or a prompt at [info]st_xi_kink : Firefly crossover, pre-series. Tween!Chekov and River, at the Academy. As childish and Toy Ship-y as two mentally fun child prodigies can get together. And River's bare feet. (Come on, this is Firefly. There has to be an inordinate amount of focus on Summer Glau's feet.)

He was always waiting to be this inside.... Hide it away, push it down. It's wrong. She just wants to be right. But gē ge, he is right.

Abed introduces Troy to Firefly. Troy starts crying when Book dies in Serenity. Abed's not sure why.

Once upon a time, in a land about twelve hours north of here, I was in the second year of grad school and really regretting all my life choices. Because the professor of the sociolinguistics class I was taking was a post-doc living several states away from her fellow-academic husband, she felt the same and gave our class completely free rein in picking our final paper topic. Since watching Firefly was the only thing that had given me joy that semester, I decided to examine the pidginization of Chinese and English in that universe.