TITLE: Sorry Wedding

FANDOM: Jake 2.0

CHARACTERS: Jake Foley, Kyle Duarte, Diane Hughes

PROMPT: 021. Friends

WORD COUNT: 176

RATING: G

SUMMARY: It’s not the wedding imagined.

AUTHOR’S NOTES: From the Book Challenge.

Quotation from Homer’s Odyssey:

Yes, if only Odysseus, as he then was, could confront these Suitors, there’d be a quick death and a sorry wedding for them all

It all could have been perfect.

Once upon a time, we could have been married, have you thought about that? Oh, I know, life turned out differently than we both expected – but I would have waited.

I’m still waiting.

The NSA thinks some enemy will gatecrash the service – can you imagine that? It’ll be hard to keep a secret identity then, with reporters swarming all over the place. Swarming like nanites, fancy that?

I’m not ready to let go of you just yet. I can’t face the fact that you’re not around anymore, the loss of that hope I’ve been clinging to. Silly, isn’t it? You made up your mind a long time ago. You didn’t choose me.

So, I’ll watch you making a fool of yourself, drunk on champagne and gazing lovingly into eyes that could never be mine. And I’ll give you a hug and congratulate you both, and then I’ll go back to work, seeing you every day and yet never being seen.

I love you, Jake Foley.

But Kyle got you first.