Drabble: Just Breathe (Firefly)
Anyway, today's fic is a drabble for firefly100. And it's River-centric, b/c I <3 River.
Title: Just Breathe
Character: River
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG for content
Note: Set any time mid-season. River thinks about what the Academy did to her. Joss is Boss etc.
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In.
Life needs air. Without air, everything stops.
Out.
In.
They gave her too much air, made her scream and beg before they took it away and made spots dance in her eyes and her lungs burn to cinders.
Out.
Now she was in a metal box in space, with tin air and loud voices and no one knew what they did to her.
In.
She knew, in her head and in her fingernails and in her vertebrae.
Out.
She didn't want to know any more.
Stop.
Spots danced in her eyes, lungs burned.
She wouldn't let them win.
In.
Title: Just Breathe
Character: River
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG for content
Note: Set any time mid-season. River thinks about what the Academy did to her. Joss is Boss etc.
~~*~~
In.
Life needs air. Without air, everything stops.
Out.
In.
They gave her too much air, made her scream and beg before they took it away and made spots dance in her eyes and her lungs burn to cinders.
Out.
Now she was in a metal box in space, with tin air and loud voices and no one knew what they did to her.
In.
She knew, in her head and in her fingernails and in her vertebrae.
Out.
She didn't want to know any more.
Stop.
Spots danced in her eyes, lungs burned.
She wouldn't let them win.
In.