Title: Show and Tell

Author:hisgoodgirl

Disclaimer: All belongs to Joss. I got nada.

Characters: Jayne/Kaylee, crew

Rating: PG for mildly adult situations and deep, sweet, warm fuzziness.

Setting: Two years post-BDM

Word Count: 2,630

A/N: Cross-posted from my LiveJournal. Comments are always appreciated.

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SHOW AND TELL

It was hard for Kaylee to believe it had been nearly two years since the Miranda broadwave. The intervening months had been filled with change, with grief and healing and finally love. None of it happened according to plan, nothing felt as she’d expected. Life has a curious way of leading you through all sorts of twists and turns and then bringing you out into places you never figured to wind up.

She glanced across at her sleeping husband and smiled. His head was thrown back and his mouth gaped in a way that no one would ever call dignified or proper. Thinking back to her brief romance with Simon, Kaylee recalling how, even in sleep, the young doctor remained composed and appropriate, his body still and neatly arranged on his side of the bunk.

Not so Jayne Cobb. Oh no.

The big gunhand had a way of sleeping that managed to take up the whole bed, sprawling over and around her, massive arms and legs all tangled in with hers. Jayne, to her utter astonishment, was a cuddler. This propensity made turning over nearly impossible and she didn’t mind a bit.

It had taken about six months for her relationship with Simon to stutter to an amicable halt. Both agreed they made better friends than lovers. And then she discovered that she and Jayne made better lovers than friends. Way better. By the time the mercenary had worked up the courage to pop the question, she knew that she wanted to spend the rest of her life married to the big, uncouth, raunchy and undeniably snuggly man.

Mal did the honors – at gunpoint.

Zoe had more cause that anyone to appreciate the precious and somet