Title: The Monster's Alphabet
Author: alliterator
Summary: A series of vignettes, from Adam to Zookeeper. Spoilers for all seven seasons.
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine; everything belongs to the great and power Whedon.
Marcie Ross
Takes place sometime after Season 1
"Look. Listen. Learn."
- Marcie Ross in Out of Mind, Out of Sight
There was an exquisite darkness to the warehouse. Light shone in from windows that had not been opened for decades – but one was open now. No one was looking out from it.
Outside, it was a sunny day, the perfect kind for picnics or parades. Which was what the city was having, a parade. Right down main street, as if from out of an old movie. But things weren't in black and white.
A car, the top pulled down, rolled slowly down the street, its occupants waving from side to side. There were five people in the car: a man, a woman, a small girl, and two men in black suits with sunglasses and earpieces.
The man was a politician. A Senator. No one didn't know his name. He waved counterfeit waves, smiled phony smiles. When sad, he cried crocodile tears.
The woman was his wife. No one didn't know her name as well. She was ambitious; she was persuading her husband slowly to try and run for President.
The girl was their daughter. No one knew her name. She was an innocent. Don't touch.
The men in black were Secret Service. No one knew their names. They worked with no one.
No one looked out of the window and into the parade. No one saw the Senator and his smiling wife and his innocent daughter. No one aimed and no one fired off two shots.
There was screaming. No one listened and smiled.