the_fairest | (no subject)

It's easy enough to type the letter. The internet is full of form letters for this sort of thing.

What is not as easy is sitting there, finding the strength to press print.

If you asked people in Storybrooke to list Mary Margaret's characteristics, it would not be in the top ten. It might not even be in the top thirty. Quiet and unassuming, in the background. Easy to fluster, but quick to lend her support to most causes. They would not list the woman now, before a computer screen, unable to sit straight.

Who has to nearly close her eyes and clench her jaw to push a button on the small plastic mouse, that her hand curled over, barely touching, as if to do so any more than she already is might burn her.

It will be tomorrow before anyone can ask the question.

Her extra hours bled into the grave yard shift. There's no one here to ask her what she's doing. No one here to convince her she's strong enough. To not push the button. To not be who she almost was for five or ten seconds this evening.

And when they do, if they do, she'll tell them, It was time. That she wants to dedicate herself to some new endeavor. Something. She'll figure that out between now and standing to walk toward the printer that is now spooling ink as it prints and the sunlight that will make her wake up tomorrow morning.

STORYBROOKE
GENERAL HOSPITAL

Attn Administration;
Re: Letter of resignation

Please accept this letter as my official notice of resignation.
I have enjoyed my experience here at Storybrooke General Hospital.

She will not say

David Nolan; once John Doe; blue eyes; dirty blonde hair

David Nolan; coma patient longer than she can remember
David Nolan; husband of Kathryn Nolan this whole time
David Nolan; who lied about having any memories

David Nolan; once John Doe; blue eyes; dirty blonde hair

David Nolan; whom Henry calls Her Prince Charming
David Nolan; woke up because she read him a story
David Nolan; who she had to save more than

David Nolan; once John Doe; blue eyes; dirty blonde hair

Who told her she was the only real thing in the world

Who almost had her agreeing to the very same thing

anything else.