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Suspended in Time by Helsinkibaby (Rated PG)
Fandom: JAKE 2.0
Pairing: Kyle/Diane
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helsinkibaby
Author Website: The Band Gazebo
Why this must be read: Helsinkibaby is creating a nitty little universe, where Kyle and Diane had a fling in the distant past, and "Suspended In Time" is a fantastic little "missing scene" from "Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot" as Diane visits an injured Kyle in hospital. It manages to work for me in both series canon, and Hel's little 'verse.
The room is mostly silent, the only sounds echoing off the walls being the steady beep and whirr of the monitors and Diane's heart, beating against her chest loudly enough to wake the dead.
The dead maybe, but thankfully that doesn't include Kyle, whose eyes remain closed, his breathing deep and even. His face is calm, serene almost, just like all the other nights she's watched him sleeping, nights long past now. Except that all those other nights, he was in her bed, or she in his. They were never here, a white room in the National Naval Medical Centre, and he'd never come within inches of dying before.
And while her hands might have shaken while she'd lain in bed with him, it had never been like this, this fear racing through her veins, still racing, even now, forcing a lump to come to her throat and tears to her eyes.
They'd been together for a little over a year, and she'd spent every day of that year thanking her lucky stars that he wasn't a field agent any more, that she didn't have to worry about him. Then she'd become Jake's doctor, had spent her first mission in Sat Ops fighting the urge to throw up on the shiny black tiles, and it had been worse than anything she'd ever imagined.
The first time was the worst, but she was getting better.
That is, until today.
Until she'd heard that Kyle had been shot.
That's when she did throw up, staggering to the ladies' room on wobbly legs, just about making it. That's when her hands had frozen to blocks of ice, had started to shake, and they're shaking still, even though she knows that he's going to be fine.
Suspended in Time
Pairing: Kyle/Diane
Author on LJ:
helsinkibabyAuthor Website: The Band Gazebo
Why this must be read: Helsinkibaby is creating a nitty little universe, where Kyle and Diane had a fling in the distant past, and "Suspended In Time" is a fantastic little "missing scene" from "Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot" as Diane visits an injured Kyle in hospital. It manages to work for me in both series canon, and Hel's little 'verse.
The room is mostly silent, the only sounds echoing off the walls being the steady beep and whirr of the monitors and Diane's heart, beating against her chest loudly enough to wake the dead.
The dead maybe, but thankfully that doesn't include Kyle, whose eyes remain closed, his breathing deep and even. His face is calm, serene almost, just like all the other nights she's watched him sleeping, nights long past now. Except that all those other nights, he was in her bed, or she in his. They were never here, a white room in the National Naval Medical Centre, and he'd never come within inches of dying before.
And while her hands might have shaken while she'd lain in bed with him, it had never been like this, this fear racing through her veins, still racing, even now, forcing a lump to come to her throat and tears to her eyes.
They'd been together for a little over a year, and she'd spent every day of that year thanking her lucky stars that he wasn't a field agent any more, that she didn't have to worry about him. Then she'd become Jake's doctor, had spent her first mission in Sat Ops fighting the urge to throw up on the shiny black tiles, and it had been worse than anything she'd ever imagined.
The first time was the worst, but she was getting better.
That is, until today.
Until she'd heard that Kyle had been shot.
That's when she did throw up, staggering to the ladies' room on wobbly legs, just about making it. That's when her hands had frozen to blocks of ice, had started to shake, and they're shaking still, even though she knows that he's going to be fine.
Suspended in Time