Uh...Kinda forgot to post these? Awake Fanfic

[scribblemyname]

Reaction Shots: Red

Fandom: Awake
Author's Note: for lithiumlaughter
Title: The Bridge
Summary: Hannah didn't want to know. She was completely cut off from it, and it hurt too terribly much.

Hannah didn't really know what to believe. Maybe Michael really did somehow magically cross that barrier from one world into another where their son still lived.

But.

She didn't want to know. She couldn't stand to know, because she was completely cut off from it, and it hurt too terribly much.

She wondered sometimes why Michael was so much stronger, but he was the one who got to hold Rex and tell him he loved him one last time. "You're the last part of Rex I have," she'd told him. If she was ever brave enough to use that bridge again.

Tell him I love him.

I will.

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Title: Orphan
Summary: Emma didn't even have the benefit of the normal warning signs.

Emma didn't even have the benefit of the normal warning signs. She figured it out after she went more than two months without a period.

Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh—

Outwardly, she was calm. That's how she was taught to be, and she saw no reason to change that now. She just had to tell her parents and think this through and write a letter of complaint to the manufacturer of her favored birth control.

—man. The man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with is dead. He's gone, and I'm—

She could do this. She could be strong and raise a child by herself. Mothers did it all the time, and so many of those kids turned out great. So many widows or divorcees who did just fine.

—pregnant.

Emma laid her head on her hands and cried.

Comments

[lithiumlaughter.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Oh, wow.

Oh, Hannah. I absolutely loved that moment in the show. That precise, tiny second where she thinks that maybe, possibly, perhaps Michael's not crazy and that there could be that barrier. You captured her whole mindset in that moment gorgeously; it completely explains why that moment happened in the first place, and why she avoids any mention of anything like that again.

And Emma. OH SWEET WORDS THAT I CANNOT FIND. The poor girl. Oh, gawd. I just ache for her here, and I love you for it. You claim I can cause pain through my writing? Oh, woman, I do believe I am not the only one with that skill.


(Also, just powered through "Insurgent" tonight. Let me know as soon as you get it and finish it, because there are Things We Must Discuss. Capitals necessary.)

[scribblemyname]

Yay, oh yay. I was so worried whether I really captured the moments, did them justice, and if you actually hurt for them, then I did. Goodness, I love these two.

I really wrote the first one as a reaction to the whole "Hannah-has-no-personality" camp, and I have "Coping Mechanisms" in the works as an even stronger expression of just how much I disagree. I mean, get real. This is a woman who has dealt with being a police detective's wife long enough to realize that she has to let her own needs take backseat to his duty and take the good that she gets. She also just lost her son and shares her husband's reaction in needing desperately to hold onto what she's got. Yeah, she's forgiving. Yeah, she's understanding. Doesn't make her a doormat. :growls:

Okay, getting off soap box.

And Emma. Oh, Emma. I actually wrote this before I saw "Game Day." I saw that picture that looked like she might be pregnant and the whole ramifications just slammed into me. I mean, you fall in love with this guy, he dies, and you find out you're carrying his child. And you're not even a widow. I mean, breath-stopping gasping-level ouch. Naturally, I couldn't leave it alone.

And Insurgent. Ooooh! :bounces up and down: And I haven't even initiated Awake squee yet. :glares at self: Ooooh! I hate having to wait!