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[April 9] [Brokeback Mountain] Just Passing Through
Title: Just Passing Through
Day/Theme: April 9/"Silent Passage"
Series: Brokeback Mountain
Character/Pairing: Ennis del Mar/Jack Twist
Rating: G
Just Passing Through
There was no silence at all in the way he came into Ennis's life: a truck backfiring as bald tires screeched, throwing up gravel on a dry road against a wind. Everything about Jack broke Ennis's quiet life into sound.
Like a freight train commands the morning with its clanging call for attention, Ennis had no choice but to notice Jack, to notice him all the way through and take him in-- all the way in until there was no way out.
And so Jack Twist began his passage through Ennis's life. Ennis did his best to quash the natural sounds of exuberance that simply were Jack-- not because he didn't love them, for he had never heard a song possessing more beauty, but because he knew the attention that they drew.
And when the final car crossed down the line, and all Ennis had was fading possibilities, he saw the inadequacies of his time with Jack too clearly. He'd spent every day afraid that people could read the thing he felt for Jack written on his skin, screaming like the brakes on a freight train. So he'd kept Jack moving on through, never stopping, never letting those brakes catch. Now he couldn't understand why he wished to God that everybody did know. Just that-- Jack deserved so much more than an unacknowledged life.
But Ennis had seen to it that he was the only one who would ever know of the ceaseless clanging joy of Jack's otherwise silent passage through a world that just couldn't hold him any more.
Day/Theme: April 9/"Silent Passage"
Series: Brokeback Mountain
Character/Pairing: Ennis del Mar/Jack Twist
Rating: G
Just Passing Through
There was no silence at all in the way he came into Ennis's life: a truck backfiring as bald tires screeched, throwing up gravel on a dry road against a wind. Everything about Jack broke Ennis's quiet life into sound.
Like a freight train commands the morning with its clanging call for attention, Ennis had no choice but to notice Jack, to notice him all the way through and take him in-- all the way in until there was no way out.
And so Jack Twist began his passage through Ennis's life. Ennis did his best to quash the natural sounds of exuberance that simply were Jack-- not because he didn't love them, for he had never heard a song possessing more beauty, but because he knew the attention that they drew.
And when the final car crossed down the line, and all Ennis had was fading possibilities, he saw the inadequacies of his time with Jack too clearly. He'd spent every day afraid that people could read the thing he felt for Jack written on his skin, screaming like the brakes on a freight train. So he'd kept Jack moving on through, never stopping, never letting those brakes catch. Now he couldn't understand why he wished to God that everybody did know. Just that-- Jack deserved so much more than an unacknowledged life.
But Ennis had seen to it that he was the only one who would ever know of the ceaseless clanging joy of Jack's otherwise silent passage through a world that just couldn't hold him any more.