B5 Double Drabble: Tarnished
Title: Tarnished
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Susan Ivanova, Malcolm Biggs.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: The War Prayer.
Summary: Susan had been thrilled to see Malcolm again, but her happiness doesn’t last.
Written For: Challenge 417: Amnesty 69 at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 156: Rose.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
The rose is such a sweet, romantic gesture, and Ivanova is surprised at the way it makes her heart flutter, skipping a beat. After so many years apart, she hadn’t expected to feel this way, like a giddy young girl daydreaming about her first crush.
But Malcolm remains as charming as he was eight years ago, and although she wants to take things slowly now that they’ve been reunited, a part of her can’t help but hope they have a chance to rekindle what they had back then. So many nights after she left him, she cried herself to sleep, wondering if she’d make a mistake, prioritising her career over their relationship.
Then the rug gets pulled out from under her and she wonders if she ever knew Malcolm Biggs at all. Could he have changed so much in less than a decade, or had he always been like this, a xenophobic, anti-alien, pro-earth apologist without a single shred of human decency?
It’s chilling to realise what a hate-filled monster he is. The rose he gave her, which only days ago she’d cherished as a token of love and a promise for the future, is now a symbol of everything she despises, and she consigns it to the trash, not wanting to look at it again.
All she wants now is to help Commander Sinclair bring Malcolm and his friends down, then get him the hell off Babylon 5. She’ll never let herself be taken in by a man again.
The End
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Susan Ivanova, Malcolm Biggs.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: The War Prayer.
Summary: Susan had been thrilled to see Malcolm again, but her happiness doesn’t last.
Written For: Challenge 417: Amnesty 69 at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 156: Rose.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
The rose is such a sweet, romantic gesture, and Ivanova is surprised at the way it makes her heart flutter, skipping a beat. After so many years apart, she hadn’t expected to feel this way, like a giddy young girl daydreaming about her first crush.
But Malcolm remains as charming as he was eight years ago, and although she wants to take things slowly now that they’ve been reunited, a part of her can’t help but hope they have a chance to rekindle what they had back then. So many nights after she left him, she cried herself to sleep, wondering if she’d make a mistake, prioritising her career over their relationship.
Then the rug gets pulled out from under her and she wonders if she ever knew Malcolm Biggs at all. Could he have changed so much in less than a decade, or had he always been like this, a xenophobic, anti-alien, pro-earth apologist without a single shred of human decency?
It’s chilling to realise what a hate-filled monster he is. The rose he gave her, which only days ago she’d cherished as a token of love and a promise for the future, is now a symbol of everything she despises, and she consigns it to the trash, not wanting to look at it again.
All she wants now is to help Commander Sinclair bring Malcolm and his friends down, then get him the hell off Babylon 5. She’ll never let herself be taken in by a man again.
The End