Kaylee Fry had experienced several emotions since she had first met a young doctor named Simon Tam. The reason she had such strong feelings for him was because even though he often left her confounded in regards to his motives, no single man had stirred her the way he had. Lust, frustration, infatuation, ire, love, annoyance; they all hit her at the same time the instant she realized that Simon had triggered a booby trap. She was not, however, so seized with emotion that she couldn’t act. Had she been much faster, at the very least, Simon would have lost a leg, and at most, three people could have been killed, herself included.

A boon to the doctor’s continued health, however, was the quick thinking and actions of three men. As Kaylee quickly grabbed the back of Simon’s vest in an effort to haul him to safety, she was just as quickly shoved to the ground. Malcolm Reynolds had shouldered past her roughly and grabbed Simon from behind. As he wrapped his arms around the smaller man’s chest, he roughly barked an order.

“Don’t move, Doctor!”

This was almost hammered clearly into Simon’s mind, though as he heard the order, the survival instinct began to overpower his ability to obey. Shepherd Book added his arms to Mal’s in an effort to stop the doctor’s struggles. Though they held him bodily in place, Simon began to lift his foot in an effort to escape. That was when Jayne Cobb stepped on it, slowly and calmly shaking his head at Simon.

“If you want to keep that pretty shoe, I’d listen to the Captain.” Jayne said.

Simon froze, stockstill. He couldn’t remember ever being this frightened.

“Captain?” He began.

Mal shushed him and the beeping began to speed up.

Zoe had hurried over, Wash in tow to appraise the situation.

“That’s a Betty.” she said.

“You can tell from the beeping?” Wash asked.

Mal, Zoe, Book and Jayne all answered in chorus:

“YES!”

The beep’s tempo stepped up once more.

“Captain?” Jayne said.

Mal’s eyes darted around as he tried to think of some way to disarm the B