OK Folks, It’s Jaylee. It’s a ruttin’ Jaylee Epic. Not your cuppa? Keep on walkin’.

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Rating: NC17, adult situation

Remarks: A long and rambling tale of the challenges faced by Jayne and Kaylee as they struggle to define their relationship. Some of you are complainin' that things aren't quite so heated as you'd like. While I understand, I've got a story to tell and Jayne and Kaylee don't perform on command. Especially not Jayne. Set after “Objects in Space”. Inara has departed from Serenity and the crew has been through a rough stretch. Click on my name to read the backstory. They’re all backstory.

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Leaps of Faith

Chapter Twenty-Two

Early the next morning, Kaylee and Wash are busy unloading the rented mule and sorting the components and parts they scrounged the day before.

“Let’s pile anything goes to the engine room over here, electronics for the bridge here and odds-n-ends can go in that storage locker ‘til we need em.” Wash grins and rubs his hands together.

“I’ll be so tickled to get this new sensor array installed. It’ll boost our capacity at least 75% and, with as many folks as seem to be out to get us lately, the extra ‘heads up’ can’t be a bad thing.”

Kaylee grabs an open crate and gently stacks bits for Serenity’s engine room in it, heavy stuff first. “How ‘bout that last night, Jayne rescuin’ Simon an’ River? I didn’t even know he’d gone into town. To be honest, I had no idea he was well enough to get out and about like that. Pretty good thing he come along when he did, huh?”

“Simon’s mouth probably wishes he’d showed up ten minutes sooner, but yeah, not exactly what I would have expected, given the history between those two.”

Together, Wash and Kaylee lift a large, heavy part off the cargo bed of the mule and set it to one side. The girl pushes a loose s