A/N: By popular demand, I was not allowed to let my previous vignette languish on its own....and well, frankly I'm scared of any large group of women obsessed with Jayne. So here's the sequel. Just finished this tonite and it's not beta'ed again (mostly because I know my fellow judge Neroli is waay too busy to beta right now), so any errors I blame on the fact that i've been forced to do academic writing for science for the past month!

Disclaimer: Don't belong to me, but if you like, I'll come and write this stuff in exchange for a paycheck!

Stolen Moments

Chinese glossary

Liou coe shuai du biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze- Salivating son of a bitch and a monkey!

Bi zui – shut up

Diyu - hell

"Where is that ape?" Wash yelled furiously as he burst into the cargo bay. Mal, on the bottom deck talking to Book, looked up as the pilot stomped over to the empty shuttle.

Nodding to the other man, he went up the cat walk to see what had Wash at Jayne's throat this time. "He's not around. What's goin' on this time?" They'd been in deep space a while now and the crew was starting to get a bit batty.

Wash's entire face was colored a bright shade of red; whatever had occurred the younger man was very upset.

"Liou coe shuai du biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze!" Wash cursed. "I know he took them!"

Mal raised his eyebrows. He hoped the big merc hadn't been dumb enough to take something personal of Zoe's. The resulting mess would be too big to clean up for weeks most likely. "Took what Wash?"

"My dinos! I left them where I always do, but when I went to plot the new course they were gone!"

Mal snorted as he struggled to stifle his laughter. "Oh, is that all? Well get back to work, we'll hunt those toys down later," Mal ordered.

"They're not toys. They're priceless artifacts!" Wash corrected over his shoulder as he stomped off.

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"If he's down there, tell the Little Man to come