La Escorpiona/The Scorpion.Chapter 10: REPOST
Monday, November 12, 2007
There was this girl named Maria(Code name Scorpion). She was a soilder,then a slave. But she didn't know where she was goin' or where she'd been. She just knows that she is taken in by big damn heroes and now she has to make good on her promise to herself.Her own salvation.or will she just end up stung by the Scorpion? Takes place after BDM(No Wash or Book).Violent and Adult themes. Jayne/River( River puppy love), OC/Jayne, Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara angst.
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 2373 RATING: 0.0 (NC17) SERIES: FIREFLY
Author: Tinadoll (aka Tina- That’s me!)
Setting: After BDM- No Wash or Book.
Rating: R to NC-17.
Spoilers: Yes.
Author’s note: REPOST. Don’t remember if this chapter was Beta’d or not. I try to do the best I can editing by myself but you can do nice by just ignoring all the mistakes. Dong ma?
Disclaimer: Firefly is the brainchild of Joss Whedon-I'm just playing around with it.
Chapter 10: The Problem with Skirts
For the first time in a long while she was speechless. She saw that his jaw clenched. He wasn’t b-sing her. But she knew he may regret this decision but for right now- he was dead serious.
She hoped this was not a large and terrible joke?
On one hand it scared her, but on the other she was happy to get a second chance.
Confusion-This was not what the profile said he was like. It said he was hard and reserved. It also had said something about tight pants…But it said nothing of compassion. Big brother was wrong.. Dead wrong…
“What do you think of me?” she asked, hesitantly. “I mean, working for you and all.”
He gave her a reassuring smile. His blue eyes shone like the stars. “You ain’t perfect, but we need a pilot and someone who can cook worth a damn,” he said and added “But’ll be hard.”
“What’s your crew goin to think?” she asked, wanting to know. She knew that she didn’t want to be at odds with them. She already knew whom she was going to butt heads with.
“I don’t know, why you don’t ask them.” He said and then added: “They are all listening from the hall,” he said his voice raised ever so slightly to indicate they could enter now. His face went from stone cold to a much warmer state. She relaxed some.
She sat back in her chair. So that’s what she had heard!
She responded and couldn’t keep herself from laughing “You know-I figured that already!”
“What gave ‘em away?” he added, chuckling as well. He knew his crew very well and she didn’t know them very much at all. Perhaps she had read them?
“I could hear Jayne munching on his