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Fill The World |
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Fill the World Author: Maeve Disclaimer: TWW belongs to AS, JW, WB and NBC. Spoilers: none AN: Poor Toby, every time I put him with CJ, I stir up trouble. Mr. Shakespeare and I have a rather tempestuous relationship. He’s dead and I steal from him. ************************************************************************************************** “Why should she live to fill the world with words?” Henry VI, 5.5.43 ************************************************************************************************** He mumbles the Shakespearian line as the born insult that it is. He whispers it in her direction because she spoke the truth to him, and it hurt. His pain isn’t usually quite so lyrical, but her voice rang poetic while she forced him to face the truth. So he answers her in mumbled pentameter. He doesn’t know she reads his words from studied lips. He doesn’t know she hears his whisper. She tells him she heard his words later that night, when he’s stroking her hair from her face. He winces, fingers ringing in the silken locks. His eyes drop in embarrassment, regret frowning his beard. She tells him its okay. Her whisper draws against his skin, refreshing and warm. She tells him she loves him anyways. The next day he watches her in silence, studying her grace behind the Presidential seal. He sees her smile stroke warmth into the room. Her dry voice drawing laughter from the people around her. He finds her smirking elegantly towards him, bypassing her expectant press and leaning a stolen smile his way. Her voice turns from him, releasing into the crowd around her. Her job well carried, voice ringing out information. And he understands her words to the world. She lives to fill the world with words. She lives to fill his world with everything. Click Toby and CJ to send feedback:
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