Title: For No One

	Author: Lucy (vipercadet@crosswinds.net)

	Note: This will be part one in a series of short snippets.

	Disclaimer: I own them. I have them locked up in cages in my bedroom.


	'Oh.'

	'Yes. Oh.'

	'That's all you have to say?'

	Silence. A sigh.

	'So this is it then? I break up with you, and all you say is
	'oh'?'

	No reply. Another sigh, and a stiffled sob.

	'At least you've made it perfectly clear how little I really
	meant to you.'

	'I'm sorry, Cass. I shouldn't have been in this relationship
	altogether. It shouldn't have happened and we both know it.'

	'No, that's not what I know. I know that if we had put a little
	effort in this relationship, if both of us had been willing to
	try, we could have had something good together.'

	Her teary blue eyes reflected the pain he had caused her, and he
	looked away.

	'I never meant to hurt you Cass' he said flatly.

	She looked up at him, gathering all her courage to ask the one
	question that was burning on her lips.

	'Is... there someone else?'

	'Cass...'

	'Tell me her name.'

	'I can't.'

	'I said tell me her goddamn name!'

	'She doesn't have a name.'

	'What do you mean she doesn't... oh.'

	She stared at him, her open mouth revealing her perfectly white
	teeth. Her lips curled up in a semi-grin.

	'It's not a she at all, is it.' It was a statement, not a
	question.

	'No' Starbuck growled. 'You happy now?'

	She sighed.

	'At least it's comforting to know I didn't lose to someone with
	bigger boobs.'

	Both stayed quiet for a centon. It was Cassiopeia who broke the
	silence.

	'It's Apollo, isn't it.'

	He said nothing. He just turned and walked out of her life.

	The End