BLUE SUN ROOM FAN FICTION - ROMANCE

WHOSTHATGIRL

Father of Mine
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Mal deals with those pesky abandonment issues/
Belongs to somebody not me. Blah blah blah, yackety schmackety.
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He'd spent the better part of the past four hours going over it again and again in his head.

He was going to be a father. With bottles and diapers and burpings and such.

The man who hadn't had much of one his own self was, at any second now, going to be tossed by the scruff of his neck into uncharted territory.

Mal tried to conjure up the image of his own father. There were vague images of a big man lifting him up onto broad shoulders to look at the cows in the pen. And one birthday where he got his very first toy gun and holster and his Pa had shown him how to hold the gun proper, with big hands wrapped around his smaller one.

But mostly there was nothing. A big empty hole where his friends all had their fathers to teach them to shoot and ride and do all those boy-like things that he had to learn from the ranch hands.

They'd taught him well, no doubt of that. But Mal always knew inside that he was different because he'd had no father around.

What if he couldn't do it?

What if the fact that he'd not had a father meant he'd be a lousy one himself?

Sweet Jesus, what if it's a GIRL? Boys he understood all too well. But how in Creation would he be expected to deal with her first time of the month? Or the clothes? Ai ya, the clothes alone... Or the inevitable mood swings that females were prone to?

Best leave that to Inara. Let him take care of chasing off the boys with Vera.

Still, what if...

What if he turns out just like his Pa? Unable to handle the pressures of fatherhood?

At that moment, Simon stuck his head out of the infirmary.

"Congratulations, Captain. You are the proud father to a brand new baby girl! Come say hello to your daughter."

Figures it would be a girl. Just to make his life more difficult, another female on his boat.

He smiled at a very tired-looking Inara. "Thank you, bao-bei."

Simon held up a squirming bundle of blanket. "Here she is!"

Mal stared down at a tiny human being that was half him and half Inara. Her golden skin and dark curls, with what appeared to be his blue eyes.

Yep, Vera was gonna get a whole lotta use in another 13 years or so.

"Caroline. That was my Ma's name. Caroline Marie Reynolds."

He held the baby up and gently kissed the top of her head, whispering so that only she could hear, "I swear I'll do right by you, little one. I'll be better than him. I swear it."

COMMENTS

Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:11 PM

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER


Well now...this is mighty interesting stuff you've got here, WTG...definitely makes one wonder about Mal's past based on the comment Zoe maded about him being raised by his mother. Did his father abandon both his wife and young child? Did he die when Mal was but a youngin'? Always wondered what Joss would have done with Mal's family life had he been given a chance...

Still...brilliant work. So much emotion conveyed so succintly:D

BEB

Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:50 PM

EMPIREX


I always love fics that delve into the character's past, especially Mal's. This actually made me teary-eyed. It wasn't sickly-sweet babyfic. It was perfect. Two thumbs up!

Monday, November 13, 2006 7:35 AM

AMDOBELL


Lovely, these stories of yours are so insightful. Delicious snapshots that make me ache for the rest of the "Firefly" stories we never got to see because of the cancellation. Luckily we have you! Ali D :~)
You can't take the sky from me

Friday, March 23, 2007 6:22 AM

BROWNCOAT2007


Awwww... and as for RheaReynolds... HOW COULD YOU THINK THAT 'BOUT OUR CAP'N?!?!? 'Corse he WILL overcompensate... but he'll do it in his own... rather gruff way =D but, hell River is enough problems as is, and he stuck by her, done her right too in the series and the film in his own gruff fatherly way =)


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