Fic: Time Goes Differently (River)

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Title: Time Goes Differently
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: River
Prompt: #003 to this point, from now on
Word Count: 214
Rating: PG
Summary: Time goes differently.
Notes: Written for 2x5obsessions on 5/2/13.

Time goes differently. Slow, then fast, then slow again, and then all at once, the world leaps and moves into a new era.

Her life echoes this philosophy. Only, entwined in each jump in time is memories from people not her. Other girls and boys like her, Alliance officers, sometimes Simon or her parents. Sometimes strangers.

They are all a part of her. They all are joined. And she sees and hears all. She experiences what they have known in past and what they know now.

She shouldn’t know any of it. She shouldn’t know how one Alliance officer who guards her is afraid of her. She shouldn’t know he has killed others like her and enjoyed it – the girls before her, that their experiments failed on. But she does know.

She knows that time works in different ways for her. Sometimes not her.

She knows they did this to her. She knows, to them, she is a play thing, a toy. If she breaks, she will be discarded. Onto the next.

But she doesn’t break. She prays to break, but she doesn’t. Not really.

So, she waits. She waits and endures their tests and waits, because she can feel her coming.

Soon, she will return home.

Soon, she knows, she will find Serenity.

fin.