DSICLAIMER: Joss and Company own it all. They just let us play here.
This is just something that popped into my head while watching Ariel.
It is my first post here and my first attempt at fanfic. Feel free to comment. I have a couple of others wandering around on my hard drive, hopefully they will let me know how they are supposed to end
Thanks to nomad for his help and enouraging words...hope ya all enjoy.
If she could just hang on to this one memory she could win…
If she could just hang on to this one memory she could win….just this one….
River stood in front of a magnificent tree that stretched all the way to the ceiling, and yearned with every fiber of her eight year old being for Christmas to hurry There were already a few presents wrapped in shiny iridescent paper under it but River knew there had to be more. The ones her parents still marked From: Father Christmas, even though she was far too old and wise to believe that anymore. She had tried to enlist Simon's help in looking for them. He had refused with all the scorn inherent in his newly acquired teenaged years. He had informed her that looking under beds and in closets was greedy and not at all in keeping with the spirit of the holiday..
River clung to the memory. The big brotherly smile on Simon's face….. the smell of the tree….the stockings hanging from the fireplace mantle….
She felt the small familiar pressure in the middle of her forehead…the cool sting in her forearm….and the monsters came back….and they took Christmas away.
gentle journey to all