Disclaimer : Guess what? They're mine!!! Yup, honest. Wait... you don't believe me? Damn.

Comments : 1) This chapter was originally going to be called 'Reclamation', but then the exposition fairy came and got exposition dust over *everything*. The next chapter shall be chock full of action and fun and deserving of the title ‘Reclamation’, honest.

2) The twins and I want to thank Thatweirdgirl for giving them an identity.

3) Why is it that the majority of the male characters want to up the (not for a while, but soon R/K) slash content of this fic? It's just not right, I tell you.

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She was dragged out of bed before she could wake up fully, before she could take stock of her surroundings. The hands that held her and pushed her down the dark hallway were none too gentle. Before she knew it, Kaylee found herself alone in a room with nothing but a flat screen taking up a whole wall.

"Look," a voice sneered over an unseen speaker. "it's your friend."

Sure enough, Kaylee found herself looking at River breaking into a building. By the white walls, she guessed it was this very one. Her eyes could not leave the screen as she watched River stop and have an argument with herself, the terror plain on her face as she collapsed to the ground. Her heart seized with fear as she saw the figure on the screen pull herself up and begin to walk away. They were too calm in showing her this footage.

"Don't worry about River Tam." Kaylee looked at the walls, trying to find the source of the voice. "She got what she came for and she has left already."

She couldn't understand what the voice was talking about until she looked back at the screen, at the figure of River helping a man down a different corridor. The same man who had sat with her without really being there.

"That's not..."

Kaylee wanted to say that it was old footage, that if River had come anywhere near here then she would already be free, but she co