Fandom: Firefly/ Serenity

Setting: After Serenity so there are SPOILERS for the movies in it! Watch out!

Rating: R- ish I think!

Disclaimer: Not mine! All belong to this car rental guy from Veronica Mars or so I have heard! Just playing with them for a while!

Summary: This is my version of a Firefly Christmas story! My first ever Firefly fanfic... hope you guys like!

Dedicated to k8cre8 and Daikath for getting me a Serenity bag - Wheeee! And also because k8cre8 is a hell of a beta reader!!!

Serenity was humming along silently and Jayne was bored. They had been flying without a break for about two weeks now and hadn't managed to find a job.

That meant no fighting. Hence the boredom. Worse: it meant no money. Soon their stores would be pretty low. Clearly, they needed food, booze and other every day stuff, all of which would be difficult to get without money.

All of that made Jayne even grumpier than usual, and so it wasn’t a big surprise when he responded with naught but a deep groan as Kaylee bugged him that Christmas was coming.

"Oh come on Jayne, just draw! Everyone else has! It’s just a small gift! It’s fun! Don’t be a spoil-sport" Kaylee smiled her irresistible smile and Jayne set down the weights he had been lifting with a loud sigh.

Fun?! Yeah right! Kaylee was talking to the wrong guy. Worse, he knew she wasn’t going to give up, either. So he took one of the last two slips of paper from the silver bowl Kaylee was holding in front of him.

" See that wasn’t so hard!" Kaylee grinned and went off to the bridge to bother the Captain with her Christmas spirit. Jayne quietly unfolded his piece of paper.

" River"

Was written on it with huge, black letters. Jayne couldn’t hold back a loud curse. Tsao gao! Of course he had to get her! One of the people he least liked on the ship! One of the bloody Tams!

"Hey Jayne! Get ready…. we have a job!"

It was Mal´s voice which tore him out of his thoughts.

"We'll land on Persephone in two