Fandom: FIREFLY (/Supernatural)
Pairing: mention of Zoe Washburne/Dean Winchester, but the story is definitely gen
Length: 8,200 words
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tassosssAuthor Website: fic tagWhy this must be read:Technically, this is a crossover with Supernatural where Sam and Dean exist in the Firefly-verse, but it's much more a Firefly story than a Supernatural one, and I think it can easily be read by folks with no SPN knowledge whatsoever.
Anyway.
Zoe hooks up with Dean one night and a couple months later, she finds herself in the family way. She and the crew of Serenity learn to deal.
When the story gets told later it always begins different. Kaylee says it begins when Wash died, leaving her with an empty bed and unfulfilled dreams. Simon thinks it was dusting off a crying child that fell and scraped her knee one day when they were in the market of some little backwater. Mal doesn't say, because he knows better, but Zoe knows he thinks it's when she ended an argument between him and Kaylee by asking what would happen if it was her with child. He'd got real quiet and they just looked at each other. No one said nothing after that, like it didn't happen, but months later, more'n a year after Miranda and Wash and rebuilding a life in the Black, no one was too surprised when Zoe asked Simon for a pregnancy test.
She got a woman's notion is how Jayne puts it with a slightly disgusted shake of the head at Zoe so vulnerable to something so womanly, not that she ain't womanly, he always hastens to add. River giggles and just says it was time, and Inara only smiles and skips straight to the part with the bar.
On that point everyone agrees. There was definitely a bar.This is a beautiful, achy, hopeful story about rebuilding after loss, about coping with grief and moving on while not forgetting what was lost (wah! Wash!), and it's funny and sweet in the way the best of Firefly is, with excellent characterization and a wry, affectionate narrative voice.
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