I stumbled across this while trolling through the backlogs of the_pretty_fits, and I really, really enjoyed it. I was actually just re-watching Safe today, and thinking that if they'd continued the series, we probably would have seen Simon's parents come back into the picture. That said, I was pretty excited when I saw where you were going with this. :)

I'm a big fan of your characterizations - Simon and River's especially - and I also liked that you didn't try to colloquialize (is that even a word?) your writing too much. Too many authors in this 'verse try to force a way of speaking that they aren't familiar with, which makes things go kind of jerky and uncomfortable.

I really, really adored your closing line:

Should know by now that there ain’t nothing he ever does for himself anyway.

Ring of truth in that, for sure.