Title: She Is
Fandom: Dollhouse
Rating: PG13
Length: 379
Author notes: Also written for Challenge #17: Red Shirts Unite! @ writerverse
Warning: Mature subject matter including implied prostitution.
Summary: She does what is told, and that is all that she knows.



She’s a model, they tell her. She’s beautiful, funny, charming and limber. She enjoys the company of one man and she allows him to take her back to his place. She responds when he wants her to, she says what is expected, and when the time comes that she must go back, he smiles and says, “See you next Saturday, as always,” which is funny because she doesn’t remember seeing him that often.

*

She’s a cook, they tell her. She has had multiple awards, have prepared cuisines for His Holiness Dalai Lama and is currently opening her own restaurant. She moves among the masses as she bids them welcome to her new enterprise. She smiles at those she has known for quite a while, the investors, the friends, and she looks over the preparation of each dish until its perfection. When the time comes and she must go back, she doesn’t feel any loss.

*

She’s a negotiator, they tell her. She has had training that spanned a lifetime and she was top of her class for years. She has had one hundred and eleven successful saves while five percent of that number is deemed unsuccessful. All she has to do is follow the instructions she has been taught and bring the little girl home safe. When the time comes and she must go back, no one asks when she will be returning.

*

She’s a pilot, they tell her. She has been flying since she was ten beside her father who taught her everything. She joined the Air Force when she could and was granted her first flight nearly five days after. They need her to do a mission, and apparently no one else will do. She does what is needed, and she does it all well, and when the time comes and she must go back, none of the others say a word.

*

Sometimes, she dreams. She remembers a man’s face, and a child’s, and they look to her with utter happiness in her eyes. But, when she awakes she is always someone new, a person to do what is told and live as instructed. She doesn’t think, she doesn’t fight, she doesn’t win, she doesn’t lose.

She does what is told, and that is all that she knows.