Title: Always Lookin'

Author: hisgoodgirl

Disclaimer: All belongs to Joss.

Characters: Jayne and Kaylee (sorta), Kaylee and Simon (sorta).

Warning: PG-15; mild profanity, vague sexual reference.

Setting: During the series.

Word Count: 739

A/N: I recently watched Firefly on a huge projection screen for the first time during a Firefly Marathon hosted by the Charlotte Browncoats. Maybe it was the large format, but I really noticed how often Jayne is surreptitiously watching Kaylee. Written by reader request as the companion piece to “She Don’t Know”. (Click on my name above for a listing of my fics and lots more Jaylee.) Previously posted in the jaylee_ship and ff_fanfic comms at LJ.

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Always Lookin’

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Jayne Cobb’s the confoundingest man I ever met. He’s always lookin’ at me. Thinks I don’t notice it, but I do.

It ain't like the man’s what you’d call ‘subtle’ about most things. He’s always comin’ up with some excuse to come borrow a wrench or a screwdriver when I’m workin’ on the engine or standin’ over me durin’ mess cleanup. I know damn well the laws of chance wouldn’t be pairin’ up the two of us as often as the schedule shows.

If I asked him, he’d lie and flat out deny it.

From the very day the Cap’n hired him, he’s been checkin’ me out. Runnin’ them steely eyes a his over my backside and oglin’ my bosom. I don’t have to see him a’lookin’ – I can feel it.

He’ll be down in the bay, workin’ out, an’ maybe I gotta take the catwalk up to the bridge or over to ‘Nara’s shuttle. He keeps on liftin’ them weights, but I know he’s watchin’ me. (The truth is, I been known to do the same. ‘Specially, if you stand on the rail opposite his weight bench, you get a real nice view of all them muscles and sometimes a little more.)

Cap’n keeps warnin’ him off me an’ tellin’ me to watch my step around the man. Says Jayne’s dangerous, not to be tru