Jayne's Journal-Chapter 2-Watching the River
I don't know when I stopped watchin' her to make sure she didn't try to kill me and started watchin' her just for the sake of watchin' her, but it seems to have started that day on the planet Miranda when we found all them dead bodies and watched the message. When she lost her lunch and the Doc asked her is she was okay and she told him "I'm alright." I'm pretty sure that's when it started. But like I said, I'm not completely sure.
I'm watchin' her right now. Watchin' the way she dances to music that only she can here; steps so confusin' that only one of them prima ballerinas would know how they're supposed to go.
I know that after her brother got hit in the Reavers' attack back on Mr. Universe's planet and she ran out the blast doors to close 'em and tossed through his med bag I wondered if the gorram girl was really alright. And then when I saw those men gone wrong grab her, my heart skipped a beat or two. I was worried she'd never get out. And then, after Mal got back, when those doors opened and we all saw her standin' there with the axe an' the sword an' the blood drippin' off the blades, I knew that that was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen.
And now I see she's started a new dance. She's prancin' over to me an' her steps are so light it looks like she's floatin' above the deck planking. She comes over an' grabs my big hand in her small one an' gets me up an' dancin' with her. Every day, after I've done one of my workouts, she dances over to me an' tries to teach me some new dance or other that only she knows. She says I've gotten pretty good, but no one will ever be as smooth or graceful as River ('cept maybe 'Nara).
Besides the dancin', River's gotten me to use better language. 'Nara says I'm startin' to sound like Mal an' I don't know if that's good or bad. River says it's good, an' that one day I won't completely shock her an' the Doc's folks; that is, if we ever get to Osiris to meet 'em. Kaylee says she's excited about meetin' her in-laws one o' these days, but I'm not so sure. I think we'd best wait until the Alliance doesn't think it would be best to arrest us an' the Tams. 'Sides, we don't know how their pa will take to me and lil' Kaylee.
We'll find out soon enough; she's talking crazy again but this time it's crazy that I can understand. Right now she's draggin' me to our bunk an' I think I know what's up.
Hope you liked it.
