Nearly there I promise...I'm just having problems with the finale! ______________________________________________

Gorram it!” yelled an exasperated mercenary, the iron bar catchin’ him fair across the stomach.

“Jayne” Kaylee’s voice shook as he pushed her behind him, him and the Captain steppin’ smoothly in front of her, guns pointin’ at her pursuers.

“Take another step ‘n’ you die.”

Of course thought the Captain as he ducked behind the alley wall when the thugs opened fire, things could never go smooth. Though with the mood Jayne was in the fight didn’t last long, ending with him, Jayne and Kaylee still standing and everyone else dead.

After all that gunfire, the law would be here any minute; he turned to his companions, “let’s get….”

Neither of them were listening to him, Jayne hadn’t even gone over to check his victims; they were both just standing staring at each other.

Mal heard a clonk as Kaylee flung herself onto Jayne’s chest, her cast hitting him on the head, arms choking him with a stranglehold around his neck. It looked like she was trying to get close enough to burrow under his skin. Jayne dropped his weapons crushed Kaylee against his body and buried his face in her hair.

Mal didn’t think he was gonna get them apart any time soon, but he wanted to get back to Serenity, there were still crowds around, some of them more dangerous than the last bunch, and his merc was a mite distracted.

He picked up the fallen guns, cleared his throat for the fourth time and risked touching the volatile mercenary on the shoulder.

“Jayne put Kaylee down; we gotta get out of here.”

Jayne reluctantly let Kaylee slide to the ground twining his fingers with hers as they started to walk.

Kaylee lent as close to him as she could as they walked, needin’ his warmth, needin’ to reassure herself he wasn’t hurt.

“Did Simon get back alright, did he tell ya where I was?”

Thinking of how they’d left the doctor; the Captain belatedly realised how his actions may have appeared to Simon. But