Mal/Wash sentences 1 - 50
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: Mal Reynolds/Hoban 'Wash' Washburn
Theme set: Epislon
Rating: PG-13 at the hardest.
Author: Van Donovan
Notes: I wrote two "stories" using half of the sentences each. The first 25 (from Mal's POV) have Serenity movie spoilers, the second set (from Wash's POV) do not. Enjoy! :)
#1 - Motion - Mal realized he'd never taken Wash seriously until he saw him in full-blown action for the first time, concentrating intently, flying Serenity flawlessly even though their stabilizer was offline and Bester had no idea how to fix it; Wash under pressure was poetry in motion.
#2 - Cool - It was infuriating the way the new pilot sometimes tried to act like he was some cool, suave, ace pilot when he was around Zoe but, in a way, Mal found it unsettlingly appealing.
#3 - Young - Wash took him out off-roading on the mule when they got to Paquin; he clung to Wash's waist as they rode the wind, the dunes rising and falling beneath them, and he laughed and felt younger than he had in years.
#4 - Last - The last thing Mal had expected to see was Zoe and Wash kissing in the galley late one night; he reeled away quietly, in disbelief.
#5 - Wrong - He locked himself in his quarters for a day, feigning sick and getting away with it because they had no shipboard doctor, and tried to convince himself that it wouldn't be wrong to try to intervene between his first mate and his pilot.
#6 - Gentle - Mal easily watched Wash when he flew Serenity, but it was bad for him because he saw how gently Wash handled her and it made his mind wander and he knew he shouldn't let it.
#7 - One - There was just one thing occupying Mal's dreams, every night, and he did everything he could to not think about him when he laid in bed and tried to sleep.
#8 - Thousand - He asked Wash about the dinosaurs, just to have something, anything, to talk to him about, and learned about a thousand new tidbits of useless prehistoric Earth-That-Was trivia he had never been interested in before; in the end he felt guilty for using the dinosaurs to get closer to him.
#9 - King - "You're like an over lording king bent on total domination of his crew and Wash is the pathetic, cowardly queen by your side!" Bester shouted at him as Mal led him off Serenity for the last time; the comment made Mal grin a big, shit-eating grin of amusement, which just infuriated Bester even more.
#10 - Learn - Mal learned abruptly that it wasn't any good for him to be on the bridge when Wash was flying in just his tank and flight vest; it showed.
#11 - Blur - Zoe asked for his permission, so she could marry Wash, and the rest of the day had just dissolved into a blur as he reeled over the unexpected question.
#12 - Wait - He told her to wait -- ordered her to -- and said it was too soon; she got angry and demanded to know what she was supposed to wait for and he couldn't tell her, just like he couldn't tell him.
#13 - Change - Mal tried to get her to change her mind but she was stubborn and refused to yield; worse, she got angry with him for being so irrational; they'd never been angry at one another before.
#14 - Command - He told Kaylee she was imagining things when she asked him what was wrong; he hadn't realized his lack of command over his emotions on the subject had become so transparent.
#15 - Hold - Maybe Wash knew, and maybe he didn't, but the next time Mal was on the bridge with him their eyes met and Wash held the gaze until Mal looked away, flustered.
#16 - Need - "I need you on this boat, not off splitting loyalties and making babies," he told Zoe darkly, and his eyes betrayed him and showed her his pain.
#17 - Vision - "Think you lost sight of things, sir," she icily replied, "'cause this ain't about what you need; it's about what he and I need."
#18 - Attention - Wash got their attention when he appeared in the doorway of the cabin, cleared his throat and said, "Now kids, am I going to have to start grounding people to their bunks without supper to stop all this fighting?"
#19 - Soul - That night Mal bared his soul to his first officer and her fiancé and they didn't laugh at him.
#20 - Picture - It hadn't happened like he'd pictured: he awoke in his bunk with Wash's back pressed against his stomach, his own arm casually draped over the other man, and Zoe pressed against his back, spooning him like she owned them both; and maybe she did.
#21 - Fool - He made a fool out of himself at their wedding, dressed to the nines in his best suit, and laughed and joked as hard as he could to keep the engulfing loneliness at bay a little longer.
