Summary : Once aboard Serenity, Simon begins a correspondence with his father. Their letters start out formal and distant, but as the exchanges continue, love overtakes pride and Simon comes to find in his father the confidant he so desperately needs as River and he struggle to survive in the Black. a
Author's Note: Hi everyone! You must be surprised to see me, since I haven't posted anything in, like, 200 years! But I am now diving back in by rewatching Firefly and writing a collection of Tam one-shots.
I like the idea of showing Simon and his father Gabriel growing closer through letters during the course of the series. I know there are different interpretations of Mama and Papa Tam. My own is that they were loving, caring parents, who failed their children pre-series not because they didn't care, but because they didn't believe. Gabriel and Regan Tam lived in a system that had been very good to them their whole lives, which caused them to trust that system way too much. These letters are written as though Simon and his father were editing as they go, so words/phrases that are crossed out are words/phrases they wrote and then erased.
Unfortunately, FFnet doesn't support strike through formatting, so I'm only posting the story on AO3. I really hope you'll hop on over there to check it out. You don't need an AO3 account to access the story.
Archive_of_Our_Own (.org) /works/ 599518/ chapters/ 1081449 (remove the underscores, parentheses and extra spaces)
You can also find it under my AO3 user name "Ella_Greggs."
I intend to do one exchange for each episode, but we'll see how far inspiration takes me. Any and all feedback is shiny, shiny, shiny!