Summery – Plans are made, action is eminent, and crazy girl becomes a big damn hero.

Disclaimer – They all belong to Joss, I just enjoy hanging out in their midst.

Pairings - Its all fairly cannon. There’s some OC’s to mix it up a bit.

Setting – During the series, in between Trash and Heart of Gold

This story is a hundred times better because of all the wonderful betatype advice given to me by Mal4prez. I throw many thankyous in her direction.

My story line indicates nine segments: prologue, chapters 1-7 and an epilogue. I have included more about the storyline and my motivation for writing in my blog.

If you haven’t read the beginning, I’d suggest starting at the

Thanks so much to all of you who have taken the time to leave me such shiny comments. It just makes my heart do a little dance to know how much you’re all enjoying the story.

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Underground - Chapter 6

The kitchen at the Lazy Moon ranch house was filled with people all talking at each other in loud agitated voices, a scene Mal suspected was much more common in the Dancing Boar at two thirty in the morning than in any ranch house in the settlement.

Mal, Katra and Zoë had returned from the mine empty handed, having not found either Kaylee or River, but with a new understanding of the mine and its inner workings. Mal was grateful for the warm cups of fresh coffee that were placed in their hands as they entered the chaotic kitchen, but the raised voices he could do without.

Slowly, he wandered through the throng gathering information about what had happened while he was in the mine. Sorla and Shepherd Stevenson had settled five miners who had appeared just an hour before, along with the fifteen others that followed, into the barn. They were now poring over the plans for the mine that were laid out on the table, Shepherd Book joining in. Simon had just finished seeing to a girl brought to him by Jayne and Mira. After setting sever