Title: Confessions

Author: Alysia

Category: This actually takes place after “Objects In Space,” but before the movie.

Summery: The group does a drop off and that night there is a bit of a celebration. Think of ‘Our Mrs. Reynolds’, only no one gets married in drunken stupor.

Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the characters associated to Firefly.

Author’s Note: I’m relatively new to the Firefly ‘verse, so forgive me if I mess up names of both, people and places. Also, I’ve been writing stories for this for a month now (though none of them are posted) , I still don’t have some of the phonetic grammar down for them, I apologize in advance for that and for capturing any character out of character to the show.

“So, you think they’ll like it?” Kaywinette Lee Frye asked into the screen as she confided her plan for Zoey and Wash’s anniversary present.

Smiling brightly over the link, Inara Serra nodded. “It is a heartfelt gesture,” she answered. It was such a ‘Kaylee’ thing to do. The companion couldn’t ever remember meeting anyone else quite like the mechanic she was talking with. “I just…are you sure about the song?” If the two were celebrating their anniversary, she couldn’t quite understand Kaylee’s reason for picking a song about breaking up.

Letting out a laugh, Kaylee nodded as a small grin tugged at her lips. “They’ll understand it.”

“Ah, it’s one of those inside things,” Inara said reverently. She missed everyone on the ship. There were times that she wished more then anything that she was back on Serenity, but it had all just become too painful for her. “How is…everyone?” Mal had been the first person she wanted to mention, but she didn’t want to be transparent.

“We’re all good. I mean there’s been a bit of adjustment since you left…and then the Shepherd left a month later. We’re get’n by, s’ just taken a while.” Wisely, she didn’t mention Malcolm Reynolds personally, but she tried to stress the point of getting by as what the captain was doing. “I really miss yo