Title, Scars

Author, Michelle Birkby

Email, saraandsamrule@hotmail.com

Rating, PG

Category, Thoughts.

Archive, sam and jack, heliopolis, fanfiction.net, anyone else, ask first.

Spoilers, None

Disclaimer, "All publicly recognisable characters and places are the property of MGM, World Gekko Corp and Double Secret productions. This piece of fan fiction was created for entertainment not monetary purposes and no infringement on copyrights or trademarks was intended. Previously unrecognised characters and places, and this story, are copyrighted to the author. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author."

Status. Complete.

Author's Notes..just a tiny little piece, but something i thought was interesting.

Feedback;. what keeps me writing..

Her hands are covered in scars. A long thin white line on the back of her right hand, by the thumb. A brown chemical burn on the inside of her left wrist. A callous on her forefinger, where she's practiced pulling a trigger over and over again. A patch of white skin on the back of her left hand, a burn. A ridge of scar tissue running across her right palm. Every week, an old scar fades, a new patch of damage appears.

When he accidentally-on-purpose touches her hands, he can feel the rough, harsh, wounds underneath his own, equally scarred fingertips, and it makes him shudder for a second, that she should be so marked. But every blemish is a sign of who she is, what she does, and she is not ashamed of them, and he's is so proud of her. and sometimes she turns, and looks him in the eyes, and sees the pride.

He remembers other hands. Soft, gentle hands, untouched hands, carefully moisturised and protected. But he doesn't want the touch of those any more. All he wants is to run his fingers over her scarred, battered, burned hands, and feel the touch of them, so gentle, on his face.

Michelle B