Title: Gold Band
Author: Am-Chau Yarkona
Rating: G
Pairing: Hawkeye/ married mystery
Disclaimer: Not my characters.
Summary: Five minutes fic from Raven’s challenge “all that glitters”.
Hawkeye thinks about his lover.
All that glitters in the Swamp is your wedding ring.
You lie awake sometimes at night—in my cot or your own—just looking at it, the way it shines and glitters in the light.
The look you get on your face then is something I’ll never have. It’s part memory, of good times and bad; and part longing, knowing that one day you’ll go back to that place, that person. I guess the only time I feel that way is when I look into a yet-untasted drink, remembering past nights of drunkenness and looking forward to the next.
That gold band glitters and it offers you something: something I’ll never have and something I cannot give.