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[aint_comin_back]

[The footsteps are urgent. There's smoke rising into the bright sky. Smoke and dust and death: in the background, the settlement is what amounts to a war zone. Mal rounds the embankment, skidding as he turns to see the thing he almost expected and never wanted. He stops long enough to bark an order at Jayne, behind him:] Get the Doc. [He doesn't

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[wasinnocent]

[This is awkward.]

Mal?

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[aint_comin_back]

[Awkward for you. Hurts like hell for Mal.] Yeah?

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[wasinnocent]

You okay there?

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[aint_comin_back]

Yeah. Ain't a thing.

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[wasinnocent]

Looks like a thing to me.

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[aint_comin_back]

Ever had everyone out there comin' down on ya?

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[wasinnocent]

Story of my life for thousands of years.

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[aint_comin_back]

Then you know how the gorram story goes.

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[wasinnocent]

Yeah...way too well. I'm sorry it cost you a friend.

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[aint_comin_back]

More'n one.

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[wasinnocent]

Mind me asking what was going on?

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[aint_comin_back]

I harbored a fugitive on my boat -- River. The government wanted her and wanted her bad. Girl wasn't quite right; they made her that way. Put secrets in her brain that could take 'em down. They found her. They came after her. Killed everyone we'd ever taken shelter with.

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[wasinnocent]

Doing the right thing seems to always have the biggest price, doesn't it?

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[aint_comin_back]

S'always been that way.

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[wasinnocent]

Trust me, that's one thing I know all too well.

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[aint_comin_back]

Yeah. Learn that lesson early, dontcha?