FIC: Home, [Eureka]
Title: Home
Fandom: Eureka
Characters: Jack Carter
Spoilers: set during the ending sequence of the S1 finale
Disclaimers: Sci-Fi channel is responsible for the crack that is Eureka
Word count: 295
Dedication: For empressvesica for her Holiday Wishlist.
Sheriff Jack Carter knows that he is a simple man. There are rules in his life: the rules of law, the rules of parenting, and even the rules of love, often broken. He likes the black and white, the simplicity of knowing the ins and outs and whys.
Since he’s come to Eureka, things have changed. Not much, imperceptible at first: flying cars and invisible people. Things like that are definitely not simple, but they follow their own rules just the same.
His daughter isn’t simple either, and rules for her are shattered on tantrum fits of teenaged fury. It’s like deciphering a new language, the grey spaces in between context and meaning. That may have been the beginning of his evolution, learning to speak Zoe, frustrated and lost in a sea of complexity not of his doing.
But at the end, stepping into a past that wretches his world away, he wonders if he’ll be able to translate who he was and who he could have been into who he now will be.
This simple man, with rules and a firm definition of black and white, sits on the stairs of his freaky modern house, and watches his daughter walk through the door like she’s done a hundred times before, and sees nothing but grey.
He wants to tell her how wonderful she will be, but the words won’t come. There is no translation for that sort of possibility, not when he’s held it in his arms and watched her shine. So be bites his tongue and gives her the gift of familiar patterns, knowing there will be time to teach her to speak his language, as complex as hers and infinitely stronger.
For now, though, it is enough just to welcome her home.
Fandom: Eureka
Characters: Jack Carter
Spoilers: set during the ending sequence of the S1 finale
Disclaimers: Sci-Fi channel is responsible for the crack that is Eureka
Word count: 295
Dedication: For empressvesica for her Holiday Wishlist.
Sheriff Jack Carter knows that he is a simple man. There are rules in his life: the rules of law, the rules of parenting, and even the rules of love, often broken. He likes the black and white, the simplicity of knowing the ins and outs and whys.
Since he’s come to Eureka, things have changed. Not much, imperceptible at first: flying cars and invisible people. Things like that are definitely not simple, but they follow their own rules just the same.
His daughter isn’t simple either, and rules for her are shattered on tantrum fits of teenaged fury. It’s like deciphering a new language, the grey spaces in between context and meaning. That may have been the beginning of his evolution, learning to speak Zoe, frustrated and lost in a sea of complexity not of his doing.
But at the end, stepping into a past that wretches his world away, he wonders if he’ll be able to translate who he was and who he could have been into who he now will be.
This simple man, with rules and a firm definition of black and white, sits on the stairs of his freaky modern house, and watches his daughter walk through the door like she’s done a hundred times before, and sees nothing but grey.
He wants to tell her how wonderful she will be, but the words won’t come. There is no translation for that sort of possibility, not when he’s held it in his arms and watched her shine. So be bites his tongue and gives her the gift of familiar patterns, knowing there will be time to teach her to speak his language, as complex as hers and infinitely stronger.
For now, though, it is enough just to welcome her home.