Sorry it's been awhile on this one. I swear I have a lot ready for you, it just takes me awhile to get around to typing it up.

The crew began noticing the change in Jess and Lara's behavior about two weeks later during one of their jobs.

Lara had been trying to negotiate for the payment of some seed corn on the backwater moon of Carthage. The slimy people they had been dealing with got itchy trigger fingers and tried to take the cargo for free. One had nearly gotten a shot off at Lara before Jess intervened.

It had taken all the transgenic speed he had gotten from his mother to stop Lara from taking a bullet. Normally both he and Lex tried to play down their abilities when dealing with ordinaries. They didn't want to draw unwanted attention from what was left of Lane's descendents.

Taking her cue from Jess, Lex had also used her abilities against their once business partners. Hel had taken one look at the melee and grabbed Lara. The pair had ran from the building and back to the ship.

Jess and Lec quickly finished off their opponents. They barely seemed to notice that they had been outnumbered three to one. Lex grabbed up the man's money and shot her brother a look.

Jess shrugged. "What?"

"You're such a dweeb." She shook her head.

Several days later Lex had been returning to her room after a 3 AM workout in the cargo bay, when she saw Jess come out of Lara's room. He was pulling on his t-shirt when he turned around to find her watching him. She laughed when he jumped.

"Gah! I hate it when you do that!" His eyes narrowed. "Why aren't you asleep?"

"Shark DNA." She stuck her tongue out at him. "What were you doing in Lara's bunk? Like I even need to ask."

"Uh..." He mumbled, lost for words.

"This better not be another one of your flings." She put her hands on her hips. "Uncle Mal would kill you if he found out."

"It's not." He put up both hands, not anxious to fight her. She might be smaller, but she was faster and she fought dirty. "And he's not really our uncle."

"I'm not kidding Jess. If you hurt her you'll have to deal with me." She took a step towards him, glad that at six feet tall, she didn't really have to look up to look him in the eyes.

"I'm not going to hurt her. I...I'm in love with her."

Lex didn't look completely convinced. "Okay. At least you have great taste big brother. Besides she's kinda matching to you."

"Matching?" Jess looked confused.

"Yeah, you're both smart asses." She gave her brother a kiss on the cheek.

"You did what!" Mal yelled over the wave, fuming.

"Jess and I got married." Lara repeated. "Honestly Dad, is every conversation we have gonna be like this?"

"Are you pregnant!" Mal shouted. "Cause if you are I swear I'll geld that boy!"

Lara rolled her eyes. "No Dad, I'm not pregnant."

"Let me talk to him. Alone." Mal said with a sigh.

Lara looked suspiciously at her father. "Okay, but no threatening him or nothing." She kissed Jess lightly as he took her seat. Than she left the room.

This is why I listed this under romance ; )

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