She Shall Be a River
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Set during the beginning of Serenity. A bit of wacky toilet humor (of a sort) before all the fighting begins. Mal, Zoe, River, and Jayne.
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This was inspired by a piece of fanart I did, which you can find on FFF.net .
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“Are we there yet?” Jayne asks.
Mal grinds his teeth. “No.”
A half a minute passes.
“Are we there yet?”
“No.” It’s a mite more strident sounding this time.
Jayne’s long leg starts kicking the back of Mal’s seat, thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk.
Hands curling into fists, Mal turns his head quickly. “Gorram it, stop that! What you playing at, Jayne?”
“Nothing, Mal.” A whine enters his voice. “Just bored is all. Woulda been okay ‘cept for someone wouldn’t let me bring no grenades to play with.”
Mal sputters. “Play … play!” He looks over to Zoe, who’s got that expression on her face of ‘about to laugh,’ and since it’s Zoe, that’s saying a lot. Jayne, however, just sits with arms crossed, pouting. Doesn’t mean Mal won’t try to get through to him, though he’s not sure there’s anything to get through to most days. “Grenades ain’t nothing to be playing with, besides –”
River leans forward and interrupts, voice high and distressed. “She is named River, and she shall be one!”
“What?” He’s gone all kinds of befuddled now.
Completely calmly: “I have to use the bathroom.”
He glances over his shoulder. “Gorram reader, and you couldn’t foresee you’d have to take a piss?”
She just scrunches her face at him as if he’s the stupidest thing to walk any world.
Sighing, he looks forward again. “There sure as hell ain’t gonna be no stealth happening if we stop in town to ask about using the facilities. Zoe, spot us a clump of bushes.”
“Bushes, sir?” She waves a hand out over the bare, grassy landscape, smile twitching the edges of her lips.
Mal sighs again and slams them to a quicker-than-normal halt, whipping everyone else forward in their seats as he braces against the steering grips. He feels a bit better when he hears Jayne grunt.
As River jumps down to run around the side of the mule, Jayne start
I particularly like the "Sir, if I might interrupt this highly disturbing conversation..." line.
You can't take the sky from me
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/8/13/2048723/Serenity-190pages.pdf
The following happens in the hovercraft, going toward town to rob the payroll -
ZOE: If this job is so shiny, why'd they hire us? Coulda kept it in house.
MAL: Because we're the best. You don't send some skimmer in a top-knot never been out of the city on a job like this, you send the pros. That's us.
JAYNE: (leaning forward) River's touching me. She keeps coming over to my side.
A beat, as Mal tries to maintain his deflated cool.
And two, thanks for sharing that scene - I had no idea, but I love it. I'm going to check out the link you gave.
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