"First Cut is the Deepest", for Challenge 111 - Pride

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Title: First Cut is the Deepest
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG (mild language)
Challenge: 111 - Pride
Characters/Pairing: Nick/Stephen
Warnings: None, really. Slash, I guess, in case you're squicked by it...oh and a dungload of angst.
Spoilers: End of S2...? I guess...I'm almost finished the season. :P (Also, I haven't seen S3 yet. So please don't reverse spoil, either! D:)
Authors Notes: I finally figured out what these two are doing in my other fic...just in time to see the S2 drama happening. Trying to reconcile things in my head. :P Also, I KNOW there are some anachronisms here in terms of when things happened. Just...pretend they're not there. Kay? :D

He wants nothing more than to go to him and say, "I'm sorry," but his pride won't let him. He won't, he can't, admit that he was wrong. 

 

Her taste still lingers on his lips; he looks at Nick and all he tastes is betrayal. 

 

There's blood on the floor, spilt recently, fresh, and he can't help but feel it matches the wounds in Nick's eyes. The wounds he's made. 

 

His every word is like a double-edged blade, and he feels its bite as keenly as his lover--ex-lover? The thought makes him cold--must. 

 

Damn that woman. 

 

...No. 

 

 

 

Damn his pride.

 

Comments

[telperion-15.livejournal.com]

Oh meep. Good look at Stephen's turmoil.

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

I swear, there is no way that man can be so very involved in S1 and then turn against the same man in S2 and NOT have some turmoil. :P Thanks for the comment!

[fredbassett]

Nicely angsty!

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

I do enjoy angst. ^^; And emotionally torturing pretty men.

[slashybits.livejournal.com]

Oh. Owww! Poor boys! Well done with the angst!

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[nietie.livejournal.com]

Oh! Very good and intense drabble. Love it.

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad the intensity communicated itself here!

[lukadreaming.livejournal.com]

Eek and ouch at the angst!

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

It was painful to write, too...:P

[cordeliadelayne]

Oh, angst overload!

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll write a happy one next time...

:3 Thanks for the comment!

[knitekat.livejournal.com]

Nice and angsty..

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[sunsets-dinos.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! This is great! I loved the ending so much! :)

[tseecka.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you! I love getting comments about my endings--they're the part of my fics I put the most work into. :P