Something’s Gotta Give: Part 3 - Of Companions And Whores
Sunday, October 8, 2006
After Inara is gone, Shepherd Book has a late night conversation with Mal about Companions and Whores
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Something’s Gotta Give: Part 3 - Of Companions And Whores
By
Lattelady
It had been 21 days since Inara Serra had left Serenity and every morning Captain Malcolm Reynolds started the day by telling himself, The days melted into an unexpected sameness that left him strangely melancholy. He excused it by reminding himself that ‘just ‘cause he was a bad man, didn’t mean he always had ta be causin’ trouble. But then there were the night, the long nights he spent wonderin’ his ship, restless, unable to take his ease. It was becomin’ a source of cantankerousness that had him wound tighter than a tick. “Gorramnit,” he muttered as pulled out his seat at the head of the big dining table, a bottle of Kaylee’s homebrew in one hand and a glass in the other. “May I join you, Captain?” Shepherd Book poured himself a cup of coffee and nodded toward the seat next to Mal. “This is a public room, so I ain’t goin’ stop ya.” “Thank you,” Book sat and took a moment to ask God to help him find words that might lead the younger man from his current dilemma. “Just get it over with and say your piece, then one of us can get some sleep tonight.” The Captain poured more whiskey into his cup and took a long drink. If he had to endure another of the holy man’s sermons he wasn’t gonna do it sober. “Did you know that the definition of companion is ‘an intimate friend or associate.?” Reynolds glass hit the table with a thump and he glared at the man across from him. “Yeah, intimate, like a whore!” He spat the words out. “No, I believe according to the latest Cortex dictionary; a whore is ‘a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual interco
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You can't take the sky from me
Gotta agree with Alison though...Inara ain't completely innocent, since Mal has one moment where he allows himself to let go and spend some needed quality time with a willing partner that ain't out to kill him...and Inara gets her psyche dropkicked. I would be in a mighty similiar mindset (though I would hope less of the constant slurs again Inara's job;D) if I felt for someone like Inara, who gives off zero signals about her having anything resembling feeling for me and who runs when the big emotional guns are rolled out: confused as all Hell and pissed at still being under her spell when she's seemingly long gone. But I guess that's the real attractiveness of the whole scenario: complex and dizzying emotions with a unobvious solution:D
BEB
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