Back Stories II, Chapter 15
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Mal gets a shiny new hat, though it takes some talking to get him to wear it. Then Simon tells his take on events with Kaylee. Little bit of S/K smut, but nothing that couldn’t be shown on TV. :)
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Many thanks: fireflyfans.net members: and for beta-reading and for the artwork. Links: Prequels: The Fish Job () (), Easy Tickets () (), and Book I () (). Timing, pairings, and canon blurbs are in my . House of Huāzhù, Highgate River was curled up in dark pink satin sheets, her hair making a black swirl above her face. Simon tilted his head as he looked down at her. Oddly, the sight made him think of a bug burrowed into the petals of a rose. He smiled at his fanciful thoughts; the décor of this house was having an effect on him. Someone had taken the theme a bit too seriously, and the colors and flowers that filled the rooms – not a single bloom real – presented something of an affront to his sensibilities. Still, he supposed, at least the women of the house were trying to bring some cheer into this dull settlement. Kaylee seemed to enjoy it. He sat down on the edge of the bed and lightly touched River’s shoulder, just to make sure she knew he was there. “Are you sleeping?” he
Anyhow, I don’t know what’s up, but everytime I write a chapter from Simon’s POV it gets really long and involves sex angst. OK, this is only the second Simon chapter I’ve written, but still. It’s very odd! I guess he just seems so uptight. I can’t see that good sex would just happen for him.
After the last chapter, Platonist asked: “Is Mal’s memory loss due to a virus, a drug, an implant, or did having sex with Inara simply blow his mind (no pun intended)?” That would be some sex LOL! Nah, it was the Fish Job mindfry thing, which Simon kind of got into explaining at some point many many chapters ago. Somewhere in Book I. Who can remember, it’s been so long! I will get back to Mal’s condition, eventually.
“Is Simon going to fix him, and will Inara ever get to see him alive again?” I won't be answering this LOL! Except to say that I’m trying to get back to Inara, really I am! It’s the block I got in chapters 17-18 that’s killing me! Must get past it....
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Simon and Kaylee are about opposite ends of the sexual spectrum: his view of sex as performance is logical, theoretical, purely about what it should be and hers is so joyously physically what it is. Keen insight there on Simon, on both of them.
I'm not surprised Zoe lost her temper; she's dealing with a Mal that she doesn't know, for all purposes something of a kid and a stranger. She's done remarkably well adapting to his different stages of memory up to this point, including convincing him that she knew his mother. And wow, Mal had to think he was about twenty or so in his mind and Zoe an old lady in her thirties when they 'met' again on that moon - it would be so very interesting to see all of these characters we know so well from the perspective of a fresh young man who just happens to be Malcolm Reynolds. We got something of that in his comment about them being Core folks, which is pretty darn funny.
Very much looking forward to the chapters you want to get to. As a feller writer (not on BSR yet, Enfleurage on ffnet), my only advice is to write the stuff that wants to be written. The filler chapters will come when they're ready.
>“And how’d that go?”<
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I'm sorry you're having blocks. The combination of blocks and writing Simon got me stuck for seven months, I feel your pain. I love adult Zoe handling "young" Mal, and I could see her snapping at him. And I love that it's Kaylee he turns to for an eye-rolling partner.
>He looked around the purple room again, then focused on Zoë and lowered his voice. “You have noticed, right? Them ladies out there wearin’ naught but their skivvies, and a room like this… You know what kind’a house we’re in?”<
Oh, young Mal. Thanks for providing the amusement amidst the the angst and drama. Always do a happy dance when you post.
I get the feeling Simon's got a lot of loosening up to do being involved with Kaylee. Communication works well . . .
So - how long will it take for the 'cap' to work on Mal?
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