Marcus gladly helped Kaylee with her list. Kaylee was amazed that Marcus knew everything on the list. Kaylee definitely enjoyed Marcus’s company. When they completed the errand, Simon told Marcus they had to leave and promised to keep in touch. Marcus insisted on visiting this Serenity that Kaylee was talking about. River just stood there the whole time trying to read Marcus. She couldn’t understand why she couldn’t read him. She could read every person’s mind.

Marcus walked Kaylee back to Serenity. Mal, Zoe, and Wash were outside.

“Hi Cap’n, this is Marcus.”

‘Hi Marcus, excuse me for a minute.”

Mal pulled Kaylee aside. “Mei-mei, what are you doing?”

“He’s a friend of Simon’s and wanted to see Serenity.”

“I know you love to show off Serenity, but I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

“I agree,” River said coming up to the two.

“Cap’n?”

“Yes Mei-mei?”

“Please, it won’t take long I promise.”

Mal couldn’t say no to Kaylee. Mal also knew Kaylee may be all sunshine, but you didn’t mess with her when she got mad. “Fine, twenty minutes.”

Kaylee hugged Mal and back to where Marcus and Simon were standing.

“Shall we?” Kaylee asked.

“We shall,” Marcus said taking Kaylee’s arm.

Mal approached Simon. “You look upset there Doc.”

“Why would I be upset?”

Mal smiled. “Gee, I don’t know.”

Simon rolled his eyes at Mal. “Look, while you were talking to Kaylee, Marcus offered me a big sum of money so he could travel with us to the next planet.”

“Is he trying to get away from someone?”

“I didn’t ask.”

When Simon told him the amount of money, Mal was on board for having another passenger.

River came up to Simon who was staring at Marcus and Kaylee.

“This isn’t good,” River said.

“I know,” Simon says in return. He left River standing there to catch up to Kaylee and Marcus.

River was going to keep her eye on Marcus. She was going to figure out how to read his mind. In the meantime she was going to have to keep Kaylee away from Marcus. She could tell he was up to something and had a feeling