SPOHEMIANS: All That's Best of Dark and Bright
Title: All That's Best of Dark and Bright
Feedback: Is shiny.
Characters/Pairing: Kara/Tyrone
Word Count: 1891
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Notes: Written for 1sentence, theme set alpha.
Disclaimer: Firefly-verse is not mine. Kara, Nate, Gale and Erin, however, belong to me, and Tyrone and Andrew belong to minielphie.
10. Ears
She doesn't know any better, not to say it, when they ask her how she knows things a child shouldn't know, and she tells them she heard it (not with her ears, silly).
36. Market
Her Daddy used to buy her anything she could have wanted, when she was little - she never saw it coming when he sold her, and she never found out the price.
46. Sun
It was a cold and lonely place without her parents, without Gale, but the day they brought him in, things warmed and brightened a bit, and it almost made up for the fact that there were no windows and they wouldn't let them see the sun anymore.
17. Tears
Aside from the men who run the place, she's the only one who knows how he got here - she sees he should be crying but isn't, and when she asks him why, he's surprised enough to tell her.
12. Sensual
She thinks he might send her away, when she slips into his bed one night - he thinks he might, too - but instead he shifts over to make room for her and lets her flow over him like water until the two of them meld together and they're both floating.
03. Soft
He thinks he's all hard edges, sharp enough to cut, but she knows better, and she knows how to find the other side-- she's felt it, curled by his side in the dark, skin to skin, and him holding her like some fragile thing might break if you grip it too tight.
41. Completion
They're the perfect pair, dark and bright, shadow and light, clouds and sunshine, two halves of a whole - it's a pity their captors think so too.
35. Bonds
She hates the restraints on the chair, but more than that she hates being trapped in her own head, hates hearing the thoughts of, it seems, everyone in the world but him.
45. Hell
She's always thought of it as hell, the sterile room with the needles and scalpels and gloved men in white lab coats, but there never was her Orpheus to show her the way out.
09. Telephone
There's an old game where you repeat a message and it changes each time: Kara plays that game with herself sometimes, her thoughts becoming more and more garbled: he'll come for us, and the stars will come back... sum of us and the stars go black... stars go black... black...
29. Melody
She sings herself to sleep some nights, and pretends she can hear his voice, though she only remembers the melody and a few words of the song he once sang for her, just because she asked: time flies, and then no need to endure anymore... time dies...
44. Heaven
Gale thinks it's the will of God and providence-- will of the Alliance, more likely - so she doesn't believe in God at all; she'd rather put her faith in a man than in heaven's grace.
23. Hands
She's turning the gun over and over ,so it's almost become a part of her hand, and trying to remember what she was thinking when she picked it up, whether she really meant to put the muzzle against her head in the first place.
01. Comfort
Andrew's cleaning the blood from her hands and whispering words meant to comfort her, but she's not with him; she's casting her mind into the black, searching and finding... nothing.
32. Confusion
Sometimes, when she talks about "him", she forgets which one she means-- the one she loves, the one she lives with, or the one she'd gladly shoot- and can't remember if the differences really matter.
25. Devotion
She doesn't love Andrew - not really, not the way she loves him - but he's there whenever she wakes up in a drugged haze, and they don't hurt her when he's around, so she won't leave his side.
13. Death
She can feel it when he shoots Gale, and it's the first time she's been able to hate him- not because of her twin's death, but because she should have been the one to fire that shot.
11. Name
He's got the gun trained on Andrew, finger on the trigger, and she doesn't know why but she breathes the one word sure to stop him, the one word she's said so rarely before- "Tyrone"-- and he calmly, silently uncocks the gun.
39. Smile
"Hey, little darlin', how've you been?" he asks, casually taking his gun off of Andrew, and smiles like the sun coming out on a gray day.
42. Clouds
"Cloudy... foggy," she answers quietly, unable to take her eyes from his face, "but it's getting better now."
31. Home
There's no mistaking the ship as anything but his, and though she hadn't called any place home in years, she thinks this might be it.
20. Freedom
"Andrew might make me sleep," she tells Tyrone quietly; he shakes his head and answers firmly, "You're your own woman now, not no man's plaything, and if he even tries I swear I will put a hole clean through him."
48. Waves
"is it really a ship if there's no waves to carry it?" she asks, and decides not to ask again when even he gives her an odd look.
43. Sky
She's sitting at the very front of the bridge, staring out intently as they leave atmo and it's all stars and the black, and as he asks from behind her, "So, what do you think of the sky, sweetheart?" for once she can find nothing to say - she doesn't have the heart to tell him she's glimpsed it before, if not with her eyes.
