Meme Ficlets (Misc)
Title: What Remains
Prompt: Firefly, #15 (writer's choice)
Fandom: Serenity
Rating: G
Word Count: 380
Character(s)/Pairing(s): River Tam, Zoe Washburne, Hoban Washburne (sort of); allusions to Zoe/Wash
Summary: Zoe finds River in Serenity's cockpit. As always, there's more going on than meets the eye.
Disclaimer: Characters mentioned are used without permission and are trademarks of Fox/Joss Wheadon. I do not own them and am simply borrowing for my purposes. Please don't sue.
(pimped to ff_fanfic, fireflyfanfic and zoe_wash )
Zoe doesn't hesitate (much) at the door to the cockpit anymore but stalls in surprise once she sees who is inside. River is sitting cross-legged in the pilot's seat, humming softly. She doesn't think Mal would willingly leave the less-crazy-but-still-not-entirely-sane genius reader by her lonesome here but he's done crazier things, so she pretends it isn't as worrisome as it is.
"Everything shiny here, River?" Zoe says, coming up beside the girl to subtly checking their course heading. (It looks alright to her; she decides to ask Inara to drop in if she sees their companion-turned-pilot all the same.)
After a moment of critical observation, River pushes one of the dinosaurs that no one has, as of yet, been willing to move elsewhere forward a few centimeters as if it makes a difference somehow. "We wade blindly in our pond but so do they." She peers up at Zoe through a curtain of hair and smiles impishly. "What is the relative value of shininess?"
Zoe blinks and nods. "Right. Well, let's keep wading on course, then." She doesn't bother trying to answer the question posed-- she's pretty sure it was asked for the sake of asking. Instead, she decides to return to her previous task (searching out Mal), resolving to discuss the leaving-River-alone-in-the-cockpit issue when she finds him. (Along with a few others like when are they going to have another job? And will they be able to eat actual food this month? Little things like that.) "Be seein' you, River."
There's an absent wave from the girl whose attention is already on the dinosaurs again. Zoe shakes her head as she steps out of the room.
Inside the cockpit, River waits until Zoe's out of earshot before rolling her eyes dramatically. "Fei hua, she's not ready yet."
She picks up a brontosaurus and peers at it curiously. "If I told her it's what you want she would only think me fong luh." She tuts softly. "More than she already does, then. And that wouldn't serve your purpose, either."
There's a short pause, then: "Go hwong-tong. Teach me more about piloting now." She tilts her head and considers the toys spread before her. "I still don't understand the significance of the dinosaur variable. Explain it to me again?"
River smiles as she settles back into the pilot's chair.
(translations: Fei hua. = Nonsense. | fong luh = loopy in the head | Go hwong-tong. = Enough of this nonsense.)
Title: Lightning Strike
Prompt: That '70s Show, #9 (lightning)
Fandom: That '70s Show
Rating: PG
Word Count: 263
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Jackie Burkhart, Steven Hyde, Fez, Michael Kelso, Donna Pinciotti (cameo), Eric Forman (cameo); allusions to Jackie/Hyde, Jackie/Fez and (former) Jackie/Kelso
Summary: Jackie knows it'd be stupid to fall for Steven-- lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place.
Disclaimer: Characters mentioned are used without permission and are trademarks of Fox; I am simply borrowing them for my purposes. Please don't sue.
(pimped to zenmasters )
It was stupid to think lightning would strike twice in the same place. And for all the things she was-- spoilt, self-absorbed, catty, bitchy, etc.-- Jackie Burkhart was not stupid. (Michael was stupid. God, how did he fall off the water tower every year? Idiot. She was lucky to be rid of him.) (Well, abandoned by him, really, but whatever.)
So this thing with Steven, it wasn't anything really. Just boredom from a summer spent watching The Price is Right (and not sulking). Because they were two hot people (even if his beard was scruffy, it did make him look older and bad) and obviously that meant they should make out and stuff.
Jackie could almost believe that, too. (Even after Michael, Donna and Eric got back from their California adventure and the fling didn't end. In fact, she could fool herself into thinking she wasn't falling for him- because it was sick and wrong-- all the way until he shaved that stupid beard off for her. There'd been no denying it after that.)
(And, later, when she convinced herself that the guy she actually loved was Fez of all people, Jackie didn't think about the astronomical odds against lightning striking a third time. She didn't think about the way they didn't quite fit together right or how even their first kiss felt forced in a way.
No, Jackie didn't think about those things because she wasn't stupid. But she was lonely and Fez was there and it was good enough.) (She could almost believe that, too... except whenever she saw Steven around. Then all bets were off.)
