Fic: Promises Broken
An early X-mas gift for blahbaby . Please note this is not Firefly fic.
Title: Promises Broken
Author: Rinny
Wordcount: 335
Fandom: Dawson's Creek
She had made him promise to be faithful.
She’d made him promise a lot of things at the time, a list of rules and regulations longer than Hammurabi’s Code. That should probably have been his first clue that their relationship was doomed from the start.
The saying ‘love is blind’ had never been more true when it came to Drue Valentine. He’d wanted Jen Lindley, and he intended to have her one way or another. So he connived, and when that didn’t work, he plotted, and when that failed, he waited. Oh, man, had he waited.
Nothing else mattered, so long as he got her. He’d follow whatever rules she laid out, jump through all the right hoops three times over, if that’s what it took. In the end, it was patience that won her over. Patience and all the promises and rules he’d had to agree to.
No other fool would have put up with it. Any of it. But, Drue was a different sort of man. Didn’t even realize he’d done it all out of love until it was too late to acknowledge the emotion. Didn’t even realize it until this very moment, when his chest felt like it was cracking wide open.
He knew the sound breaking from the back of her throat. Knew the sharp inhalation of air because she couldn’t breathe, she felt so good. Knew just how soft she was. Hot.
He should have looked away the moment he registered that it was Pacey’s mouth on her neck. His hands on her breasts. His muscles rippling as he fucked his girlfriend. Should have looked away, shouldn’t have stopped them, should have thrown Pacey off her and beat the shit out of him.
His hand clenched into a fist at the thought, but he didn’t move. Couldn’t seem to tear his eyes away from the tableau in front of him.
She’d made him promise to be faithful.
It never occurred to him that he should make her promise the same.