Summary: An overheard conversation sparks an unusual confession. This is a sequel drabble to "Secerts on the Firefly" by The Evil Author (FFN story id: 1300708). Please read it before continuing to the drabble below.
Disclaimer: All characters in these stories belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy Productions.
"No," Malcom Reynolds repeated as he stood in the hatchway.
Zoey was flabbergasted. "How could you possibly know about my past?"
The captain of the Serenity sighed. "Well, could be because I found the diary of my twenty-times great grandpappy who was a psychotic preacher that allied himself with a primal force of evil about the same time in order to cleanse the Earth of unclean women and got bisected by a vampire slayer with an scythe for his trouble."
Zoey stared at him in disbelief.
Then he smirked, "or maybe you can't hold your liquor."
A.N.: Actor Nathan Fillion played "Caleb", first disciple of the "First Evil" and leader of the Bringers in the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.