Phone - A Kara/Lee Mini Fic
Title: Phone
Author: Nytel
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Pairings: Kara/Lee, Kara/Zak
Genre: Angst
Word Count: 492
Beta: None. Any mistakes are mine.
Disclaimer: I am merely borrowing them. No copyright infringement is intended.
Word prompt from
i_am_girlfriday.
I wrote this to get me in the Kara/Lee mindset for FP.
Phone
When the phone rings in the middle of the night, it startles Lee awake. Blindly he reaches out and moves his hand around the night table until he finds what he’s looking for. Still half asleep he puts the receiver to his ear.
“Hello,” he says groggily, wondering who the hell is calling him at this hour.
“Zak asked me to marry him.”
The combination of Kara’s voice and the words she’s speaking throws him into complete wakefulness. In less than a second he’s sitting upright, the phone pressed tightly against his ear. “What?” He questions, not believing he heard her right.
“Tonight. He said he wants to marry me.” She sounds scared and unsure, nothing like the Kara he knows.
“What did you tell him?” Lee’s heart is pounding faster and faster now. He hopes she said no, even though he has no right. He gave up his chance with her a long time ago.
They’d been in flight school together. The night they’d received their wings, Kara had kissed him. Caught completely unaware, he had shoved her away, saying that he only thought of her as a friend. At the time it was true, but that single kiss had been enough to start him thinking about ‘what if’. Before he knew it he’d fallen hard for her. When he finally worked up the courage to tell her, he found out she was dating someone, his baby brother to be exact. Now Zak had proposed.
He hears Kara gulp. “I told him I don’t know. What should I do?”
All he wants to do is tell her to say no, tell her that it’s too soon and they don’t know each other well enough, but he can’t. Even if he were to try, he knows the words wouldn’t leave his mouth.
“Do whatever feels right.” He has to work hard to keep his voice from betraying his emotions, but it works.
He hears her sigh and it sounds like she’s disappointed. What other answer was she expecting? She must know that he can’t tell her which choice is the right one, so why even call? A part of him thinks she might have been hoping for him to object, but he’s sure that’s wishful thinking on his part. He pushes the thought away.
“Just do whatever will make you happy, Kara.”
Her response is barely audible and tinted with an emotion he’s pretty sure isn’t happiness. “I guess I should wake up Zak to tell him the good news.”
He hears a click as the line disconnects. He sits for a few minutes in shocked silence. Suddenly anger engulfs him, and before the actions have even registered in his mind he’s thrown the phone across the room, sending it flying into the unyielding wall. He hears it smash into pieces.
Self-hatred flares up and he wishes more than ever that he’d jumped at the opportunity while he’d had the chance.
The End
Author: Nytel
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Pairings: Kara/Lee, Kara/Zak
Genre: Angst
Word Count: 492
Beta: None. Any mistakes are mine.
Disclaimer: I am merely borrowing them. No copyright infringement is intended.
Word prompt from
i_am_girlfriday.
I wrote this to get me in the Kara/Lee mindset for FP.
Phone
When the phone rings in the middle of the night, it startles Lee awake. Blindly he reaches out and moves his hand around the night table until he finds what he’s looking for. Still half asleep he puts the receiver to his ear.
“Hello,” he says groggily, wondering who the hell is calling him at this hour.
“Zak asked me to marry him.”
The combination of Kara’s voice and the words she’s speaking throws him into complete wakefulness. In less than a second he’s sitting upright, the phone pressed tightly against his ear. “What?” He questions, not believing he heard her right.
“Tonight. He said he wants to marry me.” She sounds scared and unsure, nothing like the Kara he knows.
“What did you tell him?” Lee’s heart is pounding faster and faster now. He hopes she said no, even though he has no right. He gave up his chance with her a long time ago.
They’d been in flight school together. The night they’d received their wings, Kara had kissed him. Caught completely unaware, he had shoved her away, saying that he only thought of her as a friend. At the time it was true, but that single kiss had been enough to start him thinking about ‘what if’. Before he knew it he’d fallen hard for her. When he finally worked up the courage to tell her, he found out she was dating someone, his baby brother to be exact. Now Zak had proposed.
He hears Kara gulp. “I told him I don’t know. What should I do?”
All he wants to do is tell her to say no, tell her that it’s too soon and they don’t know each other well enough, but he can’t. Even if he were to try, he knows the words wouldn’t leave his mouth.
“Do whatever feels right.” He has to work hard to keep his voice from betraying his emotions, but it works.
He hears her sigh and it sounds like she’s disappointed. What other answer was she expecting? She must know that he can’t tell her which choice is the right one, so why even call? A part of him thinks she might have been hoping for him to object, but he’s sure that’s wishful thinking on his part. He pushes the thought away.
“Just do whatever will make you happy, Kara.”
Her response is barely audible and tinted with an emotion he’s pretty sure isn’t happiness. “I guess I should wake up Zak to tell him the good news.”
He hears a click as the line disconnects. He sits for a few minutes in shocked silence. Suddenly anger engulfs him, and before the actions have even registered in his mind he’s thrown the phone across the room, sending it flying into the unyielding wall. He hears it smash into pieces.
Self-hatred flares up and he wishes more than ever that he’d jumped at the opportunity while he’d had the chance.
The End