[29 April] [James Bond] The People Cry; Peace! Peace! But There Is No Peace.

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Title: The People Cry; Peace! Peace! But There Is No Peace.
Day/Theme: April 29th - Rainbows, all of them
Series: James Bond
Character/Pairing: Bond
Rating: PG

Soldiers are lucky. They fight in a war, they come home. Or they don't come home. Either way, most of them don't have to spend their entire lives in a war - not in this day and age.

Most of them will never see all the scheming that goes on - the strategies. Cold-hearted and depressingly necessary. Most of them don't fight, quietly, every day of their lives, walking to work every day in a suit and tie and slaughtering the enemy with icy precision. Because they? Our enemies? Would do the same to us. Do, in fact.

And we are the ones who realise it will always be like this. Pursuing peace is like chasing the end of a rainbow. You can see it. You can imagine it. It will always be a few steps ahead of you - just beyond that mountain. Just behind that tree. If you could only get there.

Me, I know we never will.

But we fight for it, I suppose.

I suppose we have to.