How We Used to Be

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Title: How We Used to Be
Author: Sarah-Beth (memorysdaughter, previously drummergirl47)
Email: memorysdaughter@gmail.com
Summary: Set in present-day America, an AU fic. Dr. Simon Tam thought he lost everything when his parents were killed in a car crash. Forced to move back home to care for his fifteen-year-old “vegetable” sister, River, Simon comes face-to-face with all of his fears and misgivings about the past. When it becomes necessary to take in boarders to keep the Tam home, he ends up finding a family he never thought could exist. But what will it take to make him see that things might turn out all right despite the odds?
Series: Chapter 25
Character(s): River, Simon, Jayne, and Shepherd Book(!)
Pairings: supports Wash/Zoe and Simon/Kaylee, eventually Mal/Inara
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Timeline: set in present-day America. This chapter is set about two weeks after chapter 24.
Disclaimer: Joss owns. I meddle. Things are good.

Chapters 1-24

( Chapter 25 )