Fic: After Midnight (Jayne/Kaylee)
Title: After Midnight
Author: Christine
E-mail: Buffygirl43@hotmail.com
Summary: Kaylee can't sleep...
Pairing: Jayne/Kaylee (I just can't get enough) with mentions of Simon/Kaylee.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Once again its been brought to my attention that I don't own anything Joss has created, I just wish I did. Firefly is his and Mutant Enemy's, I just like to play with his characters for a while to amuse myself.
Spoilers: Takes place after Objects in Space. In this version, I chose to have Inara stay on Serenity unlike what she says at the end of Heart of Gold.
Notes: The names of planets that I use in my story actually are ones that the writers on the show came up with. There's a picture of the worlds of Firefly online; I uploaded it to my server so you can view it here if you want to.
Here is part one! Thanks so much for the nice feedback so far, its addicting! :)
Part One
With little more then a sigh, Kaylee leaned over the side of her hammock and placed her bare feet on the cold cement floor of the engine room. She suppressed the shiver that wanted to travel down her spine and as quietly as she could, walked out of the room, shutting it behind her. She knew that she should be getting to bed, especially since she had to be up earlier in the morning to help Wash fix up the small hovercraft they had recovered from the junk yard on Deadwood, but she was afraid to let her subconscious take over again. She wasn't really sure why all of the sudden she was dreaming about Jayne. Sure she was attracted to him, who wouldn't be? She remembered them flirting briefly when they had first met a few years ago, but when Mal gave his patented stern look and threatened to throw Jayne out of the ship while in space, it had promptly ended. Of course, there was the occasional extra long look in her direction and a crude comment or two thrown her way, but other then that her relationship with Jayne was strictly platonic. Or as platonic as it could be; it being Jayne and all.
Kaylee tiptoed through the hallway that held everyone's bunks and slipped into the kitchen. She was crossing her fingers that she still had at least one more strawberry left in the fridge. Inara had kindly bought them for her while she was on Boros. If there was one thing in all the verse that could help lift her spirits it was strawberries. And a good roll in the sack of course, but Kaylee knew that wasn't on the agenda for tonight. As she opened the refrigerator door and squinted a bit at the bright light that filtered out, her hopes sunk. Not only were there no strawberries, but the small wooden container that held them was gone too. She sighed for what seemed like the hundredth time that night and nearly jumped to the ceiling when she heard a voice behind her.
"Lookin' for these?"
She flipped around and saw Jayne standing there in nothing but red boxers holding her box of strawberries. She could feel her heart thumping wildly in her chest, largely due to the fact that he nearly scared her out of her pajamas, but another due to him standing there nearly naked holding her favorite food.
"Wuh de ma!" Kaylee braced herself against the refrigerator door. "Jayne, you scared me half to death!"
Jayne shrugged. "Sorry. Heard you patterin' around up here and figured these were what you'd be after." He walked closer to Kaylee and handed her the box.
Kaylee smiled as he placed the box in her small hands. She still marveled at the difference in their sizes. She knew she was short and small but Jayne? Jayne was nearly 6'5 and weighed over twice her weight. As she took the box from his big, muscular hands, his fingertips brushed her open palm and her eyes nearly rolled back in her head. Why were all these feelings just coming out now? Had she forced her attraction to him all these years to the back of her mind? He was so different from Simon; physically and mentally. Simon was a gentleman; sometimes too much of one, but Jayne... Jayne was not a gentleman. He was rude, crude, greedy and mean most of the time. But there was this softness to him, a sort of puppy dog quality that he showed every so often to Kaylee that made her believe that there was more to him then meets the eye.
"Thanks Jayne." She nervously squeezed the box with her hands. "So, what are ya doin' up so late? Can't sleep?"
He shrugged again. "Dunno. I took myself a shower and got a cravin' so I raided the fridge."
Kaylee bit back a laugh. "That time of the month?"
Jayne glared at her. "You callin' me a woman?"
"Nope, not at all."
"Good, cause I ain't." Jayne crossed his arms over his chest and stood there like a little boy who was just spanked.
Kaylee placed her hand on his upper arm for a moment and immediately wished she didn't. She could feel the rock hard muscles that he worked hard to keep everyday on his weight bench. "Believe me Jayne I know you ain't no girl."
Jayne casually noted her hand on his arm. "Good." He turned to walk away, but stopped after a moment and looked back at Kaylee. "Sorry I gone and took your strawberries from ya without askin'."
