Simon Says

Is Simon a caring brother who gave up everything to rescue his sister from a torture camp or just a crazy kidnapper? An AU seen through a different POV.

Usual disclaimer: This is my first Firefly fanfic, constructive critism always appreciated. Unadulterated praise is even more appreciated. My apolgies for any grammatical mistakes but I'm not a writer by profession and I couldn't spell correctly without a spell checker to save my life.

Oh yeah, and Firefly and all it's characters belong to Joss Whedon.

Chapter I: Whitefalls

River screamed. It was so bright in the room. She groggily crawled out of the box, out of the dark into the light. Her mind was all muddled, where was she and who are all these people? She tried looking around but her head just kept spinning. And then she saw... him.

"Simon...?", she whispered recognizing him. He spoke to her in low tones,

"They're gone... they're gone. We're safe now. We're safe. we're safe, I'm here," Simon slowly approached her and drew her shaking body close to him. But she only continued to shake in fear. She had to to tell them, she had to warn them. That Simon was completely out of his gorram mind. But before she could take another breath she felt the all too familiar sting of a hypospray piercing her from her back. Simon quickly palmed the small hypo into his sleeve as he held her. River tried to keep her thoughts focused as the drugs once again flooded her system. The last thing she remembered at that point was someone asking, "What the hell is this?" and Simon answering, "This is my sister.." and she saw him flash his small secret smile of his to her before things starting fading to black. The very same smile he had when he locked her in the box.

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Malcom Reynolds was in a world of trouble. His latest passenger was apparently a wanted fugitive who broke his sister out of a covert goverment program in a cryo box. Then there was the matter of an Alliance officer who was chasin