{dollhouse} came around to tear your little world apart

[aaronlisa]

Title: Came Around to Tear Your Little World Apart
Author: aaronlisa
Fandom: Dollhouse
Pairing/Characters: Matthew Harding, Echo with mentions of Clive Ambrose and Topher Brink
Rating: FR13
Disclaimer: Dollhouse belongs to Joss Whedon and company. The title and lyrics come from Garbage’s song “Vow.”
Prompts: Written for 100rare for prompt #26 (too late.)
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[derevko_child]

Oh, wow. This is just... wow. I love how you just made me feel for Harding, even for just a split second.

He doesn’t want to die; he doesn’t want to not know about this conversation with them or what he has learned. Echo merely smiles at him and cocks the gun. The sound is loud in his quiet office and Harding wants to beg her to spare him this time, just this once, to give him this knowledge. Not the knowledge that he wounded her with his words, but this knowledge of knowing what being mortal is like. He hasn’t felt it in so long and even though his fear tastes acrid in his mouth, he wants to cling to it, to feel how precious life is.

“Ple…”

The words are cut off when she fires her gun and he collapses to the desk, the last thing that he sees is the sadness written on her face before it all fades away.

Beautiful. Bravo.

[aaronlisa]

Thank you.