Author Notes: You'd have to have seen 'Objects In Space' to know why this is in Firefly.
Spoilers: Some for 'Objects In Space'
Warnings: This is probably going to turn out AU, because it's just speculation about a character.
Disclaimer: I don't own Firefly or any of its characters, Joss Whedon does.
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And the prey ran and ran. If he stopped, well, he couldn't think about it. 'Just keep running and don't look back!'
He ran and ran, but the hunter followed him. He would have to out run him...
This was all the Alliance's fault...if only if the Independents had won. But they didn't. And now the Alliance wanted them all dead. All of the former fighters for freedom. But he wasn't one.
He was only ten when his father went off to war, and never came back, and mother had told him that his father was dead. Dead when his son was only ten.
He hated the Alliance for that, and hated them even more for hunting him. He was innocent!
And he looked back to see if the hunter was gone. Then he tripped, and by the time he looked up, he was looking into a barrel of the gun.
"Oh God…please have mercy!" And the hunter, who look like he was in his fifties; just smirked.
"God has nothing to do with this, and the Alliance wants you and everyone else that has anything with the former Independents dead. And they are paying good money for you guys too." And the prey's eyes widen with fear, the hunter was going to kill him. But he was innocent!
"But I'm innocent! I didn't fight in the war. My father did, not me! I'm innocent!" And the smirk stayed plastered to his hunters face.
"I don't care if you're innocent, so where does that put you?" And the hunter pulled the trigger, and the prey fell dead.