Ch.48

Maria chose to join us and we were full up now so I made sure we were ready. I set the engines for the scrapper to blow and we left, barely getting away before the scrapper was space dust. Weeks later we'd left Greenleaf and on the way to Ariel for Inara's checkup and my re-enlisting in the merchant guild. We'd dropped Shepherd off at the Bathgate abby.

When River cut Jayne, shit got complicated so I took Mal's shuttle when we landed and got back an hour later with my full exams done. I heard Simon's job for us and I showed them my suit. It cloaked and I became invisible before appearing again. I told them slowly since Inara was gone, how I survived without oxygen and what happened when it nearly killed me.

Mal shot the suit and the bullet ricocheted bouncing and hitting a crate. He grunted and I told them I could sneak around with it and take more stuff back to the ship. Simon told me the bigger things I could take back and seeing the suit make me float, I didn't need to wait on them. I helped fix up the medical transport craft while the others practiced Simon's words.

When it was time, I followed the craft while cloaked and carrying giant invisible bags. Following them in wasn't a problem and when they were ready, we got to the medicine storage room. I had to kill an annoying doctor and dump his body in the medicine storage room before we emptied the shelves of everything into the bags and body cases Zoë and Mal had. When we got to the roof Mal sent me back to the ship with all the goods.

I left without a word and arrived on the ship with all the goods only to hear they'd gone back for the others that got caught by the feds. I asked Mal if they needed me and he told me to sit tight in case they get pinched as well then to come for them. I put the drugs away and waited until they returned.

Inara returned first and she told me it went well with her before asking about me. I showed her my license before telling her with gestures until Kaylee spoke up and explained the job. Mal and the others came back and I sold the med carrier for five thousand platinum through the guild.

We were off world on under thirty minutes with the platinum and meds. We spent weeks selling the drugs to the outer rim worlds and making a small fortune. When Inara got her client, a high counselor, to come to the ship, I was meditating in the garden with the Shepherd sprucing things up and picking things for crates to be sold. Any money to be made and all that fun stuff.

Mal and Zoë were meant to go make a deal with the last client to sell the meds. When the Counselor left, Zoë said the drop was late so she brought me, Book and Jayne. We found Boshe and his men dead so I grabbed their weapons, the medical supplies and the platinum, taking all the cash before we headed to the shuttle once we knew Niska had Wash and Mal. I gestured to Zoë and myself before she nodded and asked for all the cash we had.

I broke into my savings and they were surprised until Inara told them I don't buy much and I sell a lot of carvings, food and portable showers I make plus the jobs we do makes it so I actually save everything I make. Zoë and I went in a shuttle and met with Niska in person. She offered Niska the money for their lives and he checked over the bag she brought before saying it would only buy one.

I spoke up slowly, coldly. "Take the money and let them both go."

Niska looked to me. "Ahh, he does speak."

Mal told Niska. "I'd take the money Niska. You don't want to make him get mean."

Niska looked back to me as his two men put their guns on me. He spoke with a smile. "I think I do want to see just how mean he can get."

Zoë stepped to the side before saying. "You're funeral."

Before Niska could blink both his men were impaled through the skulls on my claws. I cut his arms off while they dropped before cutting the chains holding wash and Mal. Niska's screams alerted his men and I walked out, killing them all before returning. Mal told me to let him go but I stepped on Niska's head and popped it like a tomato.

I growled as my claws were still extended and Mal groaned before Zoë got in the way. She touched my face like Inara does and the blood, gore and violence faded as I saw Faith, Buffy and Dawn once over before seeing Inara and shaking my head. I brought my claws back and apologized which Mal told me wasn't a problem. We got our money, I loaded up crates of guns and broke open a safe full of ten grand in platinum and another thirty grand in paper cash.

Mal, Wash and the crew split that while I kept the weapons and body armor I could sell for a premium. We took the money off the bodies and left once there was nothing left to take. Simon patched up Mal and Wash before we headed out to sell the last of the medical supplies again. Jayne wanted the crates of weapons but hearing that they were my cut from the extra cash he backed off.

I of course got the money I'd pooled with the others back and stored it away, making more by selling the weapons, sculptures, food and portable showers. We met up with Monty and I sold him a bunch of guns and ammo while we made an exchange. When Saffron or Bridgett as she was calling herself showed up, I made sure I was paid up before shit went down.

