Author's Note: I wrote these little drabbles to help raise awareness of US food banks' shortage of food donations. Hear the NPR news story at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6530180
And find a food bank near you at America's Second Harvest: http://www.secondharvest.org/
Please note, I am not affiliated with NPR or Second Harvest in anyway. Just trying to encourage people to donate food. :D If you like the fic, donate food and spread the word!

I. STUPID

The first time River hit Jayne with a can of peaches he’d been stupid. Just because Mal had cuffed her with the heaviest restraints made by man, he’d expected her to still be in said restraints when he opened the pantry door. Just goes to show what they knew.

When he woke up, he growled at Kaylee and stalked over to the freezer to grab the bag of frozen grapes he’d used on his groin earlier. As he headed up to the bridge, he swore he wouldn’t make the mistake of underestimating the crazy killer woman for a third time.