Fic: Risk Assessment (Mal, Serenity, crew)
Title: Risk Assessment
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Mal, Serenity, crew
Prompt: #010 Serenity
Word Count: 494
Rating: G
Summary: There isn’t a lot that happens on Serenity that Mal does not know about or find out about eventually.
Notes: Written for firefly_15_fics. 19/01/10. Beta'd by lvs2read.
There isn’t a lot that happens on Serenity that Mal does not know about or find out about eventually. He may not know all the details, such as what exactly goes on in Inara’s shuttle when she has a client to entertain (does she really wash her client’s feet?), but he makes sure he knows enough to determine whether it will be a risk to his ship and crew.
When he learns of Simon’s betrayal, he is more than a mite annoyed: at Simon, at River whom the secret is about and most of all, at himself. How had he missed this? River had been a strange girl from the moment he first set eyes on her naked form inside that box Simon trawled onboard.
He should have realised there was more to it than that. He should have given Simon a good thrashing to get out any information he had been withholding during his moving little speech about his sister going to the big bad Alliance school and getting moon-brained by them, his first day on Serenity. He should have put up extra safety precautions.
At any moment in the months Simon and River have been with them, any number of things could have occurred. River could have been activated somehow, with the wrong word, and killed them all.
He cringes. Who knows how close it came to that?
Despite that, the two of them have since become crew. They are like family, and that is a bond Mal is unwilling to break on moral grounds. He brought these two onboard and now he must deal with them and look after them as he silently promised he would when he heard River’s story.
He looks toward the room where he just locked up River, and tries not to look too drained or uncertain for the sake of the rest of the crew gathered around him. Zoe’s words from the job circle in his mind. "In the time of war, we never would have left a man stranded."
Those Inara said when he first had to decide if taking River and Simon on was too much of a risk do, as well. “You kick them off, I’m leaving too.”
His final decision here is to determine what to do about River. The crew have ties to her and Simon now and that makes it much more difficult to decide. The first priority Mal has is to keep his crew safe and their safety is in the balance here. But River and Simon have become crew, too.
He doesn’t speak of his hesitation to the crew - he very nearly left them back on the planet after River had her debut fighting session - but rather formulates another plan in his mind and speaks the words as they come to him. By the time he has reached the end, his cheeks feel flushed and he feels determined to put his plan into action.
“I aim to misbehave.”
fin.
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Mal, Serenity, crew
Prompt: #010 Serenity
Word Count: 494
Rating: G
Summary: There isn’t a lot that happens on Serenity that Mal does not know about or find out about eventually.
Notes: Written for firefly_15_fics. 19/01/10. Beta'd by lvs2read.
There isn’t a lot that happens on Serenity that Mal does not know about or find out about eventually. He may not know all the details, such as what exactly goes on in Inara’s shuttle when she has a client to entertain (does she really wash her client’s feet?), but he makes sure he knows enough to determine whether it will be a risk to his ship and crew.
When he learns of Simon’s betrayal, he is more than a mite annoyed: at Simon, at River whom the secret is about and most of all, at himself. How had he missed this? River had been a strange girl from the moment he first set eyes on her naked form inside that box Simon trawled onboard.
He should have realised there was more to it than that. He should have given Simon a good thrashing to get out any information he had been withholding during his moving little speech about his sister going to the big bad Alliance school and getting moon-brained by them, his first day on Serenity. He should have put up extra safety precautions.
At any moment in the months Simon and River have been with them, any number of things could have occurred. River could have been activated somehow, with the wrong word, and killed them all.
He cringes. Who knows how close it came to that?
Despite that, the two of them have since become crew. They are like family, and that is a bond Mal is unwilling to break on moral grounds. He brought these two onboard and now he must deal with them and look after them as he silently promised he would when he heard River’s story.
He looks toward the room where he just locked up River, and tries not to look too drained or uncertain for the sake of the rest of the crew gathered around him. Zoe’s words from the job circle in his mind. "In the time of war, we never would have left a man stranded."
Those Inara said when he first had to decide if taking River and Simon on was too much of a risk do, as well. “You kick them off, I’m leaving too.”
His final decision here is to determine what to do about River. The crew have ties to her and Simon now and that makes it much more difficult to decide. The first priority Mal has is to keep his crew safe and their safety is in the balance here. But River and Simon have become crew, too.
He doesn’t speak of his hesitation to the crew - he very nearly left them back on the planet after River had her debut fighting session - but rather formulates another plan in his mind and speaks the words as they come to him. By the time he has reached the end, his cheeks feel flushed and he feels determined to put his plan into action.
“I aim to misbehave.”
fin.