Title: Gaps
Fandom: Deception
Rating: PG
Length: 100
Content notes: Canon character death (no spoilers since it happens at the beginning of the first episode)
Author notes: Written for fan-flashworks for the Telephone challenge
Summary: Drabble about Joanna's regrets and her friendship with Vivian.





Two months before Vivian dies, she calls Joanna.

She doesn't pick up. She's tailing a drug dealer, plus there's a mound of paperwork on her desk.

She doesn't admit to herself that the memory of Vivian's teenaged voice, screaming that she hated Joanna, still cut like glass.

When Vivian's body is found, Joanna gets to work. She shoves the guilt aside -- why feel guilty over one missed call and not over a decade of silence?

Still, she wishes Vivian left a voicemail.

Even if it wouldn't have changed anything, she could at least carry Vivian's voice in her pocket.