Title: "Rumination" Pairing: Karl Urban/Viggo Mortensen Rating: PG Summary: Viggo picks up the pieces. Disclaimer: Never happened. Notes: For Jo, for the First Lines Challenge. Lying in the darkness, Viggo wonders how he ever let himself get so tangled up in the man sleeping beside him. It's not like Karl's really here for him. No, Viggo's just a shoulder, the all-knowing best friend with the ready bottle of whiskey and the right words to carefully mend the scattered, broken pieces. Karl shifts, drunkenly murmurs something, and Viggo draws the comforter around Karl's shoulders, sighing in hopeless despair. Karl would never see him, because Viggo could never be what Karl wanted. Better to be a friend. Too much at stake to risk it all on chance. If you enjoyed this fic, please leave feedback here. Thanks!