50 Tales of Dark Fiction

'Cause ff_fanfic deleted it. Originally posted and written on 2 March 2006.

Title: Way of the 'Verse
Author: ninamazing, or Nina
Word Count: 683
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing: Mal/Inara or Mal/River, depending on which way you look at it
Spoilers: Meh. If you don't already know that Inara decides to leave at the end of the series, well, I guess I've just ruined it for you. Enjoy.
Summary: For someone with Mal's issues, it's very easy to get drunkified and depressed while only drinking tea. For someone with River's, it's very easy to act creepy and fulfill people's worst nightmares. Or greatest pleasures. Or something.
Author's Note: Sort of based off of my own post at ff_challenges, which provided the inspiration of "late-night tea confessions." Unfortunately, the other two elements - "River's hair" and "someone saying 'Knowing you, I didn't think you would'" - sort of got lost along the way. (Also, I may really suck with replying to comments in a timely fashion. I'm not even supposed to be writing this, and the fact that I am means that tomorrow I will be problem-setting and testing on three hours of sleep. Huzzah, failure!)

( River found him at the galley table. )

Title: Metal
Author: ninamazing, or Nina
Word Count: 896.
Progress: 2/50 for 50_darkfics. Table here.
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for some sexuality.
Pairings/Characters: Mal/River. The OTP of Hot.
Spoilers: Not too apparent. You could get by, for sure.
Author's Note: Didn't mean for the break to be that long. And yes, there's no chronology here -- it's write-what-I-feel night. Enjoy it?

( Prompt #82: Metal )