B5 Double Drabble: Necessary

[badly_knitted]

 


Title: Necessary
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Vir, Londo, Cartagia.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 451: Up To You at drabble_zone.
Spoilers/Setting: The Long Night.
Summary: This wasn’t meant to be Vir’s responsibility.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

It was Londo’s idea, Londo’s plan, Londo who was supposed to do the deed, even though Vir had been the one to procure the means by which to do it. That was always his role, to get whatever Londo needed, to fetch and carry, to run errands, to be indispensable while appearing almost invisible. People never paid attention to him, because he was no one important, just an aide, a minor functionary…

 
Only now, he wasn’t so minor, was he? Because Londo had told the Emperor to be quiet, and Cartagia hadn’t liked that, his temper breaking loose as he struck out, causing the assassin’s tool to fall from Londo’s hand.
 

And what was Vir to do? Because Cartagia was quite, quite mad, he couldn’t be allowed to live, not when he intended to turn the Centauri homeworld into a pyre, expecting to be elevated to godhood. It was all up to Vir now, and it was easy, he barely had to do anything but hold the tool as Cartagia whirled towards him, and then it was over, the poison administered, death imminent. But although it had been necessary, to save his people, something inside Vir shattered. He’d committed murder.

 
 
The End



 
 
 

Comments

[mrs_sweetpeach]

War, and preventing war, is a difficult business.

[badly_knitted]

Yes it is. The Lassies were brave young women.

Thank you!