Come The Ressurrection

This is a standard fanfic disclaimer. They ain’t mine (except them what is), I ain’t gettin’ paid, don’t sue.

Scene 1 (and only):

(Serenity. Infirmary. Mal is on the table. Simon is preparing to administer an injection. Kaylee, Jayne, River, and Zoe are looking on)

SIMON: Are we ready?

ZOE: Kim’s in the galley. He’ll be there for hours. I told him to whip up a big dinner.

SIMON: I’m afraid the Captain probably won’t feel up to much more than broth at this point.

JAYNE: Don’t mean the rest of us have to starve.

RIVER: Maybe we should have warned him about this?

JAYNE: It’ll be good for a laugh when he faints.

SIMON: Syncope is always so amusing.

RIVER: That’s just cruel.

ZOE: I’ll bring the capture.

KAYLEE: I still can’t believe you didn’t tell us about this. I though Shanty was burying him without us.

ZOE: What if it hadn’t worked? You would have had to see him dead twice.

KAYLEE: I guess. Still.. you should warn a body before you raise someone from the dead.

ZOE: Next time.

SIMON: He’s not dead anymore, just heavily sedated.

RIVER: See, he just breathed.

JAYNE: Just plain eerie is what it is.

RIVER: You’d prefer we’d left him dead?

JAYNE: Can I get back to you on that?

ZOE: Only if you’re willing to trade places with him.

JAYNE: Still say he looks dead.

RIVER: He’s too pink to be dead.

ZOE: He is out of it, isn’t he.

SIMON: I’m about to fix that. There, finished.

JAYNE: Well?

SIMON: The stimulant should take effect any moment. (They watch)

JAYNE: Well?

SIMON: Sometimes it takes a little while before sufficient levels are circulating in the blood to counteract the sedatives. (They watch)

JAYNE: He ain’t movin.

SIMON: Two days ago he was still a corpse, you can’t expect him to just sit up and

MAL: (starts to sit up, then falls back onto pillow as Simon catches him) Wha happn’?

SIMON: All right, maybe you can.

JAYNE: Not bad.

KAYLEE: (leans over Mal) Hey, you.

MAL: Hey.

ZOE: Ni hao ma ?

MAL: Not sure, belike.

JAYNE: Guess