Just In Case
Title: Just In Case
Author: hunters_retreat
Fandom: Doll House/Firefly
Pairing: gen
Summary: She danced around her again, taking her hand so that she could follow.
Author's Note: comment_fic
Just In Case
She was young, so very young, though older than River if she thought about her body instead of her wandering spirit. Beautiful and young and trapped in a decaying shell with nothing inside. Even with Caroline inside she was rotting, too many dreams gone wrong, people gone wrong, consequences that didn’t seem to mean anything that turned into everything.
Her world was wrapped around the shell of her body and yet there was nothing left inside.
River danced delicate steps around her as she watched, brown, soulful eyes that held no spirit save the one they gave, as if she could pick up the pieces of her life if she could just remember the steps.
River knew it wasn’t possible.
“Can’t forget. Can’t remember. Can’t get free of the cage of flesh, can’t come back to an empty shell. Where will she go when they want her no more?”
She danced around her again, taking her hand so that she could follow. It wouldn’t work, learning the steps.
But just in case.
Author: hunters_retreat
Fandom: Doll House/Firefly
Pairing: gen
Summary: She danced around her again, taking her hand so that she could follow.
Author's Note: comment_fic
Just In Case
She was young, so very young, though older than River if she thought about her body instead of her wandering spirit. Beautiful and young and trapped in a decaying shell with nothing inside. Even with Caroline inside she was rotting, too many dreams gone wrong, people gone wrong, consequences that didn’t seem to mean anything that turned into everything.
Her world was wrapped around the shell of her body and yet there was nothing left inside.
River danced delicate steps around her as she watched, brown, soulful eyes that held no spirit save the one they gave, as if she could pick up the pieces of her life if she could just remember the steps.
River knew it wasn’t possible.
“Can’t forget. Can’t remember. Can’t get free of the cage of flesh, can’t come back to an empty shell. Where will she go when they want her no more?”
She danced around her again, taking her hand so that she could follow. It wouldn’t work, learning the steps.
But just in case.