Something Like That
Mar. 30th, 2011 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorksidefikerTitle: Something Like That
Author:fullmetal_cute
Fandom: Runaways
Table/Prompt: Table 1/20. Love
Character/Pairing: Klara
Rating: PG
Word Count: 263
Summary: Klara’s found out what happened to her husband.
Authors Notes/Disclaimer: I own nothing.
It was a week before Klara asked if there was some way to learn what happened to her husband in the last hundred years. Almost two weeks after that, Victor came to her with a photocopy of a newspaper from 1910, detailing a bar fight that resulted in a fire that destroyed three buildings. Her husband was listed among the dead.
She read the article over and over, keeping it with her until it fell apart, and she was surprised to discover that she felt only a sense of relief. She was a widow. He was well and truly gone.
When she had first been married, she had been presented with a wedding band, and she was told that it was a mark of his ownership of her. Klara had been forced to pawn it shortly after they had arrived in New York . If she had still had it, she would have thrown it away.
Klara had never felt anything for her husband other than fear. Here, now, she was truly free of him. He couldn’t reach her here.
Chase suggested they throw a party, but Klara dismissed this as being too disrespectful of the dead.
He bought Klara a cake anyway. It was rich and sweet and she had never had anything so fine in her memory. She wanted more things like that in her life.
Author:
fullmetal_cute Fandom: Runaways
Table/Prompt: Table 1/20. Love
Character/Pairing: Klara
Rating: PG
Word Count: 263
Summary: Klara’s found out what happened to her husband.
Authors Notes/Disclaimer: I own nothing.
It was a week before Klara asked if there was some way to learn what happened to her husband in the last hundred years. Almost two weeks after that, Victor came to her with a photocopy of a newspaper from 1910, detailing a bar fight that resulted in a fire that destroyed three buildings. Her husband was listed among the dead.
She read the article over and over, keeping it with her until it fell apart, and she was surprised to discover that she felt only a sense of relief. She was a widow. He was well and truly gone.
When she had first been married, she had been presented with a wedding band, and she was told that it was a mark of his ownership of her. Klara had been forced to pawn it shortly after they had arrived in New York . If she had still had it, she would have thrown it away.
Klara had never felt anything for her husband other than fear. Here, now, she was truly free of him. He couldn’t reach her here.
Chase suggested they throw a party, but Klara dismissed this as being too disrespectful of the dead.
He bought Klara a cake anyway. It was rich and sweet and she had never had anything so fine in her memory. She wanted more things like that in her life.