A/N: As promised, here is the next chapter of The Right To Love replete with angsty goodness.

Thanks to Leiasky once again for the beta. There's no one quite like her.

Previous Chapters:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=15760>Chapter 1, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=15783>Chapter 2, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=15892>Chapter 3, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=15910>Chapter 4, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=15954>Chapter 5, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=16005>Chapter 6, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=16062>Chapter 7, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=16114>Chapter 8, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=16131>Chapter 9

Link to http://www.geocities.com/maegovannen/Firefly/Joss100Challenge.html>prompt table

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The Right To Love - Chapter 10 (Prompts 61-65)

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061. Music

It was the middle of the night and everyone else was asleep. The lanterns had been extinguished, the food and presents cleaned up. But River still stood in the middle of the clearing they had used as a dance floor, swaying to the music that flowed through her mind.

There were many different tunes swirling around and through her: the sweet lilting song of her brother and Kaylee, their love for one another ringing true in a major key with a recognizable motif that warmed River’s heart, was the clearest. There was the passionate and resonant sound of Mal and Inara, their score having started out frantic and hurried as they had made love to one another, before they’d fallen asleep, the melody working itself into a somewhat darker tune that spoke of the scars they were hiding.

There was Zoe’s song, just a couple of sad notes picked out on a piano in a minor key. Zoe’s song had always been minor, always sad, even before Wash’s death; his absence had just made