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“Sure do girl.” Jayne grinned at her lecherously and waggled his eyebrows. ‘Course he knew how Kaylee had got on the boat; he’d thought about it more than a time or two in his bunk. But he weren’t stupid, no matter what people thought, and realised that sexin’ up a shipmate was plenty dumb. “I’m picturin’ it in my head right now.”
Weren’t as if he didn’t get lots of sex when he was planetside and those girls didn’t require nothin’ but money from him. That suited him fine, he didn’t want no ties, didn’t need no complications. Sexin’ someone you worked with led to both.
Especially if it were little Kaylee. Who could, if you let her, draw ya into all sorts of committin’ and such. He laughed at her as she gave him a punch on the arm.
“Well ya can stop picturin’ it right now.” Kaylee ordered.
‘Course she knew how Jayne ended up on Serenity. The Captain made sure she knew he couldn’t be trusted. But she did trust him; he weren’t as bad as he made out. Jayne would do the right thing if pushed to it.
She guessed he’d done somethin’ bad at Ariel, but he was gettin’ better at the loyalty thing. He’d helped rescue the Captain and Wash; helped her, got shot for her, kept her strong when there was trouble.
Kaylee grinned at him. “Best we keep fixin’ things. The Captain will be wantin’ to go soon.”
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Hearing that a Firefly had docked, Ben Amos made his way down to the port. He’d been following leads for over a month and finally he’d located her.
Waiting till the crew left the ship he checked the area cautiously and trailed along behind until they reached a more or less deserted alleyway. Moving quickly forward he thrust out a hand to catch her arm and found himself lifted in the air and shoved back against the alley wall, two men pointing guns at him.
