Serenterprise-D by Inlovewithnight

The crew of Firefly meets the crew of the Enterprise.

Captain’s personal log, supplemental to official entry regarding transdimensional phenomena around the Coronas Wormhole Field:
Note to self, stop picking up ships that come out of wormholes. It always ends in tears.

G // Gen // Humour

Professionals by Inlovewithnight

Inara hires Jayne for a night. The results are…unexpected. And very much in character for Jayne.

Gen // PG

Homestead by Inlovewithnight

Jayne goes home, and when he doesn’t come back, the rest of the crew go looking for him.

This is a very well-written ensemble fic, funny and touching and with everyone in character.

Action // G // Gen

Jayne’s Magnificent Cock by Distraction

I really wasn’t expecting this story to be as funny as it is, but some of the lines are priceless.

G // Gen // Humour

Fathom a River by

In helping Simon, River finds out several things Jayne would rather she didn’t know.

“You’re made of fear.”

Even though I don’t always find River interesting on the show, I love reading stories told from her perspective. Like River herself, the tone of this story pitches from bleak loneliness to horror to humour to happiness, but it works.

NC-17 // Romance

In the Before by Kirby Crow

Simon and Jayne fumble toward a relationship, with a little help from River. Her internal voice sounds just right in this piece.

She needs to correct the erroneous datum and the words never come out the way they’re supposed to. Blue has thirty-seven meanings, and only she hears them all at once.

There’s also a prequel, Dancing Lessons.

R

Dangerous Cargo by Nestra

Serenity takes on some unusual cargo.

Humour // NC-17 // Romance

Simply Perfectest by Voleuse

Hate the title, love the story. Wash and Zoe are one of my absolute favourite fictional couples, and they didn’t get nearly enough airtime on the show (either together or separately.)

It’s unfortunate, Wash thinks, that Zoe isn’t a fan of dinosaurs.

Wash tries to woo Zoe in his own inimitable way. Zoe doesn’t take him seriously.

Het // Humour // PG // Romance

Indistinguishable from Magic by Kieyra

A little post-Serenity wish fulfillment.

G // Gen // Sci-fi/Fantasy

Refuge by Elizbeth Ann Lewis

This story is actually a crossover between Firefly and another universe, but I’m not going to say which one–it’s more fun to realize it for yourself.

Serenity carries a group of settlers to their new home.

Crossover // G

I Fall by Kass

Mal and River have a difference of opinion. Spoilers for Serenity.

“I just wish everybody didn’t think I was so broken.” This time she didn’t look at him. Her voice sounded small, like it used to.

“You’re not broken,” he said, automatically.

“Tell that to my brother.”

“That’s not why he turned you down.”

“But it’s why you will.”

Mal had no words, only gaped at her.

“Go to bed,” she said, after a long minute.

And he did.

Het // NC-17 // Romance

Horseshoe Nails by Dyce

(Link is to the first story in the series.)

This is one of my favourite Firefly fanfics. The whole cast is perfectly themselves. The plot goes AU sometime between Objects in Space and the Big Damn Movie. This story is a good example of how a few small changes can change everything, and it’s also total wish fulfilment for me, changing everything about Serenity that I didn’t love, and leaving all the parts I did. (Not that I would have preferred to see the movie happen this way, exactly, but I’m happy to see it explored in fic.) There are five stories in the series:

1. Two Gorram Days: while the others go off on a rescue mission, Jayne, laid up with a broken leg, is left to look after River. He finds this less difficult and more enjoyable than he expects.
   
2. Kinship: Simon and Inara become friends, River and Jayne get closer, and Mal is in a bad mood.
   
3. Bank Job: an alternate version of Serenity: Those Left Behind, featuring a girls’ afternoon in and the end of the Hands of Blue guys (Say what you like about Joss Whedon, the man can create some seriously creepy villains. Note to self: never watch Hush alone late at night ever again.)
   
4. Miranda: alternate version of the Big Damn Movie, with enough changes to keep you on the edge of your seat, even when you think you know what’s coming.
   
5. Prodigal: after Miranda, they all get to meet the family Jayne left behind many years earlier.

I don’t like Prodigal as much as the others, and there’s some squabbling at the end of Miranda that kind of annoys me (but much less than it would in another fandom, because Joss Whedon’s characters totally would intrude on each other’s private lives in just this way), but overall it’s an awesome series, set in a fandom that doesn’t have nearly enough fic. Dyce hits the characters’ voices perfectly, too.

Action // Het // R // Romance // Top 100

In the Box by Dyce

Silly, but hilarious. An(other) enemy of Mal’s comes up with a scheme to embarrass him and his crew.

Gen // Humour // PG

Like Describing the Alphabet by Mosca

There’s a show in Jayne’s bunk, and Mal’s invited.

Action // NC-17 // Romance

Reconciliation by Inalasahl

Simon helps Jayne. Jayne helps Simon. There’s helping. And sex.

“Just don’t think it’s right that I’m running with a guy don’t even own a weapon.”

“Yes, I imagine it’s horrifying,” Simon said. “Do the other mercenaries talk behind your back about it?”

“No,” Jayne said. “Oh, that’s a joke.”

Action // NC-17

Pieces Tossed Aside by Ana

Firefly fandom comes up with some of the scariest stories I’ve ever read.

Character Death // Gen // NC-17 // Sci-fi/Fantasy

Drunken Revelations by Me Interrupted

So inconvenient when your practically-jailbait lust object is also a mind-reader, isn’t it, Jayne?

Het // NC-17 // PWP

Sometimes, things just go down smooth by Ana

Jayne wants a gun he can’t afford. Simon’s awfully good at planning heists.

Action // NC-17

An Arrangement of Parts by Ana

After Serenity (the movie), Simon and Jayne begin to work together, and find that they compliment each other unexpectedly well.

Eventually, Jayne folds up his letter, sliding it carefully into a cheap envelope. “You ain’t half-bad when you ain’t talkin’,” he says, as he stands.

“The feeling’s mutual,” Simon replies, half-smiling.

Action // NC-17 // Romance

Tourniquet by Pearl-O

Simon and River, but no CSI.

“There are so many sheep,” River adds, like an afterthought. “Nations of them. They stare at the sky, planning their revenge and the mathematics of the stars.”

Most of the time Simon really does believe that River makes sense on some level, and that it’s maybe just a different one, one he can’t — none of the rest of them can — reach.

Sometimes he doesn’t.

G // Gen