05. Potatoes
She's never had to eat the goushi they call food out in the black- she's always been drugged, before- and so her first meal on Star she makes a face and tells him solemnly, "Those aren't potatoes."
30. Star
When she tells him she can't see the stars, he says it doesn't matter, stars will just get you burned; she never tells him she doesn't mean the kinds of stars you find in the black, because she's certain he already knows.
33. Fear
She's sitting on one of the railings in the cargo bay, and everyone's afraid she's going to fall and break her neck, except for him.
18. Speed
Those days when her thoughts go tripping over themselves and tangling up so fast it scares her, she has to follow him around the ship, because he's the only one who can keep up.
21. Life
Sometimes she feels a little guilty for dropping into his life whether he wants her or not, but she never got to choose her own life, so the closest she can come is tagging along in his.
22. Jealousy
She'd never say it, but she can't help but feel a little jealous as she passes by the little blond woman in the corridor one day- she should be the one carrying his son.
08. Happiness
It isn't that she hates Nate, and it isn't that she wants her to be unhappy - it's that she'd give anything at all to be her, and yet she's never given the chance.
49. Hair
She's playing with Erin, braiding her hair because her mother won't (more likely can't), when she notices him watching them, and she just smiles and asks if he wants her to braid his hair too.
04. Pain
It bothers her when his eyes fall on her with that mixture of pain and guilt, but she never says anything about it anymore, because she can't convince him it isn't his to bear.
28. Sickness
They've never been normal, either of them, and she can feel it in the difference between his thoughts and other people's, but she thinks she could fix it if he'd let her - after all, she knows the programming, after watching her own being taken all apart.
15. Touch
She never touches him if she can help it, but when she's walking through the ship she runs her fingers over everything, gently curved walls and railings, metal and plastic, and she's half certain he can feel it when she does.
14. Sex
She knows she shouldn't, but Nate's mind is so easy to find, sharp and clear, and it's so easy to slip in late at night, so easy to share every gasping breath, so easy to borrow the feeling of his body, his hands, his mouth, so easy to be her when she would most like to take her place.
16. Weakness
He thinks it's a weakness to admit he feels, to admit he loves; he won't say something like that unless he thinks it doesn't matter, which is why she flinches every time he calls her bao bei.
47. Moon
David told her, once, that Nate said her name was Diana when she first came on the ship, and she wonders when Tyrone will acknowledge that his little blond goddess isn't the only moon orbiting him.
37. Technology
When it starts to bother her that there's only a bit of glass and metal between her and nothing, he notices, and tells her to trust Star - she does, not because of the far-too-old technology that makes a ship fly, makes it safe, but because he trusts her.
19. Wind
Every time they're planetside, he makes sure David opens the cargo bay doors first thing, so she can run down to open air; she gets tired of breathing in everyone else's words and thoughts for weeks and months on end.
07. Chocolate
One day he manages to get actual chocolate on the ship, and Kara won't touch hers - she gives it to the children, who certainly don't mind.
40. Innocence
The first time he lets her hold the baby, she can't move, hardly dares breathe-- she's never felt a mind so pure, and as much as she loves him can't believe anything like this can come from him.
02. Kiss
He could probably break her in half if he wanted to, but he doesn't stop her when she grabs him roughly by the shoulders, shoves him against the wall next to the door to his bunk, and stands on tiptoe to kiss him as hard as she can.
24. Taste
His kiss tastes just the way she remembers it, faintly sweet and not at all like Andrew's though she couldn't explain how if asked, and that alone makes her want to do it again.
34. Lightning/Thunder
First comes lightning - muzzle flash - then comes thunder - gun shot - then comes pain, and realization, and the reminder that maybe he's not immortal.
38. Gift
They'd always told her it's a gift, but she's never thought so, and she knows better the day he's shot and she can feel it like there's a hole been put in her, and the scream comes from her throat.
27. Blood
Little Erin's never looked at her like that before, like she's scared of her, but then, she's never come back covered in blood - most of it not hers - for the price of his blood being spilled.
06. Rain
"Kara?" David calls as she walks out of the infirmary, through the cargo bay, out to the rain, but she doesn't answer; it's easier to watch the rain dripping off of Star than watch the blood dripping through the IV tube.
50. Supernova
Some stars fade away, and some fall (but those aren't really stars, just meteorites hitting atmosphere), but some have to go out in fire and glory, and that's how she knows he can't die now, unconscious in the infirmary, because he's one of those stars.
26. Forever
"Nothing's forever, bao bei," he tells her when he's woken up and it's just them there, and about some things he's right - diamonds and stars and galaxies, they all go away - but about some things he couldn't be more wrong.
