1. Kaylee was the first one. She's was so smiley and happy. River just wanted to be able to keep that feeling.
2. Simon was slow, and he was crying, and she didn't understand. But he had a syringe in his hand and a gun hidden in the infirmary, and how could her ge ge ever not say how pretty she could look all dressed up in pink and lace?
3. She knew where Jayne was the whole time. She could have gone in and added him to her toys at any time.
He was just more fun while he was still moving on his own.
1. Zoe found a bundle of clothes in the rag bin when she went digging for a red patch for one of her shirts.
She smiled for the first time in weeks when she figured out they were Jayne's. All of the ones with naked girls on the front.
She wondered if Jayne had gotten rid of them, or if Kaylee had thrown them all out.
2. When Kaylee came in for her monthly physical, Simon winced.
Finding a way to be very very busy looking at her most recent bloodwork, he forced himself to ask her about contraception.
She about fell off the infirmary table, she was laughing so hard.
3. Inara particularly enjoyed dinner these days.
Jayne and Kaylee were generally teasing each other and laughing, but tonight they came in and both seemed to having a hard time not grinning like idiots at each other.
Halfway through the meal, after Jayne had nearly knocked over his own glass and dropped the rolls, Inara handed him her kerchief.
"I believe you have some grease on your neck, Jayne." She widened her eyes innocently. "However could you have gotten a smear of grease there?"
Kaylee started to giggle when River piped in, "That's not the only place he has grease!"
1. For months after she went back home, Gabrielle drove her mother to distracting by insisting on being called 'Gabby.' The lovely Mrs. Delacour had no idea who this 'Sharlie' was, but she swore to herself that she would have him murdered.
2. Gabby kept the tiny Welsh Green on her bedside table. She spent every spare minute in the library for almost three months trying to teach herself the charm that kept it animated.
3. The first time she met her sister's fiance, she nearly fell out of her chair.
Her mother scolded, her sister gasped, but she still managed to overturn the sugarbowl when he told her that Charlie was his brother.
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2. Simon was slow, and he was crying, and she didn't understand. But he had a syringe in his hand and a gun hidden in the infirmary, and how could her ge ge ever not say how pretty she could look all dressed up in pink and lace?
3. She knew where Jayne was the whole time. She could have gone in and added him to her toys at any time.
He was just more fun while he was still moving on his own.
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1. Zoe found a bundle of clothes in the rag bin when she went digging for a red patch for one of her shirts.
She smiled for the first time in weeks when she figured out they were Jayne's. All of the ones with naked girls on the front.
She wondered if Jayne had gotten rid of them, or if Kaylee had thrown them all out.
2. When Kaylee came in for her monthly physical, Simon winced.
Finding a way to be very very busy looking at her most recent bloodwork, he forced himself to ask her about contraception.
She about fell off the infirmary table, she was laughing so hard.
3. Inara particularly enjoyed dinner these days.
Jayne and Kaylee were generally teasing each other and laughing, but tonight they came in and both seemed to having a hard time not grinning like idiots at each other.
Halfway through the meal, after Jayne had nearly knocked over his own glass and dropped the rolls, Inara handed him her kerchief.
"I believe you have some grease on your neck, Jayne." She widened her eyes innocently. "However could you have gotten a smear of grease there?"
Kaylee started to giggle when River piped in, "That's not the only place he has grease!"
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Tell me about Danny the Donut!
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That said, i adore you. therefore, there is crack. more crack. donut flavored crack.
1. Danny sometimes worried to himself that he was getting past his prime. Old. Stale.
His biggest fear was becoming moldy.
2. Danny got along with the bear claws, mostly. They were big and bulky and bragged a good bit, but they were good guys.
He never could convince Birdy that they wouldn't squish her.
3. He used to dream about the smell of apples.
Now he dreams about cinnamon and spice, and girlish little giggles from a muffin half his size.
He didn't mind.
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He never could convince Birdy that they wouldn't squish her.
For that alone I would build you a shrine. As it is, I will now add another bank of candles to the shrine already erected in your honor!
*ADORES!*
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Dragon Dance
Talk to me about Gabbykins!
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2. Gabby kept the tiny Welsh Green on her bedside table. She spent every spare minute in the library for almost three months trying to teach herself the charm that kept it animated.
3. The first time she met her sister's fiance, she nearly fell out of her chair.
Her mother scolded, her sister gasped, but she still managed to overturn the sugarbowl when he told her that Charlie was his brother.
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HEEE!! Little do you know, Apolline! Just wait another ten years! HEE!!
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1. River knew where each and every member of the crew was the entire carnival. She could've found Simon, or Book, or even Inara at any moment.
But Simon didn't know she was missing, and the Shepherd thought she was with her brother, and she just wanted to have a little bit of freedom.
And Jayne was just so much fun to tease!
2. Turtle was the first thing anyone had ever won for her.
Simon bought her things, her parents gave her whatever she wanted, but this was different.
The first thing she had ever won was an award from her prestigious private school when she was five.
She thought about giving it to Jayne in return, but didn't think he would like it.
It was in Latin, for one thing. And fish fit so much better in a mercenary's pocket than a grocery list of useless skills.
3. She knew exactly how powerful her eyes could be.
She had used them in Jayne the first time in jest.
The rest of the time, somehow she found her eyelashes beyond her control when around him.
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She's a sneaky little devil!
D'aaaaaaaawwwwww!!! That's so cute!
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ok, naughty thing, this one will take me a bit. will post it tomorrow at the latest.
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Simon, in Wingtip. This was HARD, because there are a few things i WANT to say, that i CANT.
1. Sometimes, when Simon can't sleep, he goes and sits in the infirmary.
He knows that Kaylee thinks its because of River, but it isn't.
It's because, in some deep secret part of himself, he still wants to go home.
He could, now, without River.
He can't sleep because of the guilt of thinking it.
2. When Simon was younger, he used to wonder what it would be like if he left home.
He thought of travel. Of seeing new worlds and doing new things.
None of those included working feverishly over the second in command during takeoff with substandard equipment.
He counts Zoe's labored breaths at dinner. And blames himself for every one.
3. When he first saw her, the girl who said she wasn't River, for a split second, Simon hoped she wasn't his sister.
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aww Simon, the poor bloke, so full of guilt and angst *pets him*