Too Late by MisterGalen (Challenge #42: Betrayal)

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Title: Too Late
Pairing/Characters: Colby Granger/Megan Reeves
Rating/Category: G
Word Count: 343
Spoilers: The Janus List (sur~prise!)
Summary: Megan and Colby know that there's nothing left to say now.


    He wouldn’t meet her eyes, that was what hurt the most.

    Say it again, say it to my face. Say it wasn’t all a lie.

    It wasn’t, Megan, it’s not like that. I never would have—

    But you did, Colby. You lied to everyone. You lied to me too. How much of the real you have we even seen? You were playing pretend with people who trusted you. People who—

    Don’t say it. Please don’t.

    Frankly, there’s nothing left to say.

    Megan, I’d take it all back. I’d do it over, I’d—I’d fix everything.

    You can’t. You can’t fix this now. It’s too late, Colby.

    Somewhere, miles away, a phone rang. It was late; no one answered it. “You’ve reached Special Agent Colby Granger. I’m not available right now; leave a message and I’ll return your call as soon as possible.”

    Megan wasn’t sure how long she’d been sitting outside that interrogation room in the dark. She wasn’t sure when the tears had gotten into her eyes, or when her head had sunk down onto her folded arms on the desk.

    Inside the room, on every monitor, reflecting off the glass and in Megan’s head, sat Colby Granger: motionless, alone. His chin was cradled in his hands, his eyes fixed on some imaginary spot on the wall below Megan’s window.

    She wished that he had something to say. Something more than what he’d already said, more than what she’d heard in her mind when she’d interrogated him over and over in that time she’d been sitting silently there. She wished he would say they were wrong, and she wished she could believe it.

    Suddenly she couldn’t bear to look at him. All those hours she’d wasted piled up like rocks in the pit of her stomach. His voice, his laugh, his eyes—his mouth….She turned away, disgusted, and when Colby looked up, all he saw was that look of betrayal in her eyes, cutting—

    He stood up: “Megan—” But she was gone, and Colby knew it was too late; that was his goodbye. 

Comments

[spikedluv]

Awww, Colby and Megan! Poor Megan. She was already disillusioned with the FBI, and then she finds out that Colby's been lying to them.

[[I'm sorry, I'm a newbie here. Should the fic not be in the post? Is there a way I should be linking it? Let me know and I can move it! *heh*]]

No, you did it right, the fic should be in the post. That's one of the rules here, the fic must be posted to this comm ONLY during the challenge period, but once the challenge is closed you can post elsewhere. Though you can, of course, link to it in your own journal, if you wish, during the challenge period.

But it does need to be behind a cut:

<*lj-cut text="Too Late"*>story here<*/lj-cut*> (remove the *)

When you're editing your post to include the cut, please also edit your subject line to include your author name so it reads: Title by Author Name (Challenge).

Thank you!

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Thanks for the code--all fixed now! ^_^

[spikedluv]

You're welcome! And thanks. *g*