“You heard me,” Kaylee chided. “Strip.”

“I will not,” Simon said indignantly.

“Simon, you lost the game,” she moaned. “You have to.”

“Not to mention that Kaylee’s been lookin’ to eye your man candy for the past several months,” Jayne added.

Kaylee delivered an elbow sharply into Jayne’s gut which derived a good chuckle out of the others at Serenity’s galley table. Simon wasn’t laughing.

“Think of it this way,” Zoe offered, “It could have been anyone, you were just unlucky.”

The crew erupted into laughter, save for Simon.

“I was hoping it would be my wife,” Wash chimed in as the laughter subsided.

“Me too,” Jayne haplessly added.

This time, Zoe delivered her elbow into Jayne’s gut and this time, he groaned in pain.

“Should we play some music,” Mal suggested. They all let out another bout of laughter as Simon bit his lip.

“This is positively shameful,” Book exclaimed through heavy laughter.

Simon gave a pleading look towards River, his last escape.

“No way, Simon,” she said before he could even get a word out. “Two by two, unless one is nude.”

Kaylee took advantage of the moment to take Simon’s arm. “I don’t see the problem here,” she said soothingly. “You were singing naked on top a statue of some dead guy. You said so.”

“Kaylee,” Simon hissed.

“Wait, what is this,” Inara questioned in jest. “Looks like you’ve got some explaining to do, Simon.”

“It was under the influence of much sake,” Simon blurted in defense.

“And that really is not helpn’ your case,” Mal joked.

The crew began to start in all at once on Simon concerning the story and Simon’s avoidance of the dare. Kaylee gave one last glance at Simon, no less than pure agony on his face.

“I think I heard Serenity hiccup,” She stated, and left the galley. No one really noticed as they continued to chide Simon all at once.

“…not that I’m overly anxious to see his man parts,” Mal requited, “I just think it’s funny as Hell.”

“You all are terrible,” Book managed through laughter.

“Pretty boy’s a scaredy pus