Mmm. Fluff.
Title: Two of Cups, Reversed
Summary: It's not supposed to end like this.
Fandom: Firefly
Word Count: 190
Rating/Warnings: PG
Pairing: Jayne/Kaylee
A/N: For 30_kisses. Probably late. Pseudo-prequel to Homestead.
This isn’t the way it’s supposed to end, Mal realizes, and the thought hits him like a flash bomb.
It’s supposed to end in a big house on Osiris, couple of children scampering around, daddy off at the hospital, momma in her shop. It’s supposed to end with a big shiny Alliance wedding with all the trimmings that nobody ‘cept Inara will be invited to.
It’s definitely not supposed to end with him all trussed up like he’s going courtin’, standing on a piece of nothing land on a nothing planet in the ass-end of the ‘verse.
Mal fumbles the ring when it’s his turn, but neither bride nor groom notice. That’s the damnedest thing- they’re looking at each other like it’s really meant to be, and Mal keeps waiting for the punch line.
Inara says some pretty words, incense is lit, Kaylee’s momma cries somethin’ fierce. But then Jayne kisses Kaylee, and the whole world seems to slow around them. It’s like nothing he’s seen in a long time, not since Wash was alive.
That’s about the time Mal starts to think that maybe it isn’t backwards after all.
Summary: It's not supposed to end like this.
Fandom: Firefly
Word Count: 190
Rating/Warnings: PG
Pairing: Jayne/Kaylee
A/N: For 30_kisses. Probably late. Pseudo-prequel to Homestead.
This isn’t the way it’s supposed to end, Mal realizes, and the thought hits him like a flash bomb.
It’s supposed to end in a big house on Osiris, couple of children scampering around, daddy off at the hospital, momma in her shop. It’s supposed to end with a big shiny Alliance wedding with all the trimmings that nobody ‘cept Inara will be invited to.
It’s definitely not supposed to end with him all trussed up like he’s going courtin’, standing on a piece of nothing land on a nothing planet in the ass-end of the ‘verse.
Mal fumbles the ring when it’s his turn, but neither bride nor groom notice. That’s the damnedest thing- they’re looking at each other like it’s really meant to be, and Mal keeps waiting for the punch line.
Inara says some pretty words, incense is lit, Kaylee’s momma cries somethin’ fierce. But then Jayne kisses Kaylee, and the whole world seems to slow around them. It’s like nothing he’s seen in a long time, not since Wash was alive.
That’s about the time Mal starts to think that maybe it isn’t backwards after all.