Title: Legends:Fallen Star
Author: Grey Bard
Pairing: J/A
Category: Do as you will
Rating: PG-13 for disturbing innuendo.
Spoilers: First season
Comment - For Koren and Rae. Because they believe.
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She is the Lost One. The great betrayer. She who was tainted beyond all
redemption. She would have been the best of us.

She was born of the best of their generation, daughter of a hundred cycles
of service on either side. She was so very young and so highly promising.
Kept a pilot, kept from administrative duties, because anything else would
have been a waste. Kept in a position to be pushed to the limits of her
endurance to maintain the edge on her perfect reflexes. Unknowingly shielded
from the situations that could have made weaknesses of her strengths.

So honorable, so sure, so very loyal. It is hard to retain one of that
kind. She was so trusting of us and maintained that way with great
difficulty. Carefully exposed to only the most black and white of missions.
Shielded from anything that would make her doubt, shielded so that her
loyalties would remain pure, that the qualities that made her valuable would
not be lost to us. She could have been the greatest living weapon that we as
Peacekeepers ever had.

She would never have had so much as a whiff of politics, of course. That
was the point. She was so obviously honorable and strong and honest that any
doubt in those below her would have died immediately. She could have someday
commanded respect and allegiance of a kind we have long lost. She would have
been the face that we showed to the universe and our strong right arm. Tough
but honest. Glorious and fierce triumph personified.

She was our future, guided, guarded and sculpted all unknowing. Of all our
hopes, the most brightly shining. And she threw it all away for a flash of
eyes, a breath of freedom and a glimpse of truth.