I don't own any of this... I just play with it and return it ;)

AN: Did someone say "Spacy Battle?

A couple days later, after a particularly stimulating stint of helping Kaylee patch up the engines enough to get them to the next port, they were sitting at the dinner table mulling over some particularly twisty bit of social convention and time travel when Jayne offered his opinion.

"I don't see why you can't just take your fancy blue box, pick it up right before it's dee-stroyed an give it to them what needs it." He went back to eating his protein glop.

The Doctor stared at him, dumbfounded while the others continued to eat. They all fully expected The Doctor to shoot down his idea in his high-handed way.

"You, my friend," The strange, skinny man in brown clothes pointed at Jayne, "Are a genius!"

All activity at the table stopped.

River's eyes went wide as they shot to Jayne. Wash moved his food out of the way when Simon snorted in surprised stupification, started choking and Kaylee smacked him on the back. Mal and Zoe were both caught, gape mouthed, in the middle of shoveling food in; only difference being that Zoe had actually swallowed her previous bite before trying to put more in.

"Uh..." Jayne had no idea on how to take that, "wut?"

"Thank you!" The Doctor snatched up Jayne's hand and pumped it up and down.

"You serious?" Mal choked out.

"Hardly ever." The Doctor grinned at the Captain. "But that is a great idea! It won't change history at all! Keep it simple, I always say!"

"Do not." River muttered into her protein glop.

"Shush, you."

"Meh!" She stuck her tongue out at him again. "Jayne's big idea; difficult to make things easy..." She started humming to herself, thinking and twirling a strand of hair around her fingers. No one saw Jayne's slight smile.

"Well... yes." The Doctor agreed with the crazy girl. "I didn't say it would be easy, but all we have to do is figure out the exact time it was melted down and snatch it right out of the furnace."

"Oh-Kay!" River agreed in a sing-song voice. "Need parts."

"Well, I might have something in the TARDIS..." The Doctor frowned in thought.

"You have spare parts on the TARDIS?" Kaylee asked, incensed. "Why did we go through all that, this afternoon, if'n you got parts?"

"Ah..." The Doctor yanked himself away from his thoughts and grinned in his boyish way. "It was fun...?"

Kaylee flung a spoon at him. He ducked and the spoon land landed in Mal's lap after bouncing off his chest.

"All right!" The Captain flung his hands in the air. "No projectiles at the table! Them's the rules, an you know that, Kaylee!" He pointed his finger at the mechanic.

"Tell ya what." Kaylee suggested. "Why don't we go get the parts and I'll forget you were holdin out on me."

"I'm in!" Wash chimed in.

"Ah..." The Doctor grimaced, "They're all over the TARDIS."

"Well," Kaylee insisted, "How hard can it be to find some parts in that lil blue box?"

The Doctor gave her his best "If you insist" grin.

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River pushed past Kaylee's stunned form and danced onto the deck grating in the console room of the TARDIS.

"It's..." Kaylee couldn't get the thoughts to conform. Both River and The Doctor rolled their eyes.

"Yeah." The Doctor confirmed the unfinished thought.

"But..." Her head slowly turned to the right and kept on going, taking her body with it in a corkscrew of confusion. "It's..."

"What?" Asked Wash who was trapped outside, behind Kaylee

"Bigger." River helped. "Displaces no space in the realm of our awareness. Just pokes her head out the door to see what it's like."

Kaylee swallowed, trying to wet her throat as she took in the daunting amount of space this ship encompassed. Wash poked her between the shoulder blades and she took a couple distracted steps forward. He stepped into the TARDIS and gave a long, low whistle.

"Well, this shouldn't be so hard." Wash directed his light hearted sarcasm at Kaylee.

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Kaylee walked backward, dragging the heavy, corrugated plastic carton toward the TARDIS door. Once the Doctor had started pulling out spare parts and usable scraps she had all but forgotten the incongruity of the TARDIS' "spatial displacement" (as river put it.) Something about the strange lighting and the way the ship hummed through the deck plating had lulled Kaylee's confusion, leaving only a homey, welcome feeling.

"AH! Here you go, Wash!" The Doctor's voice was muffled by the giant storage container that he had stuck his head and upper body into. "Some glass fiber cabling for the view screen in the cockpit. I was noticing that the video feed is getting a little fuzzy..."

Wash grabbed the cabling out of the air as the Doctor tossed it haphazardly over his shoulder. He looked over the frayed bundle, shrugged and stuffed it into the box tucked under his arm.

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"How's the repairs comin along?" Mal asked as he poked his head into the engine room.

Lately it had become a down-right frightening place. The Doctor had given them some generic spare parts; cables, filters, programmable circuit boards and the like, so Kaylee had gone on a fixing spree, dragging Wash along for the spare fingers. Wires and cables were strung all over the place; component casings were opened and there doors set wherever they happened to be put down; there was a random pipe laying to the side in the corridor, there were faded brown boots twitching under the console in the cockpit...

"Just peachy, Cap'n..." Kaylee replied distractedly as she pulled on yet another bundle of wiring. She picked up one foot and braced it against the wall to pull with better leverage.

"Did you know the Doctor left his boots in the cockpit?" Mal stepped all the way into the engine room and waited behind Kaylee, thinking that it looked similar to a graphic he'd once seen of a dog's heart, infested with heartworm.

"OH!" Kaylee grimaced a little as she pulled, "Don't worry, Cap'n! He's under there with 'em." The wires she was tugging suddenly let go dumping her into Mal's open arms.

"Hey! Nice catch!" She said, far from being embarrassed about falling over.

"Sure." Mal grunted. "No visitin with Simon while my ship's in bits." Kaylee swatted the back of his shoulder as he walked out of the room. Then the proximity klaxons started wailing.

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