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ceslas

Truthsome Fic Challenge

Jan 02, 2007 23:54

Title: Winter's Night
Rating: PG
Characters: Mal, Inara, Jayne, Zoe
Disclaimer: Firefly owns me, I own words
Summary: A new job, the first after Miranda, has a few folks figuring their way around the new arrangement.
Spoilers: Post-BDM
Author's Notes: Standalone that still fits with the 'verse as I see it after Miranda. To those that are following the ( Read more... )

finding, inara, ficathon, mal

Comments 23

Good job, once again. razycrandomgirl January 3 2007, 05:56:48 UTC

I liked Zoe's line “Maybe so Sir, but I got no concern as to his loyalty.” And I like that she stated the facts about Jayne. That even though Mal might doubt him she doesn't. And if Jayne can earn something like that from Zoe then Mal better listen up.
Uh'm more please! :-D

Re: Good job, once again. ceslas January 3 2007, 06:06:03 UTC

*Squee* That was my favorite line I think- she just up and stated the fact, no explanation, no need to explain, just is, dong ma?

*Hugs* for lovely support...again ;)

Re: Good job, once again. razycrandomgirl January 3 2007, 06:11:14 UTC

One of the best lines ever!

Re: Good job, once again. ceslas January 3 2007, 06:15:46 UTC

*Blushes furiously* Honestly, I have no idea where it came from... Zoe just said it and then stopped... it is surreal to write her because of that...

bookaddict43 January 3 2007, 12:17:42 UTC

I like Inara and Jayne's understanding of each other and the delicases of negotiation. I also like Zoe's confidence in Jayne - is this a precursor to something? :)

The ending is excellent with Mal worrying over Inara and his final realisation. Well done!!

btw are you going on the cruise??

ceslas January 3 2007, 19:07:24 UTC

Thank you..This squeezes in after the series I am working on, Aftermath and before Five Kisses. The blanks just keep getting filled by these sections of the story... So, as precursor, 'spose so ;)

Yes, I am most definitely going on the cruise! Yay!

ficmuse January 3 2007, 13:28:15 UTC

That was a lovely piece of writing! I'm really intrigued by the plot that you've set up here, and I'd love to find out what happens next :)

ceslas January 3 2007, 19:12:01 UTC

Honestly, the plot was secondary to my sense of how Inara would find her place on Serenity. As I tell folk, this story fits into the greater arc that has been following Jayne and River, and if Inara was to stay on Serenity she had to have a reason other than Mal, cause that never fully works for me.

*Hugs* to the compliment on the writing (Now you can tear apart my dialogue stickiness ;) )

ficmuse January 3 2007, 20:42:56 UTC

Sorry to be dim as a box of rocks, but what story does this piece fit into? ('cause I'd like to go read it now!) The author's notes say follow the tag for "Finding", but I can't see your tags!

Also, emailing you privately about the cruise!

lattelady6 January 3 2007, 16:54:11 UTC

Wooo nice! I always love to listen in when any of the crew talk, especially if it is a change in the usual dynamics. Thanks for the mal/inara - ness in the middle of your usual rayne. You do them so well.

ceslas January 3 2007, 19:17:06 UTC

Thank you!!!!! I know it is good when you like it ;)

There was just some things that needed sayin', and Mal had to be there for it...like I tell folks, this is an insert into the larger Jayne/River arc... all the pieces fit together to create a picture (at least I hope so). Mal and Jayne have both alluded to this period of time in other sections of the story, and Inara needed to be strong to stay on Serenity...

Where to go first... alexis_laforge January 5 2007, 06:02:32 UTC

Well, I really liked it all, now, didn't I? You captured Inara's smoothness (there's no other way to describe her, really... she's like silk), the manly, grr-argh tension that flashes up between Mal and Jayne and Zoe's calming effect more than perfectly. Quite sublime. Also, you mentioned the political upheaval that Miranda MUST have caused, and it made me impossibly happy!

Re: Where to go first... ceslas January 5 2007, 06:14:55 UTC

*Squeee* to making you impossibly happy! Yeah, no doubt in my mind that there would be repercussions after Miranda and this exchange is directly linked to that. The precursor to this is in progress as I write this >;0)

As you may have noted, this fits in to the story line as it has grown from the original Five Times meme...

Inara is sooo hard to write as is Zoe! OMG those women! Mal and Jayne though, much easier... and them being all manly and stupid- yeah, easy to see.

Thank you so much for the warm comments! *Hugs Alexis*

Inara's so... strange. alexis_laforge January 6 2007, 08:16:53 UTC

Not in a bad way, of course. But it's hard to find reference points to write her with, so mostly I just grab for her voice and images powerful enough to be seen through a haze of incense smoke.

Looks into the mechanics of the Verse just make me happy all over. I think that one day I'm actually going to try to write a plausible space fight between Alliance faction ships, or R/A, because the Reaver/Alliance fight was so fast and confused that it troubled my little brain.