Something To Think On: Chapter 14
Thursday, July 30, 2009
M/I. Post-BDM. On Miranda and descending into the dark. Here there be monsters.
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Something To Think On
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Chapter Fourteen
Miranda. Miranda Miranda Miranda Miranda Miranda Miranda Miranda.
Sometimes he thought if he closed his eyes tight enough and said the word to himself times enough when he opened his eyes it might be like it never happened. But every time when he opened his eyes, Wash and Book were still dead; Zoe was still grieving; Simon still carried that haunted, blank look on his face, and Kaylee that sadness.
This time when he did it, he was sitting on the floor of Grace’s infirmary, his back to the wall opposite the bed where the Companion slept, River’s head tucked in his lap. She’d been shivering and sniffling when he pulled her out from under Inara’s bed. It had taken all he had to get her to cross the room, where he sat and held her tight till she stopped shaking and drifted off to sleep (though every now and again a hand or foot kicked out; he figured her sleep was rarely peaceful).
He himself had drifted off once, and just once. Wouldn’t happen again, because that time, when he woke up, the girl was standing over Inara, holding a scalpel to the Companion’s wrist (red on her own) and muttering nonsense to herself about truth in blood. He was behind her in a second, pulling back her arm, yanking her away, back to him. But he was too weary for rage, and she’d fallen against him bonelessly anyhow. Even after that bit of excitement, he couldn’t quite bring himself to go and fetch her brother, so there he sat, his hand clamped over the gash on her wrist (not so bad as he’d thought), his eyes closed tight but sleep nowhere close.
“Miranda Miranda Miranda Miranda Miranda Miranda Miranda Miranda....” Said it until it stopped making sense, stopped sounding to his ears like someth
And the "you're not good enough" Simon-ness. Although now that I think of it, and since your reveal, it's strange that Simon would speak that way about Inara... ah, well, Mal and the doctor, they push each other's buttons.
I think that this is a better way for Simon to address the issue with Mal. Talking about the BLOOD being inside Inara is I think a little more like Simon, I think maybe what was wrong is that the other comments just felt too crude for him.
"You can't take the sky from me!"
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