Fic: V for Valerie (V for Vendetta- Major movie spoilers!)

V For Valerie
By Erin Griffin
Fandom: V for Vendetta (SPOLIERS!!)
Rating: PG
Pairing: Valerie/Ruth mention
Summary: A reply letter from Evie
Author's Note: If you haven't seen V for Vendetta, then you don't want
to read this. It gives stuff away. I only saw the movie once, and I had to
have some parts of it explained to me, but I didn't focus on any of the
political aspect of the movie in here. Still, this the whole movie, just to
let you all know.

My Dearest Valerie,

You had been gone long before I ever laid eyes on your
letters. And I doubt I was even born when your struggles began. I know
you will never cast your eyes on these words I write, yet still I find
comfort in the pen scratching on the paper, the smell of the fresh ink,
the feel of my finger wrapped tightly around the pen, as I imagine
sometimes that your might have been many years ago. I was not the
original recipient of your letters, though I felt as if everything you wrote
was meant for my heart alone to hear. Your struggle eased my pain
when I could feel nothing else, though every night I cried for you and
Ruth more than I ever had the strength to cry for myself. Still, I felt as if
nothing else could hurt me after a while in that darkness, nothing else
could be taken from me, but if they had stolen them, your letters, surely
I would have died. I guess it is mad to write to a deceased woman, one
that I've unfortunately never had the opportunity to meet. I have done
crazier things in my time, the last two years especially. I write to you
now because like many night like tonight I cannot sleep. I cannot think.
Your words echo yet in my head, as I need nothing to remember them. I
would have given anything to know you and dear Ruth, but I picture you
both at times, holding each other in another form, one you take only
after you die. I imagine you like you together in a place where no one
could harm either you ever again. Thoughts like these calm all
uneasiness in me. Sometimes I imagine V there with you, of course in
his mask, as I have no other image of him. I wish nothing for you all
than peace. For once, I hope there's peace and justice for all of you
there. I will never know you, Valerie, but I will never forget you. So
remember, remember the fifth of November, for that is the day V blew up
Parliament, and we did it for you. Because we love you too. You and
your Ruth. With all our hearts.

Evie