Disclaimer: See part 1 (yep still not money)

Serenity’s Heart

Part 3

Courage is not the towering oak that sees the storms came and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

- Alice Mackenzie Swaim

On board Serenity

Mal was feeling a wide variety of emotions. The strongest of them was anger and confession. When he, Zoë, and Jayne had finally made it back to the ship with the bag of money for doing nothing he had found out Kaylee was nowhere to be found. According to Wash, the young mechanic was there one minute and not the next. Mal didn’t like not knowing what was going especially when it had to deal with his crew or his ship. Next to him Inara stood a worry look settle on her face, she had been in her shuttle the whole time they were gone. Kaylee was supposed to come see her when the young girl had finish what she needed to do on the engine. When she didn’t show Inara had gone looking for her. She was the first to realize that Kaylee was missing.

“Wash I’m going to asks you this one more time and this time I better not hear I don’t know out of you. Where is Kaylee?” Mal asked his voice dripping with anger. His eyes narrowed onto the small man who now shrunk under his intense gaze.

“Mal I don’t know what to say. Last I saw her, Kaylee told me she was going to work on the engine.” Wash answered him quickly knowing it wasn’t the answer Mal was looking for, but it was the only one he had.

“Sir, Kaylee wouldn’t leave the ship without telling someone first.” Zoë stated drawing Mal attention from her husband.

“If that true, then where the hell is she?” Mal asked his first officer practically shouting. She knew though, that he wasn’t mad at her, but at himself for not being there for whatever had happened to Kaylee. Zoë had been through the war with him. She had been with him longer then anyone else he knew. He looked to her when he didn’t have the answers. This time though, he knew she didn’t have the answers either.

“Maybe this would help.” Shepard Book said as he enter