Duplicity

Pairing Jayne/other
Rating pg
feedback: Yes please deementedb@aol.com
Archive: fine with me.
Disclaimers: Characters are not mine, just moving them around to my liking
Spoilers: little reference to Ariel
Summary: A betrayal from the past finally catches up. Chapter 3: summary. A kidnapping
Chapter 3
A couple of hours later Jayne came rushing into the cargo bay hollering for Mal, his yells brought everyone around since he sounded near panicked. Wash came rushing down the stairs heading towards Jayne.

"Jayne, What's up? Is there danger?" Wash asked
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"Where's Mal?" Jayne pushed Wash out of his way

"He's not here, Him and Zoe went to see about a job in town, should be back in a few hours." Wash explained.

"Know where they are?" Jayne demanded.

Book came towards his weight lifting partner. "Jayne, what's this all about? What's happened?"

"They took him, Rey. Izzy's boy, they snatched him." Jayne said.

Simon was now in the cargo bay next to Jayne, he was the first to notice the abrasions and growing bruises on Jayne's face.

"From you? They took him from you. And who exactly are 'They'?" Simon said as he walked around Jayne looking for more injuries.

"Don't exactly know who. I was watching him for Izzy, she was at the casino. Me and Rey went out to search for some scrap material for the model zoo we're building. Right outside the boarding house door two men clocked me from behind, didn't go down right away, but they had a steel pipe, knocked me out cold, before everything went black I saw them take Rey." Jayne winced as Simon found the goose egg on the back of his head.

"Oh no! That poor boy. Did ya tell his momma?" Kaylee said concerned.

"Coarse I did, she found a note in her room said she was a cheater, if she admits it and gives over the money she won at that tournament, they say they will give her back Rey. She got a good idea who it might be, but says she don't trust him, he's some mean son of a bitch according to her and she don't think he will give Rey back." Jayne said hurriedly

Wash looked at Jayne "What do you think Mal could do about it? She should at least try to get her boy back."

"She says she will give us the money from the tournament if we get her boy back, if she admits she cheated, which she swears she didn't, every casino in the verse will have her picture. It's how she makes a livin for her and Rey, she thinks the kidnapper wants her livin, her money and won't give the boy back. That would leave her helpless to tryin to find him."

Book reviewed for Jayne "So you want the Captain to get the boy back for your lady friend, as a job?"

"I'm gonna look anyways and I wouldn't charge, but could use some help and I can't ask the crew to spend their time on some kid they don't even know." Jayne sounded desperate.

"The Captain would want to help, I'm sure." Kaylee said patting Jayne's shoulder

Jayne looked up decision clear in his eye's "I'm goin back to get Izzy, know Mal didn't want me to bring her here but she's got my help anyways. If Mal don't wanna take this job that's fine but he'll have to leave me behind cause I ain't restin till I get that boy back for his momma, she's worked hard to provide for that boy without his no-good abandoning father, he's everythin to her and I won't let a coward that picks on women and kids take that away for nothin." Jayne didn't wait for any comments as he took off to go get Izzy.

Izzy looked at herself in the mirror, her eye's were red from crying, she looked at herself and wondered what exactly she had done to deserve this. Was she looking at the woman she would now be? Without Rey nothing she had been working for would be worth anything, he was all she had left of her long lost dreams; he was her inspiration, her determination. Whatever she had to do to raise her beloved son decently she would do.

She looked at the most recent picture she had of him, it was over a year old and he had grown so much in the last year. Her tears came harder as she again noticed the resemblance to his father. She had lost Rey's father before he had even known about her pregnancy, she didn't know what happened to him, he left no note. All she knew that when she returned to their boarding room all his things were gone, plus all her savings. She went to the woman who ran the boarding house and found out that the couple renting the room next door had left even though they still had a week of rent paid. It had nearly broken her and would have if it hadn't have been for Rey. Now he was gone too, she didn't know if she could survive if she didn't get him back. Thank God for Jayne, he thought the crew he worked with would help her get her boy back, she would have found someone to pay to help her get Rey back but this way she knew she would not be making a deal with people who could take her money without even looking for Rey. She knew Jayne really cared for her son and was just as devastated about the kidnapping as she was. She had gathered all the money she could get her hands on as payment for her son's release, now all she had to do was wait for Jayne and see if they would receive help.