Title:
Cracking
Author: Am-Chau Yarkona
Rating: PG
Pairing: Hawkeye/Trapper
Disclaimer: Not my characters.
Summary: Five minute fic beginning with the words "Oh, Tokyo".
Set just after 'Rainbow Bridge'.
Oh,
Tokyo, we missed you once again. Every time we set out, every time we make
plans, every times we’re ready to leave this place (and let’s face it,
that’s practically all of the time), we’re thwarted.
When
we actually reach you, you’re rarely as wonderful as we think you are when
we’re away; but when we’re in Korea, you’re the closest thing we can think
of to heaven, allowing that we can’t think about our real homes back in the
states. That would just drive us crazy—and it’s easy enough to go mad
without.
Hawkeye’s
cracking under the pressure, I can see it every day, in the way he moves, the
way he talks, every breath he takes is crazier than the one before. It’s hard
for him, but it’s perhaps even harder for me, having to stand my and watch,
knowing that however hard I hold him, however often I kiss him, however good I
am in bed, he’s going to fall apart.
Even our days in Tokyo won’t fix him, and there’s nothing I can do.