5/28 #2: One of my best, Prompt #08
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lonetreadTitle: Selfish
Fandom: Moonlight
Word Count: 100
Rating: T
Prompt:
un_love_you #08 – I'm cruel.Table: http://lonetread.livejournal.com/14758.html#cutid1
A/N: Spoiler-free for the post-strike eps; set during LLF. Also, I didn't check the quotes on the this one; sorry if I paraphrased.
I tear my eyes away from where Josh lies bleeding – dying – and turn them on Mick instead.
“You can save him. Turn him, he’ll live!”
Mick backs away, horrified. “That’s not living, Beth.”
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I know he’s right.
I know it’s cruel to ask Mick to do that.
Selfish, to expect Josh to want it.
But Josh is dying at my feet, there is nothing I can do, and Mick is refusing to help. Aren’t I entitled?
So I let myself be angry at Mick.
I’ll forgive him eventually. But not today.
Not now.
“You can save him. Turn him, he’ll live!”
Mick backs away, horrified. “That’s not living, Beth.”
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I know he’s right.
I know it’s cruel to ask Mick to do that.
Selfish, to expect Josh to want it.
But Josh is dying at my feet, there is nothing I can do, and Mick is refusing to help. Aren’t I entitled?
So I let myself be angry at Mick.
I’ll forgive him eventually. But not today.
Not now.
