BLUE SUN ROOM FAN FICTION - ROMANCE

WHOSTHATGIRL

Life Lessons
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Oh no. Not another learning experience.
Belongs to somebody not me. Blah blah blah, yackety schmackety.
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CATEGORY: FICTION    TIMES READ: 2015    RATING: 9    SERIES: FIREFLY

Mal had never been one to learn his lessons the easy way. Always having to do it the hardest way known to man.

'Ain't no easy way for you, son, is there?' That's what his Ma used to say.

When he was 8, he learned how to control a spooked horse by falling off one and breaking his arm.

When he was 12, the ranch foreman taught him about true mercy when he told Mal to put down that horse because it had broken a leg.

When he was 18 and a greenhorn recruit, 10 stitches in his ribcage taught him to never take on a guy with a knife if all you've got is a bare fist.

At age 22, he learned about real friendship when he held that guy in his arms as he bled his life out all over Mal's uniform.

In Serenity Valley, he learned that a hero is just a guy who's too tired, hungry and cold to give a hump.

And in his ripe old age, he learned that heroes don't automatically get the pretty girl just by being heroic.

Time for the old dog to learn some new tricks.

COMMENTS

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 10:16 PM

SPACEANJL


This is so absolutely Mal :)

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 11:03 PM

AMDOBELL


Ouch, sounds like Inara didn't stay after all. Great internal train of thought for Mal. Shame on her :~(
You can't take the sky from me

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 2:45 AM

JANE0904


Actually, I don't know, Amdobell. It think maybe she did stay, but he realises he can't just let things go on the way they were.

WhosThatGirl, these could all go together in a single tale ...

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 6:12 AM

ANGELLEMARCS


Wonderfully written. I love it. :)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:14 AM

KK


Sounds just like Mal. Excellent job! I loved how you merged the 5th and 6th line so eleoquently as to transition the young Mal we never knew to the Mal that was created in Serenity Valley. Suberp job, just wanted some clarification with the ending. I give this story a 10!


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