#007 Shed The Past (Mal/Inara)
Title: Shed The Past
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Mal/Inara
Prompt: #007 Interest ~ crying for you one last time & #092 Lovers
Word Count: 250
Rating: T+
Summary: Her throat is tight. Unshed tears burn her eyes.
Notes: Written for 30_angsts and coclaim100. Day 4 of my August Fic-A-Day Challenge.
No, I can’t let go
No, I can’t let go of you
You’re holding me back
Without even trying to
I can’t let go
I can’t move on from the past
Without lifting a finger
You’re holding me back
- “Can’t Let Go” by Landon Pigg
Her throat is tight. Unshed tears burn her eyes. She is angry - at herself and at her current circumstances and at Mal.
She is leaving Serenity. For the second time.
What makes her so terribly miserable about it is that it’s the same reason why she left the first time. Nothing has changed.
It makes her heart ache to think about what she’ll be missing out on once she’s gone. (She’ll never truly be gone. A part of her will always stay with Serenity.) She knows now exactly how hard leaving behind her life on Serenity can be.
When she’s gone, she won’t have the crew, her extended family, around to talk to and to eat meals with and to comfort. When she’s gone, she’ll have no one to barge in on her while she’s in her ‘private’ quarters…
Her eyes prick and then blur and a single tear rolls down her cheek, followed by another and another.
She can’t let go. She can’t move on from the past.
Without lifting a finger, the crew of Serenity is holding her back. Mal, whom had never been her lover in the strictest sense of the word and yet meant so much more to her, is holding her back.
She looks into herself and puts her Companion training to work. No. She’ll be fine. She’ll find it in her to move on. She had before, hadn’t she? Barely, but yes. She can do it again.
She can shed the past. She can.
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Mal/Inara
Prompt: #007 Interest ~ crying for you one last time & #092 Lovers
Word Count: 250
Rating: T+
Summary: Her throat is tight. Unshed tears burn her eyes.
Notes: Written for 30_angsts and coclaim100. Day 4 of my August Fic-A-Day Challenge.
No, I can’t let go
No, I can’t let go of you
You’re holding me back
Without even trying to
I can’t let go
I can’t move on from the past
Without lifting a finger
You’re holding me back
- “Can’t Let Go” by Landon Pigg
Her throat is tight. Unshed tears burn her eyes. She is angry - at herself and at her current circumstances and at Mal.
She is leaving Serenity. For the second time.
What makes her so terribly miserable about it is that it’s the same reason why she left the first time. Nothing has changed.
It makes her heart ache to think about what she’ll be missing out on once she’s gone. (She’ll never truly be gone. A part of her will always stay with Serenity.) She knows now exactly how hard leaving behind her life on Serenity can be.
When she’s gone, she won’t have the crew, her extended family, around to talk to and to eat meals with and to comfort. When she’s gone, she’ll have no one to barge in on her while she’s in her ‘private’ quarters…
Her eyes prick and then blur and a single tear rolls down her cheek, followed by another and another.
She can’t let go. She can’t move on from the past.
Without lifting a finger, the crew of Serenity is holding her back. Mal, whom had never been her lover in the strictest sense of the word and yet meant so much more to her, is holding her back.
She looks into herself and puts her Companion training to work. No. She’ll be fine. She’ll find it in her to move on. She had before, hadn’t she? Barely, but yes. She can do it again.
She can shed the past. She can.