Arrant Nonsense

Title: Gun Control Means Hittin' Your Target
Author: babies stole my dingo (agilebrit)
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG-13 (default)
Length: Short story (a little over 2000 words)
Disclaimer: Joss is the genius behind these characters; I am but a lowly follower. I make no money from any of this, so please don't sue me.
Feedback: Concrit adored! If you see something that can be improved upon, please let me know, even if it's only a typo.
Written for: friend_fic, a multi-fandom friendship-between-members-of-the-opposite-sex ficathon. The prompt was "nothing whatsoever."
Notes: What does Kaylee know about guns? Mal gives Jayne an assignment to teach her. Takes place post-BDM. Many thanks to the Hubby and bigsciencybrain for their valuable feedback and input.
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Title: Ra Shi Da
Author: babies stole my dingo (agilebrit)
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG-13 (default)
Length: Short story (around 2,800 words)
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon is the genius behind these characters; I am but a lowly follower. I make no money from any of this, so please don't sue me.
Feedback: Concrit adored! If you see something that can be improved upon, please let me know, even if it's only a typo.
Written for: My Muses are weird. Don't ask me.
Summary: A stray dog follows Jayne back to Serenity, but before they get there, a group of thugs tries to mug Jayne. Things get a mite ugly...
Notes: The title comes from the legend of Chinese Fu Dogs, which were powerful, mythic guardians and protectors of homes and holy sites. The female was generally shown with her paw resting on a cub, as a symbol of protecting those who were inside the structures. Many thanks to mandylancast for helping this not suck.
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Go, me!

Title: Faking It
Author: babies stole my dingo (agilebrit)
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG-13 for non-explicit sexual situations and mentions of orgasms (default)
Length: Flashfic (under 500 words)
Disclaimer: Joss is the genius behind these characters; I am but a lowly follower. I make no money from any of this, so please don't sue me.
Feedback: Concrit adored! If you see something that can be improved upon, please let me know, even if it's only a typo.
Written for: More "inspired by" ana_grrl's "Back to Firefly" prompt-fest. This one doesn't make word count for that particular thing, but I couldn't resist the prompt, so here it is. leeshajoy wanted a fic based around a scene in the "Trash" shooting script that never made it to the screen. Apologies if I've stepped on any toes.
Notes: Yeah, I needed to write fluff after that last thing. This was fun.
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Title: Assimilation
Author: babies stole my dingo (agilebrit)
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: Hard R for general Reaver-y horror.
Length: Short story (a little over 2700 words)
Disclaimer: Joss is the genius behind these characters; I am but a lowly follower. I make no money from any of this, so please don't sue me.
Feedback: Concrit adored! If you see something that can be improved upon, please let me know, even if it's only a typo.
Written for: This is one I came up with on my own, folks. The only one to blame here is me.
Notes: Um, yeah. Reavers. Rape. Major character deaths. You've been warned. Many thanks to justmalea who helped tremendously with the PTSD stuff, and whose info made this much more realistic than I could have hoped. Any mistakes or liberties are completely my own. Many thanks also are due the Hubby, who provided several valuable suggestions and patted my shoulder while I was getting all shudder-y. I've also been told to put a "Do Not Eat While Reading This" warning on it. Apologies to the nice folks who were made ill by this.
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My two_of_us_fic story has been posted, here. The owner of the comm has requested that it not be crossposted anywhere for ten days, so if you want to read it, it's there.

Wash/Zoe, heavy angst, spoilers for the BDM.

Why is there no "evil" LJ mood?

So I revisited the fic I started when ff_friday had a free-write week, choosing the "First Kiss" challenge. Alas, the free-write week expired some time ago, but nothing says I can't post the thing anyway, right? It's short, exactly 300 words. Therefore, I'm going to be mean and not LJ-cut it. :-p

Title: ...And the World Cracked Open
Author: babies stole my dingo (agilebrit)
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG-13 (default)
Length: 300 words exactly. Go, me?
Disclaimer: Joss is the genius behind these characters; I am but a lowly follower. I make no money from any of this, so please don't sue me.
Feedback: Concrit adored! If you see something that can be improved upon, please let me know.
Written for: ff_friday's "First Kiss" challenge.
Notes: Jayne/Zoe, another in my series that started with "Blooming Cactus," and continued with "One Man's Weeds" and "Hair Fetish." Title is from an Agnes de Mille quote: "Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down...and kissed him. And the world cracked open."

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Jayne never kissed them on the lips. Not ever. He learned that lesson the hard way when he was a young 'un, after wakin' up with an ugly headache and empty pockets. Any time a girl, any girl, tried to kiss him on the lips, it'd become second nature for him to turn his head so she missed. He didn't mind kissin' anyplace else, for sure, but when a girl tried to kiss him on the mouth, he got all sorts of uncomfortable, like she was trying something she ought not to.

