Best Intentions, ch. 10
Friday, November 17, 2006
Post-BDM. Kaylee's awake and feeling better. Simon finds a friend and ally he least expected, while Mal and Inara get used to living on Sihnon. Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara
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A/N: Call this a peace offering - a bit of fluff amidst all the wonderful angst ... I hope you like it.
Please, please, please keep those comments coming, leaving feedback is good for the soul - I'm pretty sure it's a karma thing!
And again thanks to Leiasky for the beta and everything else.
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Best Intentions, ch. 10
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Kaylee could hardly wait. Today was the day the cast was coming off her leg, and she was excited. It would make it easier for her to move, allow her to finally take a shower, with help of course, but still.
The week had gone by pretty quickly; Kaylee was still in and out of consciousness, awake more in the past few days than sleeping which everyone, including Simon and Eli, said was a good thing. Of course every time Kaylee awoke or fell asleep, Simon was there and that brought her a level of contentment she knew she couldn’t live without. She still felt terrible for what had happened, for how foolish she’d been, but Simon had been good to his word, staying with her every minute. She needed him, there was no other way around it; would need him even when she was no longer an invalid. He was it for her and while she was ashamed it had taken her so long to figure that out, she was just grateful that she had.
But right now, she really needed him to go. “Simon?” she asked demurely, having regained enough strength to bat her eyelashes.
Raising a skeptical eyebrow to the nurse in the room who was prepping the cast to come off, Simon moved to her side and bent down to place a kiss to her hair. “Yes, bao bei?”
“Can you do me a favor?” She kept smiling at him coyly and Simon’s gut churned with anxiety of what exactly she would ask of him.
“Anything, Kaylee,” he told her truthfully, keeping his hand to her face.
“Can you go get ‘Nara an’ then take a walk?”
Puzzled, Simon looked down to her encased leg and then back to her face, sitting on the edge of the bed. “But, they’re going to remove your cast soon.”
Nodding once, she said, “I k
I liked how light this chapter was. How when Kaylee was nervous about something, it was just over a self-conscious nervousness about what her leg will look like when the casts taken off. It superficial, but it's real. I liked that. I also liked the fact that Simon could joke about his "pretty-boy" image.
As for Inara, I'm just waiting for when she sees her daughter for the first time in ten years. You know it's bound to happen.
Keep it up. And bring Mama and Papa Tam into all this.
It's like being treated to cotton candy after a year living on haggis.
Okay, Worst. Analogy. Ever. Mainly because haggis is bad, but angst is goooood.
I'm really coming to very much like Eli Butler. Such a cool old guy, he remeinds me more than a little of my own grandfather, who incidentally, is a champ.
So very much looking forward to the "we lost the baby" talk between Simon and Kaylee. No doubt the poor girl will blame herself, and Simon, ever the martyr, will blame himself. Those two...match made in heaven really.
But in a strange way I'm looking forward to the baby conversation.
Hang your head in shame.
You can't take the sky from me
Definitely loved the moment in the hospital when Kaylee sent Simon off while she got cleaned up with Inara and River's help. Really could see it as a "real" moment to make the events seem that much more important to we readers:D
And maybe I am the only one, but I think Inara deserves to see and meet her daughter. If only to have irrefutable proof of her happiness and give the daughter a chance to either make overtures to know her biological mother or dismiss her...
BEB
And I still really like Eli. And he's right, Simon needs to tell Kaylee about the baby sooner rather than later.
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