Firefly. Zoe Washburne. Ends 003
Title: Last Kiss
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
Characters: Zoe and Wash
Prompt: Ends
Word Count: 405
Rating: PG
Summary: Zoe fondly remembers Wash.
Author's Notes: This was originally written for the ff_friday challenge last kiss...
She walked up the hill carrying a lit taper. She didn’t cry. She couldn’t, not now. How could she honor her husband with her tears? She paused in front of his grave marker and watched the holo image of the man she loved look at her. It looked like he was telling her he loved her. A tear formed in her eye as she recalled the last time he told her those words.
Wash took them out of Miranda’s atmosphere with Zoë at his side. Neither could believe what had just happened to them. What they had learned. What the Alliance did. Now they were bound for Mr. Universe’s moon, putting Mal’s plan into action.
They were nearing the Reavers. Zoë leaned in and kissed Wash full on the mouth. When she pulled back, she smiled at him and stood behind his chair, hand on his shoulder.
He looked up at her. “I love you, Zoë.” He turned back to the Reavers in front of them. He maneuvered slowly around them.
“I love you too, Wash.” She squeezed his shoulder as she heard Mal over the comm., asking if they were almost through.
That had been their last kiss. Their last kiss before he died like the hero he was. She turned and lit the rocket and watched as it exploded in the air. After it was over, Zoë turned back to her husband’s image. She kissed her fingertips and placed them over the holo’s lips, silently saying ‘I love you.'
She turned and headed back to Serenity, leaving the others on the hill. She went down into their bunk and got changed, hanging the dress carefully. It was his last gift to her. Her fingers trailed over his clothes hanging in their closet, her closet now. She took out her favorite on of his shirts, a blue that complimented his eyes with palm trees and pineapples all over it. She held it to her nose, memorizing his scent, the scent that would be with her forever.
The tears came as she put the shirt on over her own. She walked over to her side of the bed and sat down, letting them fall as she leaned against her pillows. She lay down and grabbed his pillow, sobbing as she curled into it.
After a while she feel asleep and in her dreams, his arms were around her and that kiss was not their last.