Sunday100 drabble

Set after Storyteller.

The Idiot Box

He'd asked for the tape yesterday. Andrew had given it to him easily enough, even hooked everything up so that he could watch it.

Then the boy had left, knowing for once when he wasn't needed.

Spike stared at the tv, stared at his face looking back.

He looked older than he remembered, which should be impossible. Maybe that was the soul's doing.

He looked lost. Looked so very old, and yet not at all wise. Just old and foolish, as he'd once been young and foolish.

He pressed play, watched himself posture at the camera.

He couldn't recognize himself.

Once, Twice, Thrice - a Firefly first kiss vignette

Once, Twice, Thrice

Her mind wandering as she worked on Serenity, Kaylee wondered what Inara tasted like.

She'd kissed her first boy at five, but that didn't really count and she couldn't remember what it'd been like.

The first boy who'd counted had been when she was thirteen and just starting to blossom as an engineer, or so her daddy told her. On her thirteen birthday, he'd given her an old junker to fix up.

Four months later, she'd traded a kiss for a spare part she'd been needin'. Pol wasn't a bad first kiss, though he was clumsy and tasted faintly of oil. And it was worth it to see her transport up and running.

Still, it left a bad taste in her mouth, trading kisses for parts. Kissing was important enough that it should be done on its own account.

So she kissed her first girl at fifteen and that didn't have anything to do with engines at all. Mala was soft and tasted sweet, like fresh strawberries.

All these kisses in her memory...

And she just couldn't figure how 'Nara might taste.

Item:

1) I'm thinking that I should make an icon set. Because... well, I want to and it's been a while.

2) You know, almost all of my feedback is lj-based. So it's fairly easy to respond because it's all organized already and I don't have to worry about losing the emails, because I can check lj and see if there are any unanswered posts. Livejournal is a cool thing.

3) If I ever get vidding tech and actually vid, I'd totally do a Season Six B/S vid to Get Mine, Get Yours.

4) Along with not liking the lighting in the ending barn scene in Hug, I also hate the Lionel/Lex hug from Jitters.

5) Ben Browder really is quite the kick-ass actor. And very hot. Mrow.

6) I can't actually think of a song to icon. Any suggestions?

7) jic: I've finished changing the look of your section. Let me know what you think and your dates are in the 'span's across the links for each story.

GIP

Went and made myself a Chiana/John icon. So pretty. 'Cap and quote are from Season One, Family Ties.

*blinks*

And somehow, it became my default icon and my color scheme has changed to fit it. Funny how that happens.

Huh. Another 298 posts and I'll have hit 3000.

Sad things...

My new lj background, which is so very pretty when viewed on my computer? Looks horrible on mom's. It's very tragic, considering that I spend perhaps half my computer on there. (It has sound, mine doesn't, and my mom's usually in town)

Okay. It wasn't that sad.

What is sad, and I mean that in terms of 'pathetic', is that I'm considering uploading another Chi/John icon. From the same scene. It's not even a different scene. It's just that this one is pre-kiss and that one would be post-kiss.

I am sadder than Vince.

Yep, sadder than Vince...

Or, GIP the second. Same characters. Same scene. Different moment. Different words. The quote is from Thomas A. Kempis.