Original: If wishes were stars

[dorkpie]

Title: If wishes were stars
Challenge/Prompt: #8 Wish
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Sarah
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: The star hasn't fallen yet.
Author's Notes: In the same universe as this one.


There's a star in the sky that looks like it's about to fall, and Sarah wishes it hurry up already, she's been waiting for hours. She's laying outside in the backyard, and it reminds her of those rare weekends when she and her dad would go camping in the mountains.

In fact, it feels so much like those times that she calls out, absently: "Daddy!"

Joseph peeks out from between the glass doors of the patio. "What's up, Sarah?"

She looks at him, disappointment running through her like a cresting wave, growing stronger as it goes.

"Nothing," she says. "I wasn't asking for you."

Comments

[rontgenkatze]

this broke my heart, almost as much for Joseph as for poor little Sarah.
Wonderful work. Thanks for posting.

[dorkpie]

Yeah, the universe this is in is like that. Thank you for reading!

[thewickedquill]

On first read I thought that perhaps Joseph was a brother or some other random male or relation not in a parenting position. Then I read it again and my throat clogged. How sad on so many levels.

[dorkpie]

Actually, the words "her mother's husband" were what I got rid of to get the word count right.

Anyway, thank you for reading. [:

[thewickedquill]

Either way, it was a nice piece. Glad I read it through that second time, though!

[dorkpie]

(: I'm glad you think so!

[sterling]

Heartbreaking... indeed.

[dorkpie]

This whole universe is like that actually. I was going to make this a happy one, but it decided it didn't want to go that way. Thank for reading!

[magycmyste]

Oh dear.

This just makes me want to say, "Awwww...."

[dorkpie]

Thank you for reading! :D

[maroonladybug]

......... ouch.

Would you judge me if I said that the first thing I thought was "BURNNNNNNNNN" ?

[dorkpie]

I'm not lying when I say this universe is just like this; Sarah wanting her daddy and getting someone else instead, and being utterly and profoundly disappointed. ):

I will not judge you, at all.