Funny How Things Wind Up Sometimes
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Mal and Inara spend New Year's Eve together.
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 3837 RATING: 10.0 (PG) SERIES: FIREFLY
by: Word Count: Approx. 3473 words Rating: PG Spoilers: Set Mid-Series Pairing/Characters: Mal/Inara Author’s Note: Another one that’s been sitting on my hard drive forever. I think I started this one back in 2006. Finally took the time to finish it. Many thanks go to for holding me to my sentence-a-day pact, and reading and encouraging me along the way as I finished this up! And to for the read through and fix suggestions!
Inara had always preferred Sihnoese New Year, with it's lanterns and dragons and fireworks, to Londinum's New Year's Eve, but business was always more lucrative on the Anglo holiday; more parties and receptions, affairs suitable for accompaniment by a Companion. It was part of why she loved Sihnon's celebration more; she never worked the Sihnoese New Year. It was a day she kept to her self.
But on this night, like so many New Year's Eves of the past, she was arrayed in her finest, attending yet another Ball, full of strangers and people she knew only by reputation.
So it was that she felt little real regret when her Client was called away suddenly and their evening brought to an abrupt close. She didn't even half-consider staying until midnight, preferring instead to have the driver take her back to the docks where Serenity was berthed.
The ship was silent and locked up, but her pass-code gained her entrance, and it was with a melancholy air that she boarded and climbed the stairs to take her to her shuttle. The crew was obviously off ship, celebrating somewhere, together perhaps. She couldn't deny that part of her was saddened by the fact that th
I love the way you have Mal slipping into this act (which you often do) of being this super-relaxed, debonair charmer - all his anxiety and darkness hidden. What you have him say sounds so much like him, same with Inara - their verbal interaction is just spot-on: smart, funny, in love.
He looked up at her, his face soft and open, eyes startlingly clear and blue. "'m glad you're here," he said, smiling at her with such affection she felt her heart catch, a warmth that had nothing to do with temperature spreading through her. She smiled back at him, more open than she would have been had he been sober.
I love that paragraph.
And so many others. And the countdown especially...Sigh.
I'll be re-reading this lots. Thanks so much.
2x2: So this is what you've been working on, well I can safely say it was worth it. :) So many little things here that are just perfectly in character, such as Mal not asking to celebrate together until the last minute so she'd turn him down.
I think Inara might like regular New Years better after this. :) Lets just hope Mal remembers this in the morning.
"You can't take the sky from me!"
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