“Gorramit! MOVE!” Jayne told the mechanic and doctor as he got to his feet and whipped out his semi-automatic.

Except ten other guns were muzzled on him.

Simon grabbed Kaylee by the shoulders and directed her out of the circle of men that had them trapped. Except, no one was letting them out as the doctor tried to push through. “We’re not apart of this..” He began telling a man.

One of the barrels pressed against the side of his head as the gun’s pin clicked into place.

“Simon.” Kaylee gasped, eyes round in fear, as she pulled him back away from the weapon trained on him. They ended up back to back with Jayne, staring at all of the men surrounding them.

The doctor dropped the bag and pulled the gun Ru had given him, taking a deep breath as his mind swirled with horrific thoughts of dying or worse, like the men were looking for River. “Um… Kaylee, get behind me.” He watched her out of the corner of his eye get behind him so she was sandwiched between his body and Jayne’s, making her as safe as possible. Letting out a shuddered breath as his nerves were wracked because he was a standoff, Simon told himself to be strong.

Jayne talked to the two over his shoulder. “What‘re ya two doin’ here?! ‘N why does the doc look all normal like?”

“Well we were havin’ fun.” Kaylee murmured with a mixture of fear and sourness that their date was ruined. Why were their moments always ruined? Why couldn’t they just have a perfect day without anything happening?

“Still, why’s he look like regular folk instead uva dandy?”

“I’ll just take that as a compliment.” Simon hissed, his muscles taunt as his hand slowly panned his firearm around to the four men who were aiming at him. “Would you mind telling us what the rutting hell is going on?!”

“I dunno.” The merc rumbled with anger. “Some feller hit me, then all these hun-dans jumped in like theys all gotta grudge or some’um. Except I dunno them, so I couldn’t have dun some’um ta them… least I don’t think…”

“And what do we do?” the doctor asked in a harsh