#22 - Mad - They loved each other fiercely, that much was clear, so he stepped aside because he knew he wasn't worthy of that sort of love anyway; but when they argued he couldn't help but get mad because they had such a precious thing and he didn't want to see it wasted.
#23 - Child - After Petaline, Zoe started talking about children with Wash and Mal found, despite his general misgivings on kids and his vague, lingering jealousy, he wanted to see that child; he knew it'd be beautiful.
#24 - Now - He looked at Wash's empty chair now, the hole punched clean through it as big as the one now in his heart, and wondered how Zoe could possibly survive when he felt like that.
#25 - Shadow - It could be called a pale comparison because he hadn't been sitting right there, watching, when Shadow was destroyed but it still felt like his world had been extinguished again.
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Here starts a different story, so to speak, these are from Wash's POV and not relating to the first 25 sentences. :)
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#26 - Goodbye - Wash hadn’t said goodbye to Zoe when he left to do the job and he regretted it, but he was glad that if he had to die at the hands of Niska he’d at least have Mal by his side.
#27 - Hide - He knew Niska was going to take Mal’s ear (or worse) as soon as the old man started talking about refunds; but after being tortured half to death beside Mal, he couldn’t stand to watch, so he hid his head behind the door and cried at his own weakness when Mal screamed.
#28 - Fortune - It was love - Mal’s and Zoe’s -- that had gotten him through the torture at Niska’s Skyplex alive; he was determined to see that Niska wasn’t so fortunate.
#29 - Safe - Safe on the shuttle again, held in Zoe’s arms, Wash felt his pains and fears ebb away as he remembered Mal screaming and the way the captain had kept him awake so he wouldn’t succumb to the torture; something inside of him changed regarding Mal in that moment.
#30 - Ghost - When they got him back Mal was sheet white and looked deathly but for the angry red welts and blood splatters on his chest; when he walked, supported by Zoe and Simon, he seemed to drift and stumble, like a drunken ghost and Wash found it made his heart ache to see.
#31 - Book - Mal had never been easy to read -- he wasn’t an open book like Wash was -- but seeing him lying bruised and broken in the infirmary, yet keeping an ever vigilant eye on his pilot confirmed everything Wash had ever suspected.
#32 - Eye - Mal’s eyes were the deepest dark blue Wash had ever seen and he figured they were such a deep color because they held behind them such deep secrets; recovering in the infirmary together after their ordeal, Wash swore to himself that he’d venture into their depths someday soon and learn to swim therein.
#33 - Never - Since he had met her, Wash had never kept anything important from Zoe, but these feelings for Mal that were blossoming inside him he kept to himself.
#34 - Sing - It was a strange thing to think, that any good would come out of almost being tortured to death, but when Mal regained consciousness after the Dermal-Mender repaired his ear, Wash’s heart began to sing in a way that could only classified as composed from pure joy.
#35 - Sudden - The way Wash found himself now thinking of his captain was sudden, but he could tell that his feelings weren’t unfounded and that, most likely, Mal even wanted to reciprocate them and never had because Wash was so very married, and Mal respected that.
#36 - Stop - A few days after their rescue, Wash stopped Mal in the corridor with just the look in his eyes and a soft, welcoming smile.
#37 - Time - The second time he stopped Mal in the corridor he did it by lightly brushing against him as they passed; conflicted, Mal looked back over his shoulder at him and Wash did the same, smirking knowingly back at him as he continued his path in the opposite direction.
#38 - When Mal found him out washing dishes alone one night after everyone else had gone to sleep, he just silently came up beside him, put his hands into the soapy water and never said a thing as their fingers slipped along and brushed together as they cleaned.
#39 - Torn - Wash thought he’d be torn between being loyal to Zoe and wanting Mal, but when the dishes were rinsing under the faucet he turned like it was second nature and just captured Mal’s mouth in his own.
#40 - History - Wash had a history of getting caught kissing Zoe in relatively inappropriate places and he didn’t want to ruin this if Kaylee accidentally walked by; pulling apart slowly from Mal he nodded meaningfully toward the crew quarters.
