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 and a half years after Serenity (BDM) and has the established couples of Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara, Zoë/Allan and Jayne/River. Follows after Birthday and Recollections.

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A/N:

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Thanks to Woonsocket for the Proofreading!!!

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The Bash

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Chapter Seven

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Fred put Sara to bed in her crib. After turning on the baby monitor, she quietly closed the master bedroom door and returned to the sitting room. She had hardly plopped herself back down on the sofa when the cortex dinged with an incoming message. It was from Marion.

“Hey, Marion, you guys on the way back?”

“No, Fred. There's been a problem... Allan was shot.”

“What? Shot... how?”

“Long story but in the meantime, Zoë and I are on the way to the hospital. New London Memorial.”

“What do you want me to do?”

Lock it down. Don't let anyone in unless it's me or Zoë. Keep a gun handy too.”

“Is someone after the baby?”

“Don't know but better safe than sorry.”

“Let me know what's happening,” Fred replied.

“We will... just pulling up to the hospital now. I'll call as soon as I can.”

Marion cut the wave and Fred sat in shock. Allan had to be alright, he had to. He just became a father. He deserved to see Sara grow up.

Looking about the room, Fred realized that her pistol was in the bedroom. Rising to her feet she headed that way to collect it. After strapping her holster around her hips, Fred checked her pistol. The old .357 had belonged to her father. Spinning the cylinder once, she dropped it back into her holster. Almost as an afterthought she grabbed a pistol grip pump shotgun from Marion's weapons case.

After leaning the shotgun against the sofa, Fred sat back on the sofa, she tried to get back into the movie she had been watching but couldn't. She flipped to a news channel.

“... Blue Sun CEO Allan Bryant was critically wounded this evening by an unnamed