We Were Wrong
Title: We Were Wrong
Author: not_from_stars
Rating: G
Fandom: The Host
Character(s): Wanderer/Wanda
Words: 384
Summary: "We were wrong"
Notes: This ficlet takes place after the end of the book "The Host"; So, if you haven't read it, there are spoilers for the ending. It might one day become longer, I don't know yet.
Even though everyone was relieved that there were other cells of human resistance, not all of our family was immediately willing to trust them. It was easier with Nate's group because they had Burns with them -- and that went a long way with our group. As fiercely protective of him as Nate's group was, there was less worry with them that one of them would do something to harm me.
Jared and Nate arranged for a neutral meeting place -- there was no way we were taking them back to our caves -- and then Jared retrieved Jeb to go with us. After all, Jeb was our leader. Brandt and Aaron came back with the two of them. I could understand their worry and their desire to protect Jeb. This was my family and I didn't want anything to happen to them.
It was why I had tried to cause my own death, after all.
Ian, Jared and Melanie never left me alone with Burns -- or with any of the humans accompanying Nate. When I considered everything Mel and I had endured when we were first discovered by Jeb and brought back to the caves, I could say that I appreciated their vigilance. Even in our own group, there were still at least two humans who hated me. This new, smaller, body of mine would break a lotm easier than Mel's body would have.
Seeing Burns with his own human family gave me what I had learned was called Hope. I had hope that there were other Souls out there who believed as Burns and I had believed.
We were wrong. We were wrong to come here and take their world from them. Wrong to take people against their will. The Seekers were wrong to continue to hunt humans to be unwilling hosts to Souls. So much of what we had done to the humans was wrong.
Mel and her family had taught me so much more about life than I had ever really learned in all of the wanderings of my previous eight existences. In my time with them, I had become more human. I had started to feel and learn about so many emotions that I didn't understand -- and humans are capable of a great many emotions.
Author: not_from_stars
Rating: G
Fandom: The Host
Character(s): Wanderer/Wanda
Words: 384
Summary: "We were wrong"
Notes: This ficlet takes place after the end of the book "The Host"; So, if you haven't read it, there are spoilers for the ending. It might one day become longer, I don't know yet.
Even though everyone was relieved that there were other cells of human resistance, not all of our family was immediately willing to trust them. It was easier with Nate's group because they had Burns with them -- and that went a long way with our group. As fiercely protective of him as Nate's group was, there was less worry with them that one of them would do something to harm me.
Jared and Nate arranged for a neutral meeting place -- there was no way we were taking them back to our caves -- and then Jared retrieved Jeb to go with us. After all, Jeb was our leader. Brandt and Aaron came back with the two of them. I could understand their worry and their desire to protect Jeb. This was my family and I didn't want anything to happen to them.
It was why I had tried to cause my own death, after all.
Ian, Jared and Melanie never left me alone with Burns -- or with any of the humans accompanying Nate. When I considered everything Mel and I had endured when we were first discovered by Jeb and brought back to the caves, I could say that I appreciated their vigilance. Even in our own group, there were still at least two humans who hated me. This new, smaller, body of mine would break a lotm easier than Mel's body would have.
Seeing Burns with his own human family gave me what I had learned was called Hope. I had hope that there were other Souls out there who believed as Burns and I had believed.
We were wrong. We were wrong to come here and take their world from them. Wrong to take people against their will. The Seekers were wrong to continue to hunt humans to be unwilling hosts to Souls. So much of what we had done to the humans was wrong.
Mel and her family had taught me so much more about life than I had ever really learned in all of the wanderings of my previous eight existences. In my time with them, I had become more human. I had started to feel and learn about so many emotions that I didn't understand -- and humans are capable of a great many emotions.