Cruel Summer (Chapter 4)
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
The crew visits Kaylee’s family on Harvest. Kaylee shows Simon that there’s more to life outside Serenity’s walls than he could ever have thought. (PG13)
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Kaylee smiled brightly as she bustled around the kitchen with her mom, the two of them making sandwiches and a few other things for the picnic Kaylee had planned to take Simon on. She’d had to force her brothers and Jayne to take the boy out back for some manly bonding so she could prepare uninterrupted for the surprise. The last thing she wanted was to ruin it before it was time to head out.
Looking over at her mother, Kaylee realized just how much she’d missed home. She loved Serenity, even more so now that she had Simon, but at the same time it didn’t always have that perfect, familiar, familial feeling to it. It was home, but not in the strictest sense. Not in the sense she’d grown up knowing. To Simon, however, she knew it was more home than any place he’d ever known. For River, too, it was like that. Knowing their feelings helped her own sense of being at home.
Snapping out of her reverie, Kaylee glanced over at the sound of her mother’s voice.
“Now you prob’ly know we’ve already heard Simon’s side o’ the story,” Delia said softly. “But I wanna hear yours, Kaylee girl. You seem like ya love ‘im plenty and he seems like he loves ya even more.”
“Oh ma, I do love ‘im, he’s the best man I ever met,” Kaylee said dreamily. “And he’s sweet, an’ gentle, an’ it seems like he knows me more’n I know myself sometimes. Not ta mention he’s a doctor so he knows just where and how ta touch me…”
“That’s my girl,” Delia said with a chuckle. “As long as you’re happy, that’s good enough for me. Your
It still cracks me up, though. Posion oak is terribly itchy. Poor Kaylee (Simon, too, but hands aren't as bad). Sorry for the medical lesson, but as soon as I read "intersting leaves", I knew what was coming and had sympathy itches for the rest of the story.
I liked the opening scene in which Jayne and Kaylee's brothers were trying to get Simon to shoot the gun. Very funny stuff.
I am going to re-iterate, because it has been a while since I read this series, but I still think you should do what you want with the ending of the story and not what someone else thinks you should do. Just my opinion.
Gotta say though...while it's your story and all (and you have final veto power on all ideas), seeing Simon get harrangued by Kaylee's male relatives and Jayne feels a bit wrong. Yeah, he probably will never be like Jayne, Jared or James...but he still seems a tad too uptight for his own good. But hey...maybe that will pay off in the end for him;)
BEB
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