The Mal/Inara Fanfic Recommendation Thread

POSTED BY: Arcadia
UPDATED: Thursday, November 9, 2006 22:19
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ODDBEAN

Sunday, May 7, 2006 11:06 PM

Hey all,

Just another rec I thought I add. I orginally found this rec on Goldy_Dollar's live journal site. Here is Goldy's site:
http://goldy-dollar.livejournal.com/

And the direct link to the rec:
http://firefly.populli.org/archive/4/fineline.shtml

Here is the first line of the story: "He only comes to her when he can't help it."

Enjoy,
oddbean

ODDBEAN

Sunday, May 7, 2006 11:39 PM

Once again,

This is a great action fic that I have been following for awhile. So far 68 parts!
It isn't mainly M/I. It has all nine characters plus. The parts with Mal and Inara are really good. Interesting background on the characters (all of 'em) and on the Firefly 'verse

http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=4790

I hope the author, Screw the Alliance, won't mind if I quote part of his/her story to titilate:

He shuddered. He had left hope in the valley, along with the God who betrayed him. He left hope behind in the mud with the bodies of the young boys and girls who had died outnumbered and outgunned, fighting for a lost cause on soil far from home. He had buried hope there.

And then Inara humped things up.

In a way it had been just as hopeless as anything he had faced. She was a Companion, a glorified whore – a highly respected whore, but a whore. She rented her body and her company to men. She collected a fee for the attention that should have been earned on the honest battleground of romance. That wasn’t right, wasn’t moral. It had nothing to do with the Bible. It had to do with how people should behave in regards to each other. Men and women. In love. Loving each other without the cold, passionless vehicle of cash being involved.

That’s how things should be.

Inara was a beautiful person, inside more than out, her compassion and her own morality – minus the whoring, of course – an inspiration to all she came in contact with. She was the kind of woman for whom Empires were forged. She deserved a man – one man – who would return that kind of radiance with passion, a deep and sustaining passion worthy of her.

That’s what pained him so powerful, inside. Was he that kind of man? Did he have the potential to generate and demonstrate that kind passion, one worthy of her love on its own merits? Or did he leave that possibility in the bloody mud of the valley?

As he wandered through the ship, shutting down unnecessary systems and making certain that everything was put in its place, he also wandered through the possibility that Malcolm Reynolds was alive and well. That he had something to aspire to, even if the realization of that aspiration was impossible.

For no matter how great and passionate he might be able to become, she was still a professional woman, a career woman. A whore who loved the high-class whoring she did. Who reveled in the complex interplay of male and female, the expression of sexuality in the social and psychological realms. No matter how brightly his star might burn, he couldn’t lure her away from what she did without unmaking who she was in some way.

But he still wondered if he had it within him. It was a perplexing question.

LEIGHKOHL

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:29 AM

Just wanted to recommend fics by Goldy. She writes some wonderful Mal/Inara!

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

Sunday, November 5, 2006 6:31 PM

Bump.
I also read this one the other day that I really liked, but it was sad too...
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=12021

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Love keeps her in the air when she outta fall down, tells you she's hurting before she keels. Makes her a home.

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

Thursday, November 9, 2006 9:43 PM

I've been reading Kaynara's series now, and they are really good!
It's always good to have a whole bunch of chapters in a series too 'cause then it lasts longer.

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Love keeps her in the air when she outta fall down, tells you she's hurting before she keels. Makes her a home.

AGENTRUSCO

Thursday, November 9, 2006 10:19 PM

Well, I'll be all shameless and promote myself. Actually I'm more for Zoe/Wash in the writing, but I've a couple Mal/Inara stories that have some good reviews if you're interested.

"Smell" About Inara's feelings on Mal's coat
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=13432

"Love at First Sight (round 20)" Inara's first thoughts on Serenity and the captain.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=10964

"A Man and A Woman" Mal's internal dialogue about Inara (and others.)
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=11187

"Nobody Dies Alone" Closely follows Mal through "Out of Gas" (very subtle M/I)
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=11168

K, so that's me promoting myself. Don't hate me.

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