The Snake in the Apple Tree 3

By belasera

Let’s not mince words, it gets downright porny. If it’s witty banter or character exploration you want, this ain’t your fic. If you have a hankering to see Jayne beg, well…happy birthday.

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He didn’t come. Blood was seepin’ through Jayne’s bandage as he sat on his bunk, staring at the ladder Kaylee had scampered up all hot and soft before they got as far as tumbling ‘round his bed. She’d left his skin rumblin’ with a thrill that was only half for her and half for what had landed the two of them gropin’ in the first place. Kaylee had seen him, seen him bury his face in Simon’s neck, she’d knowed what they was up to and come to fight over it. Fight or fuck, maybe, but she’d left with only a bit of each. Had said she didn’t want Jayne as payment, was a funny sort of thing to say and it was something’ like Simon had said to him, after the first time. After they’d spent all night going at each other like wasn’t nothing’ else in the ‘verse. Maybe Jayne had meant it as a sort of payment for what he’d done before, but wasn’t nothing wrong with payin’ someone back. ‘Specially if it was something’ he didn’t even mind payin’. Not a bit. But that was in the then, they was all even now and maybe it’d been a crooked coupl’a weeks, them not bein’ able to be in the same room as the other, but that was all over, too. He’d felt Simon in the medlab, felt him just rollin’ into Jayne’s arms. So it didn’t make no sense when he didn’t come.

Didn’t look at him at breakfast next day, neither. Was like that talk in the medlab never happened. It had, though, just the thought of Simon pressed against him, askin’ Jayne if he wanted him was enough to make him growl into his coffee. You’d think all the brains the doc had he wouldn’t have to ask, but he had, asked soundin’ so unsure of hisself that Jayne had let the truth spill outa him and fill the room with fire. Yeah, he wanted him. Wanted him now if not sooner, but Simon was sittin’ across from him g