F: Unburied
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: None
Warnings: Angst
Rating: G
Summary: Tracey learns something about war. For ficlets100.
"Move out!"
Tracey looked up, startled, his spoon falling from his hand to the ground as he was about to put it away. "But sir! The bodies! Shouldn't we, you know, bury them? I mean -- "
"Lad," the commanding officer said, not unkindly, "this is war. There's no time. If there was time, I'd do it a hundred times over. There isn't time. So move out."
Tracey put his spoon away, feeling somewhat numb, hurrying to follow them. He'd imagined war to be glorious, once upon a time.
Now he realised that no one would even stop to bury him if he fell.
Pairing: None
Warnings: Angst
Rating: G
Summary: Tracey learns something about war. For ficlets100.
"Move out!"
Tracey looked up, startled, his spoon falling from his hand to the ground as he was about to put it away. "But sir! The bodies! Shouldn't we, you know, bury them? I mean -- "
"Lad," the commanding officer said, not unkindly, "this is war. There's no time. If there was time, I'd do it a hundred times over. There isn't time. So move out."
Tracey put his spoon away, feeling somewhat numb, hurrying to follow them. He'd imagined war to be glorious, once upon a time.
Now he realised that no one would even stop to bury him if he fell.