The Docks [OPEN, tw: marriage break up, drunken behaviour, violent tempers]

[willcabot]

Sitting at the end of the dock, Will's legs draped into the cold water as he finished the last mouthful of the bottle. Turning the bottle in his hand, the amber glow made him for one awful moment think of Corry's hair in the fading sunlight- throwing the bottle impulsively at the wall, he let it smash satisfyingly before pulling another bottle towards him.

He couldn't feel his toes any more, he couldn't remember how long he'd been sat here for like this. He hadn't been home yet, hadn't been to the boat just in case she was there. Everywhere he looked it reminded him of her, of the life that they'd promised each other and the life that was now in ruins. Because she loved him. Ha!

Glancing at the ring on his finger, he pressed his forehead to the rim of his drink and took a gulping breath in. Her smile as she said I do. Pulling the ring off he stumbled up and backwards before throwing it into the deep waters of the cove. Turning his back on the water, he took another few mouthfuls and heading towards the shore.

"Shit," Will swore, dropping the bottle to the floor before he turned and ran towards the end of the dock. Tearing off his shirt, he jumped into the water and dived into the deep, ice cold waters. Shifting, he swam deeper and deeper until he found the band of metal down in the dark bottom. Clutching it in his hand, he swam back to the surface before pulling himself onto the docks. Collapsing on the wooden planks, he stretched out his hand and ignored the feet of someone else standing there. "Pass me a drink, will you?"

His hand curled round his wedding ring, letting the metal bite into his palm as he stared up at empty grey skies.

Comments

[willcabot]

"I was going to marry her before that, I knew she was the one for years. Alex stopped me buying a ring before," Will said. Alex stopped him but Henry would have told him why it wasn't a good idea. All he wanted was her to be happy. "Yeah, but she did know. She didn't just wake up on Christmas day and think today is the day I'm going to end my marriage. She made plans. She knew and she didn't tell me."

She lied. She left. He was alone. Because she loved him.

[asharpertongue]

"You know better than that, Will." Lara said quietly, filling his glass with watered whiskey again. "There's a difference between knowing and accepting it. Maybe she knew but she couldn't face it. It was wrong, Will, but I don't think she planned anything."

[willcabot]

"She planned a trip away, she decided to leave. She just made me do the leaving," Will said wondering when in that morning. When they were in bed together, when his mother had rung about the afternoon's arrangements, when exactly it was that his wife thought she was just going to quietly slip away. Except she'd wanted to give him a present, one last meaningless thing. He'd never cared about presents, not from her. The only thing he'd ever wanted was her in his life and happy. Apparently he couldn't even give her that.

[asharpertongue]

Lara shook her head but she couldn't dispute it. The flights might have been booked at the last minute but Corry would have run the scenario over and over in her head a million times before she acted on it. That's how she worked.

Making a drink for herself, she watched Will for a second. "Would you rather not have know? Waited years and years and maybe had kids or something before she figured it out?" She asked quietly.

[willcabot]

"I don't know. I think I'd rather she just- told me. How she was feeling. Instead of just hiding it. She never used to do that," Will said. He had always been there for her, wherever they were if she needed him then he'd be there. Because even back then he'd always loved her, even if he was dating one or two of several models. He'd always drop everything for her. He wasn't sure what to do now that she didn't want him especially when she told him she loved him.

[asharpertongue]

"She's more guarded when she's sober, you know that." Lara said, sipping her drink. "I think maybe she hid it all from herself. It's not fair or right but I can see how she might."