The Bravest Thing Part 7 by Nailani Williams

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Summary: Taking place after the BDM. Jayne and Zoe, pairing. Jayne’s secret personal grief from his past ends up pushing him closer to Zoe than he could ever imagine.

Rating: NC-17

A/N: Thank you all for the feedback, it really keeps me going! Big shout out to Vera and BEB you guys rock, I look forward to your thoughts on this part.

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Zoe:

We were finally on Bernadette.

Serenity touched down around thirty minutes ago. It took us only ten minutes for Jayne, Mal, and I to load their cargo and now we were just waiting for the companions hired gun. That set Jayne in a fine mood, he walked up the catwalk grumbling about how it was unprofessional to keep your clients waiting. I followed him.

We watched as Mal and Inara, greeted our passengers, John and Bethanie. They were acting exactly like Kaylee and Simon which made us all cringe. One overly expressive couple was one thing, but two was pushing it. At least the older couples kept it in the bunk. I had to stop myself there. Was Jayne and I, a couple?

“What are we doing?” I asked Jayne who was standing next to me on the catwalk.

He took my hand, “I don’t know yet, bao bei, just let whatever this is happen. It’s been along time since I’ve done this whole relationship stuff, so you’re gonna have to let me fumble through it, dong ma?” he said and I nodded.

“I’ll try not to pick at it,” I touched his back and he wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me closer. Then he gasped and stilled against me.

“Jayne, What?” I looked at his face and he was as pale as a ghost.

“Son of a whore!” he yelled running down the catwalk. I followed his eyes. He was running after the companion’s hired man who just strolled in.

“Jayne!” I screamed out and the hired man looked up with fear in his eyes. He went for his gun, but Jayne was already there. He kicked him with all his force in the balls and then punched t