Fic: Uncertain Footing (Firefly, Book's Legacy, 5/?)

[jedibuttercup]

PG-15; Firefly crossover. Mal recieves a mysterious package, leading the crew of Serenity on a voyage of discovery. Into every generation...

(Book's Legacy 5: Uncertain Footing)

As of October 17, 2006, this story has been rewritten, added to, and moved to a separate community. Link above goes to new location. Story index is here.

(Originally x-posted to joss100 and afterserenity)

Comments

[mgsmurf.livejournal.com]

Very nicely done. Inara as an almost spy makes perfect sense. And the fact that brought up the war, his privacy issues, and just blew ideas of him and her hooking up was a rather brillant and in character way to get their entanglement out of the way for the moment (which I am now convinced you'd have to do to hook him up with any other female crew). And you still show their connection to each other in all that so well.

On his trust issues, is he going to test her allegence sometime? He really wants to trust her and take her at face value, and yet very much knows nothing about her is on face value. But just maybe with this out in the open they could eventually get to some mutual level of trust, given time and her being more truthful from now on.

Lastly, I liked that it was really only female crew they talked about when mentioning who's told and not. Simon and Jayne are general outsiders, but especially that comment about Kaylee makes you think the female crew have more shared personal connections than many SF series show. Really I'm of the thought that if you put a bunch of women together they will connect with each other even if they may be very different personalities. So just interesting you maybe hint at that.

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[jedibuttercup]

> Very nicely done. Inara as an almost spy makes perfect sense. And the fact that brought up the war, his privacy issues, and just blew ideas of him and her hooking up was a rather brillant and in character way to get their entanglement out of the way for the moment (which I am now convinced you'd have to do to hook him up with any other female crew). And you still show their connection to each other in all that so well.

I was so on pins and needles posting this chapter, I was very grateful at the response, that their conversation worked for people. And I really do agree that things between them would have to be definitively broken for him to move on to anyone else. He's the type not to let go of things, even when things seem hopeless.

> On his trust issues, is he going to test her allegence sometime? He really wants to trust her and take her at face value, and yet very much knows nothing about her is on face value. But just maybe with this out in the open they could eventually get to some mutual level of trust, given time and her being more truthful from now on.

I think he will be watchful of her for awhile, want to see exactly what she sends back, and so on. Hm. Might have to touch on that a bit in Chapter 8, now that I think on it. But eventually, I'd like to move her into a Book-ish supportive role. There were still things about Book that niggled, but Mal was able to trust and lean on him anyway.

> Lastly, I liked that it was really only female crew they talked about when mentioning who's told and not. Simon and Jayne are general outsiders, but especially that comment about Kaylee makes you think the female crew have more shared personal connections than many SF series show. Really I'm of the thought that if you put a bunch of women together they will connect with each other even if they may be very different personalities. So just interesting you maybe hint at that.

Yeah. I remember on the show Inara referring to Kaylee as her meimei (little sister) more than once. I'm not sure Zoe would ever join in, but I picture the others having regular girl-time in Inara's shuttle. =)