This is my first Firefly Fanfiction, love the show and the BDM. This takes place between the show and BDM.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

I do not own the rights to our friends on Serenity, just having a bit of fun!

Consequence of Actions

Chapter 1 - A Great Job.

Jayne woke with a start; he was breathing heavily and sweating. Ever on guard he didn't open his eyes till he was more aware of his surroundings. He was in his bunk, in his room and he was alone. Was the ship still flying? Yes, he could hear the engines. He listened for voices, talking or screaming - nothing.

He tried to remember what woke him. Dream. That was it, he'd been dreaming. What was the dream? He blinked a few times and tried to make himself remember. Sometimes dreams were important. They gave you clues to what going on around you. Other times, he chuckled to himself; they could be much more entertaining.

The dream had escaped him, but there was a residual that stuck in the back of his mind. A very intense sadness. He wasn't able to shake that for a few days.

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She woke with a start, eyes wide open and trying to embrace the emotions that disturbed her sleep.

"Benu." She called without speaking. Her door opened and a tall, muscular man with long black hair hurried in.

"Priestess? Are you alright?" he whispered, his ice blue eyes showing concern.

"We have guests coming." This time she actually spoke.

"Is this a good time for guests?" he frowned.

"They are somehow a part of all of this. I don't know yet know how, but they are playing a very important roll. Here, let me show you where they will be and how we need to help them."

She sat up in bed and closed her eyes as Benu sat next to her and took her hand. She showed him the images in detail from her mind.

He nodded, "Why can't you see all of them? There are a few that are still in the shadows."

She opened her deep green eyes and looked at him, "I'm not sure. Maybe I am just not strong enough anymore."

He looked at her with sad eyes. Taking a tissue from her nightstand, gently wiped her nose.

"Bleeding again?" she asked softly.

"Yes." He cleaned her face and she smiled weakly at him. Even though she was a year younger than him, she seemed so much older today.

He looked at the reminder of her life before the sect, a scar that ran from her right earlobe and down her neck, across her throat ending at the top of her left shoulder.

He looked away from the brutal evidence of how life could be and wished he could take all of her pain away.

"Thank you for taking such good care of me Benu." She touched his shoulder, reading his emotions. "You have been such a blessing for me."

He looked down, "You have been a blessing for all of us Priestess."

She smiled at the sad young man, "You will be fine Benu, I have seen it."

"I don't feel it." He sighed.

"You will, please believe me. Prepare the rooms upstairs for our guests and make sure we have plenty of food and wine. Please make sure my good gowns are cleaned and ready to wear by next week."

He nodded, noting all of her requests mentally.

"You should rest." He squeezed her hand.

"I will. Come wake me in a while. Maybe I will have another dream that will tell me more about the last one."

He left her room, closing the door behind him. He stood on there trying to clear his mind. The day was fast approaching and he was not prepared. How could he say goodbye to her that had been his focus, his life for the past 12 years?

He called the fledglings and gave them the directions from the Priestess.

She lay back down in the large bed and distantly heard Benu's thoughts. She smiled to herself, knowing he would be fine when the time came. _______________________________________________________________________

"Sir, are you sure we want this job?" Zoe looked at Mal with wary eyes.

"Look, we just had a great job, not just great…a…..really great job! I just said that didn't I? Well it was great and a great payoff for all of us. Then Fanty and Mingo offered a cool amount to just drop this data disk off. That's it, no stealin', no hurtin' nothing out of the way, just drop this off. They even paid us more just to do this! So, yes, we want this job!"

"But sir, it's so close to the Alliance core planets. If Fanty and Mingo thought it was safe, wouldn't they just do it themselves?' She wondered if he really didn't see this.

"I'm sure there is some chance of….bad things. But I have said we would do it and we will. Have Wash set the coordinates and find out how soon we will be to this planet, Judson. "

"Already did, and we will be there next week." She smiled coyly at him.

"See? This is why you are second in command. You anticipate what we need to do ahead of time." He smiled sarcastically back at her.

"Well if I was that good, I would have been able to tell you to NOT take this job before it was offered." She rolled her eyes as she walked away.

"Cap!" Kaylee hollered from the engine room, "We need a few parts, any chance we will be stopping somewhere soon?"

"Next week we will be planet side. Get me a list of what you need." He hollered back.

"Can I put a massage on that list?" she giggled.

"You can spend your money however you want Kaylee. I just don't wanna hear about it afterwards, ok?"

Jayne wandered in the galley looking for food. Mal had noticed that he was more sullen than usual the past few days.

"Jayne, we will be planet side next week. We need any ammo?"

"Where we goin'?" Jayne growled.

"Judson. Need to make a delivery for Fanty and Mingo."

"Pretty close to Alliance ain't it?"

"Ya'll been having meetings behind my back to discuss what to say to me about this job?" Mal was getting irritated now.

"Meetings? What meetings?" Jayne muttered with a mouth full of food.

"Never mind."

River wandered in the room, moving like she was chasing invisible butterflies. She stopped and glared at Jayne and then laughed. She then looked at Mal, "Judson will be fun. Lots of new people, new friends…" she looked at Jayne again, "And old friends too."

Jayne raised an eyebrow, "What old friends?"

She giggled and rolled her head tracing a line from her right earlobe and across her throat over to her left shoulder. "Why do you hurt people so?" She looked at him with all seriousness.

"Because it's fun." He answered loudly.

She shook her head and went looking for Shepherd; he sometime could make sense of her ramblings.

Mal was now beginning to wonder if this job was such a good idea. However it was too late to turn back now. They would just have to prepare for all things possible when they arrived next week.