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a Maia!fic: "through the motions" K rated; feedback is welcome
Topic Started: Mar 29 2006, 10:39 PM (211 Views)
Keenir
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Title: Through the Motions.
Author: Rodlox.
Summary: Maia's thoughts during the episode 'Wake-Up Call'.

Spoilers: Wake-Up Call.
Author's notes: this was tricky...how do we linear people narrate something from a not-entire-linear perspective?
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Her name is Maia.
Most minutes, she lives just like you and I, experiencing the world around her as events occur, as the clock ticks forward, always working linearly. Second by second, from one moment to the next, being surprised by unforseen events.

She likes it when things happen. She enjoys honest smiles, is happy to laugh at jokes. But the humour of a joke is in being surprised by its punchline. And there are times when she knows the punchline before she knows the joke.

Time is an illusion perceived as real by everyone in the universe. To everyone save Maia. Her eyes and her ears on occasion pierce the flimsy veil that others call time, and thus does she know what everyone calls The Future. She's never asked for this, nor does she ever peer deliberately into
that which has not yet happened. She has no more control over it than an epileptic over his fits; hers are simply not noticed until she opens her mouth.

She rarely wants this burden, but she knows she'll be needed. She will, and not because she's Maia.


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My name is Maia.
"Do you have any 4s?" I ask Carrie. You don't have any 7s. Diana, my adopted mom, is going to open the door in 7, 6, 5 -

"Go fish," Carrie says. 4, 3, "Do you have any 3s?"

2, and I shake my head. 1, and Diana unlocks the door. "Do you have any 7s?"

"Go fish," Carrie says, and I have to keep myself from nodding.

I turn around to greet my mom, and to ask her for the permission I already know she'll give. Smile, cheer, and hug. I never saw myself asking her if I could go to Carrie's slumber party, but I heard her approve it, and really, what other way was there to that outcome?

I go back to playing Go Fish with Carrie, hoping my inner eye - or however I see unhappened things happen before they happen - goes to sleep.

Carrie's excited, telling me about all the fun we'll have at the slumber party. "Frank Sinatra," I'll mention tonight.

I know because my name is Maia.
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the end.

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Ths was a very nice little look into Maia. :)
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