Against My Will

*** Part 2 of the story. I’m really having fun writing this, and thanks for all your amazing support and comments. I hope you continue with this, because as long as you want to read it, I’ll write it!

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Ch. 2 – THE TRAIN JOB

Unification Day. In the past, Simon had celebrated along with the best of them, singing incredibly off-key with the other revelers, watching parades of people litter the streets of Osiris.

This year, Simon was standing watch over River on a ship that was being flown randomly through the ‘verse by a crew made up of people who had fought against the very unification being celebrated.

Talk about severe twists of fate.

Simon bent down to listen to River’s breathing, making sure the smoother he’d given her hadn’t slowed her heart rate down too quickly. Satisfied, he let his gaze wander around the infirmary. He’d just set it right again after her outburst of aggression earlier, and didn’t fancy having to do it again any time soon. If this was going to be where he spent the majority of his time, then it would have to be meticulous. It was his one last thread connecting him to the life he’d left behind.

A wave of guilt swept over him as he looked at his sister again. It wasn’t her fault. She hadn’t asked for any of this. She had been an innocent girl who had fallen prey to the government being celebrated at this very moment for their wondrous works. Simon quickly wondered if his parents were at a Unification party…if they even thought about him and River at all…

Shaking his head, he tried to put the disturbing thoughts as far out of his mind as possible, although he’d been thinking of them more and more often recently. The infirmary had been far too quiet the past few weeks since he’d finally cleared Kaylee for work.

She had been good company, chatting away as he’d worked on cataloguing and organizing his new ‘office’, and at least one member of the crew stopped by every half-hour or s