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Finding My Serenity
One: Mal
She believes that it was fate that brought Malcom Reynolds to her. SHe'd toured plenty before him, but she'd never before been home, and family before. Mal loved her with a fierceness that if she'd had breath it'd have been stolen away. And she loved him back.
She didn't know how long she'd been there in the yard before he found her. But she did remember waking when he stepped into the cargo hold for the first time. He'd stood in the middle of the hold for a long while with a smile on his face. Suddenly she wasn't alone anymore.
It took some time to get her flying again, but it was worth it. By the time Mal was finished he'd brought her a Zoe, and a Wash and a strange mechanic she didn't like at all, then he'd brough Kaylee. And they flew, she took them places and harbored them from the storm of the world. She gained an Inara, a Jayne, and eventually a Book, and a River and a Simon.
Mal was her heart.
She wasn't alone anymore. Mal had given her a purpose. And he gave her a name.
Serenity.
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