Feedback: Is shiny.
Characters/Pairing: Kara/Tyrone
Word Count: 1891
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Notes: Written for 1sentence, theme set alpha.
Disclaimer: Firefly-verse is not mine. Kara, Nate, Gale and Erin, however, belong to me, and Tyrone and Andrew belong to minielphie.
10. Ears
She doesn't know any better, not to say it, when they ask her how she knows things a child shouldn't know, and she tells them she heard it (not with her ears, silly).
36. Market
Her Daddy used to buy her anything she could have wanted, when she was little - she never saw it coming when he sold her, and she never found out the price.
46. Sun
It was a cold and lonely place without her parents, without Gale, but the day they brought him in, things warmed and brightened a bit, and it almost made up for the fact that there were no windows and they wouldn't let them see the sun anymore.
17. Tears
Aside from the men who run the place, she's the only one who knows how he got here - she sees he should be crying but isn't, and when she asks him why, he's surprised enough to tell her.
12. Sensual
She thinks he might send her away, when she slips into his bed one night - he thinks he might, too - but instead he shifts over to make room for her and lets her flow over him like water until the two of them meld together and they're both floating.
03. Soft
He thinks he's all hard edges, sharp enough to cut, but she knows better, and she knows how to find the other side-- she's felt it, curled by his side in the dark, skin to skin, and him holding her like some fragile thing might break if you grip it too tight.
41. Completion
They're the perfect pair, dark and bright, shadow and light, clouds and sunshine, two halves of a whole - it's a pity their captors think so too.
35. Bonds
She hates the restraints on the chair, but more than that she hates being trapped in her own head, hates hearing the thoughts of, it seems, everyone in the world but him.
45. Hell
She's always thought of it as hell, the sterile room with the needles and scalpels and gloved men in white lab coats, but there never was her Orpheus to show her the way out.
09. Telephone
There's an old game where you repeat a message and it changes each time: Kara plays that game with herself sometimes, her thoughts becoming more and more garbled: he'll come for us, and the stars will come back... sum of us and the stars go black... stars go black... black...
29. Melody
She sings herself to sleep some nights, and pretends she can hear his voice, though she only remembers the melody and a few words of the song he once sang for her, just because she asked: time flies, and then no need to endure anymore... time dies...
44. Heaven
Gale thinks it's the will of God and providence-- will of the Alliance, more likely - so she doesn't believe in God at all; she'd rather put her faith in a man than in heaven's grace.
23. Hands
She's turning the gun over and over ,so it's almost become a part of her hand, and trying to remember what she was thinking when she picked it up, whether she really meant to put the muzzle against her head in the first place.
01. Comfort
Andrew's cleaning the blood from her hands and whispering words meant to comfort her, but she's not with him; she's casting her mind into the black, searching and finding... nothing.
32. Confusion
Sometimes, when she talks about "him", she forgets which one she means-- the one she loves, the one she lives with, or the one she'd gladly shoot- and can't remember if the differences really matter.
25. Devotion
She doesn't love Andrew - not really, not the way she loves him - but he's there whenever she wakes up in a drugged haze, and they don't hurt her when he's around, so she won't leave his side.
13. Death
She can feel it when he shoots Gale, and it's the first time she's been able to hate him- not because of her twin's death, but because she should have been the one to fire that shot.
11. Name
He's got the gun trained on Andrew, finger on the trigger, and she doesn't know why but she breathes the one word sure to stop him, the one word she's said so rarely before- "Tyrone"-- and he calmly, silently uncocks the gun.
39. Smile
"Hey, little darlin', how've you been?" he asks, casually taking his gun off of Andrew, and smiles like the sun coming out on a gray day.
42. Clouds
"Cloudy... foggy," she answers quietly, unable to take her eyes from his face, "but it's getting better now."
31. Home
There's no mistaking the ship as anything but his, and though she hadn't called any place home in years, she thinks this might be it.
20. Freedom
"Andrew might make me sleep," she tells Tyrone quietly; he shakes his head and answers firmly, "You're your own woman now, not no man's plaything, and if he even tries I swear I will put a hole clean through him."
48. Waves
"is it really a ship if there's no waves to carry it?" she asks, and decides not to ask again when even he gives her an odd look.
43. Sky
She's sitting at the very front of the bridge, staring out intently as they leave atmo and it's all stars and the black, and as he asks from behind her, "So, what do you think of the sky, sweetheart?" for once she can find nothing to say - she doesn't have the heart to tell him she's glimpsed it before, if not with her eyes.
