No spoilers... this is based between the end of the show and before the movie.

Sometimes you just gotta wonder why. Why you were dealt with a mediocre life, and why did it turn out so bad? The thing that got Mal the most was, this wasn't even his doing. He was just zipping along on Serenity when he met this gal… got married to her, and then boom! And you’d think that was good, wouldn’t you? But no, even a marriage has got to be hard. Well, given the fact that he woke up to her and her compatriots trying to steal his ship. What was it about HIS ship, that made everybody want to jack it?

What the hell! And hadn’t this already happen to him once before? The whole Yo-Saf-Bridge incident, as he liked to call it, was now happening again. Only ‘her’ name was Eve. And this time… he KNEW about the marriage. This time… he actually loved her. And this is what he gets in return.

He should have listened to the crew. They knew something was up with this girl… but his instinct told him different.

It was love at first sight. That never happens to him, not Mal Reynolds… no way. But it was… and he relished in it. Things started to go good for him… and the crew. They got more business… he was thinking of even hanging up the old gun and buying a moon somewheres, once they got enough money on their latest endeavor.

A smile crept to his lips, but then SHE walked past, and he started to glare at her.

But like all good things, they’ll come to an end eventually. Most times… harsh!

She looked back at him, saw the glare, and felt so bad. She couldn’t tell him why she was doing this, or else ‘they’ would kill her. So she turned away, pretending to look out the main bridge window, trying to force back the tears.

She turned to Wash, who was sitting up at his console, also, glaring at her.

“How much longer we got?”

He wiggled in his chair, trying to reach the nav computer, pretending to strain with all his might.

“I don’t know… I can’t reach it.”

She walked up the gangway to reach the na