Gonna write my first Firefly fic over the next few days, its set somewere in the middle of the series, no big deal when. Quite daunting trying to capture the characters but fancied giving it a bash! Hope you enjoy!
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'I don't want no rucking film crew followin' me Mal' Jayne growled.
'Thats almost interesting Jayne' Mal sneered. 'But seeing as how this is my boat and they are paying us, I guess you are just gonna have to live with it!' he continued.
Kaylee clearly did not share Jayne's sentiment.
'Cap'n, this is gonna be so excitin', I'm gonna wear my ruffled dress!' She was smiling happily, looking round at her shipmates.
Inara smiled warmly at her.
'I'll fix your hair up Kaylee, you will blow the viewers away.'
'Ahh, thanks Inara, thats real sweet, ahh, when they comin' Cap'n?'
'Be here in about an hour Kaylee, but don't be getting all fancy, they want to film us natural like, just goin' about our daily business, that pretty dress of yours aint gonna look to shiny covered in engine oil now is it?' Mal told her, smiling at his genius mechanic.
'Ok cap'n' Kaylee replied, the dejection clear in her voice. She looked at the floor.
'I'll fix your hair up anyway Kaylee' Inara said, putting her arm round Kaylee and shepherding her towards her shuttle.
Mal stared, open mouthed.
'Does anyone listen to a word I say on this ship any more?' he said looking round at the rest of the crew.
'Huh?' said Jayne. Book, Zoe, Simon and Wash laughed as Mal turned with eyebrows raised to Jayne. He looked bemused, not understanding the joke.
'What? I was cleaning my gun, didn't hear what you said, whats up?'
Mal was about to reply but Book's question brought them all back to serious matters.
'Captain, what are we going to do with Simon and River? We can't really have their faces splashed all over the tellyboxes of the universe can we? And what about the Alliance medical supplies we are taking to Logan on Aquarius, how we gonna deliver them with a film crew on our tails?'
'Hey, don't worry, I got a fool proof plan' Mal chuckled. Everyone looked at him somewhat disbelievingly. 'You guys! Its fool proof, i'm telling yall. We will sneak River and Simon off the boat when we reach Persephone to pick up the crew, they can lay low for a few hours. We got legitimate business on Aquarius anyways, got these crates too deliver to Lady Charlotte. Zoe, you and Wash will take the film crew off with you to the good lady. After your gone, me and Jayne here will head off and make the deal with Logan and get back before you. After the two of you get back to the ship, we will then haul ass back to Persephone, drop off the tellybox folk, pick up River and Simon and thats it. What did i say, fool proof, gonna go off with out a hitch!'
The rest of the crew present were still looking like they weren't buying it.
'Bunch of Philistines! Wash, get us to Persephone.'
Wash headed off to the bridge. The rest of the crew were thinking about the multiple occasions when previous fool proof plans had seen them engaged in fire fights or fleeing Alliance space stations. Well, nearly all of them.
'Lady Charlotte ey...' Jayne murmured '....i'll be in my bunk...'
Great job TKO. you seem to have the character dynamics down perfectly.
Can't wait to read more. :thumbsup:
:lol: I'll be in my bunk :thumbsup:
great job with the verse :thumbsup:
Great start :thumbsup: Is it hard to write in the language of the Firefly 'Verse?
You seem to have captured it perfectly so far :D