Best Intentions, ch. 4
Sunday, November 5, 2006
Post-BDM. Someone makes Simon a very attractive offer, while Kaylee is exposed to Sihnon-ese high society. All is not shiny. Rated PG-13 for adult situations. Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 3228 RATING: 9.0 (G) SERIES: FIREFLY
A/N: This chapters are a bit longer than my typical, so I hope you enjoy the extra angst!
Thanks to all who have been reading and commenting - I'm thrilled to see so many new folks leaving feedback! Keep it up ... please!
And thanks again to Leiasky for all that she does.
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Best Intentions, ch. 4
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Kaylee awoke slowly the next morning, feeling the softness of the mattress beneath her naked body and wondering for the briefest of moments where exactly she was. Blinking her eyes open, she rolled onto her side and into Simon’s arms as he slept and realized she didn’t rightly care where, as long as she was with him.
A few hours later, she was again awake and this time she was alone. Sitting up slowly and wiping the sleep from her eyes, Kaylee turned her head towards the room’s wall of windows and watched the sunlight stream in through the floor to ceiling panes of glass, the warm patches of yellow light pooling onto the floor.
Listening, she heard the sounds of the shower and was about to join Simon when abruptly the water stopped running and a few minutes later he stepped back into the bedroom, rubbing a towel over his hair, another one wrapped around his waist.
Grinning wickedly at the sight of his bare and still damp chest, Kaylee rose onto her knees and crawled to the edge of the bed, her bare body now completely visible and waited for Simon to remove the towel from his face so he could see her. When he did, she giggled slightly as his eyes widened and then narrowed, filling with desire.
Without a word, he walked towards her and kissed her good morning, his body still warm to the touch from the hot water that had washed it clean. The humid feeling warmed Kaylee as well, inside and out. As she deepened their kiss, Kaylee trailed one hand down his chest and tugged gently on the towel at his waist, smiling when it fell to the floor and she could feel Simon’s length pressing into her thigh.
But before they could have anymore fun, Simon broke the contact, p
Kaylee is in love with Simon - the honest-to-goodness, head-over-heels kind and while she knows that he loves her, she's also painfully aware that he could go back to the core and have his old life back. And as much as she wouldn't want him to go, she also doesn't want to be the reason he stays somewhere he isn't happy.
Thanks for the feedback EmpireX - apparently my characterization of Kaylee is not always right on, so I really appreciate it when folks point out what they feel may be off about her. I hope you keep reading!
You can't take the sky from me
When Simon was being mercilessly taunted by Jayne and Mal, Kaylee always jumped in and told them to knock it off when he couldn't defend himself. Time for the good doctor to lose a bit of the manners and do the same for her.
The last story I was all over Kaylee for not supporting her man, and this time I'm after Simon for falling down on the job. I'm an equal opportunity bastard.
What *is* Inara doing? If she's not trying to protect Kaylee and Simon fro her parents, hopefully she and Mal are plotting away. A bit of Mal's brand of mayhem at this party could fix everything.
Let's just say it won't be long before Lili gets a bit of a wake-up call ...
Lemme explain ...
Simon and Kaylee just don't seem to be compatible to me, beyond the loving each other thing they've got going. Kaylee belongs in the black, on Serenity, and Simon belongs in a hospital. While Kaylee seems to understand this, she can't get Simon to talk about it, or discuss options - Kaylee gets a job as a mechanic, or runs her own shop while Simon does rounds as a surgeon type of options.
It doesn't have to be on a Core world - I think Simon would be happy in any hospital - but he won't/isn't discussing the matter, so he and Kaylee may as well split. At least this way he'd be making a definite contribution as a surgeon, and she could snag someone willing to stand up for her rights on her behalf.
Lili, on the other hand, has no hope in heck of splitting Mal and Inara up. Mal and Inara seem to have a solid, mature relationship going on, and are willing to discuss their issues and situations and come up with compromises, etc etc. And both are perfectly capable of unleashing all kinds of trouble on the other's behalf. God help the Serras when they start in on Mal.
I would, however, dearly love to see Kaylee wreck spectacular havok at the upcoming Birthday Ball.
Basically, with the notable exception of Inara, I hate the Serra clan.
And I simply cannot wait for them to get a piece of their own..revenge is a dish best served. Period.
I meant let's hope Inara's father's machinations DON'T the idea of him staying on Sihnon in Simon's head...I am the Queen of Typos!
1. She should stop talking, just nod or shake her head if someone talks to her.
2. People from the Core are not nice and need a good kick in the ass (with a few exeptions).
3. That she is awesome and no-one should make her feel otherwise.
4. That Simon loves her.
I ship both couples but I always thought M/I's relationship (the way Joss wrote it) was based on love, while S/K was more about sex. Do you need either or both for a lasting relationship? who knows??
captain like Malcolm Reynolds?
~ Even though he is only trying to break apart the couples to put Simon with Inara, he is unwittingly going into areas that can get Simon (and River) into much more trouble
EDIT: After reading further, it seems that may not be the case.
The part at the end wherein Kaylee is the butt of all of their jokes and rude comments is a bit sad, and though I know that she will get even in the end, I also know it will get worse before it gets better.
To me, Kaylee came off as a tad too bumpkinish...almost like the more Mrs. Serra and her clan of harpies threw at Kaylee, the more she automatically reverted to a default setting of "Hee Haw." That and like EmpireX said, she's a tad too much like a punching bag emotionally here. Much easier personally to accept Kaylee just taking all this evil mojo quietly and suffering it than her seeming completely without intelligence.
Now...I am not asking Kaylee to suddenly attempt refined speech (though it would be a briliant ploy for her to pull off a brilliant con during the ball of her being refined out the wazoo then have a climatic moment of showing she's not what she seemed), but I just can't recall Kaylee sounding completely hickish during the series. Jayne, on the other hand....;)
BEB
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