Translations

jie jie - big sister

feng le - crazy

mei mei - little sister

liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze - Stupid son of a drooling whore and a monkey.

tsway-niou - bullcrap

Shi - affirmative

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Finding Serenity

Part 1

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Kaylee pursed her lips as she looked through the infirmary windows, watching the unconscious woman’s chest rise and fall with each breath. Despite Simon’s cleaning, the woman still had a fair amount of blood on her skin and in her hair.

The woman’s wounds, from what Simon had told her and the rest of the crew, were shocking; two broken ribs, a punctured lung, a dislocated shoulder, gun shot wounds to the thigh and side, multiple lacerations, internal bleeding. All in all, this woman should be dead.

Again.

It had been twelve years, but the woman in front of her still looks the same; although back then the woman in the infirmary was more gangly then muscular like she was now. She had finally filled into her curves, and her body didn’t look like she hadn’t been starved for weeks on end. The once shoulder length blonde hair was now cut pixie like. Scars now littered nearly every part of the woman’s 5’4 frame. She had changed.

“Do ya know who she is?”

Kaylee sighed and turned, finally acknowledging the Mal, who was laying in wait along with River and Simon. “Yes, or, at least, I did twelve years ago.”

“Wanna specify that?”

Kaylee pinched the bridge of her nose, looking far more morose than Mal had seen her in so many years. “Her name is Jamie Starr. She was an orphan back at home, but she was my jie jie.

“Then one day, she just disappeared. No one saw her; leave the planet or otherwise. We all assumed she was dead.”

“Obviously ain’t dead feng le,” Jamie rasped from the infirmary, sitting up in the bed.

“Jamie!” Kaylee gasped and ran to her friend, stopping short of the bed. Simon was right behind her. “Are you okay? Stupid question, of course yer not okay.”

Jamie gave her a pained chuckle. “Still a rattler I see.