The Return Home – Part 12

Kaylee saw the Reavers coming for her as she lay on her side in the front of the truck and in terror she took out her pistol and just started shooting through the window. All her nightmares were coming true and she was so scared she was shaking. Her bullets did hit one Reaver and he went down but two more were at the window, the two which had spotted her earlier, and they kicked their heavy boots and smashed at the broken glass and reached for Kaylee as her pistol went dry. She still had her seatbelt on and one Reaver pulled a wicked looking curved knife and in a second the belt was slashed. Kaylee had been screaming and her brain was so overwhelmed with fear that she didn’t understand for a second that they weren’t going to kill her. Only as they started to drag her out of the truck did it hit home that they wanted to take her alive. And that could only mean one thing. She was invited to dinner, not as a guest, but as the main course.

A bloodcurdling scream tore from Kaylee’s throat as her life flashed before her eyes, her mother and father and Simon in her thoughts and the people on a ship and a ship she loved. Rough, scarred hands were pulling her down a street by the clothing and hair and then she saw him and screamed for her Capt’n. He fired and some of her assailants fell but then he was overwhelmed by the things that wanted to consume them and Kaylee knew it was all over for both of them. Through tears she saw him raise his pistol at her and heard him scream “I love you” and it looked like he pulled the trigger and through her tears she didn’t know if the gun fired or not.

Kaylee expected to die in that instant and knew he was doing it for her as the only way to avoid a death at the hands of the Reavers. But nothing happened. Kaylee didn’t know if the bullet missed or the pistol was empty but she wasn’t shot and she wasn’t dead. And then she wished she was as she was tossed into the back of a small vehicle and an evil smelling sack was placed over her head.

A guttural