The Circular Irony Part 3 by Nailani Williams

Disclaimer: No Copyright Infringement intended so Joss put down the Sword of Infinite Truths!

Summary: After the BDM. Zayne, M/I, S/K, R/OC pairing. Taking place after the events of “The Bravest Thing” and “The Welcoming Committee”. When Mal gets a job on Persephone he realizes he’s transporting a new generation of Browncoats, who have their own special person straight out of the Alliance Academy. Meanwhile Zoe and Jayne work out their working relationship and River gets a new creep-a-fying boyfriend.

Rating: PG-13

A/N: I am so sorry for the delay, it’s the holidays and I seem to be swamped with family obligations. I’ll try to get the next part out sooner! :D!

I dedicated this to all the brave writers of Zayne fic!

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Mal:

I was tense, and it wasn’t because of the New Browncoats… it was because of Zoe. Never did I think she’d ever look at me with questioning eyes, but she did now and it cut me to the quick. And what made it worst, was that there were children reinitiating a war that we lost. All because of Miranda.

I was humped and I knew it. I couldn’t just allow these children to sacrifice themselves. I couldn’t let the Alliance put them to death because I knew it’d be broadcasted on every wave in the verse. They would be made an example of. And that was blood I couldn’t bare to have on my hands.

I just hoped Zoe would be with me on this. I hoped that somewhere inside her she still felt like a soldier.

Everyone was sitting around the table when I walked in from the cockpit. I looked at their faces. Some were expectant… others were annoyed.

“So cap, what going on?” Kaylee was the first to speak to me with a huge smile. I looked at her.

“As you all know we‘re going to Persephone to do a job…” I stopped when Zoe and Jayne began grumbling and shaking their heads. Inara’s hand took mine. I smiled briefly at her. “This job is with the New Browncoats.”

“No way, Mal,” Simon stood up. “you know River and I are still wanted by the A