Challenge #2--Hardest Decision--Book; Leaving (G)

[lvs2read.livejournal.com]

Title: Leaving
Author: lvs2read
Characters: Shepherd Book
Rating: G
Challenge: #2 What is the hardest decision you've ever had to make? Why & what influenced you to choose as you did?
Word Count: 270
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?

When I was a young man, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. Fell in with some people that others might consider the 'right kind'. Stayed with them a good long while, until one day I realized I didn't much like the life I was leading.

So I decided to enter the Abbey and study the word of God. Stayed there a good long while as well. Probably would have stayed longer, but felt a calling to walk in the world. So I took a trip on a Firefly, an Aught Three--with the extenders.

Fell in with some people that others might consider the 'wrong kind'. Thought about leaving them right away, but watching the way they looked out for each other, the self-sacrificing way they gave up things for others, the pure joy they took in the simple things of life, I decided to stay with them for a while.

There came a day, though, that I knew I needed to leave them. I'd learned all I could from them, and I have some hope they learned from me as well. They are, and always will be, my friends, but I had more to learn in this life.

Chose this mining community out here on the Rim. Haven, it's called, and I hope to make it one for all those in need of a resting place. It was tough, though, watching that Firefly lift off and leave me behind. I know my friends will stop by to visit now and again, but letting them go was the hardest decision I've ever had to make.

Comments

[vae]

Like your contrasting of the "right kind" and "wrong kind". Again, I'm getting the impression this is just the one Book's willing to talk about *g*

Neat!

[lvs2read.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you liked the contrast, and yep, he's a secretive old hundan, ain't he. *g*

[calliopes_pen]

Loved it. It sounds exactly the way Book probably felt about the crew of Serenity.

(And yes, I love how he's as evasive as always.)

[lvs2read.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you liked it! *hugs*

He wouldn't be Book if he wasn't evasive, would he? *g*

[bellehiver.livejournal.com]

aww... I really like how many big decisions he points out that he made, and then related that to the hardest one being leaving his friends. You just can't leave family without it hurting you like that. Poor Book ;_;

[lvs2read.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked! *g*

Yep, leaving family has got to be the hardest decision to make in most people's lives.

[bellehiver.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* ^_^ esspecially a family like theirs.

[rabid-x.livejournal.com]

God I love the enigma that is Book. Well done!

[lvs2read.livejournal.com]

Thank you. *bows* Glad you liked it! *g*