A smile broke out on Kaylee's face. It wasn't too often that Jayne apologized for anything. In fact, she really couldn't think of the last time that happened - if it had at all. "Its okay, I don't mind sharin'." She opened up the refrigerator again and took out a small tub. "Betcha didn't know that they came with this though."
"What's that?" Jayne's interest was piqued.
Kaylee popped open the top, dipped her finger in and came out with a generous amount of whipped cream. She held her finger up to him for a moment and just as he began to move forward towards her, she licked it off her finger herself. She knew she was being a tease, but to be honest, she knew that was what Jayne liked. She wasn't sure if what she was doing had any effect until she saw his expression darken to what Kaylee liked to call his 'Angry Puppy' face. Only to herself of course. And maybe Inara.
"Gorram it girl, what you think you're doin?"
"I ain't doin' nothin' Jayne." Kaylee shyly shrugged and held the box of strawberries and the tub out for him. "Want some?"
Jayne shook his head, and Kaylee was slightly disappointed. There was only one way to go from here. She didn't know why she was doing this; Mal would be angry as all Hell if he found out she was flirting with Jayne again. Maybe it was just lust, but maybe there was something in Jayne that she needed right now. She needed comfort; she someone to hold her and tell her she was as pretty as all the stars in the 'Verse. As much as she wanted to deny it, she needed a little something else too. It really was not helping that all he had on was boxers.
"All right, more for me then." She put the wooden box and tub on the countertop and took a strawberry out. As she dipped it into the whipped cream, she snuck a glance at Jayne and hid a smirk when she realized he was getting fidgety. As she brought the plump strawberry to her lips, she closed her eyes in exaggeration and tilted her head back for effect. As she chewed and swallowed, she opened her eyes and saw that while he wasn't actually drooling, he wasn't far off. She started to grin when he took her by surprise and pushed her against the counter.
"Kaylee, what in the Hell are you tryin' to do to me?"
She wasn't sure whether to be honest, or shrug and not say anything. "Just havin' some fun is all. You should try it sometime Jayne."
Jayne's eyes narrowed. "Your version of fun and my version of fun ain't the same thing."
"Oh, I think they just might be." Kaylee placed her finger on his chest and slowly trailed it down towards his navel.
Jayne shook his head. "Kaylee, its not that ya ain't making me all wound up cause ya are, but what happened to Genius Boy and your sudden fascination with him?"
Kaylee sighed. "It ain't in the cards for him and I. We're just... too different. He's all kinds of levels above me Jayne. He's a doctor for cryin' out loud, he's in a whole 'nother class. He's uptight and won't tell me how he feels, and every time I try 'n talk to him about it, he either stays tightlipped about everythin' or he tells me it ain't proper at a time like his; a time where he has to protect his little sister." She sighed again and her shoulders sagged.
Jayne placed his hand on her shoulder. "You know you ain't beneath him. He might be a doctor 'n all that fancy stuff, but that don't mean nothin' out here in the black. You were born knowin' how to fix machines Kaylee, he had to go to school to learn how to be a doctor. You have yourself a gift, and that don't make you any less then him. In fact, that makes you better then him." She looked up at him and a small smile emerged. " 'Sides, you're much prettier too."
Jayne had thought at very most, Kaylee would hug him. He was used to that. What he wasn't used to was her lips. As soon as the words left his mouth, she stood on her tiptoes and her lips were on his... and he was kissing her back. It had been a whole number of years since he kissed anyone. He had a whole no kissing policy when he had his way with the bar matrons on the outer planets. There was a reason for this, but he didn't want to think about Herpes Helga as they called her right now to be quite honest.
Right now he tried to focus on what was happening right now. Kaylee was kissing him, and he was reacting to her right back. He had forgotten how much he loved that feeling of someone inside his mouth, almost claiming it as their own for a short period of time. It was sexy, and Jayne definitely didn't have a problem with sexy. As her tongue danced with his, he could feel her hands on his back, her fingertips tracing a pattern down towards his boxers. He broke the kiss abruptly, he had to know something before things went too far.
"Kaylee, are ya here with me cause you can't have Doc?"
Kaylee shook her head. "It ain't like that Jayne. I can't say I didn't like him cause I did, but I always did have a thing for someone else on his ship, and it ain't the Captain or Wash."
Jayne looked at her quizzically. "Inara?"
Kaylee rolled her eyes. Jayne was a lot of things, and being dense beyond belief was one of them. "No you big lug, you!" She slapped his arm playfully.
