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Spoiler: Set after the events of Serenity: The Movie

Um, I suppose a little Jayne/River and Kaylee/Simon and Inara/Mal shippy, but not much, really.

“River’s Revelations”: River’s perceptions of the crew members of Serenity. A little tidbit I wrote in a few hours. My first ever Firefly/Serenity fanfic. I wanted to get my feet wet with this one, but next time I am totally doing dialogue. I can’t wait to try my hand at Whedon banter, and I’m dying to write for Mal!

Every day that River woke up was a little better than the day before. She used to hate her moments of lucidity because it made the rest of her tangled and ugly thoughts even worse in comparison, but now she relished her growing normalcy. She had never before thought of sanity as a tactile thing, but now she swore that she could feel it enveloping her like a warm blanket. She was growing to trust herself, as well. For the first few days after Miranda she was always apprehensive that she would be thrown back into the turmoil of not being in control of her own mind. However, that time never came, and River found herself getting more and more comfortable with her new coherency. Going to the planet that haunted her and understanding the origin of the dreams that followed her waking hours allowed her to let go of that part of her, and when she was able to let go of that, she was able to gain control of herself again.

She was still a reader, but now she could control it. Before Miranda, she could never tell when she would be hit with a barrage of unwelcome thoughts that were not her own. Now she found that she had the ability to read people selectively. She tried to keep this ability to herself as much as possible, and she tried very hard not to read anyone on Serenity. The few times she had answered a question that had yet to be asked resulted in awkward pauses and guarded glances and she didn’t like the f