Jayne couldn’t sleep. Not fer the life of him. An’ he’d tried near everythin’ he could think of. But he couldn’t stop thinkin’ ‘bout Kaylee. ‘Bout how soft her lips were. How her hair smelled like kosu weed an’ vanilla. ‘Bout how she’d got ‘im all heated up an’ for some gorram reason he’d stopped ‘er.

Why’d he stop ‘er?

‘Cause he wasn’t a good enough person ta be second best. Just like Kaylee’d said. Somewhere he’d let his gorram pride get in between Kaylee an’ his belt buckle.

He looked at the wall separatin’ his bunk an’ Kaylee’s. Wondered if she was thinkin’ of him like he was thinkin’ of her.

He had ta get out.

Jayne wasn’t sweet on walkin’ around barefooted. Lord knew what kinda stuff was on the floor a Serenity. But barefoot was quiet. An’ he couldn’t take the thought’ve havin’ Kaylee know he was out an’ about an’ followin’ him. Didn’t think he had the discipline ta say no ta her twice.

Didn’t know where he was goin’, exactly. Just wanderin’. The ship was all quiet, seein’ as it was sleeptime.

No, not quiet. There was somethin’ goin’ on in the cargo bay.

He crept real quiet down the hallway an’ peered aroun’ the corner.

Not the cargo bay.

Inara’s shuttle.

Crazy was sittin’ just outside the door ta her shuttle, bobbin’ her head from side ta side ta the music that was comin’ out of it. She looked over at Jayne an’ grinned.

She waved fer him ta come over an’ put a finger ta her lips.

Jayne certainly didn’t have nothin’ better ta do.

The door was only part-way open. River was sittin’ so that she could see through the crack. The light comin’ from the shuttle fell in a line across her face..

She looked up at Jayne as he got closer. Had a real pleased look on her face.

She put a finger to her lips again.

He caught the tail-end of somethin’ Inara was sayin’. “—doubted that you could make Bach sexy.”

“I just never… EVER… thought of it that way.”

Doc was in there, too.

“Well now—ah! Back THEN forward.”

“Sorry.”

“It’s alright. No