Disclaimer: Joss, Fox, Universal Own em’. (Except for Allan. He's mine) I’m just playing. No money being made.

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This story takes place four years after Serenity (BDM) and has the established couples of Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara, Zoë/Allan and Jayne/River. Follows seven months after Birthday.

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A/N: this story line will explore Allan's life back on Earth when he was a young man. It will consist of a number of long flashback sequences. I've never written anything like this so cross your fingers.

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Thanks again Chris for the Beta.

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Recollections

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Chapter One

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“Here you go Zoë.”

“Thanks Marion,” Zoë replied as she took the offered fruit drink.

“You know,” Allan commented as he looked at the young woman who was his bodyguard, “Just because I hired you to be my bodyguard doesn't mean you have to wait on us hand and foot.”

“Allan, for what you pay me, I should be cleaning the bathrooms around here.”

“Still...”

“Relax Dear,” Zoë chuckled from her perch on the lounge chair on the rear deck of she and Allan's new home on Boros.

“Fine,” Allan grinned as he gazed at his very pregnant wife. Zoë was seven months along and she had never looked more beautiful in Allan's eyes.

Allan leaned back in his own deck chair and closed his eyes. Inhaling deeply, he smiled, “Nights like this remind me of when I was kid.”

“How is that dear?”

“Sitting out on the deck after supper, drinking iced tea, enjoying a nice warm evening with family.”

“Sound nice,” Marion said as she sat in her own chair. Allan had moved her into the guest bedroom on the first floor when the house had been finished.

She had initially balked at the idea, insisting that she could get her own place. Allan had insisted. Arguing that the nearest place with an apartment to rent was nearly ten miles from what Mal now called Serenity Acres.

“Ohh,” Zoë said suddenly.

“You okay Baby?”

“Your daughter is a mite restless tonight. Just stepped on my bladder... again,” Zoë replied as she struggled to g