Shall We?
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Kaylee danced just like she smiled.
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 3977 RATING: 9.0 (G) SERIES: FIREFLY
Author: Rawles {rawles [dot]marie [at]gmail [dot]com}
Type: Het
Genre: Drama/Romance
Characters: Kaylee. Simon.
Author’s Notes: This was written for Eep1313 for the Fandom Aid project where it was archived exclusively until March 14th, 2005. It was also the first time I'd written Simon/Kaylee in months and months. I sorta think it shows.
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Simon danced just like he spoke. With measured care, technical perfection, and a vested interest in not embarassing himself. The major difference lie in the fact that though he sometimes failed on that final count when he spoke, he had not yet done so in his dancing.
To Kaylee's way of thinking, this was nearly perfect. Certainly, when she had first stepped into the party on Persephone in her new dress, her version of perfection was slightly different. It involved her actually wearing said dress and twirling among other wonderfully dressed people, on the arm of one of the many young men (some of whom were almost as handosme as Dr. Tam himself), and underneath the floating chandelier. However, the Captain's penchant for finding trouble had made that impossible and she was "escorted" back to the ship by Badger and his goons before she'd even had a chance to actually step onto the dance floor.
Later, when the danger had passed and she had stowed her dress in her bunk, she puttered about in the engine room, her normal coveralls in place, and any trace of her visit to the upper class faded away. To say that she was pleased when Simon tapped politely on the doorframe (he was the only person she ever met who would knock when a door was open) would have been quite a severe understatement.
It had not been her original intention to ask him to dance with her, or even imply that she wanted to do so. Not really. It grew organically from their conversation, because he asked about the party before she even got a chance to tell him. There were a few pregnant pauses between when she lamented that she had not actually danced and when he fi
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first let me say how very beautiful I found this piece. Very touching. Very moving. Its strength lies in its brevity and boy does it pack a whallop! This is the first of your stories that I've read and I do look forward to reading more from you. Allow me to post my favorite line from this story:
"He had beautiful eyes, even when they were sad and, like now, told a story of unhappiness that she did not want to hear." I read that and had to stop and read it again. It's one of those lines that when you come across -as a writer yourself- you shake your head and say, "damn, I wish I could write that good" LOL Thank you.
I was hoping that we'd see this filmed in the deleted scenes on the DVD, since in the commentary for the episode of 'Shindig' the writer mentions that Simon and Kaylee were supposed to dance. I never figured out if it was filmed and cut, or if the script was revised to not include it.
Still, very nice little scene that I've contemplated writing myself, now I don't have to!
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