A/N; Ok, ok! Here you guys go! Another chapter.. or two.. anyway, I'm soo glad you all liked it so much I hope this one doesn't upset you. Love you!

It took about three seconds for mal to pry Jayne away from River and throw him agenst the wall. River screamed and backed away as Zoe ran to her side and held her.

"What in the di yu where you thinking, Jayne!" Mal hissed. "She's an wu gu nu hai for crying out load!" River lets out a smaller cry just as Simon, Kaylee and Wash come in.

"River? Mei Mei, what's the matter?" Simon held River and Zoe backed off. Simon turned to Jayne. "What did you do to her?"

"I didn't do nothin'!" Jayne cried out only to have Mal push him further into the wall. "Gorram it, Mal! She came on to me!"

"Now why am I have a hard time buying that fu zai a pi hua?" Mal hissed. He turned to the others. "I found Jayne in here practically pinning River to the ground and taking here right here!"

"What!" Simon called and glared daggers at Jayne. "How dare you! She's a little kid!"

"She ain't!" Jayne said, a little surprised in himself. "She's not fourteen any more, yao ye tong! She's old enough to know how to take care of herself!"

"That's an interesting reason for taking advatage of her!" Simon hissed.

"I didn't! I keep on telling you! She came on to me! She kissed me, first!"

"Shou huan zhe!" Simon yelled and started to come at Jayne. But River was in front of him before he even knew it.

"Stop it, Simon!" She called, and everyone in the room turned and looked at her, silence falling over all of them. "Jayne is telling the truth. I came on to him. He had nothing to do with it."

"Mei Mei, you don't have to defend him. He's an lu zi who did something you didn't want done to you."

"No his not! I wanted him! He didn't want me! But he could see me, Simon. He saw the real me. He saw me dancing..." She looked at Jayne who had his eyes fixed on her. She gave him a small smile. "Didn't know she could dance like that. He stopped seeing the fa kuang girl like everyone else did. He saw me."

Jayne gave her a very small smile as Mal's grip began to become losser. "And I saw him," River went on, never taking her deep eyes off Jayne. "I saw what he really was even before he did. I saw the kitten in the lion. The cub in the big bear." She now turned to Simon. "And I love him, Simon. I'm in love with him!"

"A ya he!" Jayne, Mal, Simon, Wash, Kaylee, and Zoe all said at the same time.

"You mean that, bao bei?" Jayne whispered, causing everyone to look at him with shocked eyes. "You really mean what you just said to all us? You weren't just tryin' 't keep me outta trouble?"

She smiled at him. "Yes, quin pin. I mean it with everything I am." She turned to Mal. "And so if you kick him off this ship, then you'll have to kick me off, too. Because I won't stand it here without him." She stopped, as if thinking of what to say next. "He makes the nightmares go away." She said softly.

What followed was a long and strange silence. Finally, Mal let Jayne go. "Fine." He said. "But I find you two in the middle of a make-out session one more time and both of you are gone. liao jie?" With that he turned and left.

Zoe and Wash followed him. Kaylee asked River if she was sure she was ok, before leaving. Then River jumped back into Jayne's arms and hugged him. Jayne hugged her back and kissed the top of her head.

"My little bao bei." Jayne said, laughing. "You just saved my life. I'm bettin' this means I owe ya?"

"Gorram right you do," River said laughing. He growled and kissed her, only to hear a throat clear from the far right. THey pulled apart and where met with Simon's anger face. "Simon.." River said.

"Don't, River. I understand." Simon said threw gritted teeth. "I'm just give Jayne a warning." He moved closer to Jayne. "You hurt her, and you are going to wish you'd never been born. Got it?"

"Load and clear, Doc." Jayne said, smirking. "Not that you should worry about it. Ain't no way I'm hurting this zuo pin. I'd never forgive myself."

River smiled and kissed him again. Simon sighed and left the room. It looked as if his little sister had grown up at last.

"So, how do I repay you?" Jayne asked when their kiss ended.

"You can watch me dance." She said grinning and led him down the hall towared his bunk.

Later that night, Mal was talking with Zoe in the hall and could hear Jayne's grunts and River's sighs and giggle's coming from Jayne's bunk. Mal cringed. "I just don't understand what she see's in him." He said, shacking his head. "I mean, it's Jayne!"

"Love ain't explainable, Sir." Zoe said, and smiled.

di yu - Hell

wu gu nu hai - Innocent

Mei Mei - Little Sister

Gorram - Damn

fu zai a pi hua - Load of Bullshit

yao ye tong - Pretty Boy

Shou huan zhe - Liar

Lu Zi - Asshole

fa kuang -Crazy

A ya he - Oh my goodness

bao bei - Darling (lit. Treasured Object)

quin pin - Dear Lover

liao jie - Understand

zuo pin - Work of Art