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Fic: Soon Enough

Apr 09, 2006 01:43

Title: Soon Enough
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Disclaimer: All your Firefly and Serenity are belong to Joss Whedon.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A man can only hate himself for bein' accordin' to his nature for just so long before something has to give. 2600 words.
Ficathon Prompt: For srichard, Mal/River; Mal courting in some unexpected fashion, skittish River, ( Read more... )

Comments 26

ninamazing April 9 2006, 09:18:04 UTC

LOVE!!!!!!!!!!! God, this ficathon is the best thing ever.

There's more encouragement in that glance than in a year's worth of conversations with Inara; it unsteadies him a little, makes his heart pound in his chest.

YES YES YES. The meta you weaved into the beginning was amazing - it's everything I always say, about how River was willing to save his life so many times when Inara wasn't.

And this was unconventional, too; a lot of things came to light that rarely ever do. You were willing to come right out there and have an honest discussion about the "rightness" of their relationship, and it worked so well.

Ach! You do 'em proud. :)

jedibuttercup April 9 2006, 09:55:55 UTC

Thank you! I was so nervous posting this, it's not in my usual style at all, but when I was re-watching Serenity for inspiration this is how it came it to me.

(That last scene, and the one where he comes up out of the elevator, choke me up more every time I watch it).

jazzfic April 9 2006, 10:24:11 UTC

But as he'd had his Valley, so she'd had hers

Oh, my. How I love this. Your Mal is just wonderful, I could really hear his voice in the narrative. Simply lovely writing.

jedibuttercup April 14 2006, 06:44:37 UTC

Thank you. Mal is, by far, my favorite character from the series; I'm glad I was able to do his voice justice.

n0m_de_plum April 9 2006, 13:17:17 UTC

Wow, all these fics people are posting are so good.

I loved Mal shopping for the girls and being all the considerate leader. It's so cute.

jedibuttercup April 14 2006, 06:45:17 UTC

Mal, when not in a terrible mood over something, really is very considerate of his people. He only pretends to be a bad man. =)

hereswith April 9 2006, 13:30:38 UTC

Oh, he gave her a gun, and has a copy of Coleridge tucked away! Wonderful :-) I really like the progression of their relationship here, the gentleness and almost inevitability of it, and I love your take on that scene at the end of the movie.

jedibuttercup April 14 2006, 06:48:00 UTC

> Oh, he gave her a gun, and has a copy of Coleridge tucked away! Wonderful :-)

That's our multi-faceted Captain. =)

> I really like the progression of their relationship here, the gentleness and almost inevitability of it, and I love your take on that scene at the end of the movie.

Getting prompted with "skittish River" really made me think hard about how their relationship might play out, as Mal is not the sort to make the first move when she's so much younger. The whole gentle progression aspect that came out surprised me with how well it worked for them.

srichard April 9 2006, 16:06:27 UTC

Oh, wow. So I usually get nervous about ficathons--or not nervous, but wary, because the odds of me liking what I get aren't often good. Hence I usually only join ones I want to write for.

This, though, I loved. It had so many parts that I loved. The portrayal of my favorite speech was heaven. And this:

She's tore up plenty, Zoë'd told him, but she'll fly true. It was true of Zoë, and it were true of the ship-- but it were even more true of River. Alliance had made of her a weapon, but she'd turned in their hands and cut them; it were Simon-- and Mal, on Niska's skyplex-- that she'd been willin' to act for.I love pregnant!Zoe, and how you brought back the Inara that I love, the one who's important to the ship, important to Mal, without being a useless romantic entanglement. And that scene with Jayne was amazingly poignant because I could so SEE it. Jayne would see Mal's close relationships with all the women as simultaneously threatening and unfair ( ... )

jedibuttercup April 14 2006, 06:52:47 UTC

> Oh, wow. So I usually get nervous about ficathons--or not nervous, but wary, because the odds of me liking what I get aren't often good. Hence I usually only join ones I want to write for.

Hee. I got almost exactly the same response from vandonovan with the shinyhearts fic I wrote. I'm in these 'thons for the writing more than the reading myself-- I write better to prompts-- but I'm very glad you enjoyed it, too.

> I love pregnant!Zoe, and how you brought back the Inara that I love, the one who's important to the ship, important to Mal, without being a useless romantic entanglement.

I know. Inara's so much stronger a character when they're not busy trying to compromise who they are to find a romantic middle ground. I loved the idea and personality of her in the series much more than I did the execution of her role. As for Zoe... I was tired of writing and reading her a hard, broken woman. In a softer story like this one, I wanted to give her something to hope for. =)

> And I loved the little kiss before River runs off, and Mal left there, ( ... )