


Hourglass

by The Charmed Rose



Category: Ugly Betty
Genre: Angst, Drama
Language: English
Status: Completed
Published: 2013-01-13
Updated: 2013-01-13
Packaged: 2013-08-20 14:34:57
Rating: T
Chapters: 1
Words: 705
Publisher: www.fanfiction.net
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8905517/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2560523/The-Charmed-Rose
Summary: 4X11 Wilhemina reflects on the letter Connor leaves her.





	Hourglass

_I love you too much?_

Wilhelmina stood wordlessly at her desk, as she gripped the letter that had been left in her possession by Connor. Minutes before she had opened up the letter, and her eyes had been tracing over the words ever since. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the fact he'd planned for her to receive this letter after he was transferred, knowing full well that had been the last thing she had wanted to happen.

Did he not see how much he meant to her? When Claire Meade had announced Connor had died, her whole world seemed to shatter into a million pieces right there and then. To put it fairly she had been a mess inside, but she knew she had to put up a brave front, and attempted to go on as best she could. However as easy as the task appeared to be, the world seemed intent on leaving her completely alone. The regret that had formed over not taking him up on his offer earlier on was awful, as though someone had taken her whole body and shattered it into a million pieces.

Her own daughter Nico betraying her had just been the icing on the cake, as Nico's harsh truths were a reflection of everything she'd gone wrong with. And it certainly didn't help matters with that old hag Penelope Graybridge taunting her from afar with her perfect family, seemingly fulfilled and content with what she had. Yet there she was, sitting alone on a beach, with a cheeseburger for company. Her life had seemingly come to a standstill, and it appeared she had hit an extreme low point. Yet soon enough Connor popped up alive and well, and that one single piece that had been missing from her life had reappeared once more. Sure his ending up in prison had been a slight glitch in their relationship, but she had been more than willing to attempt to make it work. As the months she'd spent thinking he was dead had been unbearable, and she'd only just trudged through. Those thirty minute visits she'd spent with him had been some of the most happiest she'd been in recent times, and although they weren't able to roam the world freely with no one chasing after them, Wilhelmina had found it better than nothing.

And she had thought he had been happy to. Damn him and his martyr complex? Who was he to decide how she should live her life? It was her choice, and hers alone, and yet he'd gone behind and completely ignored her. Admittedly that marriage proposal as spontaneous even for her, but it had felt right, and she had decided to go with it, in hopes it would show Connor she was in for the long run between the pair. So dressed in a sleek white dress and Marc in hand, they had headed off to the prison for where she'd have Marc marry them off. Yet he had apparently been transferred to another prison without notice, and no one would tell her where he was.

And she had had to find out from a prison guard?

That all too familiar wave of loss crashed over her just as it did when she had been informed of the news that he had died, with the knowledge that she would probably never see him again flooding through her mind. Wilhelmina was hurt, upset, disappointed and above all completely angry with him for what he had done. Was this what she was in for? A life time of disappointments from all aspects of her life, untimely leaving her just purely and utterly alone? God, why did everything have to be so hard? For once in her life, couldn't she just have something, and not have to work so hard to get it? However she'd have to live with the fact, that yet another person had abandoned her in favour of something else. Yes, of course she would go on with her life, after all, she was still Wilhelmina Slater, and no one was going to take that away from her.


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