Zoe, as always, was different. She wasn't above taking what she wanted, and at this particular point in time, she wanted his lips. And damn if he didn't just give 'em to her.

It was her turn to cook dinner, and she'd been at the cutting board chopping up some honest-to-God vegetables they'd managed to buy after their last job. He'd come up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, which was ridiculously slender for such a tall woman, and buried his nose in her hair. And she'd dropped the knife, turned around, and planted one on him.

He hadn't expected her to do that, and his brain shorted out momentarily. His eyes widened in shock, but hers were wide open too, watching his reaction, and he didn't take but a second to get into the spirit of the thing. He felt her smile as he responded and then he was mashing her to him and tangling his hands in that hair he couldn't get enough of. He shoved a momentary vision of the airlock ruthlessly out of his head.

He lost himself in her for a bit...until River came dancing barefoot through the kitchen and chirped, "About time!" on her way to the cockpit.

So, yeah. *eyeshift* I've already been informed (by the Hubby) that I'm sick and wrong for writing this. I freely admit that my brain is a strange place at the best of times. And I'm a bit worried that both Jayne and Zoe are massively OOC in this--and they probably would be if the timeline was different. My sole defense is that this takes place in my Jayne/Zoe series after he's taken a bullet for her and then given her *cough* flowers, later. I've taken the teeny little blink-and-you-miss-it scene in "Heart of Gold" where Jayne is brushing Helen's hair and run with it. That little thing, for the curious, was not in the shooting script, and I have a sneaking suspicion that Adam came up with that himself.

Anyway, that's my roundabout way of saying that if you, dear flist, think that they're OOC, I need to know, k? I realize that the Jayne/Zoe pairing isn't everyone's cuppa tea, so if you don't want to read it for that reason, that's cool. Just remember that this is me we're talking about, so if any shagging occurs between them, I'll probably marry them off first, because I'm funny that way. And that will be way down the road and will be built up to slowly.

Well. You're not here to read my lame justifications for why I'm treating these characters this way. Onward to the fic.

Title: Hair Fetish
Author: babies stole my dingo (agilebrit)
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG
Length: Short-short (999 words)
Disclaimer: Joss is the genius behind these characters; I am but a lowly follower. I make no money from any of this, so please don't sue me.
Feedback: Concrit adored! If you see something that can be improved upon, please let me know.
Written for: ff_friday's "hair" challenge.
Notes: Post-BDM, another in my Jayne/Zoe series, post-"Cactus," post-"Weeds." Seeing as how the first thing that came to mind was Jayne's massive amount of (yummy) chest fur, the fact that anything else came out of this idea is a miracle.
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And I won't post a story the same day I write it (unless it's an actual drabble) again. I had a thought this morning about the fic I posted last night (and posted in three different places, argh) that will make the story a whole lot more effective and interesting than it was. THEREFORE, I've taken it down from all three places, and I'm reposting it now. Rawr.

Title: Colors
Author: babies stole my dingo (agilebrit)
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG-13 (default)
Length: Flashfic (under 500 words)
Disclaimer: Joss is the genius behind these characters; I am but a lowly follower. I make no money from any of this, so please don't sue me.
Feedback: Concrit adored! If you see something that can be improved upon, please let me know.
Written for: ff_friday's "colors" challenge.
Notes: River's POV as a job goes bad again. Post-BDM.
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Um, remember how I said I wanted to start writing longer stuff? *tosses it out the window*

Title: One Man's Weeds
Author: babies stole my dingo (agilebrit)
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG for one very slightly naughty word
Length: Flashfic (under 500 words)
Disclaimer: Joss is the genius behind these characters; I am but a lowly follower. I make no money from any of this, so please don't sue me.
Feedback: Concrit adored! If you see something that can be improved upon, please let me know.
Written for: ff_friday's "Weeds" prompt.
Notes: Eh, I'm going to say that this takes place sometime after Blooming Cactus, but it can be read as a standalone. Jayne/Zoe, post-BDM. Yes, I realize I'm on crack.
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Title: RiverDance
Author: babies-stole-my-dingo (agilebrit)
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG
Length: Short story (around 2100 words)
Disclaimer: Joss is the genius behind these characters; I am but a lowly follower. I make no money from any of this, so please don't sue me.
Feedback: Concrit adored! If you see something that can be improved upon, please let me know.
Written for: Space Santa, for pukajen. Prompt was: Wash/Zoe, Mal, or River. Angst, but not so the reader wants to jump off a cliff after, comradeship, or hope.
Notes: Well, this isn't at all what I planned...Hope it fills the bill okay.
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