The Continuation Continues….
Chapter 3!
Yeah, a little too excited…
Okay, so.
kittenchloe-I don't find your comments in any way insulting. In fact, I like it when people are so properly critical. I too love the firefly universe, hence the reason I have chosen to write a fanfiction about it. Okay, I will admit, the Selene character is an extreme braggart. I don't mean to paint her in any way a good light. She is merely using the Simon/River situation to her own advantage. However, she is not murderous. At least I don't' think so. I might have made it seem that way, in that case, my apologies. And Mal is affected by Wash more than by his death leaving him at an inconvenience. He's merely focusing right now on the issues as a captain before he focuses on more personal issues, like the loss of a friend.
Leslie-Thank you very much for reading, and I hope you continue.
And let the story continue…..
In the past week, Mal had become increasingly agitated with the new arrival. Selene was bossy, commandeering, and above all, talkative. In fact, she wouldn't stop talking. And all she talked about was her exploits, and her marksmanship. Zoe didn't like her, but Zoe hadn't really liked any of the crew when they had signed on, let alone an incredibly talkative alpha female like Selene. Not to mention the way she had gotten on board. Maybe River had been wrong just this once?
"I swear, Cap't, if she tells me one more time about how she shot that mans knife, I'm going to kill her," needless to say, even Jayne was bothered.
"Now, now Jayne. We need something with a bit more finesse, something out of your league. Something like poison," Mal joked.
"I'll get Simon in on it. She won't stop telling him how to organize his stuff," Jayne started, but was stilled by Mal's hand.
"I was kidding Jayne. Just get Inara to talk to her in one of her companion ways about being a little more quiet," Mal started, and was immediately dismayed by the response.
"You mean, like they'll sleep with each other?" Jayne got one of those looks in his eye, "You think maybe they'll let me watch?"
"Jayne, if you say one more thing that is utterly crude…" Jayne had already walked in the direction of Inara's quarters. True, Selene was getting on his nerves, but she had also done everything assigned to her, and was slightly different from the devious Sapphron, and was not as willing to become his wife to get what she wanted. And speaking of Simon.
Mal walked into the doctors quarters and pulled out his gun pointing it at Simon.
"Not my typical hello, but it will do," Simon raised his hand in surrender.
"What were you thinking getting Kaylee all knocked up?" Mal asked, gun still pointed.
"Any specific reason why you're pointing a gun at me?" Simon asked.
"Yeah, cause you just got my engineer all pregnant, and you're a fugitive," Mal continued.
"Whereas you're all clean and perfect," Simon said, at which point Mal cocked the gun.
"My station aboard this vessel is permanent, and besides, I didn't knock up a girl," Mal was furious, "And I, unlike you, am not running away from the law. I'm avoiding little bits of it."
"Okay, okay," he paused, "Would it help if I said I loved her?"
"Not really, but it's a start," the gun didn't move.
"Don't you feel you're being a little over protective of her, Cap't?" Simon's hands stayed in the defensive position.
"Yeah, cause she's Kaylee."
"And I'm not a little girl Cap't. Any reason why you're pointing a gun at the head of my babies father?" Kaylee leaned up against the door angrily.
"I'm just stressing to him the importance of fatherhood."
"Awful nice and shiny of you, Cap't, but I need to have a talk with Simon, if you don't mind, all private woman stuff. Go talk to Inara, why don't you? I hear she gets lonely in that shuttle of hers," Kaylee smiled the classic Kaylee smile.
"If Inara wants to come out, she's perfectly capable of using her own two feet," the Cap't huffed off.
"Did you have to tell him?" Simon said once Mal was safely out of hearing distance.
"Yeah, he's the Cap't, you have to tell him things like that," Kaylee said, sitting on the hospital bed.
"Whatever you say," Simon said, as Kaylee wrapped her arms around his neck.
And River poked her head around the corner.
"There's something you should see."
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