They finally arrived back at Odyssey. Wash carefully docked the shuttle into Odyssey's holder and shut it down. He turned to Kane.

"I'll head up to the cockpit now and make sure everything's going good." Wash opened the doors and started to climb out.

Kane waited till Wash and Jayne left the shuttle before he spoke to Jade.

"Alright, Jade," he began,"we need to do this. If you like, we get rid of Jayne and Sanka for a bit. It's up to you, but I want to get this done now."

Kane still had a lot of things to resolve. He still had to find Ramona and Joe. He still had to find out how to get onto Osiris other than as a convict. He had to find out what those deadly rocks were that he was carrying. And, of course, the issue they were discussing, find out why the Alliance would send out an operative to collect Wash.

Looked like a nice relaxing weekend was out of the picture for the time being.

Jade nodded in agreement with Kane and the two left the ship. Jade was not comfortable with all of this, but then again, neither was Kane. However, the thought of having an operative sneak up on them again with a less beneficial outcome was even less desirable to Kane.

Jade went to the infirmary to prepare while Kane went to find Sanka and Jayne. Once Kane had found them he sent Jayne out to locate the best bar for business in the area with express orders to be absolutely sure it was the best bar (in other words, try them all and don't come back till you do) . Next, he located Sanka and asked him to sell off some of the parts that were of no use to Odyssey and to take his time to get the best price (once again, don't come back till you get top dollar.

With this done and those two gone, Kane locked the outer doors of the ship. He entered a key code to prevent anyone from unlocking easily.

He then turned and began to work his way to the bridge in search of Wash.

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Jayne was enjoying his job immensly. He never thought that Kane would actually give him a license to go out and get