Saw That Coming : Part 6-Conclusion

Tying Up Loose Ends

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Malcolm Reynolds lay back in his bunk on Serenity, elbows out, and hands cradling the back of his head. It had been a good day. The plan had gone smooth, almost flawless.

Malcolm, when he had time, liked to review in his mind the experiences of each job undertaking. He liked to think about what had gone right, what had been wrong, and what could be done better.

Malcolm wasn’t the type of Captain to sit lightly on his successes. Getting complacent could get somebody killed. So far Serenity had been lucky enough to have come away from every job undertaking with all her folk still standing. Or, at least without injures that were unable to heal. There had been those times whenever that claim had been in question though.

Shepherd Book could say that it had something to do with a “Higher Power” looking after Serenity and her crew. But Malcolm Reynolds didn‘t think so. Serenity created her own destination, and her crew fought it’s own battles. Fate….had just been gentle with Serenity, and had allowed the ’ol girl’s family to see another day.

Anyway, all this aside, the captain took stock of what had gone on over the past few days.

First of all, his contacts with Badger. The Persephone crime boss had discovered, by means of associations, who the folk were behind all the treachery. The ones trying to set Mal, and his crew up for failure and prison time.

Atherton Wing! That sneaky bastard! Well, Mal hoped that this last rendezvous with one of Persephone’s high society snobs had scared him enough into not to try something like that again. The look on Atherton’s face when the captain had grabbed the grip of his pistol had told Mal that he realized that the threat was real. Also, it hadn’t been an idle threat. Mal meant to carry it out if there were any more trouble with that fellow.

Second, the weapons shipment. Once Serenity had gotten close enough to Persephone’