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edenbound ([personal profile] edenbound) wrote2006-07-27 03:21 pm

F: Lines in the Sand

Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: Mal/Inara
Warnings: None
Rating: G
Summary: So easy to reach out and touch. For [livejournal.com profile] 5sentence_fics.



He's standin' so darned close to her, so darned close he can feel her breath on his face, and his own breath comes quicker now. He could reach up now, caress that smooth cheek, feel her lean into him, and she'd probably sigh that sigh of hers and relax and --

"Mal, don't," she says, softly, and he steps back so he can't feel anything but the faintest tickle of her breath.

"Sorry," he says, insincerely, still aching to touch her, feel her skin soft and smooth beneath his rough soldier's hands. He'd spoil it, he realises, somehow, between his stubbornness and coarseness and past, and so he doesn't -- but that don't stop him wantin' to.
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[personal profile] lassarina 2006-07-28 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
*flails in glee at Mal/Inara* I like the way you write Mal knowing that they're so different and it would all get messed up, but Inara knowing it too and she has the forethought to step back.