Prompt: Firefly, #15 (writer's choice)
Fandom: Serenity
Rating: G
Word Count: 380
Character(s)/Pairing(s): River Tam, Zoe Washburne, Hoban Washburne (sort of); allusions to Zoe/Wash
Summary: Zoe finds River in Serenity's cockpit. As always, there's more going on than meets the eye.
Disclaimer: Characters mentioned are used without permission and are trademarks of Fox/Joss Wheadon. I do not own them and am simply borrowing for my purposes. Please don't sue.
(pimped to ff_fanfic, fireflyfanfic and zoe_wash )
Zoe doesn't hesitate (much) at the door to the cockpit anymore but stalls in surprise once she sees who is inside. River is sitting cross-legged in the pilot's seat, humming softly. She doesn't think Mal would willingly leave the less-crazy-but-still-not-entirely-sane genius reader by her lonesome here but he's done crazier things, so she pretends it isn't as worrisome as it is.
"Everything shiny here, River?" Zoe says, coming up beside the girl to subtly checking their course heading. (It looks alright to her; she decides to ask Inara to drop in if she sees their companion-turned-pilot all the same.)
After a moment of critical observation, River pushes one of the dinosaurs that no one has, as of yet, been willing to move elsewhere forward a few centimeters as if it makes a difference somehow. "We wade blindly in our pond but so do they." She peers up at Zoe through a curtain of hair and smiles impishly. "What is the relative value of shininess?"
Zoe blinks and nods. "Right. Well, let's keep wading on course, then." She doesn't bother trying to answer the question posed-- she's pretty sure it was asked for the sake of asking. Instead, she decides to return to her previous task (searching out Mal), resolving to discuss the leaving-River-alone-in-the-cockpit issue when she finds him. (Along with a few others like when are they going to have another job? And will they be able to eat actual food this month? Little things like that.) "Be seein' you, River."
There's an absent wave from the girl whose attention is already on the dinosaurs again. Zoe shakes her head as she steps out of the room.
Inside the cockpit, River waits until Zoe's out of earshot before rolling her eyes dramatically. "Fei hua, she's not ready yet."
She picks up a brontosaurus and peers at it curiously. "If I told her it's what you want she would only think me fong luh." She tuts softly. "More than she already does, then. And that wouldn't serve your purpose, either."
There's a short pause, then: "Go hwong-tong. Teach me more about piloting now." She tilts her head and considers the toys spread before her. "I still don't understand the significance of the dinosaur variable. Explain it to me again?"
River smiles as she settles back into the pilot's chair.
(translations: Fei hua. = Nonsense. | fong luh = loopy in the head | Go hwong-tong. = Enough of this nonsense.)
Title: Lightning Strike
Prompt: That '70s Show, #9 (lightning)
Fandom: That '70s Show
Rating: PG
Word Count: 263
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Jackie Burkhart, Steven Hyde, Fez, Michael Kelso, Donna Pinciotti (cameo), Eric Forman (cameo); allusions to Jackie/Hyde, Jackie/Fez and (former) Jackie/Kelso
Summary: Jackie knows it'd be stupid to fall for Steven-- lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place.
Disclaimer: Characters mentioned are used without permission and are trademarks of Fox; I am simply borrowing them for my purposes. Please don't sue.
(pimped to zenmasters )
It was stupid to think lightning would strike twice in the same place. And for all the things she was-- spoilt, self-absorbed, catty, bitchy, etc.-- Jackie Burkhart was not stupid. (Michael was stupid. God, how did he fall off the water tower every year? Idiot. She was lucky to be rid of him.) (Well, abandoned by him, really, but whatever.)
So this thing with Steven, it wasn't anything really. Just boredom from a summer spent watching The Price is Right (and not sulking). Because they were two hot people (even if his beard was scruffy, it did make him look older and bad) and obviously that meant they should make out and stuff.
Jackie could almost believe that, too. (Even after Michael, Donna and Eric got back from their California adventure and the fling didn't end. In fact, she could fool herself into thinking she wasn't falling for him- because it was sick and wrong-- all the way until he shaved that stupid beard off for her. There'd been no denying it after that.)
(And, later, when she convinced herself that the guy she actually loved was Fez of all people, Jackie didn't think about the astronomical odds against lightning striking a third time. She didn't think about the way they didn't quite fit together right or how even their first kiss felt forced in a way.
No, Jackie didn't think about those things because she wasn't stupid. But she was lonely and Fez was there and it was good enough.) (She could almost believe that, too... except whenever she saw Steven around. Then all bets were off.)