He stood darkness surrounding him again. He sighs not again he thinks feeling eyes and crawls on him then the pull comes. He feels the dragging sensation moving him irreverently back.
Captain jack Harness sits up grasping for breathe as a hand instinctively grabs for his chest over his beating heart.
"WOAH!" A voice calls. "Easy now."
"That's, that's not possible" another voice speaks in the room.
"Easy Doc there are a great many mysteries in the 'verse. This man may just be one of them."
"Mysteries? no he was dead. D.E.A.D dead!"
"He is just out of time, bad wolf, a fixed point, a problem says THE doctor, he was unmade remade Opps"
"River?"
"Doc get her out of here before she goes off"
"How we flying?"
"Shiny captain, real shiny"
"Good, I need that list of parts before next port."
"On it captain tight parts."
"Inara?"
"Captain"
"I'll be in my bunk"
"Course you will."
The room cleared as jack Tried to gain some idea of where and when he was.
"I found you in the bar"
Jack looked at the man talking. He was jack's type didn't explain the death he just came back from, The brown coat that he knew and gave him a time to work with.
"A fellow brown coat then could have been worst" jack asked.
"From a man with a blue coat that a bit of a lark."
"Just from the wrong time that's all."
"Time?"
"Time a….never mind, Jack harness 51st cennn….battalion."
"Malcolm Reynolds. Serenity valley."
"They said no one got out of that hell."
"I got out with a few."
And that's how it started. Jack looked again and the man in the Brigg with him, both bruised and cut up and smelling of bad ale.
The two men had hit a bar next port. Drinking more than proper, before long they were both mouthy, jack hit on a guy, cute reminded Jack of the doctor, well one of his many faces before realising he was Alliance.
"You know what they say I'll do anything with a pulse, you proved them wrong, though you look like a friend of mine, which is an insult to my friend, I'll fix that, oh, and you are not my type." Hitting the man breaking his nose.
And fight broke out before Alliance men stormed the bar hauling the two drunken friends away.
"This happen to you a lot?"
"Every U-day."
Both men laugh until Zoë is stand before them.
"Sir?" arms folded and not amused.
Both men leave each other's company that day on good terms. Jack never did get around to explaining how he came back to life or the strange tech on his wrist. While Reynolds never did get around to talking of why river was so fiercely protected by all on board serenity or the toy dinosaurs that never left the with the words "Like leaf on the wind" craved below as if a shrine.