Ficlets: Vălişoara & Strawberry Fields Forever
Title: Vălişoara
Author: seidenapfel (Team Firefly)
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Mal, Serenity
Word Count: 284
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Being the property of their respective copyright holders, Firefly, its characters or any other publicly recognisable names don’t belong to me in any way, shape or form. No copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Written for Challenge 06: Mini Big Bang at wlreunion. 11/03/13. Not beta'd.
Art by: partitioning (Team Firefly)
“Space: the final frontier.” He didn’t know why this sounded kind of familiar although he believed it an old earth saying. All he knew was that this damned phrase stuck in his head. And he couldn’t deny the truth of it.
The surrounding darkness was his only companion at this moment. Serenity drifted through the void while the crew was asleep. Once again, only the Captain held the fort and stared ahead full of melancholy. Eight people depended on him and his trustworthy - a distant clang of metal followed by clash answered his trail of thoughts - ship. They all were constantly running. He had lost the count of reasons and didn’t bother to decide where to start to list them. It didn’t matter. They were here, the only place they belonged and the only place where they felt safe.
Weren’t there some day to day aliments, they would stay in the darkness. However, they needed to land and their next stop would be Vălişoara, a lonely planet, occupied by Browncoats in the war and completely destroyed afterwards. Only a few settlers had stayed behind, always under the severe eyes of the alliance, theoretically. Practically it was easy to bribe those who were banished or transferred to the fringes of the alliance’s power, and as long as money could buy blindness life was peaceful, as peaceful as an outlaw planet could be. Although an element of risk remained, it wasn’t more dangerous to land there than anywhere else.
The only thing important was the job Vălişoara offered and Serenity had followed the call to get it done. Another wasteland, another job, easy, nothing complicated, weren’t there the usual odds standing between them and their success.
Title: Strawberry Fields Forever
Author: seidenapfel (Team Firefly)
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Kaylee centered
Word Count: 120
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Being the property of their respective copyright holders, Firefly, its characters or any other publicly recognisable names don’t belong to me in any way, shape or form. No copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Written for Challenge 06: Mini Big Bang at wlreunion. 11/03/13. Not beta'd.
Art by: partitioning (Team Firefly)
This job would be easy, a simple transport of goods from one planet to another. This freight was neither alive nor illegal. Most probably the neatest job there ever was, weren’t there this one, tiny little drawback: the ship’s mechanic.
Wash had proposed to keep her busy in the engine room, but Zoe argued Kaylee might not stay there forever, although Jayne offered to stand guard and never let her out, for the three days it would take to land, charge, handle and discharge the shipment.
The only certain way, however, to prevent a conjunction between Kaylee and a cargo bay full of strawberries, would be a more or less accidental confinement in her bunk, only accompanied by the doctor.
Also here at wlcaritas (members only).
Author: seidenapfel (Team Firefly)
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Mal, Serenity
Word Count: 284
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Being the property of their respective copyright holders, Firefly, its characters or any other publicly recognisable names don’t belong to me in any way, shape or form. No copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Written for Challenge 06: Mini Big Bang at wlreunion. 11/03/13. Not beta'd.
Art by: partitioning (Team Firefly)
“Space: the final frontier.” He didn’t know why this sounded kind of familiar although he believed it an old earth saying. All he knew was that this damned phrase stuck in his head. And he couldn’t deny the truth of it.
The surrounding darkness was his only companion at this moment. Serenity drifted through the void while the crew was asleep. Once again, only the Captain held the fort and stared ahead full of melancholy. Eight people depended on him and his trustworthy - a distant clang of metal followed by clash answered his trail of thoughts - ship. They all were constantly running. He had lost the count of reasons and didn’t bother to decide where to start to list them. It didn’t matter. They were here, the only place they belonged and the only place where they felt safe.
Weren’t there some day to day aliments, they would stay in the darkness. However, they needed to land and their next stop would be Vălişoara, a lonely planet, occupied by Browncoats in the war and completely destroyed afterwards. Only a few settlers had stayed behind, always under the severe eyes of the alliance, theoretically. Practically it was easy to bribe those who were banished or transferred to the fringes of the alliance’s power, and as long as money could buy blindness life was peaceful, as peaceful as an outlaw planet could be. Although an element of risk remained, it wasn’t more dangerous to land there than anywhere else.
The only thing important was the job Vălişoara offered and Serenity had followed the call to get it done. Another wasteland, another job, easy, nothing complicated, weren’t there the usual odds standing between them and their success.
Title: Strawberry Fields Forever
Author: seidenapfel (Team Firefly)
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Kaylee centered
Word Count: 120
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Being the property of their respective copyright holders, Firefly, its characters or any other publicly recognisable names don’t belong to me in any way, shape or form. No copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Written for Challenge 06: Mini Big Bang at wlreunion. 11/03/13. Not beta'd.
Art by: partitioning (Team Firefly)
This job would be easy, a simple transport of goods from one planet to another. This freight was neither alive nor illegal. Most probably the neatest job there ever was, weren’t there this one, tiny little drawback: the ship’s mechanic.
Wash had proposed to keep her busy in the engine room, but Zoe argued Kaylee might not stay there forever, although Jayne offered to stand guard and never let her out, for the three days it would take to land, charge, handle and discharge the shipment.
The only certain way, however, to prevent a conjunction between Kaylee and a cargo bay full of strawberries, would be a more or less accidental confinement in her bunk, only accompanied by the doctor.
Also here at wlcaritas (members only).