TITLE: "BY ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED"

AUTHOR: Alison M. DOBELL

FANDOM: "FIREFLY"

PAIRING: Mal. Jayne. Crew.

RATING: G.

STATUS: First in the 'FRIENDS AND ENEMIES' Series.

ARCHIVE: Yes. Just let me know where.

FEEDBACK: Welcomed.

EMAIL: AlisonMDobell@aol.com

WEBSITE: None. All Firefly stories archived at Fireflyfans.net

SUMMARY: "The Captain contemplates his situation while

struggling to understand just what in the nine hells happened."

The usual disclaimers apply. The characters and 'Firefly'

are the property and gift of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.

No infringement of copyright is intended.

"BY ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED"

"Firefly" story

Written by Alison M. DOBELL

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It was dark. Hollow pinpricks of light formed splinters in the black dividing the shadows into shades of not-light. Little glittering motes of dust briefly illuminated as the stale air stirred with every shudder from above. He would have closed his eyes but somehow it felt important not to do so, to take in as much of the meagre information he could glean from this most depressing of places. He wanted to speak, question the silence for answers that his tired brain could not grasp. So very weary, pain keeping step with the agony of forcing thoughts into some linear concept of coherence. It was all so gorram vague, remote. Unfathomable and out of reach. Every thought, movement, emotion a tortured elongated journey with no true course beyond the random firing of his befogged and sluggish brain.

He shifted and could not stifle a cry. Hardly aware of the stinking water pooling around his knees, one shoulder leaning heavily against the dripping fetid wall of the room, the foul liquid seeping through his clothing yet barely impinging on his consciousness above the ebbing throb of unrelieved agony. Where in the nine hells was he and what the good gorram had happened? Silence echoed back at him taking form before his eyes in ni