Tough, Part 5
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Yet another Pirate Children story. Set twenty-eight years post-BDM. A not-so-fluffy (but still slightly fluffy) look at the future. Serenity's adjusting to her grown children.
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 1636 RATING: 9.0 (PG13) SERIES: FIREFLY
Title: Tough
Rating: PG-13. For swearing (Firefly) and violence.
Characters: the whole crew, plus the Pirate Children and Alistair Caramia (the latter are mine, the rest are Joss's)
Pairings: Canon pairings. I will openly admit that I heavily, heavily favor Mal and Inara and the Reynolds Family. (Trying hard to rectify that without negatively affecting the storyline.)
Summary: Yet another Pirate Children story. Set twenty-eight years post-BDM. A not-so-fluffy (but still slightly fluffy) look at the future. Serenity's adjusting to her grown children.
Author's Note: The final chapter. Longer. Hopefully something by way of resolution. Enjoy. Earlier, fluffier stuff will probably be next. I miss Abey. :)
Part 5
“River, prep the infirmary,” Simon shouts orders as he slides to his knees next to Mal and Serra. “Lolly, bring me an IV.”
He scans the room quickly to assess the threat level beyond the stomach wound oozing blood everywhere. This is a skill he’s picked up in his years on Serenity. He sees Zoe, Jayne, and Kacey crowded around the second gunshot victim, Vera trained on… Saffron?!... whose arms Zoe is tying behind her back and whose shoulder seems to have been hit by a shotgun bullet. Not a life-threatening wound, if she doesn’t bleed to death.
“Zoe, put some pressure on that,” Simon calls over, before turning his attention to Serra. She’s fighting off the shock well, but she won’t be able to last much longer. They need to get her into the infirmary as soon as he starts the IV. Which will be harder than it sounds. Lolly skids to a halt beside him, handing him the needle and bag of blood replacement.
“Oh God,” she whispers, viewing the blood surrounding Mei-Mei, and steps back.
“Okay, Serra,” Simon says in his most soothing voice possible. “I’ve got to put this…”
“No needles,” Serra groans, closing her eyes against the pain.
Simon knows that was coming. The youngest crewmember on Serenity has an intense phobia of needles.
“No. Needles.”
“You know that’s not possible, Mei-Mei
And what exactly is going on with Kacey and Lolly? Is there more there or am I just reading into things?
Still, I loved this, and will always love it, because I adore the pirate children. Write more!
The only reason you didn't get a 10... I wish there were more chapters to this story, so that you could deal with the fallout between Mal and Serra. The ending was very sweet, and I liked it a lot... but those two aren't done with their issues, IMO. You wrote Mal wonderfully as a worried father, and at the end I think he's just glad his baby's alive. But once she begins to heal, there are still going to be issues between them, I think.
Also, I really want to see more of the children's lives filled in.... between Hell Raising and Tough. The tension present in this story, between Mal and Serra and Mal and Inara,seemed to have been going on for a long time. I hope you'll fill that in more, as well.
Whatever years you write, though, please keep it up. I can't get enough of the Pirate Children.
but...before all that, i wanna hear more about the teenager years. how about something around the time abe and lolly and kacey are 16ish? would love to see how mal deals with his teenage pirate children ;)
You can't take the sky from me
More would be grand, especially filling in the holes between Hell Raising and Tough. Need to see Serra's time off Serenity, especially the parts leading up to her incarciration under false charges. That and how Mal, Serra and Inara's relationships with one another took a header.
BEB
P.S. While I am nowhere near a maven when it comes to weapons of controlled maiming...I am pretty sure that there's only one kind of "bullet" used by shotguns. And that's a 12 ga. solid slug (a solid piece of metal about an inch or more in diametre) designed for breaching heavy doors during SWAT, counter-terrorism and raid scenarios. Getting hit with something like that would have left Saffron with only a pulpy hole where her arm was attached to her shoulder. That or more serious injury from multiple pellet strikes that would have probably torn Saffron't face up;)
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