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Something To Think On: Chapter 10

Thursday, July 30, 2009

M/I. Post-BDM. On staying and saying goodbye.

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Something To Think On
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Chapter Ten

He didn’t know how Simon Tam had suddenly taken the role of make-shift confessor (even if his confessions were mostly of the angry kind). He conjured it was out of desperation, Wash being gone.

But even Wash: why was it he’d first told Wash she was leaving? He reckoned that had been out of desperation, too. Needed somebody to talk to, and there weren’t too many choices aboard. Fact of the matter was, Wash was the perfect combination of disrespectful and honest.

He supposed telling the man must’ve been on his mind for some time. Not long after the run-in with Sanda, he’d taken to coming to the bridge more and more when Wash was alone. Course, it sometimes took some doing to figure that out: it’d only taken one time of walking in on Wash and his first mate in flagrante (which seemed to happen most often after narrow escapes) to know he never wanted to see that again (thought his exact words had been something along the lines of, “Oh, sweet Jesus, there are some things I don’t need to know”). And though he reckoned Zoe was more careful since that first run-in, he was just as happy to turn a blind eye and be careful for the both of them. After all (and he remembered thinking this, though now it made him pained to think back): there’re no guarantees in this world.

But after Sanda, if he noticed Zoe in the galley alone, or doing pull-ups in the cargo bay, he’d often find himself wandering up to the bridge to sit with his pilot awhile.

Didn’t take too many such visits for Wash to notice. He cleared his throat conspicuously first time he brought it up. “Mal, not that I don’t enjoy these – eh, special moments of ours – they’re not creepifying in the

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MADSKEPTIC42
Wednesday, 05 August 2009 03:39
Inara would definitely be the type to use a double-knight checkmate! ;)
Sunday, 29 November 2009 07:18
So after having little moments with the rest of the crew, here is Wash. And so appropriate, because even though Kaylee tried in small ways to get him and Inara together, Wash was the one who, as you say, spoke the truth.

Wash does seem in some ways to be the ship's love advisor. Kaylee seems to ask him a lot (though she also seems to ask Inara) Guess that comes from him being married to Zoe.

The singing at the end and the way you make it feel like inara is dying (and she is) but that she's not fighting and that maybe she's really gone here... Ooh. Pain.
Monday, 06 August 2012 18:57
Another owie. While the passing time is lyrical and very emotional it is also painful and so sad. You really pack so much emotion into what is happening and those experiencing it without hitting us over the head with it. Kudos. Ali D :~)
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