Blue Sun Room FICTION - ROMANCE

Villains

Thursday, June 17, 2004

Zoe comes to Inara for advice about her marriage to Wash.

CATEGORY: FICTION    TIMES READ: 4394    RATING: 5.0 (PG)    SERIES: FIREFLY

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CHARACTERS: Zoe / Inara

RATING: PG - it doesn't quite get kinky

SPOILERS: Not really any

DISCLAIMER: I'm really the only villain here, making Joss' characters do terrible things with hairbrushes

FEEDBACK: *nods* Please

NOTES: Requested by astarte99, part of the

The specific request was: they see the outsiders as villians, but are they really the bad guys? This isn't quite right, but I like it anyway. Sorry this took so long, astarte - it was totally kicking my butt trying to get the voices right.

THANKS: to FuzzyBen for being such a great audience!

Inara spent a lot of time alone in her shuttle, maintaining herself and letting her thoughts wander. While her beauty was entirely natural, it would be easy to slip - to brush just a little less; not moisturise as often. Instead, she took the opportunity to care for herself in ways she could not care for the others. While she and Kaylee were close, she knew that her position and her job estranged her from so many on the crew. So she soaped herself and thought of another’s body. Slid satin over her skin and imagined the hair of another slipping through her fingers. Lay in her bed late at night, pleasuring herself in all the ways she'd been taught, but thinking of the fingers of another. Helping, sharing, touching. Caring.

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"Inara. Could I have a word with you?" Zoe, dusky-tall in her brown suede trousers and faded red shirt, stood in the entrance-way of the shuttle. How long had she been there? Inara rose smoothly from in front of her dresser, her just-brushed hair flowing around her.

"Can I help you, Zoe?" Curious. Other than at the occasional meal-time, Zoe rarely had anything to say to her. She and Inara occupied different worlds, and the cross-over was minimal. Sometimes she wondered if Zoe were afraid that being around her would contaminate her somehow. Make her less Amazonian and more Aphrodite. A shame, as they were both stro

Comments
Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:07
I wasn't expecting that, gorrammit! Very well written. Ali D :~)
You can't take the sky from me
ANONYMOUS
Friday, 18 June 2004 19:33
Inara said upfront that she didn't service crew, yet she is doing so in this story. We aren't told why she has made this decision to violate not only a personal rule but (I suspect) one of the canons of her profession.
ANONYMOUS
Friday, 25 June 2004 21:14
I'm too damn lazy to log in, but I think Anonymous isn't 'getting' it. She isn't servicing Zoe, she's 'befriending' Zoe. She's helping Zoe open up to an idea, she's taking care of Zoe. Now although there is a definate sexual undertone, it's something more than that. nara isn't doing this to get paid, she's doing this out of friendship. Well that's how see it, and hot damn I like this story, and pray that you'll give a bit more, a sequel perhaps??
-Blackeyedgurl, Adrianna

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