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alondradina · 2 years

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Decided to post the drabbles/ficlets I do for the Fanfiction Library Discord server on here. I don't have a home for most of them right now, but want them to see the light of day. 🤣

Their rules are that it can't be more than one Discord message, so that's 1999 characters or less.

This one also had special rules, that I've mostly negated for this snippet, because it was for a weekly drabble contest. (That I won!) The additional rule was that we were to make this fandom blind, and so couldn't use names or make specific fandom references.

I'm using this in an actual story now, though, and so have added things back into it. 🤷 So there's names and stuff.

This one's prompt was: "The right choice has to be made, not the easy one."

"When were you going to tell me? When were you going to tell me that this," she holds her marked hand out to him, and the green light glimmers for a moment before going out, "would be the end of me?"

He steps back again and she matches it forward to lean up into his face. "When were you going to tell me, Solas? Tell me that it would spread and consume me?" Here she steps back but doesn't break eye contact, "Or that you would come to take it from me. That doing so would kill me?"

He stands in contrite silence.

"Were you going to give me warning, so that I might say goodbye to my family? Or were you going to take me, like you have taken me now, and leave my body where no one would ever find me? To rot in obscurity?"

"I would not leave you to rot," he says quietly. When she won't break eye contact he does, turning his back to her again.

A sound, half sob and half laugh, escapes her before she falls to her knees. "How many times will you destroy this world?" She accuses. "How many times will you remake it? What will it take to satisfy you?"

He sighs and crouches next to her, "The right choice has to be made-"

"Whose choice? It's always your decision! You don't care about anyone-"

"I care about you."

"You don't care," She laughs and refuses to look at him. "You don't care about me. I have to die for your plan to succeed."

"The right choice has to be made," he repeats louder; gentle fingers slide under her chin, lifting her gaze to his. "Not the easy one."

Her eyes close and she refuses to say anything. She ignores his fingers curling into the hair at the base of her neck, ignores him pressing their foreheads together. Their breath mingles and she ignores him still.

She can't ignore the softness of his lips as he reverently kisses her. She can't ignore the way his breath catches, the way he pulls her forward to press in closer.

He loses his balance and falls backwards, taking her with him. She laughs despite herself, and even he gives a rueful chuckle. She lets him pull her into his lap. His arms ensnare her as he tucks her head under his chin.

"I'm not the right choice. I've never been the right choice. Why did you choose me?"

"I didn't."

"Oh? I don't recall choosing you."

"There are choices in life, yes, but sometimes… Sometimes they are made for you."

She snorts and tries to sit up, but his fingers dig into her waist and hold her down.

"You weren't the right choice and you weren't the easy choice, but, of all the wrongs I've committed, choosing to stay with you when I knew-"

"When you knew you'd have to kill me?"

"It must be done. There is no choice here; only lesser and greater evils."

"Am I lesser or greater?" She fights his attempt to turn her, to look her in the eye. "No. Don't look at me. Just do it."

"It's not yet time-"

"Just do it!"

"I won't. Not yet. It isn't time."

She sprawls backwards with hands outstretched. "Kill me or keep me. Don't make me live in purgatory."

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