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BLUE SUN ROOM FAN FICTION - GENERAL
Reminders and treasures among the crew of Serenity. A series of drabbles and double drabbles - one for each crew member.
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 1178 RATING: 9 SERIES: FIREFLY
Kaylee’s a keeper. She keeps everything: old love, lost hope, and all the parts she’s ever taken off Serenity ‘cause you never do know when a broken down thing might just come in handy.
Kaylee was broken, for a time. Leastways, she felt like she was. Who but a soul with something wrong in it could hang about her daddy’s barn tinkering instead of having tea parties and gossiping with other girls?
“Tinkerer!” That’s what her mother had yelled at her often enough – “That’s all you’ll ever be, just like your Pa! No-good tinkerer!”
So Kaylee would run, out of the barn and up an old tree, not come down ‘til the stars came out and she’d done her wishing on them. Then Cap’n’d come along and just handed them to her: the stars, the verse, and all the wishes she’d ever secreted there.
So those broken feelings, that’s all in the past, now, though she still has them, of course – Kaylee’s a keeper – and it’s not often but they still can ambush her time to time, send her running straight to the engine room, where Serenity croons to her and reminds her of just how perfect she really is.
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