05. Potatoes
She's never had to eat the goushi they call food out in the black- she's always been drugged, before- and so her first meal on Star she makes a face and tells him solemnly, "Those aren't potatoes."
30. Star
When she tells him she can't see the stars, he says it doesn't matter, stars will just get you burned; she never tells him she doesn't mean the kinds of stars you find in the black, because she's certain he already knows.
33. Fear
She's sitting on one of the railings in the cargo bay, and everyone's afraid she's going to fall and break her neck, except for him.
18. Speed
Those days when her thoughts go tripping over themselves and tangling up so fast it scares her, she has to follow him around the ship, because he's the only one who can keep up.
21. Life
Sometimes she feels a little guilty for dropping into his life whether he wants her or not, but she never got to choose her own life, so the closest she can come is tagging along in his.
22. Jealousy
She'd never say it, but she can't help but feel a little jealous as she passes by the little blond woman in the corridor one day- she should be the one carrying his son.
08. Happiness
It isn't that she hates Nate, and it isn't that she wants her to be unhappy - it's that she'd give anything at all to be her, and yet she's never given the chance.
49. Hair
She's playing with Erin, braiding her hair because her mother won't (more likely can't), when she notices him watching them, and she just smiles and asks if he wants her to braid his hair too.
04. Pain
It bothers her when his eyes fall on her with that mixture of pain and guilt, but she never says anything about it anymore, because she can't convince him it isn't his to bear.
28. Sickness
They've never been normal, either of them, and she can feel it in the difference between his thoughts and other people's, but she thinks she could fix it if he'd let her - after all, she knows the programming, after watching her own being taken all apart.
15. Touch
She never touches him if she can help it, but when she's walking through the ship she runs her fingers over everything, gently curved walls and railings, metal and plastic, and she's half certain he can feel it when she does.
14. Sex
She knows she shouldn't, but Nate's mind is so easy to find, sharp and clear, and it's so easy to slip in late at night, so easy to share every gasping breath, so easy to borrow the feeling of his body, his hands, his mouth, so easy to be her when she would most like to take her place.
16. Weakness
He thinks it's a weakness to admit he feels, to admit he loves; he won't say something like that unless he thinks it doesn't matter, which is why she flinches every time he calls her bao bei.
47. Moon
David told her, once, that Nate said her name was Diana when she first came on the ship, and she wonders when Tyrone will acknowledge that his little blond goddess isn't the only moon orbiting him.
37. Technology
When it starts to bother her that there's only a bit of glass and metal between her and nothing, he notices, and tells her to trust Star - she does, not because of the far-too-old technology that makes a ship fly, makes it safe, but because he trusts her.
19. Wind
Every time they're planetside, he makes sure David opens the cargo bay doors first thing, so she can run down to open air; she gets tired of breathing in everyone else's words and thoughts for weeks and months on end.
07. Chocolate
One day he manages to get actual chocolate on the ship, and Kara won't touch hers - she gives it to the children, who certainly don't mind.
40. Innocence
The first time he lets her hold the baby, she can't move, hardly dares breathe-- she's never felt a mind so pure, and as much as she loves him can't believe anything like this can come from him.
02. Kiss
He could probably break her in half if he wanted to, but he doesn't stop her when she grabs him roughly by the shoulders, shoves him against the wall next to the door to his bunk, and stands on tiptoe to kiss him as hard as she can.
24. Taste
His kiss tastes just the way she remembers it, faintly sweet and not at all like Andrew's though she couldn't explain how if asked, and that alone makes her want to do it again.
34. Lightning/Thunder
First comes lightning - muzzle flash - then comes thunder - gun shot - then comes pain, and realization, and the reminder that maybe he's not immortal.
38. Gift
They'd always told her it's a gift, but she's never thought so, and she knows better the day he's shot and she can feel it like there's a hole been put in her, and the scream comes from her throat.
27. Blood
Little Erin's never looked at her like that before, like she's scared of her, but then, she's never come back covered in blood - most of it not hers - for the price of his blood being spilled.
06. Rain
"Kara?" David calls as she walks out of the infirmary, through the cargo bay, out to the rain, but she doesn't answer; it's easier to watch the rain dripping off of Star than watch the blood dripping through the IV tube.
50. Supernova
Some stars fade away, and some fall (but those aren't really stars, just meteorites hitting atmosphere), but some have to go out in fire and glory, and that's how she knows he can't die now, unconscious in the infirmary, because he's one of those stars.
26. Forever
"Nothing's forever, bao bei," he tells her when he's woken up and it's just them there, and about some things he's right - diamonds and stars and galaxies, they all go away - but about some things he couldn't be more wrong.