Into the Blue Chapter 4

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This fic takes place just over two years after Serenity (BDM) and has the established couples of Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara, Zoë/OC and Jayne/River.

A/N:

Thanks again Chris for the beta…

Into the Blue

Chapter Four – Reconciliation’s

Gabriel Tam thought he must be going mad. Either that or God or Buddha himself must be conspiring against him. In the last twenty four hours he and his wife had nearly been kidnapped or killed by agent’s of the Blue Sun corporation, watched as his long lost daughter had shot and killed the two blue handed agents in cold blood, been virtually kidnapped by her daughters supposed friends, and then shanghaied off Persephone with nothing but the clothes on his back. Later he found out his long lost Son was engaged to some rim born girl mechanic. To top it all off, he walked in on some back birth oaf proposing marriage to his little girl. And she had accepted. The shock of that caused him to faint.

Now he lay on an exam chair in a small infirmary on the rickety old Firefly his Son and Daughter called home. The indignity of it all.

“Dad, you really need to relax,” Simon said quietly, “Your blood pressure is much too high for my liking”

“You? You’re worried about my blood pressure? Simon you are half the cause of my blood pressure!”

“Feel better now that you got that off your chest?” Simon said smugly.

Gabriel sighed. Looking his son in the eye he said, “You are enjoying this aren’t you?”

“A bit,” Simon admitted.

“Are you going to gloat and say I told you so about River?”

“Only if you think it would help.”

Gabriel huffed and looked away from his son for a moment. Coming to some sort of conclusion, he turned back.

“I’m sorry Son, I should have believed you when you showed me the letters from River. I… I thought it was just a game she was playing. I was angry when they caught you in the blackout zone. I thought you were