Kaylee glared at Jayne and he glared back. She sighed and picked up the net. She knew that holding a fishing pole one-handed would be hard, but she wanted to do it anyway, wanted to pull her weight. Jayne didn’t see it that way and was startin’ to get ornery so Kaylee gave in and settled for doin’ net duty. Since her main aim was getting Jayne off the ship for a break, she was goin’ to try real hard not to argue with him again.

“We ready to go yet?” Jayne demanded

“Simon’s just comin’ to give me a shot, and then we’re off.” She watched as the doctor and Wash approached.

“I hear you went dancing last night” Wash greeted Kaylee. “Did you have fun?”

Dancin’, Jayne knew what that meant; he’d watched from the sidelines a time or two.

Skirt swirlin’ round her thighs, body swayin’ to the tune, hair bouncin’, smile just ‘bout lightin’ up the room, lightly flirtin’, Kaylee drew men to her like a magnet.

Give the girl her due, she could keep them all at arms length and always seemed to know which one to pick for more fun. They’d go off together and she’d come back all bright and glowin’.

Hadn’t been dancin’ like that since the doc came on board, hadn’t been glowin’ either. Somethin’ else he could dislike Simon for. Girl like Kaylee needed more ‘n’ toys and hands to satisfy her, that’s why she’d needed to go out last night. But she hadn’t come back glowin’, just drunk.

Unless every fella in the bar was blind and deaf Jayne just couldn’t see how that could be. Like Mal said, no-one could resist Kaylee when she was flirtin’. How come none of ‘em had got to see the teddies? He leaned closer to hear what she said to Wash

“Didn’t go out with any of ‘em,” a shadow passed over her face. “But the dancin’ was shiny.”

Wash drifted over toward him as the doctor started to give Kaylee her shots. “Do you know what’s wrong there?” The man’s eyes were bright with concern. ‘Course he’d seen the dancin’ and the glowin’ a few times too.

“No.” Jayne shrugged. He aimed to find out though, if they ever got o