Title: Dance to Freedom

Author: Kali

Rated: R

Fandom: Firefly

Timeline: Anywhere during the show

Style: Short vignette

Summary: River and dancing.

Note: Not Beta Readed.

Note2: This story was initially written for a French essay I had to make in school. The teacher gave us the phrase: "She dances, to leave, to become invisible, to fly like a bird in the clouds." and we had to write something. When I wrote it, I was thinking of River, so here you go with the translation.

Dance to Freedom

An other night, an other nightmare,
She wakes up, sweating in her bed and the room swirls around her.
She blinks back tears, exhales deeply. She pushes the memories away and gets up.

Everything is dark, everything is silent,
The only sound comes from the ship's engine but she doesn't pay attention. She walks down the hall and goes down the stairs. There's nobody around. They're all asleep, struggling with their pasts and fighting shadows. So many secrets. They don't know it, but she sees it all.

She understands, but she doesn't comprehend,
Objects are easy. Objects don't mean what you think. But people… people are complicated. They think they know it all, but they don't see half of it. Secret, lies, shadows – ghosts – trapped in every dark corner of every room, waiting for the perfect moment to attack her.

She takes off her boots and starts to dance, bare foot on the cold floor, white skin of silver metal. She dances and nothing else matters. She swirls and the dreams are spinning away. She swirls and in her dreams, she touches the sky. She's flying in the clouds and the memories are stuck on the planet. She spins and flies. She spins and she's free.

"No power in the 'verse can stop me."