Kate Heightmeyer Drabble-a-thon: Day 18

prompt: sunlight

Set post-Doppelganger

Eulogy

She brought sunlight.

Sometimes like the first touch of dawn after a long dark night: a word, a gesture, her endless quiet patience with those who had seen too much and done too much.

At other times, she lit the city with the slanting beams of a summer afternoon: laughter, smiles, her joy at life and living and loving and friendship.

In private, she burned with the fierceness of noon, giving and receiving pleasure without restraint or reserve.

Harsh duty might cloud her, but still she gave light for others to work by

She is gone; now comes the night.

Kate Heightmeyer Drabble-a-thon: Day 19

prompt: waiting

Courage Of Another Kind

The waiting was the worst part. Staying behind while the team was off world, not knowing what was happening to them, when they'd return... if they'd return. So much had happened to them, so many surprises here in Pegasus, that even the most innocuous meet-and-greet could send her imagination into overdrive.

Hearing about it afterwards, when she lay close to another beating heart, feeling warm breath on her face, was not so bad. No matter what scrapes the team had got into, or what new woe they'd set in chain for Atlantis, they'd returned.

No, the waiting was the worst.