Meadow was famous. Most people didn't realize it when they saw her on the streets, but she was the girl fighting Reavers in the still capture.

Nate had taken captures and forgotten about them in the aftermath. He found them again three years later, hidden at the bottom of his things. One picture among them was a shot with Meadow in the center, to the left was the falling body of a Reaver just slain, a skewered Reaver on her right, and just behind her was the Reaver she was turning to kill. That was the Reaver who had put the savage blade right through her abdomen. And that blade was sticking a good four inches out in front of her.

That capture made his reputation and led to his decision to leave.

Naturally, Meadow was furious. After three years (one where they weren't sneaking around because Meadow was finally eighteen) they were both completely in love with each other, but Nate couldn't stay on Serenity, and Meadow couldn't leave.

Only Inara saw her cry and comforted her in her anguish. Zoe, River, and Kaylee knew she did, they helped her to look presentable afterwards. But there wasn't a man aboard who could say they knew for certain that she had shed even a single tear over the event. She emerged dry-eyed and civil to the point of indifference to say good-bye when he disembarked.

Her picture being popping up all over the 'verse a month later, much to the amusement of some of their business partners - namely Badger - and to the horror of everyone who looked on Meadow as a grandchild.

Nate sent Meadow an original print, but she couldn't look at it without feeling pain all through her side. River adored the capture and so she saved it from the trash. "She created the most perfect poetry," she told Zoe when the first-mate asked why she held onto it. "Now the entire 'verse can appreciate it too."

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Okay, big delay. I'll try not to go so long again, but I've been in a very weird mood, so... enjoy!