Entry tags:

drabble, fandom: watchmen, het, rating: pg

Human Understanding: Watchmen Drabble
Author: Bitterfig
Title: Human Understanding
Fandom: Watchmen
Pairing: Jon/Laurie, Dan/Laurie
Beta Reader: Fedink
Word Count: 137
Rating: PG
Author’s Note: Written for of_the_moon100 Challenge #2: Understand.
Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction. Any illegal acts taking place within that fiction are NOT condoned by the author. Depictions of any questionable, illegal, or potentially illegal activity in said fiction does not mean that I condone, promote, support, participate in, or approve of said activity. I grasp the distinction between fiction and reality and trust that readers will do the same. I do not profit from the fan fiction I write, and all rights to the characters remain firmly in the hands of their creator.

Human Understanding

Jon could simultaneously comprehend the workings of both the micro and macrocosms—the movements of stars in the galaxy and sub-atomic particles in a cell.

He had an intimate grasp of the biology that was Laurie. He could register minute changes in her brain chemistry, yet the cause and effect of her emotions seemed to elude him.

He wasn’t sure why he frustrated her.

He wanted to make her happy but he no longer knew how. Despite his heightened awareness on every level Jon realized he was missing something essential.

He knew he had lost her when she told him “Dan understands what it’s like to be alone.” That was what she needed, what she wanted all along.

Human understanding.

Something Jon could not give her as he no longer understood what it was to be human.