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Pairings: J/R; M/I; S/K; Wash’s memory/Zoë

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Voices and Visions

by

Lattelady

Ch 2. Tentative Beginnings

Captain Malcolm Reynolds sighed as he headed toward the cargo bay. There wasn’t a muscle in his body that didn’t hurt. It was a toss-up weather he or Serenity had been damaged worse in the battle on Mr. Universe’s Moon, but like his boat he was on the mend.

Times like this, he was tempted to thank a God, he no longer believed in, that Jayne Cobb always ran true to form. When they’d high-tailed it out of the Maidenhead six weeks earlier, the big man had been bloodied, bruised and furious from takin a beatin from a wisp of a girl, but he’d remembered to grab the stolen money from the heist on Lilac.

Fanty and Mingo had been among the injured when River Tam’s tendency toward brain hick-ups had exploded into a supernova. He’d learned later that the Operative had finished off the job the girl had started. No one who had glimpsed her abilities, that day, had been allowed to live, except for those on his boat. There wasn’t a need to go back and give the twins their twenty-five percent cut. Even with all that cash, and the crew doin’ most of the work, it was gonna be touch and go getting Serenity in shape to pass an inspection that’d allow her to take to the Black, anytime soon.

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Once most of the damage was cleared away, and there wasn’t much muscle work to be done, Jayne found himself paired-up with River in work details. He coulda made a fuss and fought with Zoë to do at least some of the weldin’, but it didn’t take no genius to see that the woman needed hard physical labor to keep her busy durin’ the day and allow her to sleep at night.

There was a lot of rewiring necessary and Crazy-Girl was the only one small enough to