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[waterlanding]

TITLE: A Pair Of Parentheses
CHARACTERS: Michelle, Tony, implied Michelle/Tony
RATING: Um, R-ish? For language, I guess.
SPOILERS: Through 201 - Maxxie & Tony
SUMMARY: Tony doesn't remember much anymore, but Michelle does.
DISCLAIMER: E4, etcetc.
A/N: First Skins fic, omg. Randomly prompted by Valentine's Day (don't ask me why). And because Michelle kind of breaks my heart. Title comes from the song Parentheses by The Blow.
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Tony doesn't remember much anymore, but Michelle does. She remembers last year when she nearly had to drag him out to dinner by the balls to celebrate Valentine's Day. Tony can't even remember last week. She remembers the way he leered at their fit-looking waitress with the huge tits and how that really pissed her off. Now Tony doesn't leer so much as stare blankly. That pisses Michelle off, too. She remembers how after dinner he fucked her and after that he told her he loved her and after that she believed him. Tonight Michelle doesn't want to remember. She wants to forget, like Tony. She remembers how he used to talk about Sid. Everyone always said that Sid was the one who looked up to him, but she knew that a lot of the time, it was the other way around. Michelle can't look at Sid. She can't look at Sid without seeing Tony and she won't look at Tony because there are things he doesn't remember, and everything is so fucking knackering now that. That. She remembers all the times he would get off with girls that weren't her, and she'd pretend not to notice, but she always did. That all Michelle can do to keep from falling apart is get sloshed and fuck a pathetic chav or two, but that never works. Somehow Michelle, every night, ends up cold, shivering, hand clutching her phone, finger hovering over speed dial. She remembers how he was always so unpredictable. No one fully understood why he did what he did; how one minute he could be your best friend and then the next your worse enemy. He was always scheming, always planning. Tony doesn't plan anymore. Tony sits and he waits and he tries, god, he tries, but he just can't do it. He can't be the Tony he used to be. He can't remember Tony, but Michelle does.

Comments

[waterlanding.livejournal.com]

...it's amazing, right? I ♥ The Blow.

[notworthy.livejournal.com]

So I have this habit of reading for fandoms I don't even follow if it's by people I trust, and I'm glad, even if I did have to use Wiki for it. The last line is so achy, this so good.

[waterlanding.livejournal.com]

Awww, Jordy, you are so good to me.♥ I appreciate that a lot, especially coming from you. (and considering that you gave up on Skins like, a year ago. *G*)

[thatsamooray.livejournal.com]

So, you finally write fic and its in a fandom I don't know like anything about :( Ohs wells I'll read it later when I feel up to it.

[waterlanding.livejournal.com]

hahaha I know right? WHATEVER this just means you need to watch Skins, but I have been telling you this forever.


Aaaaand by the by, I know you won't be the most excited ever, but I do have 385 words of a Wesley/Lilah fic down... it's going to be pretty epic, I must say.

[waterlanding.livejournal.com]

You know, there are so few fics about Tony/Michelle, and right now they're really breaking my heart, hence me writing this. I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for reading. :)

[rockcandy.livejournal.com]

I really like this.