Fic a Week 22 - To Heaven
Aug. 16th, 2009 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkBusy weekend, almost forgot to post this. Source material is Diana Wynne Jones's novel Dogsbody; drabble will not make sense unless you've read the book.
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To Heaven
Kathleen lost a patient today. He was an Irish setter, an older gentleman who always looked at Kathleen with quiet patience while she tried to cure his cancer. When at last it was his time, she found herself doing what she had promised herself she would not anymore: searching his eyes for comprehension. For a mind. It was ridiculous, and made her feel worse after.
He was a dog, and only that.
She lay in the grass behind the hospital at lunchtime, eyes closed and crying. Through oak branches, the sun touched her back gently, like a mother's kind caress.
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To Heaven
Kathleen lost a patient today. He was an Irish setter, an older gentleman who always looked at Kathleen with quiet patience while she tried to cure his cancer. When at last it was his time, she found herself doing what she had promised herself she would not anymore: searching his eyes for comprehension. For a mind. It was ridiculous, and made her feel worse after.
He was a dog, and only that.
She lay in the grass behind the hospital at lunchtime, eyes closed and crying. Through oak branches, the sun touched her back gently, like a mother's kind caress.