Jayne's lips curved into a near smile. "Oh yeah?" He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "So all that time we was flirtin' a few years back wasn't cause you was just bored and needed somethin' fun to do?"
Kaylee rolled her eyes. "You know I ain't like that Jayne. I may have been a tease tonight, but its only to get what I really want."
Jayne wished that he wasn't just wearing boxers right now because in a second or two she'd know that all her teasing troubles was definitely having an affect on him. "If ya don't mind my askin', when did you start really wantin' me lately?"
"You're in my dreams almost every night." Kaylee shyly ducked her head down for a moment.
Jayne's mouth went dry. "What happens in 'em?"
Kaylee chewed her lip. "A little bit of everythin'."
"Everythin' including those strawberries and cream over there?"
"You could say that... course we weren't sittin' at the table eatin' them and talkin' if that's what you mean."
Jayne bent down and captured her lips with his for a quick kiss. "No Darlin', I wasn't plannin' on talkin' much longer." With one arm, he picked Kaylee up and placed her on top of the table. "I am though, plannin' on usin' this table right now." He grabbed the tub of whipped cream from the counter and sauntered back over to her. "But not for the kind of eatin' we usually do here."
***
River bolted up in bed. Another nightmare. Images that didn't make sense, and men with blue gloves who told her she was all sorts of things she wasn't. Everything was upside down in her dreams, and there was nothing she could do to turn them right side up. She threw off the covers and walked quietly as to not wake Simon. A drink of water would help. She was almost to the kitchen when she heard two distinct voices drifting out from the room. Tiptoeing closer, she peered around the door frame and her eyes grew wide when she saw Jayne moving above Kaylee on the kitchen table, naked and smeared with whipped cream. Her hands flew to her mouth to keep in any sounds that might escape and as quietly as she could, she ran back to her bunk.
.... To be continued...
Author: Christine
E-mail: Buffygirl43@hotmail.com
Summary: Kaylee can't sleep...
Pairing: Jayne/Kaylee (I just can't get enough) with mentions of Simon/Kaylee.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Once again its been brought to my attention that I don't own anything Joss has created, I just wish I did. Firefly is his and Mutant Enemy's, I just like to play with his characters for a while to amuse myself.
Spoilers: Takes place after Objects in Space. In this version, I chose to have Inara stay on Serenity unlike what she says at the end of Heart of Gold.
Notes: The names of planets that I use in my story actually are ones that the writers on the show came up with. There's a picture of the worlds of Firefly online; I uploaded it to my server so you can view it here if you want to.
Here is part one! Thanks so much for the nice feedback so far, its addicting! :)
Part One
With little more then a sigh, Kaylee leaned over the side of her hammock and placed her bare feet on the cold cement floor of the engine room. She suppressed the shiver that wanted to travel down her spine and as quietly as she could, walked out of the room, shutting it behind her. She knew that she should be getting to bed, especially since she had to be up earlier in the morning to help Wash fix up the small hovercraft they had recovered from the junk yard on Deadwood, but she was afraid to let her subconscious take over again. She wasn't really sure why all of the sudden she was dreaming about Jayne. Sure she was attracted to him, who wouldn't be? She remembered them flirting briefly when they had first met a few years ago, but when Mal gave his patented stern look and threatened to throw Jayne out of the ship while in space, it had promptly ended. Of course, there was the occasional extra long look in her direction and a crude comment or two thrown her way, but other then that her relationship with Jayne was strictly platonic. Or as platonic as it could be; it being Jayne and all.
Kaylee tiptoed through the hallway that held everyone's bunks and slipped into the kitchen. She was crossing her fingers that she still had at least one more strawberry left in the fridge. Inara had kindly bought them for her while she was on Boros. If there was one thing in all the verse that could help lift her spirits it was strawberries. And a good roll in the sack of course, but Kaylee knew that wasn't on the agenda for tonight. As she opened the refrigerator door and squinted a bit at the bright light that filtered out, her hopes sunk. Not only were there no strawberries, but the small wooden container that held them was gone too. She sighed for what seemed like the hundredth time that night and nearly jumped to the ceiling when she heard a voice behind her.
"Lookin' for these?"
She flipped around and saw Jayne standing there in nothing but red boxers holding her box of strawberries. She could feel her heart thumping wildly in her chest, largely due to the fact that he nearly scared her out of her pajamas, but another due to him standing there nearly naked holding her favorite food.
"Wuh de ma!" Kaylee braced herself against the refrigerator door. "Jayne, you scared me half to death!"
