In the infirmary, Naomi was asleep on Simon’s table. She was sore as hell and everything hurt not to mention that the bandages wouldn't let her move, when she woke up, she found her beloved mama holding her hand with a watery smile.

"Hey, mama..." she managed between coughs and immediately saw a glass of water coming.

"Take it easy, my little butterfly." she said as she supported her daughter's head to drink and planted a kiss on her temple, she then put the glass on the tray at the side.

"Mommy? I’m sad, can you hug me?" she said, giving her that begging-puppy look.

Inara placed her daughter on her lap and let her rest her head on her breast, she always remembered when she used to nurse her when they were like this and she knew that this was helping her but she also knew that she needed to take it out of her.

"What happened back there, sweetie?"

Naomi sighed "I went to that kitten and caught him but then I felt a hand around my neck, I tried to escape but then it went to my mouth and I fell asleep. When I woke up, I was in an empty room and then two man came in - one of them was the boss but he wasn't nasty, the other one hated me though and he told me that they'll kill you when the boss discovered I was lying about the alliance..." at that Naomi started to sob.

Inara soothed her little girl and when the crying subsided, she continued.

"My eyes were closed but I could hear everything, there was shooting and I heard daddy yelling for Jayne and Zoe to go then daddy came in and lifted me up and started to walk but somebody shot at us again and daddy was running real fast 'till we got to Serenity... that's what I know...- where's daddy?"

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Mal entered the room and sighed. He and Jayne had loads of fun with them last night; he left Jayne to play with them a bit more when he went to see his little girl. He had told him not to kill them but from what he saw, he doubted he obeyed - his thoughts were interrupted with a groan of pain. The two m