"I warn you, I'm no dancin' man."

He took her hand as the sky cleared, took it and spun her as Wash looked on, raised a glass. Zoe smiled with great tolerance, and right then, right there, he couldn't help thinking that maybe things were on the right compass. They were a small family on a small ship, about to fall into that longest and most difficult war there was in these parts: survival. They might just do okay.

Jayne’s used to dead bodies, but he ain’t used to them falling out of the sky and then waking up.

Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel / Firefly / Serenity / Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog / Dollhouse
Song/Artist: This is the Picture by Peter Gabriel
Duration: 4:17 minutes
Summary: One story.
Spoilers: all

Matching shots from different shows.

[12] White Collar
[20] Firefly
[01] Dark Shadows

Taking on a job commissioned by an orangutan may seem to veer from Mal's (admittedly abysmal) usual standards, but when it comes down to it, gold is gold, right?

Jayne never did like Simon Tam. Didn't want to like him, and turned out there weren't no reason to, even if having a doctor around came in handy. Like he told Wash once, back in the early days – "Ain't here to make friends."

He still remembers the way Wash had looked back at him, smile kind of crooked, "That's really endearing, Jayne. Remind me to be sure to invite you a special 'Welcome Aboard, Thanks for Not Shooting Us' party in your honour tonight."

Never was such a party, unless you call a meal with actual food you didn't have to fight over a party.

OpenCanvas, one layer painting

Fandom: Supernatural, Firefly/Serenity, Heroes Song/Artist: Climbing up the Walls by Radiohead Duration: 4:21 minutes Summary: Siblings. "I am the pick in the ice."

The tags shimmered and blurred and she raised her head, tilted it back, let her eyes drink her tears back up before they spilled. It was a trick hard in the learning but one you never forgot.

"Where in the gorram hell is that mei yong hun dan?"

Simon raised an eyebrow. "You mean our client?"

Mal pressed his lips together. Boy never had learned to fear him proper. It was an oversight Mal was going to have to see to one of these days.

It's not wrong if they're not who they are.

If Simon is not Simon, but someone else - a dancing-master, boot heels clicking on the deck of the ship they're traveling to a competition on. Not Serenity, not fugitives, just a holiday to Sihnon.

Serenity left with her.

Simon's the first to notice.

The man could be anyone, just another poor bastard with perpetual bad luck, but we'll call him Malcolm Reynolds.

This is the story of the third thing that happens, and what came after.

It's the first U-Day in the history of Mal that it's come to be evening and he's not yet found a tavern brawl to instigate. He blames Kaylee, who has a way of lookin' at a man wheedlin'-like...

Him and Inara, teaching Simon rutting Tam how to handle weapons. There's gotta be joke in there somewhere, and if Jayne cared enough, he'd think on it. Thing is, he don't.

For the first second, Mal thinks the boy's in pain.

Girls kick ass - Sydney Bristow, Starbuck, Veronica Mars, Zoe Washburn and Buffy. 40 MB .avi

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is... Well. Three times would mean something.

On the ninth jump, something else goes wrong. They jump into empty space, and the rest of the SAR team is gone.

Terraforming is a delicate, precise business. Humans need specific living conditions – gravity more-or-less of Earth-that-was is easy enough to come by, but after that, it's the little things that count.

"I’ve been thinking of taking orders," said Book, and the Guildmaster smiled at him.

They're all dressed up in someone else's lives, and Simon doesn't know if they're ever going to break free. He doesn't even know if he wants to.

Simon's plans almost always work.

When things do go wrong – Simon can't see the future, and even River has trouble with that – Jayne's seat-of-the-pants plans typically work too.

Two prompt fics - one gender-fuck humour, one dark post Serenity.

Mal drew himself up indignantly. “I ain’t hidin’! I got me legitimate captainy things happen to need tending to in here.” (Sequel to Fruition - linked in post)

River knows that Mal loves her, even though he doesn't want her on his ship and doesn't want her as his responsibility. Mal loves her because she is like Serenity, because being with her is the closest thing he can get to being with Serenity...

It should have been River.

"You want me to brush your ruttin' hair?"

"Like you brushed hers. Strong hands. Capable, if a little rough. Highly qualified for the job, I should think."

"I'll take real good care of it. Promise." He ain't ashamed that his voice sounds kinda desperate, a little tight. Gun like this is worth it.

River is always there when Mal turns the corner. Staring up, staring out. Even when there's no glass to see through.

Smallville/Firefly crossover. Simon/Lex. NC-17. "But Captain! He's all naked--and shot! Shot real bad."