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Something From Nothing (The Gratitude Sings In Me Chorale) by Laura (G)
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: None
Length: ~3K words
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laurificus
Author Website: Laura at AO3
Why this must be read: River Tam is a difficult character to write, and Laura does her justice here, as River considers what Simon and Mal have each given her and thanks them for it. The voice is clear, concise, and just disjointed-with-underlying-logic enough to ring true.
She'd like Inara to stay a little while longer, to tell her stories of her clients and her life in the Academy the way she sometimes does, but she doesn't want Inara to feel she has to, and besides, she has to go find Simon. Because she didn't say thank you. She's supposed to say thank you. It's a rule, like a scientific law, like an equation to make everything turn out right. Her mother taught her that, over and over; that and a hundred other things like it: things to make her a real girl, a proper girl, not the girl who would only dance for the joy of it, the girl who ran too fast, because the world was always moving faster and River wanted to catch it, wanted to know it. She's neither girl now, but the rule doesn't change just because the girl does.
So she slips out of bed once she's sure Inara's gone elsewhere, and she creeps along Serenity's corridors in the dark. She doesn't need any light to guide her. She memorised Serenity long ago, gathered in her secrets as easily as shells swept in at high tide. She only feels a little guilty for not doing as she ought to. She's never been very good at that, even before she went to the school, and she's better here, closer to Serenity when she's moving through her. She's almost glad when Simon isn't in his bunk, because she gets to keep going, loving the way Serenity feels beneath her bare feet, the way she's quieter when her people are.
If she tried, she knows she could find him, reach out her mind and catch him, but that would be cheating.
Something From Nothing (The Gratitude Sings In Me Chorale)
Pairing: None
Length: ~3K words
Author on LJ:
laurificusAuthor Website: Laura at AO3
Why this must be read: River Tam is a difficult character to write, and Laura does her justice here, as River considers what Simon and Mal have each given her and thanks them for it. The voice is clear, concise, and just disjointed-with-underlying-logic enough to ring true.
She'd like Inara to stay a little while longer, to tell her stories of her clients and her life in the Academy the way she sometimes does, but she doesn't want Inara to feel she has to, and besides, she has to go find Simon. Because she didn't say thank you. She's supposed to say thank you. It's a rule, like a scientific law, like an equation to make everything turn out right. Her mother taught her that, over and over; that and a hundred other things like it: things to make her a real girl, a proper girl, not the girl who would only dance for the joy of it, the girl who ran too fast, because the world was always moving faster and River wanted to catch it, wanted to know it. She's neither girl now, but the rule doesn't change just because the girl does.
So she slips out of bed once she's sure Inara's gone elsewhere, and she creeps along Serenity's corridors in the dark. She doesn't need any light to guide her. She memorised Serenity long ago, gathered in her secrets as easily as shells swept in at high tide. She only feels a little guilty for not doing as she ought to. She's never been very good at that, even before she went to the school, and she's better here, closer to Serenity when she's moving through her. She's almost glad when Simon isn't in his bunk, because she gets to keep going, loving the way Serenity feels beneath her bare feet, the way she's quieter when her people are.
If she tried, she knows she could find him, reach out her mind and catch him, but that would be cheating.
Something From Nothing (The Gratitude Sings In Me Chorale)
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