Title: Inner Strength
Series: Fic-For-All Fanmix
Author:
Jmaria
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Joss owns
Pairing: FfA
#2318 Buffy / River (Firefly)
Summary: 20 songs, 20 pairings. Inner Strength by Hilary Duff
Part
Summary: Gotta learn to rely on you, beauty, strength and wisdom,
too.
Warnings: Character Death
Inner Strength
River counts the functions and processes as they flow and happen around her. Captain is shouting, blood pressure and heart rate moving at faster rates. Jayne's are faster as well, but he is in his bunk - trying to be quiet. River found herself grinning a bit at what he was really doing.
Kaylee and Simon are laughing over something in the mess. Zoe and Wash. . . .their feelings overwhelm her a bit, as they always seem to do. She would never lash out at those two, because they are the closest to feeling alive as she can get some days. Only one person on board Serenity is completely at peace. It is the girl resting in the med-lab, her least of all favorite places on board.
"It's easy to just let everything go, know other's will do it for you. But it's easy, not right, little one."
River blinks, knows she doesn't really see the girl standing in front of her. She's in a coma in the lab. Shepherd Book is praying over her.
"You have to find the balance, River. Find what you need to get yourself and your crew through. I won't be here for you forever. Rely on yourself to get the job done, when need be." The blonde girl smiles at her, and River can feel the tears well up in her eyes. "Good-bye, River. Get the job done."
It is twenty minutes later that Shepherd Book comes to tell the crew that the girl named Buffy has passed on.