F: The Killing Dance
Fandom: Firefly
Main characters: River
Referenced characters: Simon
Pairings: None
Contains: N/a
Rating: G
Summary: There's a similarity of movement and focus, between dancing and killing. For comment_fic.
It helps to think of it as a dance. There is the same fluidity of movement, the same need for a rhythm, not to mention the basic need in both for flexibility, speed, ease of movement, a good level of fitness. There are angles and the right moments and breathlessness and precision, and the awe of people watching. There is infinite grace in both.
Simon would probably put on his troubled face, if she told him she saw the killing as a new kind of dance. He always worries, when she says things that don't immediately make sense to him -- he's so smart, sometimes, but sometimes he's so literal with it that she could scream -- and he'd think that dancing is simply fun, dancing is something frivolous, and he would worry that she connects that with killing.
It isn't that. It isn't that at all. But she can make it so that the ghastly music of the killing dance, the abbreviated screams in her head, the cries -- she can make that her soundtrack, and carry on the dance until the song is through. That's the only way it can be done.
And the thing about songs -- the thing about dancing -- is that eventually, it has to stop.
Main characters: River
Referenced characters: Simon
Pairings: None
Contains: N/a
Rating: G
Summary: There's a similarity of movement and focus, between dancing and killing. For comment_fic.
It helps to think of it as a dance. There is the same fluidity of movement, the same need for a rhythm, not to mention the basic need in both for flexibility, speed, ease of movement, a good level of fitness. There are angles and the right moments and breathlessness and precision, and the awe of people watching. There is infinite grace in both.
Simon would probably put on his troubled face, if she told him she saw the killing as a new kind of dance. He always worries, when she says things that don't immediately make sense to him -- he's so smart, sometimes, but sometimes he's so literal with it that she could scream -- and he'd think that dancing is simply fun, dancing is something frivolous, and he would worry that she connects that with killing.
It isn't that. It isn't that at all. But she can make it so that the ghastly music of the killing dance, the abbreviated screams in her head, the cries -- she can make that her soundtrack, and carry on the dance until the song is through. That's the only way it can be done.
And the thing about songs -- the thing about dancing -- is that eventually, it has to stop.