It's building slowly for a reason. Mostly because I'm a fan of drama and like to keep people wondering.

The first four 'days' can be found here:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=12740>Day 1.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=12741>Day 2.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=12753>Day 3.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=12783>Day 4.

Thanks to Tamsibling for the beta.

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The Prisoner

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- Day 5 -

Simon could feel his strength fading each time they deposited him into the dark cell. He knew several ribs were bruised badly, and he didn’t even want to see the multi-colored bruises that he knew, just by sensitivity to touch, dotted his skin. He was cold and he trembled despite himself.

His fellow prisoner was silent, as he was most of the time when Simon returned from his ‘interrogation’.

Simon felt himself drifting into an uneasy sleep just as the lights in the cell flashed on, blinding him momentarily. He flung his hands up to his eyes to cover them, as the light was so bright it pierced his closed lids.

But no sooner had the lights flashed on, did they disappear and Simon sank back against the wall, exhausted and concerned that he had still not been questioned.

“They will break you before they even begin to question you,” came a soft voice from the corner of the room.

Simon’s head lolled to one side as he regarded his cell-mate in the darkness. “I can’t help them.”

“What do you have that they can possibly want?”

Simon could hear the disbelieving tone in the other man’s voice, and even in the dark, could picture his eyebrows raised and a smirk curling his lips at what the Alliance could possibly want with someone like him.

Simon thought about his answer for a long moment before responding. “Nothing. I literally have nothing.” Nothing in the form of material things. But those, as he had learned over the last year, were not so important. He