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yiling matriarch ([personal profile] marginalia) wrote2003-10-08 12:52 am

volatile - sean/elijah. yeah. astin. i give up.

originally for the [livejournal.com profile] lotrips100 quotation challenge, but i overshot. by. um. 100. so, here's a double drabble. two quotes (well, one quote and one dialogue snippet) from the english patient, of all things.



sean's already tidying the room when elijah awakes, and for a moment elijah considers feigning sleep until sean leaves. he has to leave, elijah reasons, he can't spend the rest of his life fussing around a hotel room, cleaning up everything except the words that are hanging in the air.

elijah had taken sean rough and fierce, spoken words sharp and cutting. when they collapsed in separate beds, sean's words came so soft elijah wished he had imagined them. do you think you are the only one who feels anything?

but now it's morning, and elijah drags himself from the bed, blinks against the words drifting through the sunlight and sean's back, rigid. elijah fights the urge to go to him, slip his arms around him, interlaced fingers on his warm sam-belly. instead he makes for the shower, lets the water pound and cleanse, transitory heat.

when he finally leaves the safety of the bathroom, sean is gone. elijah reaches for his cell phone, placed neatly on his folded jeans, and dials.

sean answers without checking the id. elijah's voice is ice. i just wanted you to know i'm not missing you yet.

sean hangs up. whispers. you will.

[identity profile] dorrie6.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Holy fuck.

You hate me, don't you?

This is so incredibly painful.

elijah's voice is ice. i just wanted you to know i'm not missing you yet.

Why don't you just KILL ME?

Gah. So well done. So awful and perfect.

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm sorry! i don't hate you! i don't know where it came from!

(though, i almost posted it with the comment "this will kill melinda". erm. yes.)

however, you know, *does the dance of evoking complicated emotion* thank you ;)
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[personal profile] starfishchick 2003-10-08 06:33 am (UTC)(link)









::stunned silence::

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
meep. i'm a-sorry. did i keeeeeel you or just knock you out? *peers*
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[personal profile] starfishchick 2003-10-09 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
*raises one hand, waves to the crowd*

She's alright, folks!

[identity profile] willysunny.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
um. ah. ahem. er.

::drops to the floor::

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
*helps you back up*

erm.

[identity profile] willysunny.livejournal.com 2003-10-09 06:11 am (UTC)(link)


*thanks*

beautiful, but.....

[identity profile] dacro.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
*sob!*

Re: beautiful, but.....

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
*angstangstangst*

:D

Re: beautiful, but.....

[identity profile] dacro.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
angst can be verra verra sexy...

*faints with a smile*

[identity profile] dacro.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
ooooooooh!
*plunk*

[identity profile] randomchef.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
whoa. i love you.

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
eeeee! *is loved*

[identity profile] scaryemilie.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
fnnng.

:)

WAH. every time i decide what my otp is, you go ahead and write something that changes it for me, *again*. no fair. :D

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
harry/neville4evahomgliekbbq

oh. wait. wrong fandom.

:D

[identity profile] donnagirl.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Whaaaaaa.

Jaci... you've killed me dead.

/weeps

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
NO DEATH!!!!!!!

*hands you a tissue*

:)

[identity profile] donnagirl.livejournal.com 2003-10-08 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
well, well... *sob*

Ok. No, I'll be ok. Ok.

*sniff*

says 'death'

[identity profile] crookedheart.livejournal.com 2003-10-09 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Dies.

*sniff*

no fair.

Re: says 'death'

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-10 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
i'm a-sorry. have a tissue :)

(i cannot even protest, cause you said death. dude. -that- is no fair)

Re: says 'death'

[identity profile] crookedheart.livejournal.com 2003-10-13 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
yah. I'm tricksy that way.

[identity profile] kiltsandlollies.livejournal.com 2003-10-09 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
*chews knuckles*

ow. farking ow ow ow ow.

brilliant and I loved it and I getting off my arse and friending you. run while you still can.

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-10 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
eeee! thank you!

*friends back*

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2007-08-07 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
(i found this tonight in the process of copying fic over to wordpress & privating entries. i'm ridiculously entertained that you friended me over astin/elijah. heeeee.)

[identity profile] mellyflori.livejournal.com 2003-10-10 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"elijah fights the urge to go to him, slip his arms around him, interlaced fingers on his warm sam-belly."

*sob*

This makes my heart hurt. I absolutely love it. It fills me with the urge to write devastating elijah/sean even though I know it won't be anywhere near this good. You.. you rock.

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-11 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't know where this elijah/sean thing is coming from. so much pain!

thank you :)

[identity profile] goovie.livejournal.com 2003-10-10 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, lord. i haven'tbeen able to read these til now, and they are killing me absolutely daid. it's all about the angst. sweet, sweet angst.

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-11 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
mmmmmmangst.

no death! there are rules!