Like Whiskey In Coffee

Title: Something So Right
Author: m.jules
Fandom: Firefly (pre-Serenity)
Rating: G
Notes: Written 01/31/08 for a prompt by xochiquetzl.

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( Something So Right )

Title: A Winter's Sleep
Author: m.jules
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: Mal/River
Written for: miladygrey (Bubbleficathon)
Prompt: A very cold river/pond.
Optional Prompt: Mal combing out River's wet hair
Rating: PG except for those Chinese translations.
Spoilers: None, really. Set sometime mid-series, definitely before "Objects In Space."
Disclaimer: The Firefly characters belong to Joss Whedon, and he does a better job with them than I do, usually.
Author's Notes: This is the first Mal/River I have written in ages, and I apologize right away for how rusty I am at them! But it was fun to get to talk to these characters again. Hope you like it! Special thanks to cornerofmadness and just_like_rogue who actually volunteered to brave beta duty, and to mollita for her invaluable help and Chinese-translation websites.

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( A Winter's Sleep )

Title: Jiě Tuō
Author: m.jules
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: Mal/River
Prompt: 94, “Independence”
Rating: PG, unless you count the Chinese translations
Word Count: 919
Disclaimer: Joss’s. Love, not money.
Author's Notes: I keep trying to write drabbles. 100 words, I tell myself firmly. Then they end up being nine times that long. At this rate, I’m not going to finish these prompts in less than two years.

Serenity Spoilers - Takes place during Serenity, and in off-screen moments. Also, ties in loosely with the universe of my other prompt-fics. One of these days, I’ll line them up in chronological order so you’ll know what order to read them in. Until now, you can go to my user info page for my complete table,
plus links, of which ones have been done.

Title translates as "Emancipate, free oneself."

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Title: Crippled Lion
Author: m.jules
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: Mal/River
Prompt: 24, "Family"
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 959
Disclaimer: Joss’s. Love, not money.
Author's Notes: Thanks to mollita for holding my hand and assuring me it was okay to post. Title from "The Crippled Lion", written by Michael Nesmith, recorded by the Monkees. Story really has very little do with the song. Nothing, in fact.

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( The crash wasn't outside her head. )

Title: Tension Is a Passing Note
Author: m.jules
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: Mal/River
Prompt: 65, "Passing"
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 602
Disclaimer: Joss’s. Love, not money.
Author's Notes: mollita is writing what promises to be my favorite Mal/River AU *ever*, and so to bribe her, I wrote this for her. It was supposed to be River talking dirty (because we figured that would be something to hear) but I'm not sure it turned out that way. If you don't think it follows the prompt, either, well... okay, it kind of doesn't. But maybe, if you play free association with it, it kind of makes sense. *G* Mid-Serenity, so spoilers ahoy!

This is set ( Serenity spoilers! )

Title: Albatross
Author: m.jules
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: Mal/River
Prompt: 23, “Lovers”
Rating: Slightly mature. Heavy PG-13, light R.
Word Count: 2,468
Disclaimer: Joss’s. Love - so much love! - not money.

Light spoilers for Serenity, the movie. Thanks to Mark for offering encouragement and suggestions.

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( He isn’t really surprised when she follows him down into his bunk... )

Title: I Am Not An Illusion
Author: m.jules
Rating: ?
Pairing: Mal/River
Summary: Stream-of-consciousness River-thoughts through the movie.
Author's Notes: BIG DAMN SERENITY SPOILERS. This was my River-muse's reaction to the movie while I was watching it so if you haven't seen it, not only will it not make sense, it will spoil you, and this movie is best seen as a virgin. *G* Thanks to mollita for looking it over and saying, "Post!" just_like_rogue, hope this fills your M/R needs until I can get an honest-to-God smutfic written for them.
( I Am Not An Illusion )

Title: Desire
Author: m.jules
Summary: "You dream so loudly she aches with it and she wakes me up because she can't sleep."
Disclaimer: Joss's. Love, not money.
Pairing: Mal/River
Author's Notes: It's all Molly's fault, for one. I'm in awe and in love. *Grins* Two, the title? I decided I wanted to try a Mal/River, and that I would title it after the very first song that played on my iTunes. So I hit random, and U2 started singing "Desire" and I thought - oh hell, that should be easy. It kind of was, although I have to apologize for the weird POV. It's through Mal's eyes but with River's voice, so maybe it's River-inside-Mal's head doing all the narrating. *grins* And now, at 3 AM, I'm going to bed.

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( You keep waking up on fire. )

Title: Second Hand
Author: m.jules
Summary: River and Mal have a conversation (sometimes with words) about wants and wishes and hand-me-down hearts.
Rating: PG-ish for implications
Author’s Notes: unanon asked for this in a vague, roundabout way, but that’s probably only because she didn’t know what she was getting. :-D This hasn't been beta'd, and I haven't even read back through it. It's the definition of 'raw.'
Disclaimer: Not mine; Joss’s.

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( She was in his arms... )