River cringed. Pain, crushed dreams, hopes that would never come true. Torture. She kept staring at Eis. That’s all they could do. Stare. Staring was lame, River had decided. She wanted something that was impossible to have, mostly because her brother outsmarted her somehow. Gorram big brothers...

“So...” Eis mumbled. River continued to glare. Wow. “So...” she replied, a look of almost disgust on her face.

Serenity was on its way out of the solar system, and they were bored... very bored. Worse than a rainy day, as even then you can go outside. If they were to attempt that, they would more than getting wet underwear.

They were a good month into the journey, and by now they knew every single dust mite that crawled in the cracks of Serenity. That’s sayin’ something now.

“I want sex,” River stated as a matter of factly as she could. Eis blinked a couple times out of shock.

“You know if we do that,” Eis recovered, “then something bad will doubtlessly happen while your brother’s dumb ass drug makes us incapable of moving. It’s a scientific fact. When the best fighters are out, some pirate with an algorithmic name will board the ship and drive everybody out of their minds. I like staying with my mind, thank you.” River nodded. She knew it was true. In fact, several people had already passed under the scope of Serenity. She had heard them. It was only the fact that she was ready for them that they didn’t board.

“All hypothetical, of course,” Eis emptily assured himself.

“Of course.”

***

“Almost there people!” Mal shouted down the quiet corridor. “Only one more week to go!” No reply told him that none of them were listening. Seven weeks on a relatively small spaceship was very... lengthy. Even Mal, who swore to himself he would never get tired of his beautiful boat, was getting a might bit twitchy. River and Eis had been calm before they had gotten out of the solar system, but now that they were almost there, the two teens seemed to wake up. Come alive... Start wanting to do tasks, projects, and