Drabble Consolidation: River
Title: The Boys Are Over
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG
Word Count: 128
Prompt: Still_grr 012- It's Over, It's Under
Characters: River, Mal, Book
At night the crew walks in River’s head and introduces her to strangers. Little Malcolm Reynolds is a sweet boy, born on Shadow but raised in sunlight. He steps out into the ‘verse dressed in his mama’s homespun wisdom and kisses his cross before he charges into battle. The Shepherd-that-was culls his flock sparing only the good sheep, and sometimes not even them. He anoints them in cordite and blood and knows no green pastures.
Their waking selves hide them well. The Captain blusters and yells and does his crime while Book reads his symbol looking for Mal’s lost god. They tell themselves those days are over, those boys are over. They’ve buried them deep underground where no one will ever find them. But River knows their dreams.
Title: Bits
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Prompt: Still_grr 066 River
Character: River
There were bits, missing bits, and what was left jangled under River’s skin like broken glass. There were days when the weight of the Verse pressed in on her and rubbed her jagged edges raw. Those days she couldn’t be River, couldn’t find all her River bits. But then Simon would smile and need her to be River, so she would pull her bits together, smile back and be River. It was like moving mountains, making time flow backwards. Bits were still missing, always would be missing, when she tried, she could pretend and no one would hear her jangling.
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG
Word Count: 128
Prompt: Still_grr 012- It's Over, It's Under
Characters: River, Mal, Book
At night the crew walks in River’s head and introduces her to strangers. Little Malcolm Reynolds is a sweet boy, born on Shadow but raised in sunlight. He steps out into the ‘verse dressed in his mama’s homespun wisdom and kisses his cross before he charges into battle. The Shepherd-that-was culls his flock sparing only the good sheep, and sometimes not even them. He anoints them in cordite and blood and knows no green pastures.
Their waking selves hide them well. The Captain blusters and yells and does his crime while Book reads his symbol looking for Mal’s lost god. They tell themselves those days are over, those boys are over. They’ve buried them deep underground where no one will ever find them. But River knows their dreams.
Title: Bits
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Prompt: Still_grr 066 River
Character: River
There were bits, missing bits, and what was left jangled under River’s skin like broken glass. There were days when the weight of the Verse pressed in on her and rubbed her jagged edges raw. Those days she couldn’t be River, couldn’t find all her River bits. But then Simon would smile and need her to be River, so she would pull her bits together, smile back and be River. It was like moving mountains, making time flow backwards. Bits were still missing, always would be missing, when she tried, she could pretend and no one would hear her jangling.