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Monday, February 27, 2006
Based on an episode idea suggested by Tim Minear a while back. It was suggested when the series was going to be much darker than it turned out to be so, you know, expect darkness.
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 5519 RATING: 9.0 (PG13) SERIES: FIREFLY
Apologies for the bizarre double-spaced formatting, not quite sure what's going on. Will happily send anyone the nice, easy to read, .doc version if they'd prefer.
TEASER
FADE IN:
EXT. SERENITY/DEADWOOD – DAY
Serenity, landed at one of Deadwood’s busier spaceports. It’s a border moon, but by the looks of it it’s one of the better ones. Think Scorsese’s ‘Gangs of New York’.
Out of nowhere a repetitive THUD-THUD-THUD is heard.
INT. SERENITY – DINING AREA
MAL, at the head of the table, holds his mug in the air and taps it with a spoon. A small cheer and slight applause from the gathered.
ZOE
Speech!
Assembled are ZOE, WASH, JAYNE, SIMON, RIVER, KAYLEE and BOOK sitting around a half-eaten feast. The atmosphere is light and they’ve all been drinking.
MAL
If ya’ll’d raise your glasses I’d like to make a toast.
Everyone raises their cups.
MAL (CONT’D)
To Durran Haymer. Whose love of all things age-ed just made us some of the richest petty thieves this side of the system.
ALL
Durran Haymer!
Everyone but Book drinks.
MAL
Not drinking Shepherd?
BOOK
Cheating a man on his own property isn’t exactly a Christian affair.
MAL
We didn’t cheat! We came to an amicable agreement that saw his property returned unharmed.
BOOK
You sold him his own gun Mal.
MAL
And at a severely discounted price. Besides, ain’t no-one else in the verse gonna buy it. Nobody lost out here, Shepherd. Have a drink, this is one of our better days.
Book drinks cautiously.
JAYNE
While we’re talkin bout better days, when’m I gonna get my share of the take?
ZOE
Not now Jayne.
WASH
Why not now?
Zoe shoots Wash a disapproving look.
MAL
I’m sure ya’ll’ve noticed I’ve not been so quick to divide the haul as usual, but there’s something we need to talk about first. The proceeds from the Lassiter mean each of us’s a mite richer than we expected to be and it comes to mind some of you might be wanting to set up elsewhere, maybe even on a ship of your own.
~ misskitten
~kaynara
Being a Simon and Kaylee fan, I really enjoyed the few moments you gave them. Some episodes had moments very similar and then some completely seemed to ignore that side line of the series (Out of Gas being my primary example.)
Might anyone have a link to a transcript or something where Tim talked about this storyline? I'd never heard of it and am very curious.
This is some mighty good stuff here....probably not quite as dark as Joss, Tim & Co. were gonna go for, but maybe a better fit overall.
And yeah, Anonymous (68.57.166.234), I have to agree with ya about the large number of dead Reavers....Inara ain't gonna be all right for a long time if an entire ship (pretty much) full of Reavers gangraped her.
I wonder if this could be applied to canon from the BDH, since Inara is teaching now rather than merely being a Companion...though one would think she would either be joining River in having an emotional breakdown during the siege at Mr. Universe's or going all Rambo like Zoe was if that had been the case.
Oh...and I have to agree with the other requests for a sequel....have to see how our mean ole Capt. Tightpants helps Inara deal with her Serenity Valley
BEB
You really kept the character voices intact, had something to do for everyone and managed to sell the episode's concept to a sceptic. (Me!)
I was really impressed, especially by the subtle way you played the "lady/whore/handkiss/kneeling" reference in the beginning. Very naturally.
Really really well done. I'm glad you mentioned this fic in the fanfic rec thread over in the community section. :)
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