Prompt 45b - Life

[peppermint_shamrock]

Title: Standing out, screaming loud
Prompt: Life
Author: peppermint_shamrock
Rating: G
Characters: Maul, OC Droid
Pairing: None
Star Wars Media Property: TCW
Word count: 300
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Summary: Maul monologues to a bemused droid who just wants to do its job.
Author Notes: N/A
Beta: None, it's just me

 

“Yes, my brother. This establishment is small and shoddily constructed, but adequate enough for my current needs, I believe.

“You, droid. You will provide your services to me with haste, as my path has brought me here to renew my strength. Strength, I say, in the base physical sense. My true strength, my power, my willpower; that I never lost, nor faltered in for even a moment. I could not have clung to life as I did when he took everything from me…on strength and hatred alone I survived, grasping, grasping, grasping…but at last, I was pulled from wretched existence I endured since I was thrown away, left for dead among the trash and refuse. Such could I have been counted as, then.

“I have not forgotten this. It was not enough that he took my legs, not enough that he deprived me of my position, robbed me of the future that I now can see playing out from the sidelines, replaced by an inferior apprentice…no, even that was not enough; because of him I was subjected to those conditions of humiliation, of madness, of filth.

“But I will not stay on the sidelines. Nor will I simply reclaim my old position. My ambitions are far greater now. And I will never be discarded again.

“My revenge…it will come. Those long years have taught me patience, if nothing else. Still…still, he was in my grasp. For a moment, I believed I could begin to return the torture he had inflicted on me. And yet…he slipped away, and I must bide my time to set up my final revenge. I will break him, no matter how long it takes. No matter how many further indignities I must suffer.”

 

“Sir, this is a spaceport speed diner…”