Abyss

By Cassandra E

Rating: R for strong violence language, and very disturbing images.

Disclaimer: Firefly is not mine, property of Fox, 20th Century, and Joss Whedon etc.

The story is mine, though. So there.

Summary:

‘It was her land and no gorram purplebelly was taking it from her.’

A/Notes: I’m not quite sure where this story/vignette originated. But I found myself thinking about Mal’s mother and what kind of person she was. And then this theory on how Mal knows about Reavers and what they can do. And how supposedly the Reavers came aboard the ship in Bushwhacked, yet there was no sign of a struggle. Makes a person ponder. I don’t remember from which culture/country that burned/raze the land, (I think it was Russia in WWII) so the enemy couldn’t reap from it. And going by the timeline to get an ‘idea’ http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/firefly dot html, I’m setting U-day around late May.

To Jebbypal: You rock. Like pop rocks and hot tamales! :: grin::

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And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you are not troubled:

For all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For a nation shall rise against nation, and the kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes…all in diverse places. But they shall endure unto the end shall be saved. --Matthew, 24:6—13

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Early May 2511, Shadow

The figure surveyed the landing Alliance scum from a distance. Like a hive of hornets whose nest had been disturbed, they littered the sky and the land. A small battalion sent to calm the unruly masses on Shadow that had been covertly sending supplies to Independents. On the last shipment, they'd been raided and tagged by the Alliance, probably informed on by some gorram tattling purplebelly