#41 - Power - Wash had always assumed being captain of Serenity was a power trip for Mal, but when he had undressed him and saw him yieldingly laid out on the captain’s bed, scars and bruises tracing up his body like fancy lattice work, he knew in a heartbeat it was a title he struggled with daily and probably resented most days.
#42 - Bother - They kissed and made love in the soft light of the overhead lamp not because Wash didn’t want to bother turning off the lamp but because he wanted to see and memorize every single aspect of Mal’s body this one time.
#43 - God - Wash knew Mal was not a man of faith but, clinging to him that night, covered in a sheen of sweat and barely able to breath, Mal kept moaning to God and, in the end, Wash thought maybe he’d found him again, if just for a moment.
#44 - Wall - During the day there was a wall between Mal and the rest of the world, a wall he never let down for anyone, but that night Wash saw to the core of his captain, stared into his deep blue eyes and found he didn’t want to swim there after all: he wanted to drown.
#45 - Naked - Afterward, they cuddled in a way that Wash hadn’t ever imagined they could: Mal curled into him tightly and he stroked the captain’s hair gently and listened to him murmur words of thanks over and over; Wash bet no one had never seen Mal so naked and vulnerable before.
#46 - Drive - The beauty of that night was the pure lack of a malicious motivational drive behind it: Mal did not want Wash for his own, or to break up his marriage to Zoe; Wash did not want to cheat on his wife; it was simply a need for love and compassion being filled in the most open way.
#47 - Harm - Wash stayed that night with Mal and watched over him to make sure his dreams didn’t harm him; for the first time in years, Mal slept without fear.
#48 - Precious - Wash recognized how precious the moment they were sharing was and he wondered, even if he had a capture of them together, if it could ever be recorded.
#49 - Hunger - In the morning, when Mal awoke and looked up at him and smiled in relief like he’d thought the previous night had only been a dream, Wash saw a fresh hunger growing in Mal’s eyes: he’d found a new zest in life.
#50 - Believe - They left Mal’s bunk and Wash went back to his wife without a single regret because he knew that he had saved Mal, and looking at Mal he could tell the captain believed in life again.
Pairing: Mal Reynolds/Hoban 'Wash' Washburn
Theme set: Epislon
Rating: PG-13 at the hardest.
Author: Van Donovan
Notes: I wrote two "stories" using half of the sentences each. The first 25 (from Mal's POV) have Serenity movie spoilers, the second set (from Wash's POV) do not. Enjoy! :)
#1 - Motion - Mal realized he'd never taken Wash seriously until he saw him in full-blown action for the first time, concentrating intently, flying Serenity flawlessly even though their stabilizer was offline and Bester had no idea how to fix it; Wash under pressure was poetry in motion.
#2 - Cool - It was infuriating the way the new pilot sometimes tried to act like he was some cool, suave, ace pilot when he was around Zoe but, in a way, Mal found it unsettlingly appealing.
#3 - Young - Wash took him out off-roading on the mule when they got to Paquin; he clung to Wash's waist as they rode the wind, the dunes rising and falling beneath them, and he laughed and felt younger than he had in years.
#4 - Last - The last thing Mal had expected to see was Zoe and Wash kissing in the galley late one night; he reeled away quietly, in disbelief.
#5 - Wrong - He locked himself in his quarters for a day, feigning sick and getting away with it because they had no shipboard doctor, and tried to convince himself that it wouldn't be wrong to try to intervene between his first mate and his pilot.
#6 - Gentle - Mal easily watched Wash when he flew Serenity, but it was bad for him because he saw how gently Wash handled her and it made his mind wander and he knew he shouldn't let it.
#7 - One - There was just one thing occupying Mal's dreams, every night, and he did everything he could to not think about him when he laid in bed and tried to sleep.
#8 - Thousand - He asked Wash about the dinosaurs, just to have something, anything, to talk to him about, and learned about a thousand new tidbits of useless prehistoric Earth-That-Was trivia he had never been interested in before; in the end he felt guilty for using the dinosaurs to get closer to him.
#9 - King - "You're like an over lording king bent on total domination of his crew and Wash is the pathetic, cowardly queen by your side!" Bester shouted at him as Mal led him off Serenity for the last time; the comment made Mal grin a big, shit-eating grin of amusement, which just infuriated Bester even more.
