Disclaimer: Firefly and characters belong to Joss and Mutant Enemy. Highlander belongs to Davis/Panzer Productions, Inc.

This is the first crossover I've ever written. Normally, I only read them, but well, a scene from this woke me up in the middle of the night and after I typed it up it still wouldn't go away. In order to be able to finish anything else, I gave in.

Feedback appreciated. Not beta-ed so all mistakes are mine.

Set after Objects in Space, but for convenience I ask you to assume that Inara's wish to leave has been resolved. Also, I have never seen the last season of the Highlander series so I'm ignoring it and I prefer to maintain that Highlander: Endgame exists in some alternate reality because I can't stand that they manage to mangle the myth yet again in the movies.

Death By Any Other Name . . . by Jebbypal

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Part 1

Inara smiled pleasantly at the lanky youth. He had been one of her first clients after her arrival on Serenity. Although surprised that he was able to pay her fees at his age without any apparent family, she had been drawn by his mysterious mixture of youth and wisdom that had been apparent even in his screening tape. Although Serenity had not been in range of Bellapharon for a few months, she had kept up a correspondence with him. She felt a connection to this man who seemed to have few, if any, ties connecting him to the galaxy or the Alliance. And more than any of her other customers, Charles Pierce had an enchanting ability to make a woman feel as if she was the only one he ever thought of while she was with him. She had even gone so far as to ask during one of their sessions if he had ever had any training at the Academy. He had only laughed and then proceeded to keep her from thinking very much at all for the rest of their time together.

"Charles, it has been too long." The man on the screen smiled at her as he lounged in front of the camera