Disclaimer: I don't own the verse, or have any claim to characters. I'm only playing with them, they belong to the genius that is Joss Whedon!
Authors note: The idea of this is to explore 100 prompts using the firefly/serenity verse. I'm aiming to do 100 250 word ficlets, give or take 10% on the word count. I'm doing this to try and practice a little discipline while writing. I'd love any feedback, good or bad, if anyone out there is reading these! The Chinese used in them is thanks to google translate, so apologies for any mistakes there. I'm a fan of Firefly and the BDM, but haven't read any graphic novels etc., so hopefully these are canon but feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong! I'm trying to include all the characters, but if anyone keeps reading these they may notice the Wash: other character ratio is a bit off…
Spoilers: There will be spoilers for the series and/or the Big Damn Movie in most of these.
Prompt 1: Introduction
"This here's Wash, our pilot, and Kaylee, our mechanic. I've a no fraternising rule, so whichever way you lean, hands off. We eat together, here, and take turns cooking, you do your job, pull your weight, we'll all be one happy family. Questions?"
Jayne's mind was still stuck on the no fraternising portion of the introduction, the captain couldn't think he would do… that… with that Huángshǔláng. He looked around the little kitchen he was standing in. It looked nice, homely, a little out of place considering the state of the rest of the ship.
He wasn't full sure of the crew though, the Captain and Zoë looked like they could hold their own but it seemed to him most of his job would be keeping the mechanic and pilot from getting themselves killed. Still, it might be a soft job judging by the crew and the yellow painted kitchen, and he was getting a bunk out of it.
The silence filtered into his thoughts and he realised they were all waiting for a response. "Uh… no. No questions. This seems a nice operation, should be fun!"
Jayne figured that should satisfy them all enough to stop them gawking, but the pilot started talking.
"So… Why Jayne? Did your mother have her eyes closed till she named you?"
Jayne clenched his fists, the pilot had gorram mentioned his ma…
"Little man, don't you ever talk about my mother, less you want to end up even shorter then you are now…"
The pilot showed more speed than Jayne would have credited him with.
Huángshǔláng – Weasel
Word count - 262