The Plague Ship
Disclaimer: I am not Joss Whedon or anyone else with ownership or bragging rights to the Firefly 'Verse, alas. The following contains Character Death. What can I say, perhaps Joss' need to kill people is contagious?
Author's Note: I had an idea for a short fic and I wrote it. After, I didn't much like it, so I wrote it in an entirely different way. Much later, I still think it could be done better, but both versions are okay. So. This is less a fic with two chapters and more two slightly different fics on a theme.
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All across the 'Verse, all the news broadcasts on all the channels were in agreement. It was a disease, they said, somehow spreading uncontrolled and unpredictable between random planets and leaving a swath of the gruesomely dead in its wake.
The randomness of the outbreaks was just as disturbing as the deadly results in every case. People were rightfully afraid. Yet as terrible as the content of the news broadcasts were, the truth was so much worse in its own way.