31_days | [282140A APR 13] [Honorverse] - I Drank Too Deeply of the River Lethe (At Least I'm Still Breathing)

Title: I Drank Too Deeply of the River Lethe (At Least I'm Still Breathing)
Day/Theme: 28. At Least I'm Still Breathing
Fandom: Honor Harrington Series - David Weber
Characters: Michelle Henke
Relationships: Michelle Henke/Eloise Pritchart
Rating: PG
Summary: After Mike's captured at Solon, she has no memory of many things.

She wakes slowly that very first time, memory more than a little fuzzy round the edges, to brilliant platinum blond hair and topaz eyes and soothing words that coax her back to sleep again. The blonde isn't always there when she wakes ... there's another woman, a brunette with deep eyes ... that thought catches ... she can't complete it ... and she knows something is wrong, but she still sleeps better when she's watched by a pair of topaz eyes that carry the weight of ... she's not quite sure what ... but there's a hunger there as well though, and it's familiar.

The other woman's name still alludes her, but ...but … she's here and Mike's at least falling in lust with her. Her memory remains painfully elusive even as she heals and the conviction that this isn't her world or her lover slips a little further away, as the other woman seems to be making a space for her in what is an incredibly busy life. Mike's not sure how she knows that the other woman is so busy, but there's something ... and she’s going to make it her mission to persuade her ghost to kiss her ... after all a Winton woman gets what she wants eventually.