Title: To Wait In Hope
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Delenn, John Sheridan.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers: The Hour of the Wolf.
Summary: John has gone to Z’ha’dum, and all Delenn can do is wait in hope that he’ll return.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 346: Waiting.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.



Waiting, and not knowing, is hard, something to be endured, as long as the slimmest hope remains.

John went to Z’ha’dum to find out the truth about the Shadows, perhaps learn how to defeat them. He went even after he was told he would die, because he felt it was his duty, but as the days stretch out, one bleeding into the next with no apparent change, the question of what exactly has happened to him remains unanswered.

Delenn cannot grieve when there is no certainty that he is dead, and yet there is no proof that he still lives. Hoping is to balance precariously on a knife edge, not allowing oneself to tilt either way, towards certainty or despair. It’s exhausting, but when hope is all one has, the struggle to maintain one’s balance provides a sense of purpose. It is something to do while waiting.

Hope cannot completely banish the doubts, however. John is strong, brave, and determined, but is that enough? Z’ha’dum is the Shadows’ domain; what chance would any one person have entering there unarmed and vastly outnumbered?

There is no way of knowing, and so Delenn waits, and fasts, and hopes he’ll return to her.


The End