Title: Bitter Winds
Author: Elandae
Rating: G
Warnings: Deals with a character death. Spoilers for the episode ‘Juliet is Bleeding’.
A bitter wind blew that day. A wind that scudded across the bleak grey sky, stirring the thin covering of snow that lay upon the hardened ground, clouding the air with flurries of white. The snow was slick beneath his boots as he moved slowly forward, swallowing hard against the lump in his throat that refused to budge. His eyes stung from the wind and something else.
It did not seem a proper ending, with people huddled shivering in this graveyard, faces sorrowed as they watched the procession, waiting silently. Ray could still see his face in his mind, a broad grin on his face, his eye already blackening. It had all happened too fast.
The only colors were the brilliant shades of the flag that lay across the coffin, spread with care, the edges fluttering carelessly in the wind. Silence reigned as it was pulled from the glossy dark wood, folded carefully, precisely, only the gentle mourning call of the wind reached his ears. And he looked away.