By The Point Of Caring

by heathxn

Margaret came out of a brush with the Firefly clan with nothing more than a bucket of fried chicken and a serious case of the creeps. A decade later, as she flees an abusive relationship and ends up in the southernmost point of Texas, she runs into Otis and Foxy, and there's no happy fried-chicken ending this time.

1. Warnings

and i've gone by the point of caring
some old bed i'll soon be sharing
and i've got one more silver dollar
but i'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no
not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider

[ the allman brothers band - midnight rider ]

An introductory word of warning:

This fic is and will be incredibly dark and violent.
If you're a fan of the Firefly family, you'll have a pretty good idea of what we're in for here. If not, well, turn back now.

This story can only loosely be considered romance, and is more of a study in Stockholm syndrome, obsession and abuse.

I'm aiming for this story to be true to its source material in terms of tone and vocabulary. It's grim, it's bleak, and it's vulgar.
The characters depicted are not good people, no matter what light you cast them in, and their actions and words will reflect that.
This is a blanket warning for violence, gore, intense and potentially non-consensual sex scenes, profanity and slurs of various severity.
Canonically, these characters are both a product of their time and an example of the lowest parts of society, and as much as I fangirl over a good villain, their views do not reflect mine at all.

Enjoy the ride.