Kaylee comes into the Infirmary. "Can I help?"
"No," Simon says, a little more harshly than he intended it to be. "Helping my sister isn't like fixing a luh suh ship's engine."
"Really?" Kaylee's voice was prickly. "Nu bu gan kai ni de hwang chiang. You think what I do is luh suh?"
River starts to cry into his shoulder. "They wanted to hurt me…they hurt you…" she touches his bruised face.
"No mei mei…its ok, I'm ok." He looks back at Kaylee. "I really don't have time for this."
Kaylee sniffles. "Húndàn!" she snaps and runs out of the room.
The Best of My Love
Kaylee is lying in her bed on her side, pretending to be asleep but really wide-awake. There's a knock at her door.
"Kaylee? Look I'm really sorry…I didn't mean it…please talk to me…Kaylee…" Simon's voice comes drifting down. There's a long pause while Kaylee lies there in the dark lit only by her fairy lights and doesn't answer him.
"I'm sorry ok?" he says.
Then we hear his footsteps disappearing down the corridor as the music swells. Kaylee sits up, hugs her knees and starts to sing to herself.
"Every night I'm lyin' in bed
Holdin' you close in my dreams
Thinkin' about all the things that we said
And comin' apart at the seams
We try to talk it over
But the words come out too rough
I know you were tryin'
to give me the best of your love
Beautiful faces and loud, empty places
Look at the way that we live
Wastin' our time on cheap talk and wine
Left us so little to give.
That same old crowd
Was like a cold dark cloud
That we could never rise above
But here in my heart I give you the best of my love.
Oh sweet darlin' you get the best of my love,
Oh sweet darlin', you get the best of my love."
She leans her head back against the wall.
"I'm goin' back in time
And it's a sweet dream
It was a quiet night
And I would be all right
If I could go on sleepin'.
But every mornin'
I wake up and worry
What's gonna happen today
You see it your way
And I see it mine
But we both see it slippin' away
You know we always had each other baby
I guess that wasn't enough
Oh, but here in my heart I give you the best of my love
Oh, sweet darlin'
You get the best of my love
Oh, sweet darlin'
You get the best of my love
Every night and day,
You get the best of my love
Oh, sweet darlin' you get the best of my love
Oh, sweet darlin' you get the best of my love."
Black out.
End Scene
Translation Notes
Luh suh: crap
Nu bu gan kai ni de hwang chiang - don't talk so nastily
Húndàn asshole/bastard