Title: Kaylee’s Christmas

Author: hisgoodgirl

Disclaimer: Joss's toys, my make-believe. No money exchanged and all that.

Rating: G. Spoilers for the BDM

Paring: Jayne/Kaylee. Don’t like, don’t read, dong ma?

Setting: Post BDM, in my AU where Kaylee has left Simon for Jayne. To read my earlier fics that give the lead up to this, click on my name, above.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and a Joyful Solstice to you all.

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Kaylee’s Christmas

Kaylee loved Christmas.

From the time she was a tiny child, the bustle and preparations associated with the holiday enchanted her. As she grew older, she loved it more and more. Her Ma would be busy fixing special dishes for the Christmas Day feast and the fragrance of baking cookies and pastries perfumed the whole house. Her Pa retreated to his workshop, which the children were forbidden to enter, and there he created wonderful handcrafted toys for her and her brother and sister.

Everyone had little projects underway and secret places to stash them prior to the big day. Her ma found time while the children were at school or play to sew new clothing for them, bright calico dresses or gingham shirts, or warm flannel pajamas. On Christmas morning, the stockings which hung above the Frye mantle bulged with small toys, puzzles, candies and the most precious treat of all, a fragrant, deep orange tangerine for each child.

The little town of Greenwood on the world of Harvest was a close-knit, old fashioned sort of place where neighbors gathered to celebrate the season after worship services or shared a cup of punch in one another’s homes. Families gathered close and shared in the gustatory bounty and good fellowship of the season.

While Harvest, being primarily prairie, did not produce any conifers for Christmas trees, the inhabitants had long ago learned to plait and weave elaborate decorations from long stems of dried wheat and these wreathes a