#003 Trip Down Memory Lane

Title: Trip Down Memory Lane
Series: The Refugee (Chapter 3)
Prompt: #003 Memory
Word Count: 100
Characters: Mulder and Scully
Notes: Written for ficlets100
Previous Chapters: Self Defence (Chapter 2) and Surrounded (Chapter 1)

Mulder showed Scully a slideshow on their latest case, explaining it all in detail as the images appeared onscreen. Coming across a particularly informative slide, he paused it.

“This is the specimen that the military force claims killed their men. Doesn’t look too nasty, to me!” Mulder stated, half-jokingly.

Scully smiled and pressed him for more information. “You know what did this?”

“I have an idea or two,” Mulder replied. “I remember something similar in an old case.”

“So? Care to enlighten me?” Scully mused, curiously.

Mulder grinned and nodded. “Look’s like a trip down Memory Lane is in order!”

#003 Trip Down Memory Lane

Title: Trip Down Memory Lane
Series: The Refugee (Chapter 3)
Prompt: #003 Memory
Word Count: 100
Characters: Mulder and Scully
Notes: Written for ficlets100
Previous Chapters: Self Defence (Chapter 2) and Surrounded (Chapter 1)

Mulder showed Scully a slideshow on their latest case, explaining it all in detail as the images appeared onscreen. Coming across a particularly informative slide, he paused it.

“This is the specimen that the military force claims killed their men. Doesn’t look too nasty, to me!” Mulder stated, half-jokingly.

Scully smiled and pressed him for more information. “You know what did this?”

“I have an idea or two,” Mulder replied. “I remember something similar in an old case.”

“So? Care to enlighten me?” Scully mused, curiously.

Mulder grinned and nodded. “Look’s like a trip down Memory Lane is in order!”

#004 Senseless (River)

Title: Senseless
Prompt: #004 Belief
Word Count: 100
Characters: River and Book
Notes: Written for ficlets100

“Doesn’t matter. It’s fallacious,” River told Book animatedly as she gestured at the open bible that lay in front of her.

“River! That’s not what it means,” Book argued. He shook his head wearily at her before continuing. “What is written in the bible cannot all be taken literally. Of course you won’t be able to understand it if you read it like that!”

River cocked her head to the side, digesting. “Why write what it doesn’t mean?” she finally asked.

“River. It’s not about making sense,” Book explained carefully.

River frowned. “What’s it about?”

“It’s about believing in something.”

#004 Senseless (River)

Title: Senseless
Prompt: #004 Belief
Word Count: 100
Characters: River and Book
Notes: Written for ficlets100

“Doesn’t matter. It’s fallacious,” River told Book animatedly as she gestured at the open bible that lay in front of her.

“River! That’s not what it means,” Book argued. He shook his head wearily at her before continuing. “What is written in the bible cannot all be taken literally. Of course you won’t be able to understand it if you read it like that!”

River cocked her head to the side, digesting. “Why write what it doesn’t mean?” she finally asked.

“River. It’s not about making sense,” Book explained carefully.

River frowned. “What’s it about?”

“It’s about believing in something.”

#005 Creators (River)

Title: Creators
Prompt: #005 Eternal
Word Count: 100
Characters: River
Notes: Written for ficlets100

It went on forever, never pausing for a break and always just moving on and on. It never ended and no matter how hard one tried; they’d never be able to see it all.

River knew that, as she stared out into the black. She knew that the universe went on for eternity in every direction and that nothing was what it seemed.

It was bottomless and wide and easy to get lost in.

But the nothingness of the verse was not what created the Reavers, nor was it the edge of the black that did. It was the Alliance.

#005 Creators (River)

Title: Creators
Prompt: #005 Eternal
Word Count: 100
Characters: River
Notes: Written for ficlets100

It went on forever, never pausing for a break and always just moving on and on. It never ended and no matter how hard one tried; they’d never be able to see it all.

River knew that, as she stared out into the black. She knew that the universe went on for eternity in every direction and that nothing was what it seemed.

It was bottomless and wide and easy to get lost in.

But the nothingness of the verse was not what created the Reavers, nor was it the edge of the black that did. It was the Alliance.

#051 Waiting

Title: Waiting
Prompt: #051 Monsters
Word Count: 100
Characters: River
Notes: Written for ficlets100

I don’t know how to escape this insanity. Everything is devoid of description and it’s unquantifiable. The pounding in my head won’t stop and I can’t think what to do.

I can’t let myself go back to sleep. I won’t let myself.

Sleep is calling my name but I keep pushing it away. Sleep is when they come. I don’t want to face them again. I don’t want to face those monsters.

They’re always there when I close my eyes, waiting. They’ll come for me when I’m weak. They’ll come for all of us.

I fear it’s not safe anymore.

#051 Waiting

Title: Waiting
Prompt: #051 Monsters
Word Count: 100
Characters: River
Notes: Written for ficlets100

I don’t know how to escape this insanity. Everything is devoid of description and it’s unquantifiable. The pounding in my head won’t stop and I can’t think what to do.

I can’t let myself go back to sleep. I won’t let myself.

Sleep is calling my name but I keep pushing it away. Sleep is when they come. I don’t want to face them again. I don’t want to face those monsters.

They’re always there when I close my eyes, waiting. They’ll come for me when I’m weak. They’ll come for all of us.

I fear it’s not safe anymore.