14 - the days I live without you

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I'm so very sorry for the lateness of the new post. But this is the first time LJ is working for me again.  I wrote a sonnet for you but is now forever lost in the glitches :( 
So no funny business here, I know you want to get back to the usual game ASAP.

There is a substitute on dreamwidth in case LJ is having trouble again.

The usual things:

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[anonymous]

Something with homelessness, please.

Power (6b/?) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

Tony looks like he's about to cry and David is very awkward. He's not even certain who Tony's talking about now. "Tony..." He stretches out a hand to gently lay on the man's shoulder, expecting him to pull away.

He doesn't. He pauses a second, then laughs. "Sorry!" he says, wiping his eyes. "Sorry, sometimes I just -- I must have terrified you, musn't I? Me and my emotional problems."

David can only blink. Well that was quick. "Are you alright?" he asks, both out of genuine concern and as a more polite form of what the hell is going on here?Tony shrugs. "Ah, the world is what it is. Nothing appears to have changed, at least not on this particular day." He chuckles away to himself. "I must admit, it's nice that you worry

Re: Power (6b/?) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

Tony is a mess and Dave still breaks my heart! Please more :)

Power (7/?) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

Running feet and the door slams, a figure collapsing in front of it, shaking, breathing heavily and running their fingers through their hair. It takes them all a second to process this

Power (8/?) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

A couple of hours later, David retreats to that room also. She's still curled up on the mattress, cat-like, drumming her fingers. Gingerly he sits beside her.

"So," he says. "How are you?"

"Fine."

He waits for any further response. Receives none. He coughs. "Don't worry about Tony. He just..."

"Tony is an arrogant, self-obsessed, self-righteous fool," she snaps. A pause. Well, I might not have put it quite like that. "God knows how he wound up here. Men like that usually do quite well for themselves

Power (9a/?) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

so I suddenly remembered this after like two years and was motivated to try and finish it. Unreliable? Who's unreliable?David acknowledges he's spying, and he shouldn't, and he feels appropriately guilty about it. John and Margaret are both asleep (Margaret's been sleeping so much lately) and so should he be - it's the middle of the night, and he usually ignores it when Tony comes home from work. But Tony and Gordon lingering around outside to discuss whatever they need to discuss is suspicious, so he will make peace with his conscience later

Power (9b/?) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

It's shockingly vulnerable. It catches David off guard, and Gordon too.

“...I still love you.” It's hardly convincing. Tony shakes his head.

“You try to. After all I'm the last thing you've got. Who else could you love?” There are three other people here, David thinks, with only slight bitterness. “But I'm not - I'm not who I was. I try to be, but it's not the same.”

David doesn't know what his response would be, if anyone was asking him to respond, and Gordon doesn't seem to know what his actually is. He coughs uncomfortably. “C'mere.”

Tony doesn't hesitate. They embrace and David looks on, curious. Somehow this both makes sense of things and only confuses him more. Gordon stays silent a long time.

“...We can't go back,” he says, eventually. Oh right, that. “Where would we go? Our families are gone by now,” he says. “Property prices might be lower there, but there aren't the jobs.” David looks at Tony, and he can tell this makes sense to him. It was all a fantasy, really. “And what would you tell Ali

Re: Power (9b/?) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

This whole thing is amazing.
You made me cry, and I'm so glad that you came back, if only briefly to give us this.
If this is all we have then it's 100% worth it.

Power (10/12) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

Margaret is getting sicker. That's something they all know, but don't acknowledge. In some ways, its a relief not to have her snide tones in their ears all day, and yet David worries as he watches her sleep all day. He turns to John about that, asking if they shouldn't take her to hospital - after all, isn't this what the NHS was made for

Power (11/12) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

One morning, David wakes and feels something cool pressed against his back. He doesn't make much of it. It's winter in London; they're cold more often than they aren't. They have to huddle together for any sort of warmth, regardless of whether or not they like each other.

And then he realises, the coldness pressed against him is a person. Margaret. He knows the feel of her body by now. That's odd; she's hardly the cuddly type.

Then he realises she's dead.

That dwells on him slowly, without an instant understanding of what that means. He rolls on his side in horror. “Margaret? Margaret!” She still looks like she's asleep; peaceful, even - David isn't sure he's ever seen her look so peaceful. “Margaret, please, wake up!”

It's no use. She's long gone. She starved herself, he thinks, looking at her hollow cheeks. She did not think she deserved to be taken care of, and so she wasn't - he doubts she technically died of starvation, but she was an old woman, and how long can most old women go without being fed

Power (12/12) (Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher)

[anonymous]

This Ali - Alistair Campbell, as he introduces himself - shows up in a beat-up old car, and doesn't seem to shocked to be transporting a body. David doesn't ask about Peter. It doesn't matter now, he supposes