Bolts 12!
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Jayne hadn't felt this good since his youth. It felt like he'd slept for a year, his body was relaxed, evened out, aligned and refreshed. Like a million geisha girls had gave him a three year massage. Had he fallen into some rejuvenate alternative universe? Hey it was possible wasn't it? They were after all in space.
The annoying beeping sound grew louder around him as he started to realize he was lying flat on his back. It was then he noticed he couldn't see nothin'. His eyes flashed open suddenly, and he quickly re-closed them, blinded by the sudden light.
"Da-shiang bao-tza shr duh lah doo-tze" he cursed, covering his eyes with his forearm. "What the ruttin hell is going on here?"
"Jayne?" it was a chirpy voice, one he could recognise anywhere. So full of sunshine and light that it was hard to forget.
"Kaylee?" he asked, blinking a few times before his eyes became fully focused. "What happened, why am in the infirmary. Last thing I remember is fightin thugs with riv' girl. Kicked their ass as I recall. Not a scratch on me…" his words were drifting off as he remembered, than a look of confusion crossed his face. "Why am I in the infirmary?"
"Oh Jayne." Kaylee sniffled, getting up and giving him a tight hug as she buried her face in his shoulder. "So much has happened, she did it all you know, she did it all for you. We thought ya wouldn't wake up, so she went there and she blew it! Blew it sky high! Oh Jayne!" she cried again, crying into his shirt.
Jayne sat upright almost instantly, glancing around the room for a corpse he suddenly had a feelin would be there. The only thing he saw however was his little ass kickin killer hooked up to all the wires in the verse and a bloodied bandage wrapped around her head. "What the ruttin hell happened here?"
"I think its best I answer that." Said Mal, making his presence known as he walked into the infirmary. "First of all, its good to see you awake, finally."
"How long was I out?"
"Near to two weeks now."
Jayne frowned. "What? Why?"
Mal rolled his eyes. "Well I was bout to explain that to ya. Now listen dong ma? I don't want you going all loopy when you found out what happened to ya, I don't fully understand it all myself as of yet, and I'm not sure I rightly want to. Now lil albatross, was being tracked, not her movements but her brain patterns. Seems once she experiences a certain feelin for a person, that person tends to have a lil reaction."
"Like bolts!" Kaylee chirped up, and Jayne instantly knew what she and Mal meant by it.
"Yes Kaylee, like bolts. Now once this reached a certain level, you were induced with a toxin from her brain. Weird I know… slightly creepyfiyin, yes. But she just went through a rather risky operation to stop it, and it woke you up so I conjure it must have worked. Now we ain't sure if she gonna wake up…But she went through hell to get you better so you aren't gonna be cranky at her you hear. She destroyed the academy for something she had no control over, we got the hun dan who developed it her, locked in a bunk, so if your cranky at anyone, its at him, right?"
Jayne was quite throughout the whole speech, which made Mal and Kaylee a might jumpy, until now. "Feelings? What type of feelings?"
Mal shrugged stupidly and Kaylee beamed. The answer was obvious. "Oh…"
Kaylee's smile widened, and Mal's confused expression grew worse. "Capt'n I think Jayne needs some rest." She said pointedly.
"But he's been asleep for the last 12 days!"
"Capt'n!" Kaylee's face was deadly serious and Jayne couldn't help but love her all the more for what she was doing. She knew he needed some alone time with River, damn that girl was smarter than they gave her credit for.
"Fine!" Mal relented. "But only cause we need to discuss the reactor thingy, or what ever it is, it's been…"
Kaylee pushed him out the door and closed them firmly behind her, leaving Jayne and River by their lonesome.
Jayne removed the wires from his chest and carefully slipped off the med bed. River was so small, so fragile, he couldn't help but feel his gut clench at the bloodied bandage around her head. What was it Mal said…She might not wake up?
Oh gorram hell he felt sick to the stomach! His insides felt as though they were eatin each other, his throat constricted like he just drank some vial burnin liquid. Oh his baby girl needed to wake up!
He felt another bolt run up his spine, bringing him to his knees. He frowned, wasn't that supposed to be fixed? … than it hit him, hard. Another bolt struck him.
He knew why it was happenin now, this wasn't her brain controlling him, this wasn't her fault at all… well maybe just a lil, but not in the way he thought. These bolts, oh no, his mamma used to describe 'em, he remembered now, so clearly. His mamma used to describe these bolts when she spoke bout his pa. 'Such love,' she said, he remembered, she was in her rockin chair, knitting him one of those cunnin hats, she had this big smile, always one of the biggest when she spoke about his pa… 'I get these shivers,' she said. '…these tingles... like lighting, like bolts.'
He looked up from the floor in which he was still kneeled. She was just above him, in an induced coma, sleepin away on the lil med bed. Possibly dying, riskin it all…to save him. "Oh River gal…" he said, softly, placing a hand on hers. 'I get why you did it… cause this may surprise ya, or it may not cause you're a reader in all, but I got those feeling's too… gorram strong…" he squeezed her hand, and her heart monitor spiked. He smiled slightly. "You'd better make it through this… or I'm coming in after ya."
Chinese
Da-shiang bao-tza shr duh lah doo-tze - The explosive diarrhoea of an elephant"