Final Exam

[jackwabbit]

I wrote fic!  And I'm posting it over here (blame terimaru  for that...)

(For anyone who cares and doesn't already know, my fic generally only goes on ff.net, because I simply don't have time or inclination to post it here or to FFF.net or anywhere else at the moment.  And I'm ok with that.  Anyway...off we go.  Thanks to teri for letting me play in her fishbowl.)

Final Exam
Author: jackwabbit
Fandom: Firefly
Rated: PG-13
Category: Gen, Drabble, Character Death, FutureFic, SushiFic Related-but not precisely in timeline and not a true SushiFic, as there is character death. Can stand alone. They just sparked my muse.
Spoilers: None, excepting the Sushi notes below.
Note: This fic will make much more sense if you’ve read terimaru’s story A Little Gem of Innocence, in the Sushi series. ( http://community.livejournal.com/sushi_fic/10604.html#cutid1 ) All you need to know, though, is that Mal and Inara have two children in the series, and Mal teaches the older one, a girl of seven, to shoot in order to protect her baby brother and her family if need be.  This ain't a happy one, folks.

XXX

They’d sent two, when Inara was out.

A chest shot dispatched one.

But the second had swung round behind, and Mal missed him.

Mal heard only a chuckle before the second man’s bullet found something important.

Blood stained the floor and Mal had just one thought as steps retreated from him.

The children.

Mal heard a report, then felt a body land hard beside him.

A baby screamed.

Suddenly, a young girl was beside him, smoking gun and bellowing baby in her arms.

Mal grinned and spoke the last words the two would ever hear from their father.

“Good girl.”

Comments

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

I am to please:

Down around Biloxi
Pretty girls are dancin' in the sea
They all look like sisters in the ocean
The boy will fill his pail with salty water
And the storms will blow from off towards New Orleans

Sun shines on Biloxi
Air is filled with vapors from the sea
Boy will dig a pool beside the ocean
He sees creatures from his dream underwater
And the sun will set from off towards New Orleans

Stars can see Biloxi
Stars can find their faces in the sea
We are walking down beside the ocean
We are splashing naked in the water
And the sky is red from off towards New Orleans
And the sky is red from off towards New Orleans

Down around Biloxi
Pretty girls are swimming in the sea
They all look like sisters in the ocean
The boy will fill his pail with salty water
And the storms will blow from off toward New Orleans

[charlie-bz.livejournal.com]

"...from off towards New Orleans"

I have never been able to figure out what he was saying in these lines. Thanks for the clarification. Those words make the song even better "From off towards" that's perfection! I love JB's melancholy stuff.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Oh, me, too. I know, shocker, right? Me and melachonly? Surely not...

LOL!

Gots to quote Bugs if you believe that one:

"He don't know me very well, do he?"