TITLE: "BETWEEN HERE AND THERE"

SERIES: THE DICHOTOMY SERIES

CHAPTER: 1.

FANDOM: "FIREFLY"

AUTHOR: Alison M. DOBELL

PAIRING: Zoe/Tracy

RATING: PG-13

SUMMARY: "During the Battle of Serenity

Valley the Browncoats are ordered to surrender

by their leaders only to find themselves thrown

into prison by the Alliance. From thereon things

start to get increasingly bizarre."

"BETWEEN HERE AND NOW"

A "Firefly" story

Written by Alison M. DOBELL

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This was his seventh time in the Hole and for what? War was over and them as had won were using what was laughingly called their 'surrender' at Serenity Valley as an opportunity to imprison, torment and torture those brave few who had stood against them. Fools like his own self, folk who just wanted to live free and not under the yolk of those seeking to grab power and wealth for their own selves. Why did he ever think it would be a fair fight? Those with money and power amassed not only the soldiers and armaments to crush any kind of rebellion but also had the fancy technology that was beyond the reach of simpler folk. Simpler but no less important in his own Independent eyes. And now here he was again, in the bottom of that foul cesspit of a hole they called solitary confinement, staring up at a crack in the lid of that evil tomb which gave him the only glimpse of sky he would see until somebody remembered he was down there.

Malcolm Reynolds had not raged or put up any kind of resistance this time. Underfed and kept in appalling conditions he had grown thinner than a lathe. Zoe too. Yet they were the lucky ones or so some would say. As he sat at the bottom of that oubliette he leaned his aching back against one side but could not rest. Faces in a never ending parade filling his gorram mind. Men he had known and grown up with, filled with the righteous need to fight for the freedom of their way of life