The usual disclaimers apply. The characters and 'Firefly' are the property and gift of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. No infringement of copyright is intended. PS. I didn’t know whether the doctor had a middle name, but here it’s James, Oh and Rivers is Elizabeth :-).

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Prologue

He sat in a small cube shaped room, the room had no windows and only a single heavy steel door interrupted the cold grey angular walls. He sat at a steel desk, its surface clinically sterile except for a small orderly pile of grey-green folders each of which bared a name in black bold letters. His eyes dissected the words in the folder before him, blue latex gloves moving only occasionally to turn a page.

The door opened silently and a second suited figure, bearing the same blue gloves, entered the room. “We may have overlooked something” said the first man without looking up from the file. His eyes having finally extracted every last detail, looked up and locked on to his partner “We may have a latent kinetic”, at the statement his partners left eyebrow arched slowly, the only sign of his surprise visible on his otherwise immobile face. “This one becomes our highest priority” he finished slowly taping the now closed file. His partner eyes scanned across the black stencilled letters forming the name on the front, his eyebrow arched a little faster and further than before, “Tam, Dr. S. J.”.

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Scene 1

“Captain could you join me in the infirmary” the voice, unmistakable the Shepard’s, radiated from the ships coms. Captain Malcolm Reynolds looked up from where he had be going over the details of their next job, “be right there” he replied with just a hint of annoyance.

When he reached the infirmary the Doc was patching up yet another scrape on his ships engineer, in his opinion little Kaylee seemed to have become a lot more accident prone since the good doctor had come onboard. “So what’s up” he called as he strolled into the infirmary. The Doc locked up startled, his face slightly paled, Kaylee just stared at him a look of annoyance spread across her face. “Didn’t interrupt anything?” Mal said giving the Doc a pointed stare. Simon gave himself a second to compose himself but before he could answer that the Shepard strode purposefully into the room “Doctor could we have a word with you” the preacher inquired indicating himself and Mal. “sure all finished hear” he responded, his hand lingering a moment longer on Kaylee shoulder “what’s up?”, “There’d be two of us liking to know that preacher” Mal quipped in. “Well I, I just noticed they’ve posted a new warrant on the cortex” the Shepard said a look of concern in his eye, “River?” Simon asked the worry evident in his voice. “no, your sisters warrant hasn’t changed but umm…” the preacher answered slowly handing Simon a small printout, the Doc took a glance at it and started to blanch completely white, he stumbled backwards slightly his mind reeling and would have ended up sitting on the floor had Kaylee not given him a slight shove causing him to flop down beside her on the examination bed. Mal quickly snatched the printout from the doctors hands before Kaylee could get a good look at it; he quickly read the warrant with growing perplexity “lao-shen ne hu dah! - Simon you want to explain to me why the alliance now has a bounty on you head large enough to buy a not so small planet, in the gorram core!” Mal asked, Simon just sat there staring blankly not having heard a word, but Kaylee just stared at the Cap’n horrified, River peeked her head around the infirmary door cocking her head to regard her brother, “Two by two, know about you,” she said softly tears in her eyes.

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Please let me know what you think, This is my first fanfic so go easy on me.