Repairing the Damage

[wyrdwritere]

 The atmosphere in CIC was weirdly calm.  Everyone spoke quietly, concentrated on their duties, and did their best to ignore the blood stains where Private Jaffee had died the day before.  No one said anything beyond what their duties required, and none of them met the Admiral's gaze.

Then, two hours after his shift began, at his post manning the

Comments

[daybreak777]

Oh gods. Hoshi!!!!! I just want to give him a great big hug. But I can't so I will simply thank you instead. Thank you for writing this.

Not quiet tears that might have gone unnoticed, nor even a gentle sobbing that the Old Man and the XO might have chosen to overlook, but the harsh, agonized wails of a soul in torment.
Strangely, I'm glad that someone might grieve Felix like this. There are those who will remember him and well. Great snippet. Thanks again.

[millari]

When I first read this, I selfishly thought you had written it as a comfort to me. But I see now that it was about comforting yourself about the essential unfairness of all that happened to Felix and the choices he felt forced to make that resulted in his end. In a way this reminds me of Dee's death. It makes it feel like Felix's death was almost a suicide by mutiny, and much like Dee left Felix behind to go on, Felix has now left Hoshi behind. As this story illustrates, breaking up with him was a delusion on Felix's part that he could spare Hoshi the pain of being connected to someone who died

[puszysty]

awww. I really wouldn't want to be Hoshi after the mutiny, the poor guy.
I love Tigh as the voice of reason, because, yeah, he has been through this and is really going to be the only person who gets it.

[wyrdwritere]

I was really upset after Gaeta was killed, and imagining how devasted Louis must have been gave that an almost tangible focus. Realizing that Tigh could, and maybe would, actually sympathize with that feeling helped me write the fic, and then I felt much better.

Thanks for commenting.
:)