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A NEW DAY, ch. 15: Retribution

Friday, September 29, 2006

Set three months after A NEW BEGINNING. River, Jayne and Regan mount a rescue for Rylee. But will they succeed? S/K, M/I, R/J

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A/N: This chapter is a bit shorter, but trust me, you're going to need the breather!

Enjoy the ensuing angst - and be sure to comment about it!

Thanks to Leiasky for the beta.

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A NEW DAY, ch. 15: Retribution

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Gabriel saw the lights of Capitol City as the craft descended through the atmosphere and he breathed a slight sigh of relief. Truthfully, he was glad to be returning home. He knew that as soon as they landed, his granddaughter would be hauled off the Academy and he would be set free to his own devices, able to once again access his accounts, spend his money and resume his life.

The past four years on Londinium had been a study in patience for him and it was not a trait he’d ever possessed with any real talent. The Alliance had provided for him, of course, but his lack of freedom had been devastating, especially for a man like Gabriel Tam, used to moving within all the social circles, schmoozing and influencing the rich and powerful. His disappearance from that high society life had damaged his calm, made him more easily agitated and not in the least sympathetic.

That was why he could really care less about the torture his granddaughter was suffering. He had made a deal with the devil, he knew that, and he had done it unflinchingly. He had first struck an agreement with them years ago, when he had turned River over. He had known then that whatever she would learn at that Academy would not be pleasant or particularly useful. He had known when he’d shipped her off that she would never again be a true member of society and he had been fine with that.

Gabriel had only sent her away so that Simon could stop focusing all his time on his baby sister and start really working towards his future. His mind could not be split between his love of medicine and his love for River and so Gabriel had simply chosen to take one away. Of course, he should have known that his son would never let it go that easily. Gabriel should have known the first time Simon brought home an

Comments
BCB
Friday, 29 September 2006 00:48
NO!!!!! You can't just leave it like that!! =D
Friday, 29 September 2006 00:50
I hate you so much right now!

Your so evil! Personally, I want River to live 'cause I think it would be more interesting.

I love it that Gabriel got hurt some, but seriously, when are you gonna have him get his full commupance?

I am very muchly loving this series. It's long and twisty, and that's just the way I like it. So keep it up!
Friday, 29 September 2006 01:03
This...is....motherfucking...sadistic! You can't just have River get shot and leave us hanging for her final condition! Cuz it ain't that easy! You have too much of Joss' cunning inside ya. River getting would seem the obvious answer after all that has happened due to her search for the cure to her infertility:(

However....this was a brilliant chapter, TamSibling! Could totally picture the fight scenes between River and the Blue Hands...and the Gabriel vs. Jayne and Regan? That would have been an Emmy winning moment for all invovled. The imagined sheer amount of emotion involved here between Gabriel's sociopathic madness and apathy with Jayne's sheer fury at his father-in-law's actions would have definitely gotten people hooked;)

BEB

P.S. Just in case...sorry for using motherf-ing. The chapter ending was just that good a cliffie. Oh...and please tell me Jayne or Regan offed Gabriel. Cuz if that ambulatory piece of mutant horse shit still lives...then I truly fear for the welfare of the BDHs;D
SCIFICHICA
Friday, 29 September 2006 02:05
aahh where to start. First off TamSibling, you know I love this story. I've been addicted since chapter one, book one. And by addicted I mean checking this page every hour for updates, crazy obsessed. So I feel like such a traitor saying... I didn't like this chapter. I LOVE THE STORY!! But I'm sorry, I didn't like this outcome. It's too obvious for River to die. Too easy. Dying's easy, anyone can do it. I wanted to see River live with her mistake, really suffer for it. Pay for her selfishness. I wanted vengence. I thought it would be more interesting to see her have to beg for Simon, work for her relationship with him like he has for her. And, of course, to see her have to finally, fully accept she'd never be a mother. Dying's too easy, too clean.

Who knows. Maybe I’m just numb because I’ve gone into physical shock. Is it cold in here?
MOMIN8R
Friday, 29 September 2006 03:28
yea! they saved rylee! ok, you're evil you know that, right?! you've left me hanging!!! how can i go on?!........i'll try to be brave and yes i wil be checking obssessivley (sp?) tomorrow! :D
Friday, 29 September 2006 04:25
So they got Rylee...one would assume either Jayne or Regan offed Gabriel. . . will we find out?

River is shot but we know she can't die right away because you told everyone that there were a lot of chapters to come before the BDH dies.

So - you're going to make River suffer, right? Guilt Simon into forgiving her before she dies. . . ?
Friday, 29 September 2006 04:29
Oh, forgot to mention. . . you already know I love your ability to weave all these storylines together. After beta'ing all this for you, I will never EVER write something so long. It takes talent to do write stories this complex, and this long. And you're one of the few that do it successfully.

Friday, 29 September 2006 05:06
Yeah, you said it wasn't coming for a while! River better make it... *steps menacingly closer in a decidedly Jayne-like fashion, or perhaps more Simon-like*

Still, even though I don't like River getting shot, this is wonderful writing. I hope mine can come close.

jW
Friday, 29 September 2006 08:52
O-kay, I am hoping that Jayne put Gabriel down for good and I have to say the part with River and the HoB was chiling. I dreaded then that she hadn't done the sensible thing and killed them outright when she had them down. And did she put the rod in her pocket or leave it discarded? That garrot was a surprise and I was so relieved that River managed to get out of that and get Rylee out but the bullet to the gut just at they are escaping pretty near brought me to my knees too. You can't kill River, you just can't! Ali D :~)
You can't take the sky from me
Saturday, 30 September 2006 00:03
Can't...comment...to...shocked.
Wednesday, 04 October 2006 11:04
I think it's funny how people get so mad at a writer when (s)he creates suspense by ending on a cliffhanger, as if there will be no continuation and they are stuck having to wonder what happens, especially with such a regular writer/poster as yourself. Then again, I am very cynical and nothing much surprises or upsets me anymore.

Gabriel decided that maybe taunting the large man with the big gun was not his best course of action
~ BWAHAHAHAHA too funny

“You see, dear,” Regan said, rounding the desk and trapping him on the other side, a small gun having appeared in her hand. “This is what true love looks like.”
~ Though I don't agree 100% with the way that Gabriel and Regan turned out in this story, I do like this scene and particularly this line very much.

I think this is one of the first, if not the first, stories in which I have seen River get critically hurt. Leiasky may have done it once or twice, but it doesn't happen often, at least in the stories I read.

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