The first chapter in a hopefully many parted series. I'm planning on about five chapters in this installment and there will be many more installments to come.

Pairings(not all in this chapter, but this is what it will be throughout the series): Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara, Wash/Zoe (no Jayne/anybody, ever, but will have River/OC much later on)

What?!

Zoe was having a bad day. She had slept in, gotten yelled at by the Captain, threw up everything she had eaten in the past few weeks, and fell asleep on the bridge next to Wash while she was supposed to be navigating him through a field of asteroids. He almost crashed them without her keen eyes and Mal decided that it would be a good idea to scream at her again. And this all happened before lunch.

At lunch, she ended up losing her appetite and gave her food to Wash, who shoved it down greedily- and disgustingly. During that time, while she watched everyone else eat, wondered what had happened to her period. It had been a month and a half since her last one, and it worried her. She resolved on swallowing her pride and cornering Simon right after lunch. She would have pulled him away then because she felt another wave of nausea coming on, but he looked to happy. A not-so-rare smile spread across his face, he laughed with Kaylee as she playfully poked him with her fork. He had loosened up since they got together, since he finally mustered up the courage to ask her on a “date.” It hadn't ended up being much of one, seeing as Mal didn't allow them to go off ship on that world. But, as the story went (according to Jayne, who had spied on the conversation), Mal took one look at “that pathetic little puppy look” in Simon's eyes and gave in.

A few minutes later, the power shorted out for a second, causing Kaylee to roll her eyes, give Simon a kiss on the cheek, and flounce out of the room while saying, “I'm on it, Cap'n. Don' you worry.”

They all returned to their meals without worry; Serenity was in need of some new fancy part (a fuse box, according to Kaylee) an