edenbound: (FFIV)
edenbound ([personal profile] edenbound) wrote2006-08-12 01:37 pm

F: Blown Leaf

Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: None
Warnings: Deathfic
Rating: G
Summary: "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar." For [livejournal.com profile] 5sentence_fics.



It isn't what he thought it'd be like, somehow -- death, that is, though why it should've conformed to any human standards was beyond Wash, too. It was like a sudden jerk and then nothing, and suddenly he wasn't gripping the controls like death or even starting to relax, or feeling proud -- suddenly, he wasn't feeling much of anything beyond a vague sense of surprise. One minute everything was going right, he was a leaf on the wind, and now --

He grins at the thought. I am a leaf on the wind; I got blown away.