B5 Double Drabble: Starting Over
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badly_knittedTitle: Starting Over
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Amis.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: The Long Dark.
Summary: Amis’ life has been on hold since his unit was slaughtered by an unknown being. Now he’s finally free.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Haunted’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.
For the first time since before the war, Amis can sleep peacefully, safe. It’s a strange feeling, almost unnatural after so long haunted by an unseen but keenly felt presence. The nightmares aren’t entirely gone, and probably never will be, his subconscious still remembers, and yet, they don’t have as much power over him, awake or asleep, now that the creature, whatever it was, is gone.
A part of him had been lodged deep inside it since the first encounter back on that moon, a tether connecting them, so it could find him, feed from him… but not any longer. He’s whole, physically, if not mentally; some wounds never heal completely, and most leave scars of some kind, but maybe one day his mind will recover too. He can afford to hope, just a little.
What next? He thinks he might return to earth, now that he won’t be taking an unwelcome passenger with him. That’s what’s kept him out here for the last however many years; he’d been waiting for that thing to come for him, knowing that eventually it would, but it’s over now, the burden lifted from him. He’s free.
Perhaps now he can start living again.
The End
A part of him had been lodged deep inside it since the first encounter back on that moon, a tether connecting them, so it could find him, feed from him… but not any longer. He’s whole, physically, if not mentally; some wounds never heal completely, and most leave scars of some kind, but maybe one day his mind will recover too. He can afford to hope, just a little.
What next? He thinks he might return to earth, now that he won’t be taking an unwelcome passenger with him. That’s what’s kept him out here for the last however many years; he’d been waiting for that thing to come for him, knowing that eventually it would, but it’s over now, the burden lifted from him. He’s free.
Perhaps now he can start living again.
The End
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Date: 2024-12-08 08:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-12-08 08:35 pm (UTC)Thank you!