The Wish Part Eight

Author:JJ

Subject: Rayne, Saylee, Mara

Rating: NC-17

Disclaimer: Ain't hers, to make coin off of. These here characters (like yours truly) belong solely to Joss and the hwoon dahn's at 20 century fox, dong ma? (Thank you, Jayne!)

Summary: Post BDM. Rayne and Saylee. Takes place one year after The Need. As Simon and Kaylee are having troubles. River and Jayne deepen their relationship.

Author's note: Thank you guys so much for the feedback. I am truly humbled by your comments. I'll try to keep you interested as long as you promise not to stop reading,

Chapter 8-- The End of the Beginning

There was no music, no flowers, no cake. Just Jayne and River and the rest of the crew of Serenity, standing in a semi circle, around the happy couple. Kaylee hadn't stopped crying since River floated gracefully don't the cargo bay stairs looking less like the angel faced girl Jayne fell in love with and more like some sultry siren. He didn't know where she got the dress, but he knew he'd have fun peeling it off her body.

Mal stood in front of the couple at first not knowing what to say, he never officiated over anything like this. He said some kind words about his soldiers when the died during the War and he had given his crew a pep talk or two, but for some reason he was speechless as he looked at his Merc gazing lovingly into the eyes of a girl that Mal could barely recognize... Ai ya, she had grown so much.

"Sir," Zoe said and Mal sighed.

"We ain't got much on this boat," Mal began. "We can't even throw a proper wedding, we might be short on supplies and running from the law, but we have each other. You couldn't tell me three years ago, this group of people would not only become a family, but that they would fall in love with each other, sectioning off into some of the oddest pairs the verse have ever seen, I would have insisted that there was something broken in your brainpan," he chuckled and the crew smiled. "But here we are, getting ready to join together in marriage the most deadl