Disclaimer: Joss and I don't go way back. In fact, I'm sure if you asked him who I was he'd have no clue. I guess I need to accept the fact that I'll never be a associated with Firefly. =o(

Author's Notes: Hmm... What can I say about this chapter? READ IT!!!

Right and Wrong

By Kay Sky

Part Eleven

She wasn’t dead, not yet. Jayne and Zoe kept their guns on Vincent as Mal stood over Anya. “Girl, do you keep getting stupider by the minute?”

She wasn’t going to make it. The best doctor in the ‘verse wouldn’t be able to save her. Two factors needed to be present for healing to take place. First, without sufficient medical treatment a patient’s chances are limited. Second, without the patient’s will to live, that patient’s chances are even more minimal.

“Too much hurt…” She spoke softly, “I can’t hurt anyone else now… I couldn’t risk hurting my…” Darkness fell over the cargo bay. Krestanya Arabella Aarons was dead.

“She’s gone.” Mal said to the crew. He hated how she hurt Kaylee. He hated how she endangered his whole crew. He hated her, but in these last few seconds something seemed real sincere about her. For the first time Mal didn’t think she was lying. “Simon, take her to the infirmary. Clean the girl up.” Mal lowered his head in his hands. “Jayne, take Vincent back to the holding room. I need sometime to think.”

Mal headed up the stairs to his room. It had been one hell of a night…and morning.

Jayne didn’t need to be told twice. He was disappointed he didn’t get to do any shooting or get to kick Vincent out the airlock right then, but he didn’t need to be told twice. He knew now wasn’t the right time to question Mal. “You heard the captain, pretty boy.” He said as he pulled Vincent off the ground. “Don’t make me do to you what Zoe did to Anya.” With that being said the two left the cargo bay.

Book was kneeling by the girl’s body, saying a prayer. He knew what the girl did was wrong, but he had sympathy for her. She must have gone through something terrible to go fr