vilakins | Ficlet meme response # 4

Here's my response to redstarrobot's challenge in the ficlet meme:

Character: Gan
Title: Whispers
Dialogue: "I'm sorry, though."

It's set on the London, 230 words. It's late because I took a long time to get any ideas at all for this one.

Whispers

"Was there something between you and Jenna?" Gan asked.

Vila was staring out the porthole although he could no longer see the huge alien ship the others had taken.. "Nothing but our clothes." He pulled a face. "More's the pity."

"Oh. Just that I heard some of the men talking."

"Nah, just good friends. For a little while anyway." Vila sighed. "Might've come to something if that Blake hadn't shown up. We understood each other, shared a joke or two, but somehow I don't think that's enough for her now." He turned his back to the view. "So. Shouldn't believe everything you hear, Gan."

"If I hadn't," Gan said, "I wouldn't have .."

"What?"

"Met her." Gan was silent for a while, looking at his hands. "I heard two of her friends whispering about me in the works canteen, that she fancied me."

"She?"

"My ... woman." His voice was barely audible. My Lu--, my darling. I can't say your name, not when it only reminds me of how I screamed it over and over when that guard killed you. "She was so beautiful. I wouldn't have dared speak to her if I hadn't heard them."

"That was lucky, then."

Gan looked up. "I suppose it was. I'm sorry, though."

"Why?"

"She'd still be alive back home. I'd give up all the time I had with her for that."

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There's a bunch of great writers round here! Mind you, with all this ficlet stuff I'm wondering if any of us will have any ideas left for the party....

Party?

An annual fiction party on a mailing list. It's the reason I wrote 'Mistaken Identities' last year.

Ah.

Yes, I know. I really should be writing my ficathon story too, not to mention my poor neglected PGP...

Well, think me, I haven't written any of my ficlets yet. And my ficathon entry is being added to in dribs and drabs. My chief worry with the latter is that I think its natural length is going to be much more than 1000 words and I'm only up to about 600 or so... also that I don't know how it ends yet...

Mine's going to be long too. I've only written the first page or so; it's the annual Film Festival here so I haven't had that much spare time recently anyway.

Awwwww.

Wot Hafren said. Wot kerravonsen said. Extremely excellent!

Awwwwwwww. Poor, sweet Gan. I want to give him a big ol' hug now.

And I know what you mean about lack of ideas. I've been staring at your first ficlet request blankly for days now. I'll come up with something for it eventually though, I swear. :)

You can do them out of order if you like. Go on, you know you want to do 'Starkhawk'. ;-)

Believe it or not, I actually did that one already, but I wrote it directly into LJ for some stupid reason that had to do with the fact that I was at work, and then I accidentally hit the wrong button and lost it completely. Which I don't actually regret, because I wrote it in a very sleep-deprived state and it really wasn't any good. I'm pretty sure I'll do better on a second attempt. But it might be a little while before I get around to that, or to the other ones. Right now, I really ought to be working on doing a second pass-through on my Multiverse story, but frankly I'm afraid of it. :)

Well, when you did get an idea, it was a good one. Nice job.

Phew! And now it's on to yours, and I've already got ideas about those. :-D

Yay for Ganfic! Poor overlooked Gan, he needs more fic like this. :)

The first real B7 story I wrote--after Vila's E-mails--was one about Gan and Vila.

Lovely:)! And sad. Sniffle.

Ficlet meme response # 4 - Whispers

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