“Where are you headin’ to doc?” Jayne asked as he watched Simon walk towards the engine room. Jayne knew exactly where Simon was heading but he just liked to watch the doc squirm. Simon finally noticed that Jayne was around and stopped.

“If you must be noisy, I’m on my way to the engine room to talk to Kaylee.” With that he started to walk again. But was stopped again by the big man ape.

“Ya know Kaylee is a very special woman to me and the rest of this crew and I don’t want to see her hurt by some pretty boy.”

Simon looked at Jayne with a disturbed look on his face.

”Please don’t call me pretty.”

“I’m just sayin’ that if you said those things to her just because we were getting’ attacked by Reavers because you though that that would give her the motivation that she needed to fight…well you would hurt her and I don’t like seein’ Kaylee hurt. Neither does Mal.” Jayne said as he lounged back in his seat placing his feet to rest on the table. Simon felt the anger rise from his crest. “I would NEVER hurt Kaylee on purpose. It’s true that I never responded to her forwardness before now but I didn’t want to start something with her that wouldn’t be able to keep up. I mean I have River to worry about and the fact that I’m a wanted fugitive doesn’t help much either.”

Jayne took is feet off the table. “Tell me somethin’ doc. When did you start having feelins for our little Kaylee? “Simon gave a smile. He pictured Kaylee in her overalls with a Chinese baby blue jacket over them and a paper umbrella shading her chestnut colored hair that was placed with two small knots on top of her head from the afternoon sun. He remembered just looking at her with feelings that he never experienced before rushing thru him.

“Since the first time I laid eyes on her.”

Jayne nodded as Simon continued.

“When I first walked past Serenity I never even looked at it’s destination but to Kaylee. I knew that I had to make sure that River would be someplace safe and when I saw Kaylee’s smile that day…I knew that she was s