The Easy Path (Zoe

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somedeepmystery

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(11/3/05 10:30 am)
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The Easy Path (Zoe - Spoilers)

A little Post Serenity Fic. My first actually. Well first completed...

So Big Spoilers. Not obvious if you don't know what's going on though...
This basically attacked me out of no where and I had to write it. RIn said post it, so I am. I'm not the first, I get that. Still, had to be done.
Characters: Zoe
Rating:PG-13 (dark themes)

Zoë wasn’t a coward.

Lying on her back in the deep water she let her head fall back to the polished tin bottom. The water covered her head, then her eye, her cheeks, her mouth, until finally it was enveloping all of her. Air bubbles kept it from filling her nostrils. How easy would it be to breathe it out? To empty her lungs of air completely, and then to fill them back again with the lavender scented liquid.

She was a soldier. She was strong. She was hard, sometimes even cold. But she wasn’t made of steel or titanium. She wasn’t inhuman.

The shards of glass from her broken mirror beckon her with images of what they could do for her. They speak to her and whisper sweet nothings. A little sting, a little blood, a little closing of the eyes. She’d be somewhere else.

People often think that heroes dive head long into the fray, without thought or worry for themselves. People see that as bravery.

They are wrong.

A real hero knows the odds. Examines the risks and sees she’s on the wrong side of them. Sees all the darkness all the pain, all the possibility for loss, and still she doesn’t take the easy way.

That doesn’t mean she doesn’t see that it’s there.

~Some Deep Mystery~

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