Caught...
Title: Caught
Prompt: Caught for the firefly 100
Characters/Pairings: River, Jayne, Pre Rayne if you like or River could just be yanking Jayne's chain
Word count: 200
Rating: U
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't sue, potless.
Summary: Jayne catches River doing something screwy.
Notes: This loosly follows on from Keep, a fairy tale theme is developing, this time it's Sleeping Beauty (Disney version) with the inclusion of the song "I know you." Not beta'd.
I couldn't actually work the word "caught" in, but it's pretty clearly implied. Hope that's okay.
Caught
Jayne did a double take.
Somehow River had wedged a mop into the bucket on wheels so that it stood up, the strands of the head flopping down like hair. She’d made a cross piece out of something and it was wearing a coat, looked halfway like a man if you squinted.
She was dancing with it, holding the coat sleeves and humming over the squeak of the bucket wheels as she dragged it around.
Then she started to sing. “I know you; I walked with you once upon a dream…”
Jayne dropped into the shadows of the walkway. He didn’t want her to notice him and stop the show when there was all sorts of embarrassment and maybe some blackmail to be made out of the situation. He winced silently as her little, thin voice murdered the notes. Girl could certainly dance but she couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.
“You’ll love me at once…”
Jayne sniggered into his sleeve.
“…upon a dream.” River stopped singing and let go of her man on wheels. She curtseyed and looked up at the thing batting her eyelashes. “Thank you for the dance Prince Jayne.”
Jayne nearly inhaled his entire shirt.
Prompt: Caught for the firefly 100
Characters/Pairings: River, Jayne, Pre Rayne if you like or River could just be yanking Jayne's chain
Word count: 200
Rating: U
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't sue, potless.
Summary: Jayne catches River doing something screwy.
Notes: This loosly follows on from Keep, a fairy tale theme is developing, this time it's Sleeping Beauty (Disney version) with the inclusion of the song "I know you." Not beta'd.
I couldn't actually work the word "caught" in, but it's pretty clearly implied. Hope that's okay.
Caught
Jayne did a double take.
Somehow River had wedged a mop into the bucket on wheels so that it stood up, the strands of the head flopping down like hair. She’d made a cross piece out of something and it was wearing a coat, looked halfway like a man if you squinted.
She was dancing with it, holding the coat sleeves and humming over the squeak of the bucket wheels as she dragged it around.
Then she started to sing. “I know you; I walked with you once upon a dream…”
Jayne dropped into the shadows of the walkway. He didn’t want her to notice him and stop the show when there was all sorts of embarrassment and maybe some blackmail to be made out of the situation. He winced silently as her little, thin voice murdered the notes. Girl could certainly dance but she couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.
“You’ll love me at once…”
Jayne sniggered into his sleeve.
“…upon a dream.” River stopped singing and let go of her man on wheels. She curtseyed and looked up at the thing batting her eyelashes. “Thank you for the dance Prince Jayne.”
Jayne nearly inhaled his entire shirt.