A Steady Diet of Past Desserts

Teaser.

Open.

Cockpit of Serenity.

Wash and Mal and Jayne are there. Wash is flying the ship into orbit of their target destination..

They are chatting about something…

Wash

(mock enthusiasm)

“It’s so nice to be landing on another desert. I hate the moons that have too much green stuff and shade. We see too many of them, huh captain?”

Mal

Yep, we probably see too many. Always more alliance friendly eyes on the rich planets. the kind of attention we don’t need, wouldn’t you say?

Jayne

(intelligently)

I would.

Wash

(abandoning the discussion)

Well there you go.

(reaching to hold his stomach)

did you guys eat any of the leftovers from ……?(mal interrupts)

Mal

And we go where our business is. I got a good source, says we can find some work to be done here, and Inara’s got a meeting here herself…so everyone makes out.

Jayne

(catching the double entendre…leering at his own joke)

…Don’t think Inara will just be ‘making out’…not for the kind of cash she’s asking..

Mal

(half smirk- is he bothered or amused)

Is that right? I expect the price she told you Jayne, was no more than double her standard.

Jayne

(trying to decipher Mal’s meaning)

So what, I’m higher than her standards?

Wash

(Pulling his hands from his stomach and putting them in the air…over the top sarcasm)

That’s it exactly. All that wisdom, yet Simon’s the doctor you the thug. Life is ironic.

Jayne

(feeling some loss of dignity)

I knew she weren’t serious bout that price.. couldn’t be too serious bout her work neither, she don’t want to learn up from old Jayne.

Wash

She’s a Companion, not an anthropologist you Cro-Magnon…what does she care if you comb your hair back with a spit shine or with your own feces to hold it just…

Mal

Wash, could you give me a big fancy word for what that beeping is all about, And why you aren’t looking to i