Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: Wash/Zoe, Mal/Zoe
Author on LJ: not that I know.
Author Website: None that I know.
Why this must be read:
If you haven't ever been over to Fireflyfans.net in the past couple of years, it's entirely possible that you haven't seen this story before. If that's the case, you are in for a treat. Beginning with
Truthsome, Guildsister built up an incredibly plausible AU that dovetails nicely with the series and hasn't really been contradicted by anything in canon. In Blue Sun Job, she continues with a very broken Mal who is barely hanging on to his sanity and fueled by revenge to take on the biggest caper his crew has ever seen -- robbing a Blue Sun depository. The whole crew participates, there's many near misses, Mal continues to fall apart and in doing so, we're given a glimpse into his and Zoe's background with each other.
It's a wonderfully long epic tale that Guidlsister posted over the course of a year. Hands down, it is my favorite Firefly story ever written and I never fail to tell Guildsister that at every opportunity that I get. Set aside a few hours and be prepared to fall in love with Firefly all over again. Consider it a movie that we may never get.
Blue Sun Job