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Bertha will never forget the look on George’s face when he left her in Newport.
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She knows exactly where her husband has gone in the wee hours of the night.
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But George pulled through. He recovered, and he woke again, and for a few, blessed moments, he laid eyes upon Bertha and did not frown or flinch, simply smiled at her and held her hand and told her “I’ll be quite alright, my dear.”
The trouble is, Bertha made the altogether foolish mistake of believing he meant they would be alright, as well.
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“C’mon, let’s get you home.” Clark holds out his hand, helping Lois up from her chair like she’s a character in an Old Hollywood movie. When he presses a kiss to the back of her hand, mindful of the few reporters sitting at the outer edges of the bullpen, she can’t help it, she grins.
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“What is your mother’s ambition for you?” Gladys asks. “A baron? An earl?”
The girl flushes, a deep crimson that spreads from her neck all the way to the tips of her ears. “Nothing below a viscount,” she murmurs.
Gladys hums. “Well, some might call that reasonable. My mother insisted on a duke.”
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George takes a breath, and perches on the corner of Bertha’s bed, sinking into the plush mattress. “Our baby girl, married.”
Married. The word hangs heavy in the air between them, full of unspoken things. This moment of connection feels fragile, far too easy to break. Tonight, he finds he desperately wants it to remain intact.
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“Ten points, with a double-word score.” Athena tallies the word on the pad of paper sitting on Bobby’s kitchen table and takes a sip of her wine. “Your turn.”
“I’m starting to regret agreeing to play this with you,” he says, but there’s a twinkle in his eye. They’re on round two, and it’s technically a rematch, but it’s shaping up to be another wipeout. In her favour.
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Whatever Bobby expected from the afterlife, it isn’t this.
or; Bobby doesn’t die in in the lab. Necessary conversations follow.
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The box arrives on their doorstep a week after Bobby calls his Aunt Helen.
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“You okay?” Athena asks, as the taillights of the black Suburban disappear from view and all that’s left of Bobby’s mother is the hospital bracelet he shoved into the pocket of his pants when they cut it off her wrist with the Swiss Army knife he keeps on his keys.
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"The type of surgery I learned is the most useful here, where my tools are limited.” She’s been grateful for that, time and again. “But I chose it when I thought I could never come back.”
“Yer head might’ve thought so, Sassenach,” Jamie says, “but yer heart chose, too. Maybe it knew — that ye were meant t’come back, meant to find me again.”
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It’s surreal that she’s going home. Arm in a sling, face stitched up. The doctor prescribed her painkillers and a nurse showed her how to shower without getting the cast wet. What they couldn’t tell her is how to stop replaying the attack on an endless loop in her head, flashes of darkness and terror as soon as she closes her eyes.
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Gibbs is judicious with his words; he chooses them as carefully as he carves the wood for that damn boat sitting down in the basement below them. Fits them together with the precision of an invisible joint.
If he says it out loud, it means something. For better, or worse.
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a long, long journey (to the capital city) by epigraphs
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
08 Mar 2024
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“You know,” George says, walking over to the sofa where she’s sitting so he can give her shoulder a squeeze, “you could do something about it if you wanted.”
Bertha glances up at her husband, confusion etched in her features. “What, call him up and tell him he’s too noncommittal and too scared to lose next cycle to get anything done?”
“Well, you could do that,” he says, shrugging his shoulders. “Or you could run for his seat.”
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They don’t retreat to his study every night.
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Five times Bertha joins George in his office, and one time he returns the favour.
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a place where i don't feel alone by epigraphs
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Organized Crime (TV 2021)
14 Feb 2024
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She finds out from Curry, of all people.
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wait (just a little while) by epigraphs
Fandoms: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Organized Crime (TV 2021)
27 Jan 2024
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They’ve talked a few times, since he’s been back.
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if she never showed up (what could've been) by epigraphs
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
17 Jan 2024
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She’s heard chatter about the Russells for years now.
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Oh, he’ll spend the night in his own room, lying between cold sheets. And then, tomorrow night, after Bertha realizes this whole business of having separate bedrooms and actually using them is absurd, George will bask in the warmth of his victory — and the warmth of his wife, curled up against his side.
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picture me in the weeds (before i learned civility) by epigraphs
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
11 Dec 2023
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“Bee! I wasn’t told you’d be here tonight! My goodness, what a surprise.” Bertha tries not to wince at the silly old name, the one she hasn’t heard since childhood, the one she’s tried her hardest to bury down deep and forget.