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"And you have a fight." Wash finish the idea that everyone was having.

"Actually, I saw how tired he was, so I thought to let him sleep. I wish him 'night and leave him. He enter his bunk and now he's gone."

Scared

~Serenity~

With the captain gone, god knows where, Zoe was now in charge. Jayne was the only one who didn't exactly like the hole arrangement. He try to make Simon and Shepard realize that Zoe is to emotional for the job, but neather ever want to hear him. Wash find him about an hour later and all he wanted was a talk.

"What?" Jayne question, when Wash found him in the kitchen, didn't even turn to look him.

"You tell me? Since Mal is missing, next in command is my wife. But every single moment you try to make something to put the unity of this crew in danger. I know she is not Mal, we all miss him and try to figure out what is going on. But unless you want to destroy Serenity, I sugest you adapt the new chain of command." Jayne was now in his feet, right in front of Wash, who didn't even blink. Realizing the hall situation and how it could develop, Zoe, who was admiring her husband even more, step from her cover and caught Jayne hand before he could hit Wash.

"Thank you dear, I take it from here." she told to a very confused Wash, turn Jayne hand to his bank and drive him outside the kitchen.

As soon they arrive in the cargo bay, Zoe release Jayne's hand. "I know you hate it, heck we all hate that he is not here. I don't know where he is, if his ok and if he can come back. All I know is that we owe him to stay togher, to keep Serenity in the sky and make sure we do it proud. I may not be a guy, or the best captain there is, but I'm hell not giving up on him, on us. If you want to leave, your free to go, wait till the next place and then just leave. But don't, and I literally mean DON'T EVER CROSS ME AGAIN." Zoe try to keep her straight voice, but she fail, anger and rage fill her entire body. Jayne was shocked. He look up and see the rest of the crew and he desider to give up.

"I'm done. At the next place, I'm gone. You are nuts if you still think that he is coming back and even if he did, you will be long gone. So good look. Let me know when we land." He said angry and left for his bunk.

~Castle~

Kate wanted to make sure that Mal is not a wacko, so she talked to a psychologist to come at Castle loft, Alexis and Martha will be in town, only her and Rick.

In that evening, someone name doctor Amalia Shancher come to the loft for Mal. She introduce herself to him, Kate took Mals gun before the doctor could get there.

Mal, who was staing in one of Castles guest room, only make Kate to take the other, right next to his, just to make sure that he is not a maniac that is going to kill them. After taking his gun away from him , Kate could sleep less worried.

"Hey, Mal." Rick call in the morning.

"Morning, Rick" Mal replay sleepy.

"Hey, listen. Kate talked to a doctor and he is going to talk to you in about two hours." Rick inform Mal, who was now in his feet and with a creapy expration.

"Why?" something in betwin angriness, fear and frustration was in his voice.

"Because we want to make sure you are capabile to function in our world and not kill us in our sleep" Kate said from behind Mal, witch make him jump a little.

"I'm not going to that, unless you make me." Mal inform them, both, Kate and Rick exchange looks.

"You have to understand that I have a 17 year old in this house, and I'll do everything in my power to make sure she is safe." Rick said sharply, but Mal understand it very well. Heck he fell the same for Kaylee, River or Inara.

"I understand. I just wanna go back." He said sad.

"You miss them." Kate stated, witch made Mal look at her in understanding

"Yes, very much." a tear could be seen in his left eye. Kate wanted to know more about where he is from, maybe she could find something that could lead her to the reason he is here. But before she could do that, a knock in the front door, woke her to reality.

"Hello, I'm doctor Shancher." the visitor inform them, shaking hands with all three.

"Hello, I'm Kate and this are Rick and Mal." Kate was all profesion, but seeing the woman made Rick and Mal bearly stop laughing.

"Aaaa, mrs. Castle. I am very please to meet you" at that statement, both guy start laughing loudly, making Kate realize the funny of the situation.

The doctor wasn't an ugly woman, heck she has really beautiful features, only her clouse, make up, bag and practicly everything about her scream nutjob.

"If she is the doctor, are you sure she can evaluate me correctly?" Mal whisper question made Rick question that himself.

"Just talk normaly, maybe she has some meaning when she talk. If you don't like her or don't like the questions, just leave. " Rick was now concern about the sanity of the woman.

Kate and Rick invite both the doctor and Mal, to Ricks office, for privacy. Half an hour later, the doctor exist the office and requested to talk to both of them, so Mal get in the kitchen and the couple fallow the woman in the office.

"I'm sorry to inform you, but your brother is crazy. He really lost it. All he talk about is some sort of ship that fly betwin planets, about a girl that could repair the ship engine in her sleep, a crazy girl that could see the future, a hooker that give them some sort of free pass. He's having schizophrenia. I'm going to call my collegues and we will get him to a facility that could help him." She was really convince about Mal disorder. Rick new exactly how a schizophrenia attack look like and Mal was far from one.

"Excuse me, but I really like to ask for another opinion. I know that psychiatry is a very vast domain and even with a book that give you all the simtoms is still very hard to miss diagnostic someone. I really love my brother and I don't want to destroy his life because you or anyone else made a mistake. We'll keep in touch." He sais directed her to the door.

"Are you sure?" Kate ask him, Mal try to make him gone.

"Don't leave." Rick turn to Mal, who came back to the kitchen counter. "Kate, I know how schizophrenia look like. And Mal is not even close. You see stuff that are not there, like people or stuff, but you are not see an entire univers. At best could be delusional, but not schizo." She was confused.

"Rick, are you..?" she stopped didn't wanting to think that he is sick.

"Relax, I had a friend in college that has schizophrenia. And before I realize that, it's been 3 years. He slept my sholder one time, because he saw a spider. And he was looking in his palm and smile at the dead spider. Then he look at me and realize that his palm was empty and he was only imagining it. So he told me and since then I made sure that no one else knew, except his girlfriends. And now why don't you tell us the hall story." He said that looking at Mal.