Rara Avis, by kirby crow (PG)

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Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: Wash/Zoe
Author on LJ: kirbycrow
Author’s Website: kirby crow’s fanfiction
Why this must be read:

This is a gut-wrenching look at Zoe through Wash’s eyes: her strength, her weakness, and what carrying the weight of the past can do to a person and those who love her. This is love, deep and painful.

There are tiny scars near her temple, just under the hairline. Small, light-charcoal lines that swirl in curves and crescents, barely visible in the sodium light of Serenity. I can see them in sunlight, but how often is that? She wears her hair loose around her face and won't talk about those almost- invisible scars. 

I could tell her that silence speaks louder than words, but that would be tresspassing. There are parts of her I can't touch, areas of her life that were declared inviolable neutral zones from the moment of our first kiss. The scars are one of these zones, partitioned from our marriage and our love and everything else we share. Taboo. 

Rara Avis

Comments

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

kirby crow is kirbycrow. :)

[anenko.livejournal.com]

. . . d'oh.

Thank you.