Survival of the least
For ar_drabbles challenge 81: New beginnings
They ought to have been good at fresh starts by now. They'd had so many.
Surviving the fall of the colonies. Surviving his being shot in the chest. Surviving her cancer. Surviving her losing the election, surviving New Caprica. Surviving countless Cylon attacks. Surviving his drink and despair.
Maybe that's why they were so bad at fresh starts. A new beginning should be about more than just survival.
She'd be gone soon. She could feel it in her bones, in their pains and aches and creaks. She could feel it in the drip-drip-drip of the poison she invited into her veins in a vain attempt to survive.
Maybe it was time for a fresh start to new beginnings. Maybe it was time to live a little before they both died. Maybe it was time to do something they'd never done before.
She laced up borrowed sneakers and took off for a run to nowhere. She'd run around in circles as long as it took, until she wound up somewhere new, somewhere far away from here, somewhere he would join her in seeking a reason to live the short time they had left.
Time enough for survival after she was dead.
They ought to have been good at fresh starts by now. They'd had so many.
Surviving the fall of the colonies. Surviving his being shot in the chest. Surviving her cancer. Surviving her losing the election, surviving New Caprica. Surviving countless Cylon attacks. Surviving his drink and despair.
Maybe that's why they were so bad at fresh starts. A new beginning should be about more than just survival.
She'd be gone soon. She could feel it in her bones, in their pains and aches and creaks. She could feel it in the drip-drip-drip of the poison she invited into her veins in a vain attempt to survive.
Maybe it was time for a fresh start to new beginnings. Maybe it was time to live a little before they both died. Maybe it was time to do something they'd never done before.
She laced up borrowed sneakers and took off for a run to nowhere. She'd run around in circles as long as it took, until she wound up somewhere new, somewhere far away from here, somewhere he would join her in seeking a reason to live the short time they had left.
Time enough for survival after she was dead.