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Jul. 16th, 2005 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gabriel_tamGabriel doesn't know if Cathcart and Charrington believed him or not, and he suspects that it doesn't matter in any case.
"We're not through yet."
He's been given a reprieve, ostensibly to gather information, but he knows perfectly well that it's a ruse only. As he walks through his front door, he doesn't even need to look back to know that the officers who returned him to the estate have taken up guard positions.
If it were just the matter of the gunslinger research, of losing contact with whoever it is that sent the last message, he'd accept that. But the real problem, Gabriel thinks, is that he knows too much. He knows where his children are.
"I don't suppose you're from the Serenity?"
"I have to get out of here," he mutters in some desperation as he heads automatically for his office. Thankfully, Regan is nowhere in sight. "I have to do something -- I can't go back. If I do-- if they find out-- if they find Simon and River--"
If they do, there's no miracle that could possibly save his children a second time. Not when it's the Alliance that wants them. Who could possibly help?
He hears Simon's voice in his memory, bitterly angry: "And if I had to travel to the rutting end of the universe before I found people who would help me and River--"
Still frantically trying to think of an escape, Gabriel steps through the office door.
"We're not through yet."
He's been given a reprieve, ostensibly to gather information, but he knows perfectly well that it's a ruse only. As he walks through his front door, he doesn't even need to look back to know that the officers who returned him to the estate have taken up guard positions.
If it were just the matter of the gunslinger research, of losing contact with whoever it is that sent the last message, he'd accept that. But the real problem, Gabriel thinks, is that he knows too much. He knows where his children are.
"I don't suppose you're from the Serenity?"
"I have to get out of here," he mutters in some desperation as he heads automatically for his office. Thankfully, Regan is nowhere in sight. "I have to do something -- I can't go back. If I do-- if they find out-- if they find Simon and River--"
If they do, there's no miracle that could possibly save his children a second time. Not when it's the Alliance that wants them. Who could possibly help?
He hears Simon's voice in his memory, bitterly angry: "And if I had to travel to the rutting end of the universe before I found people who would help me and River--"
Still frantically trying to think of an escape, Gabriel steps through the office door.
