FIC: The Space Within
Title: The Space Within
Length: 100 Words/Drabble (X-posted at bsg100
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None
Characters: Common People Challenge
Disclaimer: I'm playing in someone else's universe, I know!
Summary: You can feel lonely even when you're never alone.
In the dark, she hears a mumbled prayer: “Zeus deliver us.”
Roxanne wishes she could believe in the gods. She’d never had much faith. The end of the worlds changed everything but that. During services, words still ring hollow. Still, she goes because it might be comforting.
Nights she sleeps in a compartment with twenty other refugees, grateful for bedding scrounged from a freighter’s load. She tries not to cry herself to sleep, as a courtesy to the nineteen others.
Coughs are inevitable. Hushed assignations intrude. Mumbled prayers carry across the crowded room. But faith never fills the space within.
Length: 100 Words/Drabble (X-posted at bsg100
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None
Characters: Common People Challenge
Disclaimer: I'm playing in someone else's universe, I know!
Summary: You can feel lonely even when you're never alone.
In the dark, she hears a mumbled prayer: “Zeus deliver us.”
Roxanne wishes she could believe in the gods. She’d never had much faith. The end of the worlds changed everything but that. During services, words still ring hollow. Still, she goes because it might be comforting.
Nights she sleeps in a compartment with twenty other refugees, grateful for bedding scrounged from a freighter’s load. She tries not to cry herself to sleep, as a courtesy to the nineteen others.
Coughs are inevitable. Hushed assignations intrude. Mumbled prayers carry across the crowded room. But faith never fills the space within.