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fandomsecrets2014-06-10 06:49 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-06-10 06:49 pm
[ SECRET POST #2716 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2716 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 044 secrets from Secret Submission Post #388.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - this is getting too obvious now, anon ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Favorite line from a fanfic /// From a DS9 fic...I actually gasped when I read this.
The outer layer of the sphere began to burn away in the star's solar wind. Trails of glowing material billowed out like a comet's diaphanous tail.
How strange. It hurt in waves, yet it was no more painful than labor. Somehow, Odo expected worse.
Kira's ashes glittered everywhere, tiny dust motes within a sunbeam. Odo realized he'd been breathing them the whole time.
"It's starting," whispered Kejal. "Pray with me?"
Odo blinked, "How?"
"Just call out to what you believe in."
Kejal peered upward and began the song he sang at Doctor Mora's funeral eons ago. A prayer asking the Prophets to light a wayward traveler's destination.
Incredible heat blazed down. Odo clutched Kejal tighter. He watched the embers-- pieces of himself and his son-- mingle with Kira's cremains in the star's hellish onslaught. It happened too quickly to register more than a dull ache.
Kejal kept chanting. Odo sank to sit on an outcropping. He held Kejal closer and listened. Only his son would greet his imminent demise with a song.
Get a hold of yourself! Odo berated himself. Doctor Mora showed you how to die with dignity eleven billion years ago, now follow his example!
"It's okay." Kejal patted his arm. He curled up in Odo's lap like he used to in his youth and laid his head on his shoulder. "I'm right here with you. I love you, mother."
Odo's fingers dented Kejal's clothing. "I love you, too, Kejal."
Kejal remained perfectly calm. How could he not feel mortal terror? How was he so certain?
Odo clutched his offspring tighter, trying in vain to protect him from the inevitable. He comforted himself with an errant thought. We left our footprints with the Odoans. If all else fails, I know the story will live on. The Odoans will remember there was an Odo, a Kejal, a Kira Nerys, an Aleexa and a Mora Pol.
The star's boiling surface surged closer. He squeezed his eyes shut and waited for oblivion.
"Mother," Kejal whispered, "I understand why you're afraid, but don't be. There is so much to experience. We'll do this together, okay? You and me. Now open your eyes and see."
Grief-stricken, surrounded by his imminent incineration, Odo lifted his head. His eyes reflected a light not caused by the star above him. Both his eyebrows went up. The same glow came from himself, Kejal and the last Odoan biosphere barely visible in the distance.
"I lifted this vision from father's pillow. It's what he saw right before he died. Can you see it, mother? Can you see the light?"
"Kejal, I-- "
Odo remembered the whiteness he saw during Kejal's birth, the deka seed he'd planted and transporting Doctor Mora's braid into a nebula. All were things he did out of hope, and they came true.
I understand now.
Just like that, his fear became acceptance. His grip on his son relaxed. He beamed with tears welling in his eyes.
It was so simple.
"I found it," Odo said, "I found my prayer."
Kejal nuzzled Odo's shoulder. His response was drowned out by the disintegration of the last layer between them and the star's radiation. Their approximated skin began to dry out and flake off as the vacuum of space violently whipped at their hair.
Kejal looked up. Half his face was crumbling. He still managed a smile.
Odo felt himself solidifying like volcanic glass. He kissed his son's undamaged right ear and closed his eyes.
The light brightened.
Kejal gasped.
Odo said his prayer.
"Nerys."
A split second later, superheated plasma reduced everything to ashes.
Re: Favorite line from a fanfic /// From a DS9 fic...I actually gasped when I read this.
(Anonymous) 2014-06-11 12:09 am (UTC)(link)Re: Favorite line from a fanfic /// From a DS9 fic...I actually gasped when I read this.
Here is the series if you want to read it all. http://adastrafanfic.com/viewseries.php?seriesid=129
It's been ages since I found good Odo ficcage, so I pretty much inhaled it all in three days.