Title: Finding Our Way

Rating: PG- NC-17

Synopsis: Searching for jobs on a wealthy Border world takes an unexpected, yet pleasant, turn. Simon meets a mysterious woman who insists that he deliver cargo to her homeworld of Osiris and things, as usual, don’t go as planned.

Timeframe: One month after the last episode ‘Objects in Space’. This story completely discounts the movie.

Notes: This story was originally intended to just be mindless fluff with no plot. It wanted a plot and so has turned into a 106 page monster.

Disclaimer: This story is not meant to infringe on the copyright of any person or company related to the trademarked characters and situations depicted in the Serenity movie or Firefly series. I make no money from this. OnIy done for fun - and a desperate craving to have more stories told about this wonderful ‘verse Joss Whedon created.

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Finding Our Way

Chapter 1

River had always been a very intuitive child. Even when she didn’t want to know what her brother was thinking, doing, what girls he liked, she did – much to his complete and utter annoyance. And after he had freed her from the Academy, her gifts had been more pronounced. She could not only hear what he was thinking, she knew what he was doing, who he was with and what he was feeling. But there were some days that she didn’t want to know these things. She could see into his heart, see his hopes and his dreams for the future. Many of those included her – and some of them did not.

Kaylee was a focus of his dreams. Had been for a long while. While every bit of his attention was focused on his sick sister while he was awake, his dreams were his own. And when River couldn’t sleep, she sat awake, feeling the intensity of those dreams, those hopes, those desires wash over her like a thunderous wave.

Tonight, the thoughts were crowding her, trampling through her head and making her feel things that she couldn’t, shouldn’t, know. She crawled out of bed, clad in only one of Simon’s shirts and walke