Three Drabbles
Song: All These Things I've Done
Character(s): Jadzia Dax, Molly O'Brien
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier / I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
“What’s a soul?” Molly asks.
Dax knows the word, though even through the translator it sounds unnatural to her. The idea of being singular, in body or spirit, goes against all aspects of the joining.
“Does it last forever?”
Nothing lasts forever. Not beings, not memories, not stars. As she ages, she forgets. The children that Curzon wanted push away the memories of the children that Lela had.
Dax finds it comforting. She’s seen what eternity does to eternals, and wants no part in it. But Molly doesn’t understand death, much less forever.
“I don’t know, sweetheart. And I shouldn’t.”
Song: All These Things I've Done
Character(s): Jadzia Dax, Curzon Dax
Over and out, last call for sin / While everyone's lost, the battle is won / With all these things that I've done / All these things that I've done
Dax dreams in light, in breath. In the moment before blade cuts flesh, before conception brings about a whole. Dax dreams in completion, as Dax is ever complete.
Jadzia dreams in physicality. In the silk of pen on paper, the warmth of her mother’s red coat. She dreams of what hasn’t happened. She dreams of fear, in fear, the way that one who has experienced nothing fears everything.
After the operation, she looks at Curzon, who was made empty so that she might be full.
It wasn’t a sacrifice, his voice rings in their mind.
Jadzia Dax smiles, and sleeps.
Song: Why Don't We Do it in The Road?
Character(s): Jadzia Dax, Benjamin Sisko
Why don't we do it in the road / No one will be watching us / Why don't we do it in the road
“Benjamin-”
“I don’t want to hear it, Old Man!”
He’s pacing back and forth, looking everywhere in the room but at Dax.
“It’s perfectly natural. I’m not saying this would’ve happened under normal circumstances, but we live near an unstable wormhole. Viruses happen. Anyway, this isn’t the first time Morn’s had sex on the promenade.”
“It’s the first time he’s had it with a member of my staff!”
Dax laughs, while Sisko stares at the ceiling.
“Actually, Benjamin-”
“Don’t tell me. And put your shirt back on.”
“Oh.” Dax looks down at her breasts. “I forgot about those!”
Drabbles I wrote for other characters (Stephanie Brown, Angela Montenegro, Alice Carter) are over here!