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Characters: Book

Summary: Book’s Valentine’s Day

Author’s Notes: So far all the other stories in this series have went down the smutty angle, so I apologize if ya’ll get disappointed when you read this one and find out it’s only a PG rating.

Valentine’s Day: Book

By KaySky

On his way to the kitchen for breakfast, he noticed the quiet. He allocated most of that towards Valentine’s Day. The pilot and the first mate probably wouldn’t be seen until tomorrow. The recent love that had blossomed between the medic and the mechanic was sure to keep them occupied today as well. As for the rest, he couldn’t explain it, he didn’t try. He just enjoyed the quiet.

He prepared his breakfast and sat down at the table. “Good morning.” He said as River walked into the kitchen.

“Good is an overstatement.” She was irritated.

Lately River and he had seemed to be building up some sort of rapport. “Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?” He’d become quite fond of his little conversations with her.

“The idea of a ‘wrong side’ of the bed is preposterous.” She grabbed an apple and joined him at the table.

“Well then, River, what seems to be troubling you?”

“Selfishness.”

“Is someone onboard being selfish?” He asked concerned.

“The poison apple is powerful. Snow White will take a bite and fall under the curse, but the Prince will not come” She eyeballed the piece of fruit in her hand as if she was searching for the perfect place to inject some poison. “It’s the apple’s job to make sure of it.” She took a bite out of her apple. “The apple cannot fail, all will be lost. Snow White is selfish. She’d keep the Prince all to herself and his townsmen would see him no more.”

“River, is this story about your brother and Kaylee?”

“It’s a fairytale from the earth-that-was.” She rolled her eyes.

“Perhaps we’ve just heard different versions of the tale. In the one I reca