[Fic] Irreconcilable

Title: Irreconcilable
Source: Eve and Dawn
Genre: Mainstream
Characters: Eve/Grace/Lily
Word Count: 1,490 words
Summary: Lily thinks on her past life as Grace, and her husband at the time, and the nature of marriage.
A/N: Written for origfic_bingo prompt "Marriage"


Of all things, the fight with Jason (or Jack or David or whoever he was) reminded her of fights with her ex-husband. "Which," she muttered, standing in front of the fridge and staring at its contents without seeing anything. "Should be a sign that you should stay away from him."

That was going to be difficult, living close to him as she did and as wide a radius as they both seemed to have. It was the running that did it. She kept catching glimpses of him when she went for her runs, and sometimes she ran into him in one of the local coffee houses. There was that time in the diner.

She wasn't going to pick up and move again because there was an amnesiac ex-spy in her backyard. No one wanted that, not her, not Rose, and there was no reason to suspect that his former employers knew where he was or had any inclination to go after him. And even if they did, that didn't make them targets. The CIA didn't know they had anything to do with Bourne, she and he hadn't been seen together more than a couple of times jogging and once in the diner.

"Which is also a sign you should stay away from him." ( Read more... )