Monty stiffened in his seat and clutched his pistol a bit tighter. He had gone to war, went up against Reavers, and even danced with the devil a time or two. But never in his life had he been up against such odds. He pulled out the crinkled piece of paper out his pocket telling him what to do in this sort of situation, but it seem pointless. They were just words on a paper, and he was a man of action. He thought about what other men would do in this situation, his father, his commanding officer Sag. Taggort, and his priest back when he was a boy all great men, strong men, disciplined. Monty was sure that they would have cracked under such pressure. He took a deep breath.
"Alright, alright, you can have another piece of cake, just stop cryin'." Monty got up from the table.
Amina quickly stop crying and a smile crept on her face. "Really?"
"Yeah, just don't go tellin' your Ma that I gave into ya ok?"
The girl nodded. "And Uncle Monty can I have it in my room?"
Monty handed the girl the plate, "Don't see why not. Just don't go makin' a mess, ya hear me."
His words fell on deaf ears Amina had already left. He realized that while Amina was throwing her tantrum the boys had ran off somewhere.
"Uh Mally? Gabe?" He called out but no one answered. He rounded the corner when he ran into one of 5 foot terrors.
"You scared me."
"Sorry." The boy said innocently smiling.
"Whatcha playin' at?"
"Nothing." He replied quickly.
"Gabe come on!" The other boy shouted as he rounded the corner and bumped into Monty.
"Slow down little guy." Monty said looking down. He noticed that the boy had something behind his back.
"Mally what you got there behind your back?"
"Nothing." Mally had responded just as his brother.
Monty took a saw from the boy. "I don't call a saw nothing, Mally. What did you have planned for this?" Monty stood firm hoping to intimate the young Washborne.
"It's for Gabe's act." Mally said matter of fact.
"Yeah I was gonna saw Mally in half. I saw a guy do it when we went to the carnival last week. Amina bet me a piece of cake that I couldn't do it."
"Ya can't go sawin' your brother in half no matter what your sister bets you." Monty told the boys.
"I don't mind it. He promised to put me back so it's ok." Mally replied.
"No it ain't ok." Monty threw the saw down and grabbed both boys by their collars. "I promised your folks I'd look after you three and gorramit I'm going to do it." He threw the boys into their room. "Now you three stay there until your Ma and Poppa come back."
"When will they come back?" Mally asked from the other side of the door.
"When they git here." He shouted back. He walked back to the front of the ship and sat on a box waiting for Zoë and Wash to come back when he heard pops. Monty grabbed for his gun. There was a flash of pink light, then blue and green.
He then saw Amina in the corner lighting fireworks. "Aren't they shiny?" The girl said as she lit another. One of the sparks hit a wooden crate and caught it on fire.
Amina pointed to the now on fire crate. "Cool."
Monty turned to see she was pointing at. "Gorramit girl where's the fire extinguisher?"
Amina was too busy jumping up and down to respond.
Monty threw off his coat to try and smother the fire but it wasn't working. He was sure that he was going to be responsible for burning down Mal's ship. When a flow of white foam covered him. He turned to see Zoë with the fire extinguisher.
"Zoë when you get here?"
"Not soon enough, you tryin' to burn down my ship Monty?" Mal asked noticing the burn marks everywhere.
"You missed it God-daddy it was so funny watching Uncle Monty jump he looked like yī tiáo zuì jiǔ dì xióngmāo tiào shéng." Amina said laughing.
"Room. Now." Wash ordered.
"Yes sir." Amina said walking away. "But it was funny." She told Jayne as she walked past.
Jayne laughed. "Don't encourage her Jayne." Wash said.
Monty and Wash were in the infirmary. Simon was patching up Monty as the other spoke.
"Monty you're bigger than they are." Wash said for the third time.
"Well that don't matter, there's something not right with those kids."
Simon snickered under his breath.
"Zoë and I gave you the list. It was a simple list. All you had to do is follow the list."
Zoë and the kids walked into the room. "Dear, your kids have something to say to Monty."
"Baoqian." The kids said in unison.
"Now come on you three can explain to the Captain why his cargo of bobble head dolls caught on fire."
"Wait. What?" Wash shouted after Zoë. "Why are they my kids when they tortured the giant Sasquatch?"
yī tiáo zuì jiǔ dì xióngmāo tiào shén a drunk panda jumping rope
Baoqian Sorry