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This story was written for the LJ Copper for a Kiss, Rayne 2008 Prompt Challenge.

It's set in my “Allanverse” about 12 years into the future from my current in progress fic “Into The Blue”

The crew of Serenity is still together. Children have been conceived and are growing up.

Cast of characters:

The kids:

Jefferson (Jeff) Reynolds 11

Emma Reynolds 7

Sara Bryant 10

Rebecca Tam 11

John (Jack) Tam 8

Rachel Cobb 6

Jesse Cobb 4

Challenge # 18 “Break”

Breaking Things

Eleven years ago, the crew of Serenity had decided to put down roots after the first children had been conceived in their makeshift family.

Allan Bryant, Zoë's husband, had wrestled the company he had founded on Earth that was over four hundred years ago back into his hands. It hadn't been easy but now with his new found wealth, a wife and with Inara and Mal expecting their first child. Allan decided to make a gift to the people who had saved his life and rescued him from the derelict ship where he had been in cryogenic suspension for nearly four hundred years.

Purchasing three hundred acres of land on Boros near the small city of New Edmonton from Zoë's old Sgt. Major who now was the local sheriff. Allan had five rambling ranch style log homes built on the site. One each for the couple's on Serenity and one as a guest house.

In the center of the compound was a small barn for the horses, a large workshop for Kaylee and off to one side, a landing pad for their old home, Serenity.

Serenity still flew the odd cargo run, but mostly was used to ferry Allan around in his capacity as the CEO and President of Blue Sun.

With the fall of the old Blue Sun corporation and the disclosure of what the company had done in concert with Parliament, the Alliance had nearly fallen. In the fallout of Miranda, Allan's retaking of Blue Sun and all the atrocities committed by both Parliament and Blue Sun, nearly every member of the bo