Tell 'Em (Rayne Never Falls)

[jheti]

Disclaimer: Uh. I like River and it's not my fault my Jayne really, really doesn't? And the important parts belong to Joss Whedon, Esquire, Emperor of Yadda Yadda, Creator of The Big Damn Show, can we read the story part now please.

You asked for it. Or maybe you didn't. XD


That was the thing. That was the trick of it. The little hitch in the works that was River Tam.

Sure, he was afraid of her. Jayne had the good sense to be at least wary of anybody with a right hook like hers. 'N' she could see in his brain. Her soul could eat his for breakfast with no trouble and a grin. Whenever she stared at him it sent a shiver from the top of his neck clean down to his bootsoles.

But it was more than bein' scared. A lot more.

He was damn jealous of her. Of the little crazy girl. She could go screamin' out of her head whenever she wanted, babblin' about blue hands, and Simon'd run to her right quick, hover over her real good, fix her up.

Jayne doesn't cry anymore. Don't change nothin' any, isn't manful, an' it never struck him as too useful. It's not like anybody'd help him if he did.

She's always there. Lookin' at him with those huge eyes--how the hell'd she grow 'em so big, anyway, ain't natural, they're not human eyes, big as plates and bottomless, dark as death's butthole at midnight. She just stands there and looks at him.

Ain't right.

She follows him sometimes, when he drinks. Just watches him do it. He hates that. He hates her.

It must be nice to be her, see everything, know everybody's business all the gorram time. Must be ruttin' great. What's she gotta cry for, anyhow? Nothin' he remembers bothers him anymore, not with the whiskey in the way.

He envies her, and wasn't it Ma said covetin' was one of them Ten Commandments he shouldn't ought to break. Thou shalt not. Right. Well, he's shot those all to hell and back. And he covets, all right. He covets something fierce.

It must be great to be River Tam. It's gotta beat the shit outta being Jayne Cobb, that's for right certain.

It must be easy to unsee on shiny needle-fed bliss comin' from the steady hands of someone who cares.

Jayne wonders if the wool Simon's bound her eyes with is as soft and warm as it looks.

Once again with the big flashing "I don't hate River" and "it's not my fault".

HOWEVER.dot com. Rayne should not exist. There's your proof.

Comments

[ghostwriter155.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that River/Jayne is a big ship in the Firefly fandom, however unlikely it is. At least you make it cool. :)

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

NOES you must worship at the altar of River how dare you defile her name I'm gonna get all my friends to flame you!!!!111

lol. You have to poke me about something I actually am high-strung about before I take your head off on account of a fictional character. At least, I hope your multiple disclaimers were not targeted at me.

[jheti.livejournal.com]

Ah, no. It's just that Everyone But Me (TM) worships at River's altar, and I've had people I don't know pop up at least twice now, and I'm on a Firefly 'list, and IT IS MAKING ME TEH PARANOID.

Ever since that one chick like, LJSeeked me several weeks after the fact because she thought I was trying to flame her, I've been a lot more patronizingly obvious with my fic!post's disclaimers and general flame-repellant.

I think some friends of friends of hers have come back and poked the journal, too, though I'm not positive on that one.

Although if you really want to get in a fight about River, it's not like I can stop you. *Shrug.*

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

We can fight for fun, if you want, but I don't think I would enjoy it much.

[jheti.livejournal.com]

Oh, there you go, refusing to battle wits with the unarmed!

/sly legpull. ^_~

No, no, no. If you wouldn't like to, let's don't, since I sometimes get carried away and etc. and no let's be shiny friends. Besides, River's my third-favorite anyway (she was edged out by Wash...they duel for third regularly...) ^_^

Maybe we could bicker about Inara? Because edibility aside I still don't like her? It'd be tough to do mock-battle over a character I do in fact like.

(Personal pecking-order goes Jayne, Kaylee, Wash, River, Mal, Simon, Zoe, Book, Reavers, Everyone Else, The Random Whores, Inara, That Poor Boy In Jaynestown Who Gets Shot. Give or take the bit players whose names I can't remember that have bad British-hoodlum accents. XD)

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I can't really rank mine, but here they are in no definite order within their hierarchical groups:
Favorite: River.
Yay!: Mal, Jayne, Wash.
Eh: Kaylee, Zoe, Inara, Simon, Book.
No!: ...

So they all end up in the ambivalent group, actually, which isn't to say that I don't like them and they don't amuse me greatly from time to time, but they don't hold any particular amount of fondness, either. I was considering an intermediate category to put Simon in, but I couldn't think of anything to call it.

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

That just reminded me that my history teacher said "hierarchical" one day, and it made me happy 'cause I'd never heard anyone actually say it, and the person sitting next to me couldn't spell it at all.

[jheti.livejournal.com]

I meant to ask several bajillion days ago but school derailed me.

How exactly is it pronounced? I'm very curious; I've never heard it before and have tried to say it but can't. XD

(It comes out "Herairikical? Herarikal? Herikikik *gets stuck on noise* DAMN IT!" , if you were wondering.)

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

I believe it is "hear-arc-i-cal". It is hard to say, which is why it's so great when someone actually says it.