Blue Sun Room FICTION - GENERAL

Lessons (Part 1/11)

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Serenity's en route to Boros and everybody onboard is getting a little space crazy. (Repost).

CATEGORY: FICTION    TIMES READ: 3054    RATING: 9.0 (PG)    SERIES: FIREFLY

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A/N: This story's set post-series and pre-movie. Follows and picks up where it ended.

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Kaylee hadn't meant to snoop. It had just been lying there in plain sight for everyone to see. Well, actually it had been lying under the eating table for particularly observant people to see, but still. And really, there was nothing wrong with picking up things you happened to find on the floor, was there?

She'd been the first one to enter Serenity's kitchen that morning, and as she turned on the lamps she'd seen the light reflected in something propped up against one of the table legs. Everything that glimmers ain't gold, she knew that, but it could be engine parts and when you were Kaywinnit Lee Frye that could thrill you just as much. So she'd bent down and picked it up.

It had turned out to be a lapel pin, a cross to be exact, and she'd recognized it as Shepherd Book's (and even if she hadn't, who else would wear a cross on this ship?). She was about to put it on the table for him to find when she saw the inscription on the back.

Adelaide, it read, and then the numbers 0012-0016-0999.

She hadn't meant to snoop. And honestly, that inscription didn't have to mean anything. But she still had that notion that it did, and Adelaide, that was a girl's name, wasn't it? The preacher and a girl, now that would spike anybody's curiosity.

Her first instinct was to just ask him. That was how she usually found the answers to her questions. She knew she had this aura of innocence about her that inspired confidence and could make even the most closed-off, hard-hearted people spill their guts, and the shepherd was neither closed-off nor hard-hearted (albeit a little secretive). But something in the back of her mind told her that this was a rather private matter and perhaps she couldn't or shouldn't ask him about an inscription she'

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Monday, 16 April 2012 21:36
Sorry Markomi, the first half of your chapter is overlapped on the righthandside by a list of your other fic and sponsors. Ali D
"You can't take the sky from me!"
EBFIDDLER
Friday, 20 April 2012 01:57
I liked this when I read it before, and I'm liking it again! Jayne's had a rough time, seems like his mind is still there in the desert. I was sad for Mal, he's putting himself through the wringer, isn't he? Looking forward to seeing the mystery of the lapel pin unfold.
Friday, 20 April 2012 20:07
Looks fine from here, Ali :) I think it's just one of those many little hickups we're experiencing with this new site. That's why I had to repost in the first place, I was fooling around, trying to fix a typo and ended up deleting the whole thing. The new site still doesn't like me, it won't let me upload or comment or do anything at all...

Eb - thanks :)
BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER
Wednesday, 21 November 2012 20:35
Wow...Jayne's near-loss is really driving home Mal's issues over Inara leaving, aren't they? Just hope that he gets some clarity soon or things may just take a sharp turn for the pear-shaped :S

Still..fantastic stuff!

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