Wash had been on Serenity for a month and still hadn’t managed to make her laugh. It was a challenge to crack a chuckle out of the Captain but one he had succeeded in doing after three days so how come it had been a month and Zoe hadn’t even smiled?

Another thing he didn’t understand was why Zoe seemed to dislike him so much. He had always been likable, or even just “tolerable” in the case of a couple of bunk mates in flight school. But Zoe didn’t even tolerate him. She just looked at him as if he was guilty of something but Wash had no idea what.

Wash sighed, thinking of Zoe, as he fiddled around underneath the control panel. The Captain and Zoe where out making a deal and Bester…well Bester was off being Bester in some dank place so it was just him and Serenity. He plopped his headphones in, figuring that no one would need him for take-off for at least another hour so a little bit of a distraction in the form of local radio was allowed.

He sat tinkering with everything that needed fixing on the bridge for a good ten minutes before he had done everything that needed doing. This wasn’t good. Wash had been planetside for three days now and his longing to get back in the sky was impossible to deal with…he needed another distraction.

It wasn’t something that could be solved with a nap or playing with dinosaurs or watching something on the cortex…he needed something to do. He had to find something to keep him going for another half-hour or so….

He was just about ready to consider calling Bester back as a last resort for something to do when his headphones started blaring something familiar. The song was a couple of chords in before he realised what it was. It was something he hadn’t heard in a while and the way he was still familiar with the chords and the drum-beat and every breath the band made sent chills down his spine.

A combination of him being planetside and him not having heard this song for a good while lead him to crank up the music to the loudest possible volume and within seconds he was d