Monday: Past Lives
Hello, all. *waves* I'm jade_starlight and I'll be your Guest Host for the week. It may be a little early, but as I'm heading to bed I wanted to go ahead and get the post up. *g*
We're starting the week with past lives, either events that take place pre-canon or the more common definition, a life lived in a time period before the canon life. What did your ( Read more... )
We're starting the week with past lives, either events that take place pre-canon or the more common definition, a life lived in a time period before the canon life. What did your ( Read more... )
Sometimes River remembers things that haven’t happened to her. Or they did happen to her, but they happened before she was her, many years before anyone she knew had been born.
Sometimes she dreams about Earth-That-Was, those strange dreams that are more like memories. In the dreams she sees what her life had been like. She recognises some of the people in the dreams… the then-River had had a brother too, just like now-River had Simon, and he had loved then-River just as much as Simon loved now-River. She recognises other people too. Then-River had a friend who had been a lot like Kaylee… and then-River had known a man who she had been very close to, as well. This man felt the most familiar of all to now-River, even more than the then-Simon did, because she felt his aura wherever she went on the ship.
She wasn’t sure why then-River had felt so strongly about the man she knew now as Mal, or even what their relationship had been, because the dreams were hazy and unclear. But she knew that he had meant something special to the then-River, and that made sense because he meant something special to River now as well.
She tried to tell him once. He passed her on a walkway and she said, “You haven’t changed, not at all. Just like you used to be. Still shining like the sun in my head” He didn’t understand, though, just gave her a quick smile, the one he always gives her when he doesn’t understand, and hurried on to the bridge.
River looked after him sadly before walking away. Maybe one day, she thought, maybe one day I’ll be able to tell him so that he understands.
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