Title: Appropriate

Pairing: Jaylee

Rating: Pg-15

Characters: Kaylee, Jayne, Mal

Warning: not betaed

Disclaimer: I do not own

Word Count: 1009

Author's Note: Just a short ficlet I wrote to get the muse warmed up. Nothing spectacular, but good Jayleeiness.

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Kaylee scrubbed at the dishes, trying to take her mind off the impure thoughts that were plaguing her at that moment. Jayne had gotten to her again, gotten under her skin and she didn’t know why. Maybe it was because Simon had been pulling away from her more and more and she was beginning to wonder if maybe being with the doctor was just a pipe dream. Then again maybe it was just Jayne being so swai and a tease to boot.

The mechanic’s hand worked harder against the plates crusted with food. Ai ya, but she needed to get him out of her head. He put a tickle in her stomach she couldn’t explain. Last time she’d had this feeling she’d ended up in his bunk half the night, crying out his name. Simon made her heart race, but Jayne started a fire in her belly that nothing but him seemed to quench. A week ago Kaylee might not have ever thought about taking a tumble with Jayne. Now she couldn’t stop thinking about it.

She couldn’t be doing this though. Her and Simon may not be a couple or nothing, but she liked him something fierce. With Jayne, it was all about the moment, the need. Kaylee wanted something more than that. She wanted a relationship, someone to hold her when she was crying or wait up with her if she got sick. She saw those kinds of qualities in Simon, but she couldn’t seem to get herself past that barrier he’d put up between them. He liked her, she could tell, but he refused to admit it. He drove her crazy with need and that was where Jayne had come in. He knew all her right buttons to push, all the right things to say. He made her want to explode with need and he satisfied her more than any man she had ever