I'm being extra generous and doing two adds today since I totally missed out yesterday with posting. It's primarily a Simon chapter with lots of Simon/Kaylee too. But then again I figured we could take a bit of a break from all of the action stuff. There's plenty more action coming up anyways...

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For five hours, Serenity was filled with the less serene sounds of a mad man fighting for freedom.

He roared, he bucked, charged, bit, clawed, pulled, pushed, lunged and did anything else he could think of to break loose and kill the crew. When it was time to hit the hay, he was still making noise. Which, made it impossible to sleep. Simon, tossed and turned in his bunk until he could no longer even want to be in his room as the killer was just outside in the cargo bay. So he fished a white undershirt out of his bag and pulled it on, smoothing his hair down as it was a bit mussed up, and walked out to check up on River. She had been paranoid since John had gone crazy, so he had given her something to sleep, and it was working. Leaning down he gave her hair a brotherly kiss and left the passenger bunks to go up to the kitchen, mulling over the possibility of possibly drugging himself so he could sleep through the night as he heard Book in his room praying for the Lord to help their prisoner. Once getting up stairs, he found Kaylee in her flannel pajama outfit that had fluffy cartoon sheep all over it, pouring some hot water into a mug.

“Is that tea?” He asked.

“Yeah. You want some?”

“Yes, actually,” going over the doctor got himself a cup and watched as she poured the water in as well as dropped the teabag in the mug. “Thank you.” Dipping the teabag to get the flavor out of it he followed her over to the couch Jayne had actually stolen during a job and had put it on a barren wall in the kitchen and saw her thick patchwork quilt was on the cushion. Blue eyes watching as she sat down, pulled the blanket over her shoulders and patted the spot next to her. Si