#10 - Learn - Mal learned abruptly that it wasn't any good for him to be on the bridge when Wash was flying in just his tank and flight vest; it showed.
#11 - Blur - Zoe asked for his permission, so she could marry Wash, and the rest of the day had just dissolved into a blur as he reeled over the unexpected question.
#12 - Wait - He told her to wait -- ordered her to -- and said it was too soon; she got angry and demanded to know what she was supposed to wait for and he couldn't tell her, just like he couldn't tell him.
#13 - Change - Mal tried to get her to change her mind but she was stubborn and refused to yield; worse, she got angry with him for being so irrational; they'd never been angry at one another before.
#14 - Command - He told Kaylee she was imagining things when she asked him what was wrong; he hadn't realized his lack of command over his emotions on the subject had become so transparent.
#15 - Hold - Maybe Wash knew, and maybe he didn't, but the next time Mal was on the bridge with him their eyes met and Wash held the gaze until Mal looked away, flustered.
#16 - Need - "I need you on this boat, not off splitting loyalties and making babies," he told Zoe darkly, and his eyes betrayed him and showed her his pain.
#17 - Vision - "Think you lost sight of things, sir," she icily replied, "'cause this ain't about what you need; it's about what he and I need."
#18 - Attention - Wash got their attention when he appeared in the doorway of the cabin, cleared his throat and said, "Now kids, am I going to have to start grounding people to their bunks without supper to stop all this fighting?"
#19 - Soul - That night Mal bared his soul to his first officer and her fiancé and they didn't laugh at him.
#20 - Picture - It hadn't happened like he'd pictured: he awoke in his bunk with Wash's back pressed against his stomach, his own arm casually draped over the other man, and Zoe pressed against his back, spooning him like she owned them both; and maybe she did.
#21 - Fool - He made a fool out of himself at their wedding, dressed to the nines in his best suit, and laughed and joked as hard as he could to keep the engulfing loneliness at bay a little longer.
#22 - Mad - They loved each other fiercely, that much was clear, so he stepped aside because he knew he wasn't worthy of that sort of love anyway; but when they argued he couldn't help but get mad because they had such a precious thing and he didn't want to see it wasted.
#23 - Child - After Petaline, Zoe started talking about children with Wash and Mal found, despite his general misgivings on kids and his vague, lingering jealousy, he wanted to see that child; he knew it'd be beautiful.
#24 - Now - He looked at Wash's empty chair now, the hole punched clean through it as big as the one now in his heart, and wondered how Zoe could possibly survive when he felt like that.
#25 - Shadow - It could be called a pale comparison because he hadn't been sitting right there, watching, when Shadow was destroyed but it still felt like his world had been extinguished again.
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Here starts a different story, so to speak, these are from Wash's POV and not relating to the first 25 sentences. :)
--
#26 - Goodbye - Wash hadn’t said goodbye to Zoe when he left to do the job and he regretted it, but he was glad that if he had to die at the hands of Niska he’d at least have Mal by his side.
#27 - Hide - He knew Niska was going to take Mal’s ear (or worse) as soon as the old man started talking about refunds; but after being tortured half to death beside Mal, he couldn’t stand to watch, so he hid his head behind the door and cried at his own weakness when Mal screamed.
#28 - Fortune - It was love - Mal’s and Zoe’s -- that had gotten him through the torture at Niska’s Skyplex alive; he was determined to see that Niska wasn’t so fortunate.
#29 - Safe - Safe on the shuttle again, held in Zoe’s arms, Wash felt his pains and fears ebb away as he remembered Mal screaming and the way the captain had kept him awake so he wouldn’t succumb to the torture; something inside of him changed regarding Mal in that moment.
#30 - Ghost - When they got him back Mal was sheet white and looked deathly but for the angry red welts and blood splatters on his chest; when he walked, supported by Zoe and Simon, he seemed to drift and stumble, like a drunken ghost and Wash found it made his heart ache to see.
