Jayne's Journal-Chapter 1-Five Years
Disclaimer: I don't own the original characters, only the ones I have come up with while being bored on a five hour long flight from Los Angeles to Newark.
It's been five years. Five gorram long years. We've loved an' lost an' gotten closer as a family than we ever was. Our family's even grown to add three more. Wash an' the Sheppard are gone, but Hoban, Ptera, an' Derrial have helped us to move on.
Now, you're probably askin' yerself, Now, what an' who in the gorram hell is he talkin' about? Well, I'll tell ya.
It's been five years since Mal got the broadcast about Miranda out. Five years since the Alliance's operative killed the reverend Sheppard Derrial Book an' Mr. Universe an' the gorram Reavers killed the little man, Hoban Washburn. Five years since River got sane an' killed the Reavers back. Five years since Mei mei an' the Doc got together. In all, it's been five years since everything changed.
Now, yer probably wonderin' who I am an' who the folks I keep goin' on about are. I guess I should tell you, since you'll be buggin about it an' the girl is pesterin' me about bein' true to y'all about who's tellin' this tale an' who's all in it. The name's Jayne Cobb, former merc an' one of the luckiest sons-of-bitches this side of the Core. The girl that's doin' the pesterin' is none other than my girl River, former crazy, trained killer girl an' the Firefly-class ship Serenity's current pilot.
Now, who're Mei mei an' the Doc? Well, Mei mei is Serenity's mechanic, Kaywinnit Lee "Kaylee" Fry-Tam, an' the Doc is her husband an' River's stuck up, prissy brother Doctor Simon Tam. They've got a two-year-old son named Derrial who likes to scare the livin' daylights outta all of us on this boat by runnin' around an' gettin' into mischief, same as his ma an' auntie, an' not at all like his namesake the Sheppard.
Continuin' with this story, when the Reavers killed Wash, they left Zoe a widow. A few weeks after we got the ship fixed up, though, we found out that Wash hadn't completely left us. Turned out Zo' was pregnant with Wash's kids, a little boy she named Hoban (after their late pa) an' a little girl named Ptera (in honor of those toy dinos that belonged to their pa that none of us had the heart to remove). So now she's got two four-year-olds who like getting' into just as much trouble as their pa did an' ain't doin' a very good job at bein' role models to little Derrial (these ain't my words exactly, they're River's).
Now, yer probably askin' yerself, What happened to the Cap an' 'Nara? Well, they got together, too. Fact, they're gonna get hitched in a few weeks when we get to Shadow (that's where Mal's ma lives).
Now, this family wouldn't be the same without the bucket o' bolts (don't tell Kaylee I said that) that we call home. Serenity's been doin' okay these last few years. Some parts still fly off, but that's our Serenity. An' none of us will ever truly leave her 'cause it's like Mal, Zoe, an' that old sayin' about the Battle of Serenity Valley back on the planet Hera always say: "Once you've been to Serenity, you never leave."
So, the reason fer my makin' this journal thing is that I felt there was a need fer folks ta know how I felt about the situation an' the events of the past five years. Well, that an' River did the whole "I can kill you with my brain" speech again (it still gives me the willies).
So, what'd you think? Please click & review! Or something.
