Vanilla 17, chocolate 1, strawberry 15: I Know This Much Is True
Title: I Know This Much Is True
Main Story: In the Heart
Flavors, Toppings, Extras: Vanilla 17 (stranded), chocolate 1 (loyalty/trust), strawberry 15 (key), rainbow sprinkles, pocky, malt (draloreshimare's stocking prompt: "Where do we go? I don't even know." - Keane).
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG.
Summary: Hugh reacts.
Notes: Another in my continuing quest to squash more prompts into a pocky than anyone has ever managed before. Follows Little by Little and The World Turned Upside Down.
"What happens now?" he asks Joanna, later.
Her silence is as helpless as his voice.
He doesn't know where to go, how to handle this. "She's not his." Is that true? Can it be true? If it is... how can he even start?
The one true and precious thing he had, and Yvonne destroyed it with four words. He knew she wasn't faithful; didn't care, because he had Olivia. Didn't care, because Olivia was all that mattered.
"Is she still?" Joanna asks, and he realizes he's said all that to her. "All that matters?"
Of course.
Oh.
There's his answer.
Main Story: In the Heart
Flavors, Toppings, Extras: Vanilla 17 (stranded), chocolate 1 (loyalty/trust), strawberry 15 (key), rainbow sprinkles, pocky, malt (draloreshimare's stocking prompt: "Where do we go? I don't even know." - Keane).
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG.
Summary: Hugh reacts.
Notes: Another in my continuing quest to squash more prompts into a pocky than anyone has ever managed before. Follows Little by Little and The World Turned Upside Down.
"What happens now?" he asks Joanna, later.
Her silence is as helpless as his voice.
He doesn't know where to go, how to handle this. "She's not his." Is that true? Can it be true? If it is... how can he even start?
The one true and precious thing he had, and Yvonne destroyed it with four words. He knew she wasn't faithful; didn't care, because he had Olivia. Didn't care, because Olivia was all that mattered.
"Is she still?" Joanna asks, and he realizes he's said all that to her. "All that matters?"
Of course.
Oh.
There's his answer.