"Five Things In A Box" and "Cold Comfort"

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Claim: Firefly: Inara Serra
Title: Five Things In A Box
Author: Athenae
Characters: Inara, Mal
Prompt: 02. AU
Rating: R
Length: Medium
Brief summary: A wonderful take on how Mal and Inara's relationship might have been if she'd never joined Serenity, if he'd met her working with Nandi at the Heart of Gold.
Link to the story: Five Things In A Box

Claim: Firefly: Inara Serra
Title: Cold Comfort
Author: Skripka
Characters: Inara, Simon, Mal
Prompt: 06. Anger
Rating: R
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This is a heartbreaking conversation between Inara and Simon that shows both of them experiencing severe grief, and does it perfectly. Hints at slight Mal/Inara but mostly Mal/Simon.
Link to the story: Cold Comfort.

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have so much love for "Five Things in a Box." I'm always so pleased to see fics I know and love on somebody else's recs list. (Incidentally, have you read Athenae's other "The Way We Never Met" fics? "Marseillaise" makes me cry.)