Fic: Alone Again (Mal/Inara)

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Title: Alone Again
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Mal/Inara
Prompt: #022 Once upon a time... ~ You are never here for once
Word Count: 213
Rating: T+
Summary: He stands by the bare bed in her shuttle and stares at the dull grey of the wall, where delicate silks of brilliant red and orange and pink used to hang.
Notes: Written for 30_angsts. 29/08/08.

"I find myself
Alone again
Don't want to find myself
Alone again"
~ "Hold On" by Acceptance

He stands by the bare bed in her shuttle and stares at the dull grey of the wall, where delicate silks of brilliant red and orange and pink used to hang. Without moving his eyes from the blank slate, he can see that the rests of the shuttle is also void of anything that makes it look like a home. It's as it was before Inara arrived. Empty.

He's still getting used to that fact. It hasn't quite sunk in, he figures, that Inara is really gone. She is gone and more likely than not will not return.

He doesn't know exactly how he feels about it, but however it is, it's not good. He's numb. He can't feel anything.

The last thing he'd have expected to want to think about is finding a new tennant to move in, but it's his first priority thought-wise. It gives him something to focus on that isn't Inara, that isn't the lack of her presence, as frustrating as it often had been. It gives him a distraction, although he knows he won't follow through. He won't find someone to replace Inara. He can't replace her.

Inara had left and he misses her. It's as simple as that.

He lets his head hang and closes his eyes.

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