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Title: Too Late
Author: lvs2read
Characters: Zoë Washburne
Rating: G
Challenge: Round 2, Challenge 1: Who did you look up to most as a child, and why? Do you still admire them?
Word Count: 156
Disclaimer: Don't own it, never did, never will--just having fun playing.
Author's Notes: Feedback is my drug of choice. Feed my habit?

Grew up in the black. Not many people around, just my folks and the crew. Met others now and then when we delivered goods, but otherwise not so many around to look up to--or not. We were a small crew. Daddy was pilot and client rep. Had a coupla men to help move cargo. Momma did everything else: cooking, bookkeeping, any doctoring that needed done--didn't have a real doc. When I came along, she taught me everything a child needs to know. As I grew, she showed me the ropes: how to keep the customer happy, the business solvent, and the crew in line. She was an amazing woman. Wouldn't know it to look at her, but she was tough as nails with a soft spot for her family underneath it all. Haven't thought 'bout her in a long time. Always hoped I could be as good a mother as she was. But now…

Date: 2006-05-16 02:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frodolyn.livejournal.com
This is lovely, it's funny 'cause I'm working on a Zo character study pre-series and I wrote her father as pilot and her mother as medic, it's real interesting how people extrapolate from cannon. Great piece, lovely voice, kudos.

Date: 2006-05-16 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stormkpr.livejournal.com
Very sad, and very well-written. I do also see Zoe being the product of a solid, stable marriage herself. Nice job.

Date: 2006-05-16 07:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vae
I've always wondered if Zoe grew up with two parents or just one - rather thought just one hence the growing up on a ship, but this works too!

Nice Zoe voice.
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Date: 2006-05-19 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabid-x.livejournal.com
Awsome Zoe here. Just enough information to let you in, but no doubt that you don't push it with her via her tense turn of phrase. Excellent.

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