intheheart: Alexis Bledel with loose hair, bangs, and a red shirt, smiling at the camera. (in the heart : clara : alexis bledel)
intheheart ([personal profile] intheheart) wrote2012-01-03 04:35 pm

Marginalia

Title: Marginalia
Rating: PG
Summary: Gary finds something, after Lynne's death.
Date: March 2006
Notes: Big image behind the cut.


The page is fragile, brittle and worn. It's an old book, after all; Gary got it in 1971, a gift from his advisor on declaring his major.

A handy gift; it helped win him Lynne. So much so that he gave her this book as a wedding present. It stayed with her in the hospital, and now, he supposes, it is his again.

The pages crinkle as he turns to their sonnet, #29, and stops-- there's a message written there, in her familiar spiky handwriting. Even dying, she thought of him.

He holds the book to his chest and weeps.




Post a comment in response:

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting