Fic: Time to Awake (Book's Legacy, 6/?)

[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 6: Time to Awake)

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

[missmaximus.livejournal.com]

Yeah!

Oh, that evil watcher's council. I always hoped I'd come across a story in which someone set about picking them all off one by one. Maybe a few will die here in the future.

And she has the Dreams, eh? And maybe Mal is meant for greater things. All very enticing.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this is a tease, isn't it? Not to slight what's presented here, by any means, but not enough seems to have happened--events actually occurring--to sate my curiosity. Rats rats rats.

Once again, the characters rub off on each other and interact more or less exactly as they ought (which is not to say they act predictably). Zoe's quiet allowance and non-reaction to Mal's revelation about Inara reminds me strongly of "Trash" and her calmness when Saffron makes her heist proposal. It seems to me there's more yet to be resolved between Inara and Zoe, and Zoe isn't likely to ignore this betrayal (though I think she'll work through it better than Mal) so much as add it to the layers of her relationship with Inara. There won't be trust quite the same way again.

Simon and Mal, ::giggles:: Adored it, of course. Mal's implicit acceptance of him and Kaylee being together + brotherly threats on Simon's well being if things don't stay happy = fun.

Book's note to Mal is the real tease here, in that he understands Mal so well that he writes that entry fully expecting Mal not to have thoroughly researched the materials at his disposal but to have gotten impatient and skipped to the end. What, if anything concrete, River knows about the work Book engaged in prior to his time as a Shepherd doesn't come to light, which is a tad disappointing. I think there could have been more to it this time around (instead of ending this chapter only answering the question raised by the last installment--namely, would Inara be allowed to stay?). I do like that you have chosen not to involve Book-as-operative, a popular theory in the fanon for Firefly/Serenity, and I'm curious to see how you incorporate what Book knew and was capable of with the more benign incarnation of the Watchers' Council in BTVS.

So, yeah, history of the Council since leaving Earth-that-was? Puh-lease?

[faith-less-one.livejournal.com]

"The girls are objects, weapons being readied for the fight; the handlers see no need to tell them their purpose."

What a perfectly Riverised explanation!!

Still loving it, honey. Can't wait for more.

[ninamazing.livejournal.com]

You've done so much thinking. It's refreshing. Of course they might have put a transmitter - or ten! - into Serenity's new workings, the bastards. Kaylee can find 'em though.

Poor Simon! I am a little upset at all the horrible pressure that's being put on him. Jam him out the airlock? Mal doesn't forgive, that's for damn sure. :P

He never could say no to Kaylee's puppy-dog eyes, and she seemed to have passed the trick on to River; he was reminded more'n once of that talk he'd meant to have with his mechanic 'bout all the ways she had of gettin' around him when he was tetchy, and how River didn't need to know 'em.

-- And that was my favorite line of this chapter. So true.

"Time flies when you're havin' fun,"

[obsidianagirl.livejournal.com]

Wow! I am so loving this story...please say you are writing more to it! I can not even imagine not knowing what comes next...PLEASE...I can't even stop reading books that wreck my sensibilities and tear me apart so not getting to finish this awesome story is giving me heart palpatations.

Sid