Fic: Drabbles #17-19 (Firefly, River/Mal)

[vialethe]

One of these weeks maybe I'll challenge myself and write true 100-word drabbles...

Title: Not So Young as I Used to Be
Rating: PG
Words: 275
Summary: In which another River appears.

Comments

[jedibuttercup]

All sweet; liked the autumn imagery in the Inara one.

Oh, but this had me giggling with delight:

> She looks right at him then, and sticks out her tongue. “Wasn't correcting the Captain. I was correcting my boyfriend.”
>“Oh, God, don't call me that!”

[vialethe]

Thank you!

I just can't imagine Mal (at least not canon-era Mal) as being at all comfortable with the title of boyfriend. It's so undignified! Hee.