Fic: Star Gazing
Title: Star Gazing
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: River, Mal
Word Count: 168
Rating: G
Summary: She can see the edges of them. Fuzzy. White. Blinding.
There’s a bright light in the darkness that threatens to blind anyone who looks too closely at it. She spends her time peeking at it, getting tiny glimpses, testing the theory that it will send her mind reeling into some kind of insanity. Her eyes sting. Her mind wanders.
The answers are there, all there and hiding, ready for someone to happen across and reveal. She can see the edges of them. Fuzzy. White. Blinding. They are so very close, within her grasp should she merely reach out for them, but to do so might rip her mind open and fill it again with new content, new thoughts, new ideas.
She breathes it all in and smiles and waves at the stars, and when Mal asks her what she’s doing, she whispers, “Star gazing.”
Mal nods, shoves his hands deep into his coat pockets and stands behind her. There he remains, looking over her like the stars, while she continues to marvel in the beauty of the universe.
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: River, Mal
Word Count: 168
Rating: G
Summary: She can see the edges of them. Fuzzy. White. Blinding.
There’s a bright light in the darkness that threatens to blind anyone who looks too closely at it. She spends her time peeking at it, getting tiny glimpses, testing the theory that it will send her mind reeling into some kind of insanity. Her eyes sting. Her mind wanders.
The answers are there, all there and hiding, ready for someone to happen across and reveal. She can see the edges of them. Fuzzy. White. Blinding. They are so very close, within her grasp should she merely reach out for them, but to do so might rip her mind open and fill it again with new content, new thoughts, new ideas.
She breathes it all in and smiles and waves at the stars, and when Mal asks her what she’s doing, she whispers, “Star gazing.”
Mal nods, shoves his hands deep into his coat pockets and stands behind her. There he remains, looking over her like the stars, while she continues to marvel in the beauty of the universe.