Final Exam
Rated: PG-13
Category: Drabble, Gen, Character Death, FutureFic, SushiFic (but not precisely in timeline).
Spoilers: None, Excepting The Sushi Notes Below.
Summary: Mal's Training Pays Off.
Note: This fic will make much more sense if you've read terimaru's story A Little Gem of Innocence, in the Sushi series. (.com/sushi_#cutid1) All you need to know, though, is that Mal and Inara have two children in the series, and Mal teaches the older one, a girl of seven, to shoot in order to protect her baby brother and her family if need be. And now, for teri, 'let's do the thing'.
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They'd sent two, when Inara was out.
A chest shot dispatched one.
But the second had swung round behind, and Mal missed him.
Mal heard only a chuckle before the second man's bullet found something important.
Blood stained the floor and Mal had just one thought as steps retreated from him.
The children.
Mal heard a report, then felt a body land hard beside him.
A baby screamed.
Suddenly, a young girl was beside him, smoking gun and bellowing baby in her arms.
Mal grinned and spoke the last words the two would ever hear from their father.
"Good girl."