Chapter Three

Bet stirred, not enough to wake up Jayne, but enough to know he had her pinned. An arm around her waist, clutching her right breast, the other provided a pillow for her head before it wrapped around to her left shoulder, his left leg draped protectively over her legs. She tried to remember exactly what had happened last night. At first, she had been scared and unsure of what was expected of her, after awhile knowledge she thought was lost forever bubbled up and took over. She had done things she didn’t know she could do, but that’s not saying much as Bet couldn’t remember anything earlier then six years ago.

She smiled as she remembered how surprised he was when she locked her forearms behind his head and kissed him. At first, he had struggled, but not very hard when the memory of how much he liked kissing took over.

She managed to turn over in his arms, pull his shirt up and plant small kisses all across his chest. He awoke with a growl and rolled on top of her. He was sorry he had insisted they put their clothes on last night, as it looked like they would just be taking them off again, but Jayne knew you always slept with you boots on.

He had just started to pull her dress over her head when she pulled his hair.

“Hey! You started it.” He pouted at her.

She pulled at his coat until she got it out from under her and then he felt the communicator vibrating.

He stood up swearing at Mal’s timing, walked over to the bushes to relieve himself. “Yeah?” He grunted into the box. “Ok, be there in thirty minutes.” He finished the call and relieving himself at the same time. “We gotta go meet Mal at the drop off site, better...” As he turned, he saw Bet was already to go; she had broken down the lean-to, put her stuff back into her bag and was offering him a protein bar. Jayne ate the protein bar and looked at her with newfound admiration as she finished braiding her hair and pinned it up.

Jayne started off at a good clip, knowing he didn’t have much time to make the drop off point. After