When we got on the ship after Monty left Saffron with us and she cut a deal with Mal, I held Inara who was irked by the lack of business her way because Mal chose the jobs we take. She and Mal had it out and he left before she looked to me. I shrugged and grabbed a shower so she joined me before we headed to the mess hall because Mal called me on the coms.

Saffron gave her million credit job proposal and I shook my head when Mal asked if I was in. I signed that I could get it and get out, but I didn't trust her and Inara translated. Saffron asked what my big plan was so I flipped her off. She said that the Lassiter was tagged and I shrugged before signing as my suit dissolved into a watch Inara translated saying that it wasn't a problem for me because I could decrypt the tags and break the system across Bellerophon before we left so the feds and police were answering everyone's call while we were getting away safe and sound.

I signed that I still didn't trust Saffron and Mal told me I wasn't going to be taking part anyways cause he had a different job in mind for me. He had me following him and Saffron in my suit to make sure she didn't screw him over. When she went to force Mal to strip, I appeared and took his gun from her, telling her to strip naked instead.

She did so and we went to the ship to meet up with Inara who got the Lassiter. She'd done well and even got to see several of her female clients before and after the Lassiter was in our hands. As for Saffron, I locked her in the air lock and Mal made her give us her fence's name and how to contact them. The Lassiter was a hot ticketed item and the fact that I scrambled a lot of the tech on Bellerophon, dropping dozens of estates into the sea below, there was a bunch of issues the fed were dealing with so we managed to slip through the net to sell it on Persephone.

Still, such heat dropped the price to a tenth of what it was worth and Saffron demanded her cut as well. In the end she got ten percent and a tumble with me merely because she tried to seduce me to her side. I left her crazy ass too fucked to walk and dropped her off on Persephone with her ten grand since her fence was the best we were gonna get. Inara wasn't amused that I'd paid Yolanda/Saffron/Bridgett half in sex.

She asked if that's how I felt when she went off to be with a client and I touched her face before putting her hand over my heart, saying I didn't mean to hurt her, I just didn't want to screw Saffron over entirely, crazy or not. Inara said she didn't mind much, she was just surprised that it hurt. I pulled her to the shower and she helped me wash Saffron's scent off before we spent our time together while we left Persephone. She'd had her own clients while we were there and were talked about her quitting the guild.

She said we'd live and be together and I offered to help her get a merchant guild license so we could just be and make profits as crew members until we could save up and settle down somewhere nice or live our life as a part of the crew. I touched her stomach and she said she'd be happy to have my children after we married of course. I struggled and told her I didn't have much to give her, but if she wanted to marry, I'd do so with her.

We kissed and watched the stars through the windshield of the shuttle while I held her in my arms. We got a wave a week later and ended up on a station where Inara and I had a small showing of festivities before Mal and Zoë got Tracey's body in the mail. We ended up heading towards St.Albans while Zoë and Mal told funny stories of Tracey before we were fired upon. We met Tracey and we stopped at my word, letting the feds board Serenity.

Tracey and the others watched as I asked the leader coldly. "You're not from this sector are you?"

He put his gun to my head and I grinned. Mal told him. "I'd lower that gun if I were you officer."

He snarked. "I don't think I will seeing as you all don't seem to have your weapons out."

Mal shook his head. "Oh, but you see, we do. Oz here is a bio organic synthetic weapon and your toys aren't going to scratch him. Now answer his question before I say the word and he makes an awful mess of you all."

The lead fed called called him a liar and cocked his gun. Mal sighed. "Your funeral. Have your fun then."

The last part he said to me before I took off the arm of the fed in charge, split his two friends into pieces while he screamed in pain, grabbed the chains and tied him up, tossing them to Mal who hauled the bleeding fed up by his ankle. I set the coordinates for the fed's ship and returned to Serenity after I tossed the bodies onto their ship.

I tortured the information we needed out of the lead fed before tossing him over to his ship and disengaging with them. Their ship headed straight for the fed station on St.Albans at high speeds without stopping and only getting faster and faster until they crashed with enough force to wipe out the fed base. We landed and dropped Tracey off with his folks while I told Mal what I'd done with the fed's ship after I erased the proof of whom they were tracking.

Mal told Tracey this was the last time he used him and risked our crew's lives because that's what he did. We left and soon Inara quit her job as a companion making it official before we got her a merchant guild license and shipment order. We married on Serenity while our in the black just before Inara's friend Nandi waved us about help she needed.