Fic: Its Bidding (River)
Title: Its Bidding
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: River
Prompt: #006 Secrets
Word Count: 188
Rating: G
Summary: She can’t run far enough or fast enough away.
Notes: Written for 10_per_genre. July 28.
“I’ve tried everything to get away”
- "Over & Over" by Three Days Grace
She can’t run far enough or fast enough away. She has tried and it has failed. ‘It’ has the uncanny ability to be everywhere she is even if she doesn’t invite ‘it’. ‘It’ is there all the time and at the same time, it never is and was never meant to be.
In the moments of peace ‘it’ gives her, the anxiety does not leave but doubles for she knows ‘it’ will soon be back. ‘It’ always is. ‘It’ will be there when she turns the corner and ‘it’ will be there when she dreams and when she wakes.
The worst part is knowing that ‘it’ is not hers. ‘It’ is not hers to know. And yet she knows ‘it’. ‘It’ knows her.
‘It’ is what propels her to escape when the big bad man (the crew call him Jayne) comes a tappin’ with his heavy tin. ‘It’ is what makes her knock Simon out cold (poor brother, but he’ll live) and when she sets Mal on the path to Miranda.
Only at rest ‘it’ will leave her and so until that time she will do its bidding.
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: River
Prompt: #006 Secrets
Word Count: 188
Rating: G
Summary: She can’t run far enough or fast enough away.
Notes: Written for 10_per_genre. July 28.
“I’ve tried everything to get away”
- "Over & Over" by Three Days Grace
She can’t run far enough or fast enough away. She has tried and it has failed. ‘It’ has the uncanny ability to be everywhere she is even if she doesn’t invite ‘it’. ‘It’ is there all the time and at the same time, it never is and was never meant to be.
In the moments of peace ‘it’ gives her, the anxiety does not leave but doubles for she knows ‘it’ will soon be back. ‘It’ always is. ‘It’ will be there when she turns the corner and ‘it’ will be there when she dreams and when she wakes.
The worst part is knowing that ‘it’ is not hers. ‘It’ is not hers to know. And yet she knows ‘it’. ‘It’ knows her.
‘It’ is what propels her to escape when the big bad man (the crew call him Jayne) comes a tappin’ with his heavy tin. ‘It’ is what makes her knock Simon out cold (poor brother, but he’ll live) and when she sets Mal on the path to Miranda.
Only at rest ‘it’ will leave her and so until that time she will do its bidding.