Circumventing Act 5

By Jaye Reid

Written: January 4, 2003

Rating: PG13

Spoilers: Season 4

Disclaimer: Owned by the brilliant Sorkin and WB. Not mine, never will be. I have no money, therefore I'm not worth suing. Borrowed for my own amusement.

Category: Angst - Sam leaving. Shakespeare drabble challenge.

Summary: Hidden secrets and longing.

Authors Notes: Written for a drabble challenge (under 150 words) on the Sam Seaborn Fanfiction Archive.  I love Shakespeare, so went in search for some lines I could work with. When I stumbled over these, I knew my subject! The few lines are from Othello.
Thanks to Aim for giving it the once over and suggestions.

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Tight hug. Her perfume intoxicating, her soft skin beneath the cotton blouse… my brain throbs, along with other things.

We were a secret - we said goodbye last night.

Escape before disaster.

Finis.

This is a façade for the gathered masses.

She belongs to Josh. She won't admit it - yet.

He hasn't realized - yet.

Whenever his ego is nauseating… I nearly tell him.

Of debauchery. Erotic heat, sweat, bodies… hers, mine, satin sheets.

But he is my colleague - my Democrat brethren.

We wouldn't survive my betrayal - not with her.

"It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood;
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alabaster."

I love them too much.

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