Prompt 12, 'Change of Hands'
A/N: Jordan reflection post war, Rachel- focused. Side note: according to Wikipedia, these two were only two years apart in age, so Jordan was around Rachel's beginning of series age (give or take) at the end of the war.
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An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. ~Pam Brown
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In the pecking order of siblings (and their rivalry), Jordan had been 'always the bridesmaid, never the bride' to Rachel's triumphant lead; golden Rachel, who had always had the grades, the looks, the confidence, the answers- at least before the war had started taking her farther and farther away from their family, both physically and emotionally.
But now Rachel was gone, dead on an alien space ship in a war Jordan hadn't been exposed to enough to fully understand; suddenly she was the oldest child- the one who led, who did things first- and Jordan was utterly and completely unprepared for something she had *thought* she wanted her whole life.
In Rachel's permanent absence from family dinners, homework around the kitchen table, and the sidelines of sporting events, Jordan was now the only one for Sarah to look up to and emulate in the coming years. Jordan was the one who would have to play the example.
…All she wanted was to have Rachel back and be the younger sister again.
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