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What I Want...What I Need - Part 10

“Sir, you alright?” Zoe tried not to sound worried, but she had reason to be edgy; the Captain was down and he wasn’t talking.

She glared at Gray Mody down the length of her mare’s leg. Something about a gun to the head has a way of making a man spontaneously develop a serious case of the sweats, and Mody stared wide-eyed straight ahead down the barrel, dripping on the floor like he’d taken a swim. Waiting.

Good. Between her on the trigger and Mody on the pissing end, they had an understanding. That he was still breathing was only a matter of inches and pressure and her good grace since she would gladly kill him for shooting her Captain.

“Sir?”

“He… shot me,” Mal gasped from the floor.

Zoe kept her eyes on Mody, “Are you going to live, Sir?”

Across the bar, Jayne planted his fist through the face of Mody’s last man, turning to glance at Mal across the room before the man hit the floor, “Quit your whinin’, Mal. That ain’t hardly more n’ a scratch.”

Mal winced as he twisted his foot to check the damage. Blood trickled from a hole in his boot.

“Ben tian sheng de yi dui rou! These were my favorite boots,” Mal looked ready throw a piss party right there on the floor.

“I’ll take that as a yes.” Zoe relaxed, satisfied that they would all walk away, or limp away, from another job and this time with their platinum, which incidentally was still strapped to Mody’s belt.

“Hand it over.”

The usually loud and talkative Mody was struck profoundly dumb by the prospect of losing his platinum or his life. She guessed the baleful stare had more to do with the platinum t