River’s Run – Part 19

“Destination?” the young lady with the nice smile asked Gabriel Tam and his wife Regan as they stood in line at the spaceport ticket counter in the mining town of Helokon on the third moon of Londinium.

“Londinium, capital city,” Gabriel said with a return smile. “Four tickets.”

“Four?” the girl said in slight surprise. “Ah, sorry, but we must check IDs of everyone who goes on board.”

“Certainly. Here are our IDs and my son and his wife are running a bit late…oh, wait here they are now.”

“Did you get the tickets?” Zoe asked with a smile to Gabriel and Regan. She was dressed in Kaylee’s wedding dress and she had the veil on her head and draped over her face. Next to her was Jayne, in his Sunday go to a whorehouse best.

“Oh, newlyweds?” the girl asked.

“Yup,” Jayne said as he hugged Zoe tight to him. She almost pulled away but then put on a big smile. “Jus’ heading out on the honeymoon,” Jayne continued. “The folks here is gonna do a little shopping while we…ah…check into the honeymoon suite. Ain’t that right…ma and pa?”

“Yes, son,” Gabriel said with a tight smile.

Regan smiled as well, a bit more sincere looking than her husband. “She needs your IDs…son.”

“Sure thing, ma, got ‘em right here.” Jayne fished out two ID cards, fake, and hastily made on Serenity by Jonathan, who was well enough now to sit properly and had some experience at making fake IDs for people hiding out on Taos during the war. The trouble was Jayne and Zoe were too well-known to the Alliance policemen so they were going in disguise as a married couple. Zoe had her hair pulled back and up in a bun under the veil and Inara had put some specialized tattooing on her face in the form used on Old Earth That Was by Hindu brides getting married. Hopefully no one would know what it was or care as long as it kept wise eyes from knowing who she was. Jayne’s shaved head and shaved face hopefully did the same thing.

He had cursed and bellowed against this but Inara had pleaded and finally he had rel