It had taken him some time to decide to make his original offer a more serious one.

However, the facts of the matter are simple: Mary is growing up, no longer the young girl he’d first met and become fond of, and her interest in medicine has not abated. Gabriel Tam remembers quite well his shock at the primitive state of medical care on Earth- ( Read more... )

It had taken a little more planning than he'd originally expected, due to the need to revise his arrangements in light of Regan's and Vincent's mutual concern and the promise he'd ended up making to Simon ( Read more... )

The timing of the press conference and his announcement had been carefully planned ( Read more... )

Vincent Navarro doesn't like hopeless situations. Especially when they're avoidable.

That is, it's avoidable in this case if someone can just find a way to break through Gabriel Tam's stubborn denial. He'd thought that after hearing the warning he'd issued in the strongest possible terms upon learning of Tam's travel intentions that the man would ( Read more... )

Time passes. Life goes on ( Read more... )

It's late. Regan's at a dinner party with friends; they'd originally planned to attend together, but Gabriel had ended up sending his regrets at the last minute and leaving her to represent the both of them on her own. He'll make it up to her later, somehow ( Read more... )

The hotel concierge had hastily arranged a private conference room for him, at least, but he's under no illusion that his own influence had anything to do with it. It's the fact that he's there as a special courier with an urgent message for Senator Gabriel Tam ( Read more... )

Gabriel is in his study, ostensibly going over a sheaf of files that need review before the next Parliamentary session.

What he's doing instead, however, is twirling a pen back in forth in his fingers, and paying absolutely no attention to the open document on his desk.

He's looking at a picture of River, taken just before she went to the Academy

It's been a relatively quiet afternoon. He's spent it either reading or working on the first draft of the speech he plans to give at the next press conference.

After the first hour of that, he'd positively welcomed the interruption when Serenity's captain stopped by for a visit-- a rather pleasant one, all told. Mal's gone back to Milliways at ( Read more... )

Part of the recovery process involves regular appointments with a number of physicians, both specialists and generalists, all of whom tend to profess themselves amazed and pleased at what they call an unusally quick rate of healing-- not unheard-of, to be certain, but still quite rapid ( Read more... )