Ties that Bind: Home and Family
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
A long string of warm fuzzies.
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 5038 RATING: 8.0 (G) SERIES: FIREFLY
Hey all, sorry this took so long to get out. I got sick of waiting for my beta. I apologize for the over abundance (opposed to my regular abundance) of spelling and grammar mistakes.
Chapter 6
It occurred to Simon, as if by divine revelation, that it was dark out. It also occurred to him that he didn't care. Cold and wet and now dark, none of it mattered. He’d felt earlier that the planet was tilting towards the sun, being sucked in. But now that he was alone, and had been alone for a good long while, he felt as if the planet was being repelled away from the sun. Pushed so far away that light wasn’t going to reach the small world ever again. His small world would be forever dark.
He was sitting on the bank of the small stream. About two dozen yards south, to his right, was the spot where River had cut herself. He didn’t turn his head to his right. Another fifty yards north was the small path that led up to the Frye backyard and the house. There was light in that house, and warmth, and dryness. He didn’t turn his head to the left.
He just stared ahead, looking into the darkness of the forest. A part of him wanted to get lost in it, a part of him was afraid to, but most of him was to cold and stiff and morose to move.
It wasn’t that he was lost in his thoughts, because he wasn’t thinking anything. He was just so tired, and he just hurt so much. He was a doctor, his stock and trade was finding pain and then finding a way to eliminate it. But this pain was elusive; it hurt more at every prodding. The doctor was almost tempted to fish in the stream and find a nice sharp rock and create a wound he could heal, just to reassure himself that such things existed.
But it was getting darker, and he could no longer really see the stream.
“Simon!”
For a very brief moment the boy’s imagination produced the image of a seductive dryad, a siren, with a sharp rock in her cold and slender hand calling his name. Then he realized it was Kaylee.
“Simon!”
Suddenly, he needed to see her. The cold dar
My comments run along the same lines as the previous ones. I laughed and I cried. I think Simon can finally make the adjustment to being on Serenity now that he knows that he can't go back.
Zoe talking about love could also be baby talking. All those hormones have a strange effect on a person's personality. But I can see Simon and Kaylee getting married in some not to far off distant future. Poor Mal. He's just going to have to learn to live with people breaking his rules.
My comments match the others. I laughed and cried. I can see Simon and Kaylee getting married in some distant future.
As for Zoe I think that could be baby talking. Those hormones do alot of things to a person's personality.
I think Simon will be able to adjust better now that he's finally said good-bye to his old life. He never truly let go until now.
Thank you for redeeming Simon and River's parents. It bothered me to hate them, after the memory scenes in Safe. The exchange in this last installment of this story between Comworth and Gabriel Tam made perfect sense. They are merely out of their depth; victims of bureaucracy as much as Simon and River.
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