Pained Hearts

Chapter 2

Authors Note: Okay so this Chapter kinda is just to fill up time and establish a few things. Enjoy!

The ship was quiet. This was the way River liked it. She didn’t get lost in others thoughts this way. She had gotten better after Miranda, but she was still a reader and everyone’s thoughts bombarded her. It caused her pain and made everything confusing for her to the point she couldn’t even sort out whose thoughts were whose. So when the ship was quiet and most everyone was asleep her mind was clearer and she could wander through her mind and everyone else’s with no pain or confusion at all.

River slid open her door and dragged Jayne inside with her. Jayne couldn’t help let his thoughts wonder from his dying brother to the small minx in from of him. Her nightgown pulled at all the right places. He stared at the white fabric stretched across her hips and backside; it was amazing no one had snatched her up as their own. It really made sense though, since she never really left the ship unless they had work. Everyone was taken too, but him, which made him feel lucky till he realized she would never want a merc like him.

River growled to herself at his last thought. She was starting to think all the men on this ship were boobs when it came to women. With a good push Jayne was sitting on her bed. He watched her in surprise when she shut her door and then proceeded to take the bottle of engine whine from him. It was a pure shock when she lifted it to her lips, and took a shot from it, and then handed it back to Jayne making a disgusted face. Jayne’s laughed echoed through the small bunk.

Moving past him with a smile, River climbed into the bed and covered herself up so that she was facing Jayne. “Sleep, Jayne.” She said pulling on his shirt.

“There ain’t no ruttin’ way I am sleepin’ in here with you, Crazy.” Jayne replied, taking a swig from the bottle.

“Please?” Asked her little voice. “Makes all the monster dreams go away... Please?” She had jutted out her lower l