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From: "Mareel" <mareel@gmail.com>
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Subject: NEW ENT:  Adrift 1/1 [G] (A/R)
Date: 26 Jan 2005 04:26:49 -0800
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Title: Adrift
Author: Mareel
Contact: Mar...@earthlink.net
Author's URL: www.geocities.com/bdebpr
Series: Enterprise
Rating: G
Status: Complete
Codes: Drabble, A/R
Archive: Permission to archive granted to ASC*, EntSTCommunity, Others
welcome, please ask.
Disclaimer: Of course they belong to Paramount, or more likely, to
themselves
Spoilers: Very general Season 3 and 4 thru Storm Front

Summary: Both have seen too much.
Author's Notes: This is the fourteenth in the Refuge series (sequel to
Sanctuary). It is set post Storm Front, but AU to Home.  It parallels
'Sanctuary' but is from Malcolm's perspective. I promise... things will
get better for them.

***

Adrift


He hides it better now... the losses sustained, the compromises made,
the very personal cost of our success.

Our days are full and he always manages to occupy himself with being
busy. But at night the brittle smile shatters... releasing torrents of
guilt and failure that overwhelm all satisfaction, dampen any joy.

I offer all I have to give him... my arms, myself, my love. I can only
hold his head about the flood of painful memories, ride out the waves
with him, rock him gently into fitful sleep.
.
I know all too well the look of a drowning man.

***
Finis



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