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Energy by Jackson_Rayne (Mature)
Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: Mal/Simon
Length: 5,563 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jackson_rayne
Author's website: None
Why this must be read: The thing I probably like best about this pairing in general is that it isn't easy; there's a goodly amount of emotional work to do to write it convincingly. What I like about this story is that you can find that work here. The occasional anger and violence that could boil up between these two is satisfyingly dealt with rather than simply elided here, for instance. On top of that, I like the surprising detail of telling the story from Kaylee's perspective. This works well, and gives a poignantly conflicted feeling to the whole thing. Also, the voices are wonderfully strong and clear.
They were kissing like they were fighting. Hard, and furious and neither prepared to give in to the other, not for second. They banged into the table, bounced off it and thumped against the wall, only thinking of each other, not their surroundings – it was an odd, unelegant dance with no steps that Kaylee could make out. They didn’t seem to know where they were headed or how they wanted to get there. Mal’s hand was tight on Simon’s wrist, but the other was just as firm on Simon’s shoulder, holding him away even as he pulled him close, but Simon held his ground, fought for more, his hand tangled tightly in the front of Mal’s shirt, refusing to let him retreat, fighting him blow for blow with burning kisses and desperate trapped moans and the heat of his body.
“It’s like they’re trying to kill each other,” River said considering them.
Kaylee thought for once not of Serenity or the engine that beat like a heart inside her, but of the fireflies the ship was named after, and how their mating dance was violent and charged and wild. “It’s like that sometimes,” she said.
Energy
Pairing: Mal/Simon
Length: 5,563 words
Author on LJ:
jackson_rayneAuthor's website: None
Why this must be read: The thing I probably like best about this pairing in general is that it isn't easy; there's a goodly amount of emotional work to do to write it convincingly. What I like about this story is that you can find that work here. The occasional anger and violence that could boil up between these two is satisfyingly dealt with rather than simply elided here, for instance. On top of that, I like the surprising detail of telling the story from Kaylee's perspective. This works well, and gives a poignantly conflicted feeling to the whole thing. Also, the voices are wonderfully strong and clear.
They were kissing like they were fighting. Hard, and furious and neither prepared to give in to the other, not for second. They banged into the table, bounced off it and thumped against the wall, only thinking of each other, not their surroundings – it was an odd, unelegant dance with no steps that Kaylee could make out. They didn’t seem to know where they were headed or how they wanted to get there. Mal’s hand was tight on Simon’s wrist, but the other was just as firm on Simon’s shoulder, holding him away even as he pulled him close, but Simon held his ground, fought for more, his hand tangled tightly in the front of Mal’s shirt, refusing to let him retreat, fighting him blow for blow with burning kisses and desperate trapped moans and the heat of his body.
“It’s like they’re trying to kill each other,” River said considering them.
Kaylee thought for once not of Serenity or the engine that beat like a heart inside her, but of the fireflies the ship was named after, and how their mating dance was violent and charged and wild. “It’s like that sometimes,” she said.
Energy