Fic: O is for Obedience, Vala, Gen, PG

[holdouttrout]

For Gen Fic Day, part of the Vala Alphabet Soup.



O is for Obedience

Vala rehearsed the names she was going to call her step-mother when she got back. She had learned some new ones since being sold into slavery; it would be a shame not to get to use them. She figured it was only a matter of time until she could charm Fierenze into trusting her--she was her father's daughter, after all--and it wasn't like she didn't know the address. After that, she figured she would tell her father what Adria had done--it was almost guaranteed he would throw the witch out after this.

Vala's father might not be around much, but he did love her.

She was pretty sure, anyway.

Well, no matter. All she had to do was bide her time until Fierenze trusted her, and then...

She was a little vague on the details of her plan, but they all involved the image of Fierenze dead in the dirt. That seemed a safe place to start. It wasn't like she could escape and hope for Adria to pay back the good money she'd gotten for selling Vala in the first place. It was probably already spent.

Besides, Fierenze deserved it. She definitely wasn't the first slave to pass through his hands, and if she left him alive, she wouldn't be the last.

Maybe, after, she wouldn't go back at all. She was almost more likely to run into her father out here than at home. More importantly, she could avoid Adria altogether.

From now on, the only person who was going to control Vala would be herself.

Comments

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Oooh, those niggling doubts about Jacek. And the determination to be in control -- before being taken by Qetesh. Whew.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah. I was trying to reconcile Vala's history(ies) and finally gave up when the thing about being sold caught my eye. And then I realized it was all part of a larger theme. *g*

[mrspollifax.livejournal.com]

Aww, Vala. Talk about your unhappy background. But how like her to use it to make herself stronger, rather than to let it break her.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Yeah. She has a lot of different stories about her past, and I realized that if most of them were mostly true, then there is a running theme of a lack of control over her life. Mind you, Family Ties screws the whole timeline up, but I'm trying to become less bitter about that. *g*

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Oooh, clever meshing of TPTB's messed up Vala backstory canon.

(I still picture that Harry Potter centaur when seeing "Firenze", ever since hearing the name in "Bounty").

Great little vignette.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, Vala's backstory is... mangled, to be sure. Not that I railed at you about this already. *g*

And I TOTALLY thought the same thing about Fierenze. What a strange coincidence!

[eilidh17.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely. Vala is such a force of nature and its no wonder with a family history such as hers. :)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Vala is a very interesting character to do background fic for.

I'm glad you enjoyed this!

[samantilles.livejournal.com]

Vala would definitely be the one planning the revenge of everyone involved--it would be what keeps her going and preventing depression and acceptance of the life of a slave. I also love that her revenge is about Jacek turning "the witch out" more than her own personal revenge. She was quite good at getting other people to do her will, even if it was her father doing it this time. Very nicely done!!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Thank you!