Blue Sun Room FICTION - GENERAL

Underground - Epilogue (repost)

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The aftermath

CATEGORY: FICTION    TIMES READ: 2564    RATING: 9.0 (PG)    SERIES: FIREFLY

Tweet

Summary – The aftermath

Disclaimer – They all belong to Joss, I just enjoy hanging out in their midst.

This story is a hundred times better because of all the wonderful betatype advice given to me by Mal4prez. I throw many thank yous in her direction.

If you haven’t read the beginning, I’d suggest starting at the

Thanks so much to all of you who have taken the time to leave me such shiny comments. It just makes my heart go pitter pat when my email downloads notifications from FFN.

*********

Underground - Epilogue

The Dancing Boar was quiet at two in the afternoon. Not even the usual ‘I know you’re not open yet but can I hang out anyway?’ crowd was there. Mira figured most folks were confused by the Boar having been closed the previous night. In as long as she could remember, the Dancing Boar had never been closed for an entire evening, but Papa Ankerson couldn’t run the Boar by himself anymore, and she’d been stuck in a meadow deep in the Tridenthian Mountains. People would understand, they would return in just a few hours; as soon as she opened the doors and flipped on the lights.

For now, Mira was enjoying just sitting at a small table in the corner with her sister Sorla and Papa Ankerson, staring at the cup of tea she held in her hand. Sorla was talking non-stop, relaying the events of the last thirty six hours, but Mira was so lost in her thoughts that she only heard a portion of it.

Mira was startled out of her musings by the elderly man laying his hand on hers. “Carli truely gunna be OK?” he asked her.

“It certainly appears that way. She’s upstairs asleep. I’m supposed to give her smoothers every few hours for a few days. She probably won’t work for quite awhile, but she’ll recover. I don’t even expect too many scars. That doc Jayne flies with seems to really know his stuff.” She smiled inwardly as she thought of Jayne. He was the reason, more than any other, she hadn’t pushed to return to Lonepine until this mor

Comments
Monday, 07 January 2008 17:58
This was a great conclusion. I like how you lead from Katra and Mal, up to Mal and Inara, and then back to Inara comforting Katra. That is a nice little triangle without any of the traditional screw-ups that happen in most "romantic" triangles.

This whole series was fun. Thanks for reposting the comments too. That hack really messed things up around here, but folks are pulling together and recovering nicely.

Again, thanks for sharing and I'll keep reading your work!

:-)

Post Your Comments

You must log in to post comments.