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trillingstar's Crossovers of Guh meme.
Which spawned my contribution How Ryan O'Reily Escaped From Oz as part of the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hardtime100 prompt - Future.
And led to Breaking Atmosphere bytrillingstar
And since I thought it would be absolutely awful for Ryan to be left alone with a mind-reader, I present you with:
“Dark out there,” he said to the girl in the cockpit. She looked too young to be handling flying this – whatever it was. But given all that had happened in the past few hours…
“Firefly.”
“What?”
“Not a cyclone. No red shoes either. Nothing like that going to send you back home, Dorothy Gale.”
“What the fuck?” Dorothy Gale, Dorothy Gale. Where had he heard that name? One of the girls that Cyril used to date, maybe?
“How about a little fire, scarecrow?” the girl said. She was starting to freak him out, and imitating the Wicked Witch of the West wasn’t helping matters. Those parts of the movie always sent him diving behind the couch as a kid. Cyril would laugh…
Oh. That Dorothy Gale. How’d this chick know that the blackness reminded him of that road trip through Kansas to visit Tessie’s mother? Distract her.
“So where are we now?”
“Third quadrant. Kendratta System.”
“The who to what?”
She grinned at him. “You always wanted to travel. How does it feel?”
“A little shaky.”
She nodded. “He’s had that effect on quite a few people.”
“I thought ships and planes and I guess Firefly-things were always female.”
“Yeah, but the Captain isn’t.” She gave him a grin again.
He could stretch a little bit and give her the connection to Oz, but how the hell did she know that Mal had dominated his thoughts since he came on board?
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If any of this has inspired you and you feel like joining in and adding your own moment to the Ryan O'Reily in the Firefly 'verse, whether it be writing or art, we'd love to see it.
By the way, I didn't necessarily have River actively flying Serenity in this drabble, so Wash and Book could still be on board. It's all up to interpretation.
trillingstar's Crossovers of Guh meme.Which spawned my contribution How Ryan O'Reily Escaped From Oz as part of the
hardtime100 prompt - Future.And led to Breaking Atmosphere by
trillingstarAnd since I thought it would be absolutely awful for Ryan to be left alone with a mind-reader, I present you with:
“Dark out there,” he said to the girl in the cockpit. She looked too young to be handling flying this – whatever it was. But given all that had happened in the past few hours…
“Firefly.”
“What?”
“Not a cyclone. No red shoes either. Nothing like that going to send you back home, Dorothy Gale.”
“What the fuck?” Dorothy Gale, Dorothy Gale. Where had he heard that name? One of the girls that Cyril used to date, maybe?
“How about a little fire, scarecrow?” the girl said. She was starting to freak him out, and imitating the Wicked Witch of the West wasn’t helping matters. Those parts of the movie always sent him diving behind the couch as a kid. Cyril would laugh…
Oh. That Dorothy Gale. How’d this chick know that the blackness reminded him of that road trip through Kansas to visit Tessie’s mother? Distract her.
“So where are we now?”
“Third quadrant. Kendratta System.”
“The who to what?”
She grinned at him. “You always wanted to travel. How does it feel?”
“A little shaky.”
She nodded. “He’s had that effect on quite a few people.”
“I thought ships and planes and I guess Firefly-things were always female.”
“Yeah, but the Captain isn’t.” She gave him a grin again.
He could stretch a little bit and give her the connection to Oz, but how the hell did she know that Mal had dominated his thoughts since he came on board?
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If any of this has inspired you and you feel like joining in and adding your own moment to the Ryan O'Reily in the Firefly 'verse, whether it be writing or art, we'd love to see it.
By the way, I didn't necessarily have River actively flying Serenity in this drabble, so Wash and Book could still be on board. It's all up to interpretation.
