Out to the black Chapter 6

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This is my first Fan Fic ever. Constructive reviews are shiny.

This fic takes place two years after Serenity (BDM) and has the established couples of Simon/Kaylee and Mal/Inara along with a Jayne/River friendship.

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Out to the black

Chapter Six –Dinner Conversations

“You mean to tell me, none of you have ever had a French fry?” Allan asked standing by Serenity’s stove.

“Not’s that I know’s of… What’s a french fry anyway?” Kaylee asked as she and Simon sat down at the table in the galley.

Allan laughed, “They’re pretty simple, Take a potato, cut it into strips and fry it in oil. Well that how you make homemade french fry’s, the one’s I have are commercially made, partially cooked then. All I have to do is put them in the oven for a while to heat them up… That is, if I can figure out this damn oven…”

“Hang on there Allan,” Kaylee said with a smile, moving from the table to the kitchen to help. “Just hit this switch here,” the mechanic said, “then select’s the mode you want here, convection, regular or microwave, then the temperature ya’ want then how long your cookin.”

“Thanks Kaylee, I can design engines and gravity systems but can’t figure out a stove” Allan said with a laugh as he turned back to the task of making lunch for the crew.

As Allan continued the mundane tasks of cooking, he began to think back on the last eighteen hours. It had been busy for sure. He had woken from cryo sleep three hundred years (give or take) later than he had expected. After being rescued by a tramp space freighter crew. He had told an abbreviated account of his life story, met a nineteen-year-old space ship pilot who could read minds, been in a gunfight in which he and said pilot had killed five men. Then had escaped being arrested for said gunfight because the local sheriff was an old army buddy of the ship’s First Mate and since the men they had killed were wanted criminals,