A Legion Xmas Story - Chapter 12

[Phil 5,119]

A Legion Xmas Story

 

Chapter 1 - @stevo

Chapter 2 - @DollarAndADream & @Molholt

Chapter 3 - @sterling & @Phil

Chapter 4 - @Victor

Chapter 5 - Hotel Breakfast

Chapter 6 - The Swap

Chapter 7 - Lighter Spirits

Chapter 8 - The Paradox

Chapter 9 - Last Christmas

Chapter 10 - The Second Dinner

Chapter 11 - Do Not Grieve What Is Not Lost

 

 

Chapter 11

 

Gregor found himself in a stupor, his legs moved him down the street not because he told them to, but because they wanted to. They had been told enough times by the brain what to do, so they didn’t need any guidance. Gregor’s brain was not even really working in a conscious capacity. He tried to think his normal thoughts, but there was just one that kept repeating over and over and over: I shouldn’t have let her go. I should have stopped her. I shouldn’t have let her go. Over and over those thoughts spilled and filled up his brain. He only realized where he was when his face touched the cold, hard glass of the store he spent so much time looking at. He found solace in watching the displays. It was peaceful. After spending a few minutes carefully watching how one deflected shadows of people passing by, he moved onto another one. This one twinkled in the fading sunlight. The light seemed to seep into every part of the object and then burst back into the world with brilliant shafts of multicoloured light. He stared at it until the sun hid behind a building and the gleam left the object. The smile fades from Gregor’s face.

 

That was a perfect display of how Cersei makes me feel. She is the Sun. When she shines, her radiance penetrates my very soul. When she is not there, I am but a blunt object in search once more for its light. I cannot let her slip through my clutches. I will never forgive myself. I will never be myself. I must go to her. I must make her understand. I understand where she is coming from, but I have not allowed her to understand me. I must make her see. I must be with her.

 

Inhaling as deeply as he could, he stepped across the threshold to finally buy what he’s been looking at all these weeks.

 

“Hello Sir,” said a friendly, young woman. “Can I help you with anything today?”

 

 

“Yes,” Gregor answer with such power that it made the woman take a step back. “I wish to purchase that ring in the center of your display”

[Victor 10,940]

Oh wow such eloquent speech.

 

Are you suggesting it is merely love which forced Gregor to struggle so much in the presence of Cersei or is he generally reserved but is empowered by desire to deliver such a clear sentence?

[Phil 5,119]

15 hours ago, Victor said:

Oh wow such eloquent speech.

 

Are you suggesting it is merely love which forced Gregor to struggle so much in the presence of Cersei or is he generally reserved but is empowered by desire to deliver such a clear sentence?

 

That sentence he boomed was the first interaction we've seen with anyone but Cersei. I have a whole loose backstory in my mind about it, but yes, basically his resounding love for Cersei triggered basically similar symptoms of a  very minor TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack - a mini stroke) which affected the communication centers of his brain. 

[Victor 10,940]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

 

That sentence he boomed was the first interaction we've seen with anyone but Cersei. I have a whole loose backstory in my mind about it, but yes, basically his resounding love for Cersei triggered basically similar symptoms of a  very minor TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack - a mini stroke) which affected the communication centers of his brain. 

Ah as I thought then.