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edenbound ([personal profile] edenbound) wrote2007-01-21 07:19 pm

TDIR: Outside

Fandom: The Dark Is Rising
Pairing: Will/Bran
Warnings: Angst, sap
Rating: G
Summary: Bran's whole life. For [livejournal.com profile] 5sentence_fics.



Bran says, sometimes, when he says anything about it, that Will is his whole life. It makes Will smile, lodges deep in his heart and changes something, warms something, but at the same time, it changes nothing. Will can't say it back, however much he'd like to -- he has a life, and a purpose, and if anything, Bran stops him from doing that quite as effectively as he should be doing.

He can say he loves Bran, but he can't give him more of himself than that. He's almost glad, because to love as Bran does -- fiercely, wholly, unconditionally -- hurts even in small measures, and would hurt him yet more in the end.