Author's Note: Inspired by this thread: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=4&t=19581. I always wanted more interaction between Simon and Wash, so here's my idea for a scene that might have taken place between them. I don't particularly have any specific place in the series for this, although definitely before the movie. I'm going to hesitantly say before Objects in Space, but really, you can stick it wherever you please, dong ma? I hope I nailed the Joss/Alan/Sean delivery... >.< Dedicated to my beta reader, sweet_oblivion at LJ, though further concrit welcome!

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"Oh baby... you know I love it when you look at me like that..."

"Really?" The voice was soft and husky. "Like what, dear?"

"That look you give me. The look that says you want to find some desolate stretch of land and make sweet sweet love until the sun rises."

"Oh sweetie... and all this time I thought you just loved me for my body..."

"Oh baby, how could I NOT love your body? I especially love your legs... and where your legs meet your torso, that whole area."

"Mmm... tell me more."

"Oh god, when I first saw you, I knew I had to have you. Your firm, svelte body... your sparkling eyes... your magnificent firm scales... and that tail, oooooh, never have I seen a tail like yours, sweetheart. All those incredible spikes..."

Wash angled the small stegosaurus toy away as if hiding a blush. "I'm sure you say that to all the cute Jurassic women in the area," he said in a breathy high pitched voice.

"Only you, sweetpea," the brontosaurus in his other hand protested warmly. "You're the most beautiful dinosaur from here to... to... that other place."

"You say that now, Bronty," Wash made his voice quavering, as if holding back overdramatic tears, "but what about me, who I really am? I can't be with a dinosaur who doesn't love me for my brain as well as my body..."

"Well, your brain is only the size of a walnut..." Bronty said without thinking, only to jerk horrified in Wash's controlling hands. "I