Gifts - joss100 - Firefly

Title: Gifts
Author: jebbypal
Prompt: 51 - Christmas
Rating: E-everyone
Character: Book
Fandom: Firefly
Word count: 288
Warnings: None.
Summary: Some gifts aren't easy to accept.
Disclaimer: None of it belongs to me. Unbetaed. Mistakes are my own.

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Posted another Book fic for joss100. You can find it there or follow the link from frogs_fics if you're interested.

*throws chocolate sedatives to the horde*

Siigh, I'm at work. I know how much I need to do in the next four days to pull off my very good act at being a decent grad student and well, brain does not want to cooperate. It wants to stay in the happy fandom place its been in for three weeks, but it can't. It wants to do anything other than read science articles, but it can't. It wants to play with John, Book, or heck, even Jayne, but it can't.

*starts rounding up bunnies and shoving them into steel boxes* Don't worry, there are air holes.

But in other news, horde, here's the deal. You won't see any more of Twin Regrets till it's finished. Nada, none, zip, zilch. Now then, to pacify you, I'll explain: this isn't because I'm stuck, because my betas have gone on strike or anything else. Plain and simply its because the story is wrapping up. Two, maybe three more chapters left at the outset....but this is the most detailed crossover I've done *shudders at the memory of the mess that was highlander/firefly crossover before I learned to write properly* and one of the most detailed stories I've done. I want to be sure I wrap it up right before giving you guys the ending. That's all. And I want to be reasonably sure I've wrapped it up right before sending it to the betas. Which means time, rewriting, rereading, all of that. Be patient, hopefully it will be less than a month. Realistically, well, definitely before the start of summer.

*vaguely recalls the time I swore I'd never post a WIP again* Bet you guys wish I could actually follow through on that.

Unexpected: Inara and Jayne are being very bitchy. I can write the scenes I need to from Jayne's POV, but every time I do, Inara sits there mocking me. I know she should have a POV scene or two, but dammit, the woman won't work with me. Now I know how Mal feels.

All in the Family: I've actually written the next few scenes three different ways. And I need the muse to decide which one it wants to go with because the three all take the story in different directions character wise.

But for now, they are in the boxes. REally. Hopefullly. Please!!!

*pouts and goes off to science purgatory*

Uh Oh

You know, my mother always said mucking around with biology would end badly. She'd be saying "I told you so," if that accident with the chemistry set hadn't blown off her tongue when I was 12. My friends always were jealous of me during my teen years that I could actually win an argument with my mother. Then again, it's hard to not have the last word when your opponent can't talk.

But back to today. I'd been putting off doing an experiment, and as a result, I just kept refeeding the cells I'd aliquoted to do it with. Since life and lab work had been particularly boring, I'd been using my iPod glasses to watch Farscape as I did work for oh...the past month. Hey, you know, the leather is addictive.

And apparently not just for women.

See, I started to notice some odd specs in my media the past couple of days. Black specs. Then yesterday, some of them turned metallic. I threw them under the scope to determine what was going on -- I'd suspected bacterial contamination. Everyone in the lab shares the same incubator, so it's easy for it to happen. I did not expect to see what I saw.

Leather.

Pulse pistols.

Rygel!!!

All in miniature mind you, but there. In the plastic tissue culture flask.

You can imagine my shock. Or maybe you can't. Either way, it doesn't matter. I have Farscape in a tube. How wierd is that?

Almost odd enough to qualify as a Down the Rabbit hole story

Nettwerk Records, a label to support

But it's not. Basically the company is going to court for a family being sued by the RIAA for downloading songs.

The CEO says: ""Litigation is not 'artist development.' Litigation is a deterrent to creativity and passion and it is hurting the business I love. The current actions of the RIAA are not in my artists' best interests.""

If they lose, Nettwerk will pay the family's legal bill and damages.

Nettwerk's artists include Sarah Mclachlan, Avril Lavigne, Guster, and Barenaked Ladies.

Go support this company!!