One Simple Question
By: valaMD (scifi_tv_addict)
CATEGORY: Drabble
SEASON/SPOILERS: Speculated future events
WARNINGS: None
AUTHOR’S WEBSITE:
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Lies. Lying. It had always come naturally to Vala, which was
why she had built such a lucrative career around deception. Over the years she
had grown skilled at telling people what they’d wanted to hear, saying what
they’d needed to hear. Not once had she ever second-guessed herself, but as she
sat down on the bed in her quarters her mind began to race and she became
increasingly uncertain of whether she had made the right decision. Usually she
lied in order to save her own skin or to manipulate someone into giving her
what she wanted, but not this time. This time she had lied to save someone
else, she had lied to save him.
Her mother, Tomin, Adria - all gone now. It seemed that people had a habit of
dying around her and she simply hadn’t been able to bear the thought of holding
his dead body in her arms…not after she had come so close once before. Even
now, months later, she still remembered the smell of his hair and the warmth of
his skin against her cheek as she’d held his body in the cold cell of Adria‘s
fortress. It was a feeling and an image burned into her memory forever.
One simple question, one honest answer. He hadn’t asked for anything more. All
he wanted was the truth, but her heart simply couldn’t allow her to give it to
him.
Do you love me?
No.
She had lied to save him, but in doing so had denied herself the one thing that
had never been a lie.
** The End **
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