Firefly: "Early Retirement"

Disclaimer: If I weren't just a poor college student and could finance the series myself, I would, but I can't. So all I can do is just play around in Joss Whedon's 'verse. Also, I don't know a lick of Chinese so I haven't bothered to put the translations because they're probably horribly wrong. If it were Japanese or Latin, well, that'd be another story...

Episode seven of my second season of Firefly: The crew finally finds a buyer for the Lassiter--the original handheld laser pistol--and, like always, complications arise, however, is Mal prepared for what those complications might bring?

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Jayne Cobb sat at the far edge of his bunk with his most favored gun cradled in his muscular arms; Vera, the Callahan full-bore auto-lock, that he took off the last of the group of six men who tried to kill him one time. She hadn't seen much use in recent weeks, and Jayne felt a tinge of regret for neglecting her. Ideally, the long table in the mess hall would be the place to do maintenance on any weapon, but even in the dead of night it wasn't private enough for this sort of thing--not with the girl, River, running around to Kyo's bunk; or Zoe occassionally having a late night sitting session with Kyo, Hex, or Inara; or even the newlyweds, Simon and Kaylee, when they got that adventurous idea going. The desk in his cramped, messy bunk was no good on account of it being so small and he being so big. That just left his bed and his lap, which was all right by him.

He'd just finished checking the load mechanism, complete with the spring and chamber catch, and was about to move on to the barrel when Kyo's voice came over the intercom. "Jayne? You up? Got a wave for you. Patchin' it down, now."

At first, Jayne was perturbed. For one thing, Kyo was a Reader just like that girl, so he should've known if Jayne were up or not. Of course, Jayne didn't pause to think that Kyo could actually control his abilities, and would most certainly not wish to go strolli