aurey09

Title: Ghosts
Character: River
Number: 15/100
Timeline: Post BDM

Objects still call out to River, they need to be touched. She runs her fingertips over the dulled surface of Serenity‘s controls. She wonders if she can pickup on any of the ships past pilots, tap into the right frequency. Wash is still here, she expects there are others waiting for her to hear them.

They aren’t ghosts, she doesn’t believe in those. They'd never be classified as that, under any kind of scrutiny. Their thoughts simply got trapped, they can’t change, they’re merely echoes. 

People remembered those ghosts but eventually Serenity will be all that is left of them.

I thought 'I’ve got to write a Warren drabble, I’ll write something about the Trio it’ll be funny' … that didn’t happen instead there’s this:

Title: People Aren’t Machines
Author: Aurey09
Character: Warren
Number: 13/100
Timeline: Villains

Warren saw a team like a machine, if a part went wrong you removed it. Jonathan broke down first, he’d expected it to be Andrew but it didn’t matter, both of them were weak, like sheep; like the majority humans.

But Warren is the first to stop working. He isn’t unwound like a spring but stripped, made into a dangling carcass. Anya sees it happen, as she stands with the others. She remembers looking into one of his robots, saying she’d prefer looking at guts not wires. But now she wishes he were a machine, everything would be less complicated.

8 and 9 of my 100 drabbles challenge, for those who are counting. If you suggested a character in my last drabbles post: Lorne, Warren, Dawn, Cordelia and Groo are up next.

These are my first three drabbles, so I'd really love to hear what anyone thinks.