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xfirefly9x ([personal profile] xfirefly9x) wrote2011-05-02 04:16 am

Fic: Psychology of Love (River/Jayne)

Title: Psychology of Love
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: River/Jayne, hints at rest of crew
Prompt: #012. Alternate Reality
Word Count: 194
Rating: G
Summary: She doesn’t want him to know that she hates being alone.
Notes: Written for [livejournal.com profile] writers30days. 16/4/11.

She doesn’t want him to know that she hates being alone. To admit it would be to admit she likes his company and that goes against all human contact lessons she has learned from the rest of the crew. They play hard to get, hide the truth and wait for something that may never eventuate. And so shall she, because surely there is reason behind their actions.

She gives Jayne meaningful looks sometimes, too, but he mistakes them for her being crazy. Stupid ape man. He is blind to what is right in front of him. He sees with his eyes but not his heart. Doesn’t understand her ways or her attempts to send morse code messages to him by fluttering her eyelids.

There has to be reason behind why the rest of the crew do this. They don’t receive odd looks from their secret partner in crime. Maybe she is doing it wrong. They play at secret messages and secret looks, and they seem to get nowhere, sometimes somewhere but not anywhere near enough. She has been trying the same, following their patterns, but getting nowhere.

It can’t be that difficult, can it?

[identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com 2011-05-01 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Poor River -- taking relationship lessons from the most dysfunctional examples! Very cute.
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[identity profile] xfirefly9x.livejournal.com 2011-05-01 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I thought it would be interesting for her to take a lesson from the others and fail miserably at it just as they (mostly) are. Show her more human side, not knowing how to go about things, I suppose, and her analytical side in trying to figure things out and going about it in a way most wouldn't even think of.

I'll stop now before this comment gets longer than the fic! ;)

[identity profile] eneumann.livejournal.com 2011-05-01 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
This is so funny. Perfect balance of her brilliance and her slightly mad part of her brain not quite discerning how to get Jayne's attention. XD
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[identity profile] xfirefly9x.livejournal.com 2011-05-02 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)

[identity profile] goddessofbirth.livejournal.com 2011-05-01 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
This was cute, and very in line with a River who is trying to figure out the complexities of human interaction from her only (somewhat sad) examples.
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[identity profile] xfirefly9x.livejournal.com 2011-05-02 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! :)