"River. Don't come any close-"

She put her arms around his neck, standing on her tiptoes. She leaned in and kissed him.

"…r…"

She smiled and kissed him again, only this time a lot rougher. He tried to avoid kissing her back, but it was hard. Her kisses slowly got gentler. She suddenly shoved him. He fell onto the couch and she got on top of him. She kept kissing him on the lips, cheeks, forehead, neck, basically everywhere that wasn't covered by clothing.

"River, we need to talk about this!"

She ignored him and continued her obsessive kissing.

"I like you, but not like this like you. You're a bit younger and-"

"Shush," she snapped. For some reason, he listened and shut up.

There was something about her that made him kiss back a few times. He kept reminding himself that she was just a teenage girl. He hadn't been a teenager in quite some time. Not to mention her older and very protective brother. Simon would gut him if he knew that he had been making out with River. Well, she was the one making out. He was just…letting her?

She lightly bit his lower lip and then kissed him very hard. This had gone on a little too long. She didn't stop there. She ripped open his button up shirt to the point of ruining a few of the buttons. She kissed his chest, working her way back up to his lips. He said no to Kaylee, no to Inara, and now he had to definitely say no to River. He didn't even know why he had let it go on for so long.

"Okay. Enough," he said. He tried to sit up, but she pushed him back down. "No really. Enough!" she ignored him.

She French kissed him and then tugged harshly on his hair, ending with pulling on his lip with her teeth.

"OW!" he cried. Her lips met his once again, only this time she was gentle and they lingered there. "Weah nee to staup!" They lips parted. "We need to stop. No, you need to stop!"

He picked her up. She started kissing the nape of his neck, raising goose bumps all over his body. He put her down. She instantly pushed him into the wall and tried to go for another kiss somewhere, anywhere on him. He avoided her lips this time, but only barely. She started to get rougher than he would have liked. He slipped past her. She followed him. He got into the medical room. He raided Simon's bag to find something just strong enough to knock her out. He found the one that he saw Simon use before and quickly got a tiny amount. He went over to River, pulling her into a passionate kiss. He gave her the meds. Shortly after that she lost consciousness in his arms. He carried her into her room, put her on her bed, and covered her up with a blanket. He shut the door behind him and collapsed on the couch.

"What's wrong sir?" Zoe asked as she joined him the couch.

"The women on this boat are actin' strange! Kaylee locked me in the engine room with her, Inara tried to get me into her shuttle, and River made out with me!" Zoe stared at him without replying. "Zoe?" She just kept staring at him. Surely Zoe wouldn't act like the other women on the ship. Would she?