Title: Colors of Love (2/5) Purple: Romance
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Zoë, Jayne
Pairing: Zoë/Jayne
Prompt: Purple
Word Count: 218
Rating: G
Summary: Christmas after Miranda, and Zoë feels something unexpected.
Author's Notes: This series is modeled after the stagesoflove drabble challenge on livejournal.
It was their first Christmas after Miranda, and he could tell she was still hurting. Everyone was quiet around her. She spent most of the day in her bunk. No one wanted to disturb her. No one dared. No one but Jayne.
He knocked, tray of food in hand. She opened the hatch, looking like she was about to say something but saw it was him and stopped. She stepped back. "Come in." She reached out her hands to take the tray and moved away from the ladder to let him climb down.
"Thought meebe ya'd like sumthin' ta eat." She looked like she had been crying.
"Thank you, Jayne. That's nice of you." She put the tray on her desk and they stood looking at eat other for a moment. Jayne pulled a wrapped box from his pocket. He handed it to her. She looked at him quizzically.
"Merry Christmas, Zoë." She opened the present and found a set of combs for her hair, set with purple stones. She looked up at him, surprised at the gesture. They were beautiful. She stood on her tip toes and kissed his cheek.
"Thank you." She took a small step back, still very close to him, and looked up at him, chocolate eyes shinning. "Merry Christmas, Jayne." And she smiled.