Shadow Sunset
Title: Shadow Sunset
Author: TrillianAstra
Challenge: 02: a first kiss
Rating: PG. All very innocent here.
Characters: Mal, OFC (sort of. See A/N)
Timeline: No spoilers. Set waaaaay before the series - Mal is about fifteen years old.
Disclaimer: Joss owns ‘em. I’m just playing in the sandbox.
Author's Note: OK, there’s a bit of a story behind this one. A while ago, I was in a Firefly/Lost crossover RP with some friends, and Mal was one of my characters. One of the other players was playing Kate (a Lost character), and because this was in the Firefly ‘verse, her backstory had to be adjusted… and we decided that Kate had grown up on Shadow, on the same ranch as Mal… and then they ended up being childhood sweethearts. So, when I saw the “a first kiss” prompt… it reminded me, and the result was… this.
Oh, and the line "So, does this mean I'm your girl?" is blatantly stolen from the movie "The Spirit". Frank Miller owns that.
If there was one thing Mal Reynolds liked more than anything else, it was going riding with his best friend, and watching her long hair stream behind her as they laughed together and raced each other.
It was late in the afternoon by the time they started to head back to the ranch, and the sun was setting, painting the sky in shades of pink and orange. They rode back towards the stables. Mal dismounted just outside, holding his own horse’s reins while he reached for the reins of Kate’s horse, holding the black mare still so that she could dismount. Once she was back on the ground next to him, they walked their horses into the stable together, getting them into their stalls and brushing them down. They were both ranch kids, and had grown up knowing that you always took care of your horse before yourself.
When their horses were brushed down and fed, they headed for the ranch house and dinner. Outside, Mal looked at Kate - his best friend since he was six - and realised that the light of the sunset made her look even prettier than normal. He’d stopped walking, and she looked up at him. “What’re you starin’ at, Mal? I got somethin’ on my face?”
He shook his head quickly. “Nah. I was jus’ thinkin’ that you look real pretty tonight.”
Mal was a little unnerved when she laughed. “That’s it? Jeez, I thought you’d never get there!”
“Huh?”
She grinned at him, then closed the gap between them and reached up, then kissed him quickly. He blinked, then grinned back, and leant down and kissed her.
As they started walking again, he put an arm around her shoulders. Without looking up, she leant against his shoulder, and asked “So, does this mean I’m your girl?”
“Guess it does… if it’s all the same to you.”
She laughed. “Oh, Mal. What’m I gonna do with you, eh?”
Author: TrillianAstra
Challenge: 02: a first kiss
Rating: PG. All very innocent here.
Characters: Mal, OFC (sort of. See A/N)
Timeline: No spoilers. Set waaaaay before the series - Mal is about fifteen years old.
Disclaimer: Joss owns ‘em. I’m just playing in the sandbox.
Author's Note: OK, there’s a bit of a story behind this one. A while ago, I was in a Firefly/Lost crossover RP with some friends, and Mal was one of my characters. One of the other players was playing Kate (a Lost character), and because this was in the Firefly ‘verse, her backstory had to be adjusted… and we decided that Kate had grown up on Shadow, on the same ranch as Mal… and then they ended up being childhood sweethearts. So, when I saw the “a first kiss” prompt… it reminded me, and the result was… this.
Oh, and the line "So, does this mean I'm your girl?" is blatantly stolen from the movie "The Spirit". Frank Miller owns that.
If there was one thing Mal Reynolds liked more than anything else, it was going riding with his best friend, and watching her long hair stream behind her as they laughed together and raced each other.
It was late in the afternoon by the time they started to head back to the ranch, and the sun was setting, painting the sky in shades of pink and orange. They rode back towards the stables. Mal dismounted just outside, holding his own horse’s reins while he reached for the reins of Kate’s horse, holding the black mare still so that she could dismount. Once she was back on the ground next to him, they walked their horses into the stable together, getting them into their stalls and brushing them down. They were both ranch kids, and had grown up knowing that you always took care of your horse before yourself.
When their horses were brushed down and fed, they headed for the ranch house and dinner. Outside, Mal looked at Kate - his best friend since he was six - and realised that the light of the sunset made her look even prettier than normal. He’d stopped walking, and she looked up at him. “What’re you starin’ at, Mal? I got somethin’ on my face?”
He shook his head quickly. “Nah. I was jus’ thinkin’ that you look real pretty tonight.”
Mal was a little unnerved when she laughed. “That’s it? Jeez, I thought you’d never get there!”
“Huh?”
She grinned at him, then closed the gap between them and reached up, then kissed him quickly. He blinked, then grinned back, and leant down and kissed her.
As they started walking again, he put an arm around her shoulders. Without looking up, she leant against his shoulder, and asked “So, does this mean I’m your girl?”
“Guess it does… if it’s all the same to you.”
She laughed. “Oh, Mal. What’m I gonna do with you, eh?”