Author’s Note: See I told you there was a 4th chapter coming in sooner rather than later! This chapter comes with a warning. While there is nothing explicitly SPOILERISH in this story, this story may allude to events that take place in the movie. Let’s call it Serenity Foreshadowing. This will not by any means ruin the film for you, as I do not allude to the actual results and circumstances of events in the film. I am just warning you, if you are that sensitive to the minor possibility that you may be reading a story that has something remotely to do with the movie, then stop now, and read this on the 1st of October.

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She was warm. It was a beautiful sunny day, a classic summer day on Artemis. She could feel the grass between her bare toes; it tickled the backs of her legs when she sat on it. Her sun-dress was roughly 5 shades lighter than the sky. She was happy.

He picked her up from behind and spun her around and around, feet flying through the air. Centrifugal force was pulling her feet to the sky. Her giggles filled the air; a child’s melody flowed out of her. She was free.

Her father had been a handsome man, with dark hair, and olive skin, but with eyes as blue as the second moon of Artemis. Those eyes usually held sorrow, a secret of things left unsaid. When he was with her they filled with pride and joy, she was the one thing he had done right in a lifetime full of wrong.

She was his little princess. She appeared as a near carbon copy of her mother, but with his personality traits, hard-headedness, perfectionism and feisty determination. He wished he could offer her more than this tiny planet in the middle of nowhere.

He had once been important. He had once made a home on one of the more civilized worlds. As he moved up the power chain from simple police man to Security Council member he traveled through all of the places where the finest men in the ‘verse lived. He was cruel, he was ruthless, and the system repaid him for every piece of it