I can't imagine honest-to-god to her bones Natalie not caring if Nick got out...that curiosity would GNAW at me...I just...I can't imagine what it's like to be able to think like that. Very nice.

I had an entirely different version in mind -- one where she never quite stopped thinking about it. But with how the series ended, with all the unknowns and vagaries of who could have survived -- it just didn't work. And I deliberately didn't name the "him" so it could have been someone other than Nick. *shrug* The ending of the show really annoys me, so it lead to a darker drabble. To me though, drabbles are best when they are darker.

I like the godlike nature of the imagery in the QL one I really debated putting in "alpha and omega" but it fit and it felt incomplete with out it.