AN:I have plot bunnies living under my bed. And they keep getting people pregnant. I've named the biggest one Fezzik. How could I not? I mean a bunny the size of a Rottweiler? Come on…

Firefly is not mine… otherwise Zoë wouldn't be a widow. A random giant plastic dinosaur would have saved my favorite character (next to Mal that is)… no idea how. But I'm sure duct tape would have been involved. Anway… here's the chapter.

"When can we tell which clothes get?" Kaylee asked softly. She and her husband, Simon were lying in their bunk, curled up in the big fluffy down conforter that River had bought them as a wedding present. They'd just returned from a trip to a snowy planet. Just a fun trip, which was rare. But it had been Inara's idea. A vacation she'd called it. Kaylee figured it was a way to get them all some fresh air. And for Inara to spend time with Mal.

"When you're as far along as Zoë is right now. You're behind her a little." he mused.

"Not by much." She pouted and placed his hand over her belly. It was pushing out much rounder now. Her being five months along now. But Zoë was bigger, seeing she had two. She was lucky. Two little ones, just alike for the price of one.

"Yes, but Little Buddha there was round the wrong way last time. And Zoë will have her bundels a tiny bit sooner anyway. She's got two… but she is tall… have to calculate…" River murmured as she was knitting a blanket for the babies.

"Feel that one bao bei?"

"I did!"

"Soccer player!" River yelped, throwing down the knitting (which in truth looked more like a large pink knot at the moment) and ran from the room.

"What… ahhh never mind." Kaylee sighed, "She still calling you Little Buddha?" she asked her belly. The name that River had given her baby, when they'd discovered it was sitting like one of Inara's pictures of The Buddha. Crossed legged. She snuggled close to Simon, sliding her hand along his arm. She nuzzled into his neck.

"Kaylee…I don't know if… maybe we shouldn't."

"Well it's not like I could get pregnant or anything." She rolled her eyes.

"I wasn't thinking about that. Ever obviously." he chuckled. "The lock on the hatch is broken. Remember?"

River's head suddenly appeared upside down in the hatch.

"I fixed it last week you boob. Kiss your wife."

"I like when she tells you to do that."

"My sister is seeming less and less crazy all the time."

"Very smart that sister of yours." Kaylee agreed.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Up on the bridge, sitting next to Jayne, River laughed suddenly.

"What's all the giggles for, ni zi?"

"I'm gonna have a big family." she sighed.

"You planning on getin knocked up too?"

"Nope. Not anytime soon. But she can't keep her hands off…"

"Ahhh now gorramit shut up, Crazy! That's lil'Kaylee. Don'care if she is married proper. Still the closet thing I got to a sister. So jus'hush."

"It's true. How do you think she got pregnant in the first place? Did your mommy tell you a stork brings the baby?"

"S'at what they told you in that fancy'cademy or your's? Cause I could set you straight if you like."

"Captain would throw you in the airlock."

"True. Later then. After 'Nara gets up the guts to say something. Mal's bull headed. He won't talk to her. " Jayne grumbled. For a merc he could be surprisingly insightful. Which was why River liked to sit and listen to him think, to listen for the random epiphanies that came tumbling through his brain.

"Tell you a secret?"

"Huh?"

"I need blue yarn." She giggled and skipped out of the room.

AN: Thus far I owe three ponies! I want to owe more! Review! And someday… when you least expect it… a pony shall be standing in your front yard. Two if you help me think of names!