Faith Based Initiative by victoria p. (PG)

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Hi! I'm invisibleshrew and I'll be driving the van for Firefly this month. About half the stories I'm planning to rec are gen, and the rest are a mixture of het and slash, so hopefully there'll be something here for everyone by the time I'm done.

Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: none, ensemble gen
Length: 2635 words
Author on LJ: musesfool
Author Website: Achromatic
Why this must be read:

Because although Firefly can be angsty and fraught with the best of them, sometimes it is just plain fun. Nuns on a firefly! There can be no bad here! Lovely secure voices for the whole crew while Mal endures yet another of the bad days that the 'verse is out to deal him.


He tries the intercom again, this time with Wash, who's just as reluctant as Jayne to help out. "Captain, I would do anything for this ship, but when my day comes, I refuse to stand before the Almighty and answer as to why I'd beat up some little sisters of the cloth."

"Never took you for a believer before, Wash."

"Never said I was, but it doesn't pay to take chances. I know how I feel whenever someone shoots at my bride; can't imagine God don't feel the same 'bout his."

Mal looks at Zoe, who shrugs. "Man's got a point, Cap'n. He really don't like it when people shoot at me."

Wash is still talking. "Why exactly does little Sister Rose of Sharon have a black eye, the Lord'll say, and I'll say, sir, I don't rightly recall, and he'll know me for the liar I am, and cast me into the fiery pits of hell. I don't know if you know this, Mal, but I'm a fair-skinned man. And I don't like pain. I would not do well in the fiery pits of hell. The sunburn alone would be murder."

"You're assuming you're even going to see the pearly gates, Wash, if such a thing does exist."

"Well, we ain't all as set on going to hell as you are, Cap'n. And anyway, Sister Benedicta is standing right here and can hear every word we're saying."

Faith Based Initiative

Comments

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

This will teach me not to keep up with Firefly stories. It's a little gem, and a dandy of a first rec!

[invisibleshrew.livejournal.com]

The fandom isn't dead yet! And there is an embarrassment of riches to be recced, after Firefly fell off the crack_van rotation for a year (she says, wantonly reccing older stories anyway).

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

The stuff I recced back in '05 was a mix of old (and at the time) new. I don't want to think about how old my FF stories are...

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Bwahaa, good exerpt. Gives me an appetite for more. Will check it out. Thanks.

ETA: The story is indeed great fun. Good voices.

[invisibleshrew.livejournal.com]

It is a honey of a story isn't it? (But do tell the writer so too!).