their relationship – friendship – had survived separation, other loves... and way too many apocalypses.
Through it all, Daniel had the one constant in her life.
Yet, she wasn’t consumed by her grief.
Death wasn’t the enemy it once was.
They had been together too long, been through too much – SEEN too much – for it to be. To mourn him, the way she had always thought she would, would almost seem like a betrayal.
Besides, she knew things now that she hadn’t known back then.
She knew that death wasn’t the end. Not really. She’d eventually see Daniel again. One day. The Powers That Be owed Daniel. The Others owed her. One of them would pay up.
When she finally decided to stop fighting, stop living... He’d be waiting for her.
But she wasn’t ready...
Not yet.
Not today.
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