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[Nov 1] [Watchmen] The Song Remembers
Title: The Song Remembers (from this song)
Day/Theme: tears cannot be forgotten as long as there is song
Series: Watchmen
Character/Pairing: Dan
Rating: PG
Long after Dan wasn’t able to do any major mechanical work, he could still tinker with the radio. He needed to have new music coming in since the old songs carried too many memories with them. He couldn’t listen to his favorites without his vision blurring and his hands shaking. They made him remember, as if he could forget.
The last time I heard that one was in the pilot seat and the scent of the traffickers was hot and we were on our way and the pre-battle adrenaline was pounding and that sandpaper growl would say- Or that one, same seat, same partner, with the cold waters of Antarctica rolling underneath. And this one, I listened to that one on the way to California to see L-Sandra’s mother and we were still so close to panic, but there was hope under the surface- And that one that I listened to the night I stayed awake in the hospital because I knew that tomorrow she would be gone and I didn’t want to miss a minute.
Turns out that only Jon’s interference had kept Laurie from getting cancer years earlier. She had started smoking when she was a kid and he had quietly undone the damage without ever telling her, and when he had left humanity to sink or swim on its own, that attention had stopped. It had only taken a few years for it creep into her lungs again. She fought it with the same iron stubbornness she had fought everything else, but in the end, she hadn’t made it until morning, and Dan had been left with only the song and the tears.
He didn’t want to forget any of it, but sometimes he wished he didn’t remember it quite so clearly.
Day/Theme: tears cannot be forgotten as long as there is song
Series: Watchmen
Character/Pairing: Dan
Rating: PG
Long after Dan wasn’t able to do any major mechanical work, he could still tinker with the radio. He needed to have new music coming in since the old songs carried too many memories with them. He couldn’t listen to his favorites without his vision blurring and his hands shaking. They made him remember, as if he could forget.
The last time I heard that one was in the pilot seat and the scent of the traffickers was hot and we were on our way and the pre-battle adrenaline was pounding and that sandpaper growl would say- Or that one, same seat, same partner, with the cold waters of Antarctica rolling underneath. And this one, I listened to that one on the way to California to see L-Sandra’s mother and we were still so close to panic, but there was hope under the surface- And that one that I listened to the night I stayed awake in the hospital because I knew that tomorrow she would be gone and I didn’t want to miss a minute.
Turns out that only Jon’s interference had kept Laurie from getting cancer years earlier. She had started smoking when she was a kid and he had quietly undone the damage without ever telling her, and when he had left humanity to sink or swim on its own, that attention had stopped. It had only taken a few years for it creep into her lungs again. She fought it with the same iron stubbornness she had fought everything else, but in the end, she hadn’t made it until morning, and Dan had been left with only the song and the tears.
He didn’t want to forget any of it, but sometimes he wished he didn’t remember it quite so clearly.