For Disclaimer see part 1 (p.s. still don’t have any money)

Serenity’s Heart

Part 2

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.

~ Shirley Abbott

On board Serenity

The tears flowed freely from Kaylee’s eyes down her cheeks. She was laying in her hammock in the engine room and had been every since she ran from the mass hall. She couldn’t stop the tears from flowing any more then she could stop breathing. She knew it was coming from the time she entered the mess hall, she had see it in Mal’s eyes. She knew he was going to asks her, but she hadn’t been prepared for it. Wasn’t prepared for everyone looking at her waiting for her to answer. She had to run it was the only solution she saw at the time.

“So little Kaylee that was quite and exited you made there.” Mal’s voices brought Kaylee out of her musing. He surprise her so much that Kaylee forgot she was sitting in a hammock and shot straight up causing the hammock to tilted and throw her to the floor with a thud.

“Ow!” Kaylee said as Mal helped her up off the floor. She knew she was going to have to have a big bruise the next day.

“You okay there Kaylee?” Mal asked and when she nodded her head he stepped back letting her have some breathing room. “ So now that were alone you want to tell me what up with you?”

Mal was smart enough to realize when he was wrong. For it seemed to happen enough to her, and Mal knew now that he had made a wrong move in confronting the girl with everyone around. That didn’t mean the problem wasn’t there and that it didn’t needed to be dealt with. Mal had to get her to talk some way. Kaylee stood their, her head lowered as if there was something really interesting on the floor. Mal stood in the door way of the engine room so that Kaylee had no where to run. He waited patiently for the girl to answer him. Patients was something Mal had learned in the war. A person could g