The Right To Love - Chapter 13
Friday, April 20, 2007
Continuation of the Simon-centric 100 Prompts story. Kaylee's dreams get worse and Simon gets more concerned. Plus, the crew stops to resupply and danger is lurking. Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara. Rated PG-13 for talk of unpleasantness.
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 3619 RATING: 9.0 (G) SERIES: FIREFLY
A/N: Thanks to everyone for all the great comments and continued interest in this story. I'm really glad you like it. I have had to take a break on writing some of my new third part to the "Best Intentions" trilogy, but I'm hoping to start it again soon.
Thanks again to Leiasky as well for the beta. After this chapter there are four more to go ... hold on to your hats, kiddies!
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, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=16142>Chapter 10, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=16184>Chapter 11, http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=16209>Chapter 12
Link to http://www.geocities.com/maegovannen/Firefly/Joss100Challenge.html>prompt table
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The Right To Love - Chapter 13 (Prompts 76-80)
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076. Terror
Why? Why were they hurting her again? Hadn’t they hurt her enough the first time? Kaylee tried to crawl away from the faceless men, half of them in shadow, half of them robed in white, but there was no where she could go that they couldn’t follow, and with a whimper, she felt them kick her again, beating her about the head and chest.
Curling herself into the tightest ball imaginable, Kaylee still could not protect herself and so, in a haze of sleep, she stumbled from the bed she’d been sharing with Simon and worked herself into
I hate seeing Kaylee in pain, but I'm glad that Simon's there to help her through it.
Great chapter, I loved the fight between S/K, it showed they aren't the uber couple and argue just like the rest of us.
You can't take the sky from me
Can't wait to read more!
Anyway, I'll try again.
Love the arguement. Shows they aren't the perfect little happy couple. Kaylee does have a point in that maybe he shouldn't have talked about something so personal with Inara, even though she and Kaylee are friends. But then, she's not being real forthcoming with info and Simon wants to help her so he felt his hands were pretty tied. Ahh, what a vicious circle.
Of course, I love ominous endings.
Still...this was an excellent chapter, TamSibling! I especially liked how you had Kaylee and Simon fight over Simon's decision to talk to Inara - as a fellow professional who probably has experience with counselling - about Kaylee's dreams. That and Simon's long talk with Kaylee about her time as Niska's hostage. I liked the former because it presented a realistic bump in Kaylee's recovery - anger due to stress and doubt over Simon's decision to basically tell others Kaylee wasn't coping completely - and it allowed for proper human frailty to get aired and dealt with properly; the latter I loved because it showed Simon's devotion to Kaylee through sitting through a recollection of all the horrors Kaylee suffered in silence so the pain could get properly purged.
BEB
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