Firefly: "The Man Called Jody"

Disclaimer: If I weren't just a poor college student and could finance the series myself, I would, but I can't. So all I can do is just play around in Joss Whedon's 'verse. Also, I don't know a lick of Chinese so I haven't bothered to put the translations because they're probably horribly wrong. If it were Japanese or Latin, well, that'd be another story...

Episode twelve of my second season of Firefly: Jayne Cobb returns home to visit his mother and Mattie, but during his stay he encounters the toughest challenge he's ever faced.

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The Brutus was a clean ship. That was all her captain would repeat over and over. Jayne hadn't cared, nor had many of the people who booked passage out of Lu-se Cheng. Brutus was the only ship scheduled to pass through Whittier in a month, and since Jayne preferred going home without the crew of Serenity tagging along, it was the ship he had to book. However, he fould there was little he could do about Jonah Hex. The cook of Serenity had joined Jayne despite his very vocal protests, which were worthless since Hex was a grown man and had paid his own fare. If Hex wanted to take a vacation along with Jayne, well, then there was something wrong with Hex in Jayne's opinion.

The jangle of spurs told Jayne that Hex was coming. Sure enough, when Jayne looked away from the knife he'd been sharpening, he spotted Hex ambling over with two trays. Beneath the curtain of shoulder-length, snow white hair, Hex smiled at Jayne. It was an ugly smile, given the jagged scar that ran down Hex's hairline to his upper lip, cutting through his left eye in the process. Still, the glow in his red, right eye showed its warmth, but you had to know where to look.

"Lunch," said Hex simply in his gravelly voice. Jayne looked down at the steaming pile of brown goop that filled the dirty tin.

"Don't take this the wrong way, Hex, but I think your cookin' could use some work," remarked Jayne as he grabbed