Floundering Around in the Dark

Fandom: Firefly
Title: A Simple Trade
Charcater: Zoe, River, Kaylee
Rating: R~ish for theme
Word Count: 662
Summary: Post Serenity, Zoe and River tag along while Kaylee goes to settle the affairs of her recently deceased brother. Things don't go so well.

A/Ns & Warnings: Written for my second card for angst_bingo.

( She’d rather be facing the barrel of a gun or ship twice the size of Serenity with weapons that would leave them little more than vapor, but she ain’t and she needs to focus.  )

Fandom: Firefly
Title: Out to the Black
Pairing/Characters: Malcolm Reynolds, River Tam, some Mal/River
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3008
Summary: After the events of "Serenity" Malcolm Reynolds found the verse a darkening place in which to live, and he succeeded on driving away those who cared for him in an unconscious effort to keep them safe, eventually ending up alone, broke, grounded and drunk somewhere on the skirts of the known worlds. At least until River takes it upon herself to rescue him.

A/Ns & Warnings: For rivestra because she is wonderful and amazing and rocks my world! I hope it lives up to your expectations. It went on a totally different track than I had in mind originally.

( They had been heroes. Got the truth out, made people start to seeing what the Alliance really was, let them see the darkness that breeds in the black hearts of power. )

Untitled Firefly Drabble
Based on this weeks btvsats_love prompt of "Belonging"

Characters: River, mention of others
Rating: G
Spoilers: After "Serenity", some allusion to the ending of the movie

The ship hummed and strummed into her, leaching into her pores like wine. It whispered to her about the dark places and the cold…cradled her, rocked her to sleep when the nightmares came. From her bunk it sounded like the low, rumble of a big cat when it senses danger it can’t see, except when Kaylee was there, in the engine room. It purred then, arching itself into her hands.

Kaylee was in Simon’s room though, doing some purring of her own, so the ship thrummed along, all low growl and steady pace through the dark. River turned on her bunk, turning away from the sounds of her brother’s thoughts and Kaylee’s laughter.

Restless, she stepped out of her bunk, bare feet against the cold metal plates. The ship seems to notice, slips a little to the side as if to greet her, before resuming its rumbling path forward.

The captain is on the bridge, nearly asleep in his seat. His thoughts are as loud as Simon’s…and she turns from them with a smile. Zoe is in her bunk, alone. The tears have stopped, but the pain leaks out into the hallway until Serenity absorbs it, cycles it through to come out again as a warm embrace that includes them all, even Jayne, asleep and snoring in his bunk, dreaming about his mother and a really big gun.

River closes her eyes and breathes it in, the feeling of belonging…to this ship, to these people…