Slim as Dimes, Part 3

By belasera

NC-17…ish

Oh, the things you hear in a cracked spaceship…I’m going back to my first love, Jayne/Kaylee, with a smattering of Simon for good luck.

Spoilers for the BDM!

A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend. All recognizable characters belong not to me, but to Joss Whedon and the darlings over at Universal. No money made, no harm meant.

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Jayne was usually gone from his bunk before her in the morning. But when she woke she heard him, running water and hummin’ a bit as he shaved, she could tell that’s what he was doin’. If she was crazy she’d have thumped the wall, told him not to, told him she liked him scruffy. But Kaylee wasn’t crazy, wasn’t ‘bout to invite the sort of trouble came with sayin’ things like that to a man ain’t your’n.

And Jayne wasn’t. Wasn’t nothin’ but a hot honeyed voice behind a wall, much as he rumbled ‘bout comin’ over to her, that wasn’t what this thing was. Couldn’t be, not whiles she had a good man lovin’ her wholesome and to her face. Kaylee couldn’t think how he’d look on her if he knew, ‘bout what she did with Jayne, how hot it made her to be so secret and raw with him. She’d just die of shame if Simon could see her there in the morning, lookin’ like a girl’d been sexed throughout the whole night, and now was dozing in her bunk and listening to her lover wash up. That’s what she was like, only a normal girl wouldn’t be listening through a bulkhead.

Normal girl wouldn’t dread seein’ her boyfriend, either, but that’s what Kaylee was doin’. Even thinkin’ of Simon as her boyfriend was getting’ absurd, she didn’t even know why she’d thought there was space for thing like that on Serenity neither. Simon was so…so…tight, so closed even when he was smilin’ right at her. Was like he was waitin’ for somethin’, like he was passin’ time until he could be himself again. Or maybe that’s just how she felt, like they was playin’ at somethin’ just to see if they could. Thing couldn’t drag on for no ever more, only s