#31 - Book - Mal had never been easy to read -- he wasn’t an open book like Wash was -- but seeing him lying bruised and broken in the infirmary, yet keeping an ever vigilant eye on his pilot confirmed everything Wash had ever suspected.
#32 - Eye - Mal’s eyes were the deepest dark blue Wash had ever seen and he figured they were such a deep color because they held behind them such deep secrets; recovering in the infirmary together after their ordeal, Wash swore to himself that he’d venture into their depths someday soon and learn to swim therein.
#33 - Never - Since he had met her, Wash had never kept anything important from Zoe, but these feelings for Mal that were blossoming inside him he kept to himself.
#34 - Sing - It was a strange thing to think, that any good would come out of almost being tortured to death, but when Mal regained consciousness after the Dermal-Mender repaired his ear, Wash’s heart began to sing in a way that could only classified as composed from pure joy.
#35 - Sudden - The way Wash found himself now thinking of his captain was sudden, but he could tell that his feelings weren’t unfounded and that, most likely, Mal even wanted to reciprocate them and never had because Wash was so very married, and Mal respected that.
#36 - Stop - A few days after their rescue, Wash stopped Mal in the corridor with just the look in his eyes and a soft, welcoming smile.
#37 - Time - The second time he stopped Mal in the corridor he did it by lightly brushing against him as they passed; conflicted, Mal looked back over his shoulder at him and Wash did the same, smirking knowingly back at him as he continued his path in the opposite direction.
#38 - When Mal found him out washing dishes alone one night after everyone else had gone to sleep, he just silently came up beside him, put his hands into the soapy water and never said a thing as their fingers slipped along and brushed together as they cleaned.
#39 - Torn - Wash thought he’d be torn between being loyal to Zoe and wanting Mal, but when the dishes were rinsing under the faucet he turned like it was second nature and just captured Mal’s mouth in his own.
#40 - History - Wash had a history of getting caught kissing Zoe in relatively inappropriate places and he didn’t want to ruin this if Kaylee accidentally walked by; pulling apart slowly from Mal he nodded meaningfully toward the crew quarters.
#41 - Power - Wash had always assumed being captain of Serenity was a power trip for Mal, but when he had undressed him and saw him yieldingly laid out on the captain’s bed, scars and bruises tracing up his body like fancy lattice work, he knew in a heartbeat it was a title he struggled with daily and probably resented most days.
#42 - Bother - They kissed and made love in the soft light of the overhead lamp not because Wash didn’t want to bother turning off the lamp but because he wanted to see and memorize every single aspect of Mal’s body this one time.
#43 - God - Wash knew Mal was not a man of faith but, clinging to him that night, covered in a sheen of sweat and barely able to breath, Mal kept moaning to God and, in the end, Wash thought maybe he’d found him again, if just for a moment.
#44 - Wall - During the day there was a wall between Mal and the rest of the world, a wall he never let down for anyone, but that night Wash saw to the core of his captain, stared into his deep blue eyes and found he didn’t want to swim there after all: he wanted to drown.
#45 - Naked - Afterward, they cuddled in a way that Wash hadn’t ever imagined they could: Mal curled into him tightly and he stroked the captain’s hair gently and listened to him murmur words of thanks over and over; Wash bet no one had never seen Mal so naked and vulnerable before.
#46 - Drive - The beauty of that night was the pure lack of a malicious motivational drive behind it: Mal did not want Wash for his own, or to break up his marriage to Zoe; Wash did not want to cheat on his wife; it was simply a need for love and compassion being filled in the most open way.
#47 - Harm - Wash stayed that night with Mal and watched over him to make sure his dreams didn’t harm him; for the first time in years, Mal slept without fear.
#48 - Precious - Wash recognized how precious the moment they were sharing was and he wondered, even if he had a capture of them together, if it could ever be recorded.
#49 - Hunger - In the morning, when Mal awoke and looked up at him and smiled in relief like he’d thought the previous night had only been a dream, Wash saw a fresh hunger growing in Mal’s eyes: he’d found a new zest in life.
#50 - Believe - They left Mal’s bunk and Wash went back to his wife without a single regret because he knew that he had saved Mal, and looking at Mal he could tell the captain believed in life again.