The Dark Of The Moon
by
Chris AndersonDisclaimer: Alias is the property of other people, including J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot productions.
Written for the Theatrical Muse 'ever after' challenge.
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Happily ever after was one of those things which belonged to Laura Bristow, but never to Irina Derevko. Laura had happily ever after until the day she died; Irina is what came before and what came after. Laura was daylight and sunrise; Irina is twilight, night. Laura was the sun; Irina is the dark of the moon.
Laura's life was simpler, on the surface, and happiness was a thing which she could grasp. Irina's life is nothing but complicated, and that ever after happiness was a thing too simplistic to survive in her complicated world.
It was everything about the life of her sister of sunlight, and nothing of her own life of shadows.
Laura knew happiness; Irina knows sorrow, regrets. Laura knew joy; Irina knows necessity, expediency, blood and violence.
And yet there are nights when she thinks to herself that Laura Bristow's is the only murder she regrets committing. The only death she sometimes- but not always- wishes she had not had to bring about.
Laura had been an idealist, a dreamer; Irina is a realist. Laura would walk in sunlight forever, but Irina is used to making her way in the darkness.
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