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Shadows Fall - part two

Sunday, February 12, 2006

The crew is forced to make an emergency stop on Shadow… much to Mal’s dislike…

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Sorry everyone, I’ve had exams etc. Loads of work, but here’s chapter two…

Disclaimer: No, they’re still Joss’ babies…

rating: This part is pg-13, some minor language :)

Reviews are always appreciated. Hope you guys like it!

For full info, see part one: http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=6265

CHAPTER TWO

Serenity - kitchen

He didn’t like doing the dishes. He didn’t mind the water or cleaning the plates itself. He hated the fact that she was standing next to him, towel in those perfectly manicured hands, staring out in front of her without saying a word. It made him uncomfortable. He couldn’t even just stare at her for a while, cause then she’d expect him to talk, and that wasn’t high on his list right now. They'd had a little fight back during dinner, and, even though he used to love these little arguments with her, they usually didn’t bring their discussions into a public place for everyone to hear. And she’d won, undermining his role as the captain. It wasn’t safe out there for her. She might get herself hurt, or worse… die. And he didn’t like people he loved dying.

“Mal…”

“Hmm…” And he looked at her, straight into her deep brown eyes.

“You’re so quiet. You starting to scare me,” she commented with a smile on her face.

“I’m not.”

“You’re mad because I’m going into town tomorrow.”

“Inara,” he sighed. “What if Atherton is there? What if he got his men with ‘em? We both know Kaylee can’t do a damn thing and Zoë, as much as I trust her, can’t take them all on.”

“So this is about trust? You don’t trust me?”

“No, this is about me fearing for your safety.”

“Mal…”

“I don’t want to lose you again, Inara!”

He’d said he wouldn’t let her go without a fight. Losing her once was enough and the weeks after that had been just dark and depressing.

Inara was taken aback by his confession and she tried to recollect her thoughts. “I… Uhm…” But she never got further than that. Suddenly the ship started shaking badly, causing Inara to drop the cup she was holdin

Comments
Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:49
Oh, I like. Please, please tell me he has family still there. I have been hoping someone would write something about Mal's family. I look forward to more. Shiny!
Monday, 13 February 2006 09:29
You know I do alot of thinking concerning cerw dynamics and such. And always i come to the thought that mal is not a crew member he is a crew leader. that is why he dosent have to live under the wsame rules as the rest, and for that matter inara is walking that line where she is or is not a crew member. And i think it makes sense, cause there is a difference between 'crew' and 'family'. Now i always fast forward a feww years and think where could the characters be as in the growth of relationships and personality, and for mal and inara i tend to try and think of how they could work, how they could be together and be happy (cause im a shipper thats what i do.)And i think ok if they were to be together inara could not be crew cause that would make her unequal with mal, and it just dosent sit right with me. so i think ok well i know mal still needs to lead and be captain inara cant take that from him it just would be wrong, they cant be co captains. So i gave it more thought cause it just seemed kinda doomed and i did not like that so i wanted to make it work. So i thought ok then mal is the captain what he says gose, and that is it. Now what to give to inara, well i thought let her guide mal cause good god he needs some one to do it. Make it so she is a keeper of the peace kinda, like mals advisor. And if he ever gets to unresonable she can try to make him resonable again. And what you just wrote captured all of this, mal still leads, but he was being unreasonable and inara just showed up to ask what was going on, i a guessing so she could try to help. And mal kinda was persuaded by her being there to just be reasonable and not such a baby. Latter he felt kinda bad and she went to him, not as crew as a friend a guide and person he can sort of gain some peace from. he did this before witht he preacher, he was never crew either, he was just a friend that counciled him. While on the other hand his 'crew' even zoe, reliy on him big time. he can't go gush out to them and look weak. He has to look strong for them, and be strong for them. so dose inara and and so did the preacher. Now the only thing that would be left to make it work is for them both inara and mal to see that they can gush out to each other, they can be ther for one another. then they would be so strong together... any way you so brought that out here, it was well writen and i am excited to see if maybe some of mals family will tell inara and the crew about mal when he was a boy.

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