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Fic: Retaking the Sky (Firefly AU)

Jun 18, 2007 21:30

Title: Retaking the Sky
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the world is not.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Firefly AU. Mal might have been her first love, but Wash-- somehow when she wasn't looking, he'd wired himself right into her crucial decision-making trees. 4400 words.

Spoilers: All of Firefly. Specific quotes from " ( Read more... )

Comments 15

valderys June 19 2007, 08:45:41 UTC

Wah. Brought the end of Serenity back in a rush. Very powerful. Poor Zoe. I thought this worked a treat though. Lovely.

jedibuttercup June 24 2007, 05:39:45 UTC

Thank you. This was so hard for me to write, trying to recapture the thrust of the canon events filtered through my AU; I'm glad it worked.

jaxomsride June 19 2007, 12:18:08 UTC

Excellently done and powerfully written at the end.

jedibuttercup June 24 2007, 05:40:06 UTC

Thank you.

rubynye June 19 2007, 18:25:11 UTC

This may be belated; it's also AWESOME. Oh, this is Zoe! This is Zoe to the core! *cheers*

jedibuttercup June 24 2007, 05:41:09 UTC

Thank you. I'm not normally a Zoe writer-- my Firefly fic tends to run more to Mal and/or River-- but her voice just took over for me in this story. I'm very glad you liked it!

inlovewithnight June 21 2007, 06:11:15 UTC

Wow, this is *awesome*. I just...I lack words. Awesome.

Definitely recc'ing this. :)

jedibuttercup June 24 2007, 05:42:16 UTC

Thank you, I'm so glad you liked this.

And I really, really appreciate the recommendation. Thanks again!

grammarwoman June 21 2007, 16:46:24 UTC

Here from inlovewithnight rec.

That piece just sucked me in. Well done. With such a close AU to canon, I dreaded the end, and sure enough, it was another emotional whammy.

Now I'm thinking about a Zoe/River alliance, and wouldn't _that_ be some flying.

jedibuttercup June 24 2007, 05:46:56 UTC

Thank you. It was a challenge for me, reinterpreting Firefly this way, but it felt more powerful to me to keep it as close to canon as possible than to strike out on my own.

> Now I'm thinking about a Zoe/River alliance, and wouldn't _that_ be some flying.

That was my thought, there at the end. My original conception of the story was along the lines of "Brain!Zoe and her three Brawns", but it insisted on ending on me before I could get into River's role much.