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Chapter three: Kaylee
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She'd never really felt much at home back there. Sure she loved her Daddy and Momma more than anything in the 'verse, but there just wasn't any kind of challenge on that planet for her. For as long as she could remember, she'd look out at the stars and thought about getting off world. She'd see the ships leaving from the docks and think, 'I should be there'. And whenever her Daddy had work for her, fixing tractors and mules and bits, she'd smile and imagine that they were ship engines, like the ones she saw with the boys. The boys had started innocently enough, she'd been seventeen and tagging along with her brothers down at the docks, and there was a real handsome man drinking at the bar Tom had stopped off at with her, and he'd smiled real nice and said told her how he was a mechanic on one of the boats docked nearby.
"Wanna see her?" He said, smiling not as smoothly as before. She'd said she would and before she knew it they were kissing and touching, wasn't her first time, of course, naw she'd lost it to the Chan boy when she was fifteen, still this was different. And from then on she spent more time at the docks, talking to the mechanics, sometimes more than talking. She picked up a bit of coin every now and again for helping out with particular engine troubles, but still she saw no way off the planet. That was until Serenity.
Which lead to now, Kaylee had finally found a place she liked, a place to call home. Even some people she cared about almost as much as she cared about her family back on the planet she'd left behind. She had a ship to take care of, and Serenity had her fair share of troubles, but they weren't nothing Kaylee couldn't fix given enough love, and a new catalyzer every once in a while.