Jayne shrugged. "Sorry. Heard you patterin' around up here and figured these were what you'd be after." He walked closer to Kaylee and handed her the box.
Kaylee smiled as he placed the box in her small hands. She still marveled at the difference in their sizes. She knew she was short and small but Jayne? Jayne was nearly 6'5 and weighed over twice her weight. As she took the box from his big, muscular hands, his fingertips brushed her open palm and her eyes nearly rolled back in her head. Why were all these feelings just coming out now? Had she forced her attraction to him all these years to the back of her mind? He was so different from Simon; physically and mentally. Simon was a gentleman; sometimes too much of one, but Jayne... Jayne was not a gentleman. He was rude, crude, greedy and mean most of the time. But there was this softness to him, a sort of puppy dog quality that he showed every so often to Kaylee that made her believe that there was more to him then meets the eye.
"Thanks Jayne." She nervously squeezed the box with her hands. "So, what are ya doin' up so late? Can't sleep?"
He shrugged again. "Dunno. I took myself a shower and got a cravin' so I raided the fridge."
Kaylee bit back a laugh. "That time of the month?"
Jayne glared at her. "You callin' me a woman?"
"Nope, not at all."
"Good, cause I ain't." Jayne crossed his arms over his chest and stood there like a little boy who was just spanked.
Kaylee placed her hand on his upper arm for a moment and immediately wished she didn't. She could feel the rock hard muscles that he worked hard to keep everyday on his weight bench. "Believe me Jayne I know you ain't no girl."
Jayne casually noted her hand on his arm. "Good." He turned to walk away, but stopped after a moment and looked back at Kaylee. "Sorry I gone and took your strawberries from ya without askin'."
A smile broke out on Kaylee's face. It wasn't too often that Jayne apologized for anything. In fact, she really couldn't think of the last time that happened - if it had at all. "Its okay, I don't mind sharin'." She opened up the refrigerator again and took out a small tub. "Betcha didn't know that they came with this though."
"What's that?" Jayne's interest was piqued.
Kaylee popped open the top, dipped her finger in and came out with a generous amount of whipped cream. She held her finger up to him for a moment and just as he began to move forward towards her, she licked it off her finger herself. She knew she was being a tease, but to be honest, she knew that was what Jayne liked. She wasn't sure if what she was doing had any effect until she saw his expression darken to what Kaylee liked to call his 'Angry Puppy' face. Only to herself of course. And maybe Inara.
"Gorram it girl, what you think you're doin?"
"I ain't doin' nothin' Jayne." Kaylee shyly shrugged and held the box of strawberries and the tub out for him. "Want some?"
Jayne shook his head, and Kaylee was slightly disappointed. There was only one way to go from here. She didn't know why she was doing this; Mal would be angry as all Hell if he found out she was flirting with Jayne again. Maybe it was just lust, but maybe there was something in Jayne that she needed right now. She needed comfort; she someone to hold her and tell her she was as pretty as all the stars in the 'Verse. As much as she wanted to deny it, she needed a little something else too. It really was not helping that all he had on was boxers.
"All right, more for me then." She put the wooden box and tub on the countertop and took a strawberry out. As she dipped it into the whipped cream, she snuck a glance at Jayne and hid a smirk when she realized he was getting fidgety. As she brought the plump strawberry to her lips, she closed her eyes in exaggeration and tilted her head back for effect. As she chewed and swallowed, she opened her eyes and saw that while he wasn't actually drooling, he wasn't far off. She started to grin when he took her by surprise and pushed her against the counter.
"Kaylee, what in the Hell are you tryin' to do to me?"
She wasn't sure whether to be honest, or shrug and not say anything. "Just havin' some fun is all. You should try it sometime Jayne."
Jayne's eyes narrowed. "Your version of fun and my version of fun ain't the same thing."
"Oh, I think they just might be." Kaylee placed her finger on his chest and slowly trailed it down towards his navel.
Jayne shook his head. "Kaylee, its not that ya ain't making me all wound up cause ya are, but what happened to Genius Boy and your sudden fascination with him?"
Kaylee sighed. "It ain't in the cards for him and I. We're just... too different. He's all kinds of levels above me Jayne. He's a doctor for cryin' out loud, he's in a whole 'nother class. He's uptight and won't tell me how he feels, and every time I try 'n talk to him about it, he either stays tightlipped about everythin' or he tells me it ain't proper at a time like his; a time where he has to protect his little sister." She sighed again and her shoulders sagged.
Jayne placed his hand on her shoulder. "You know you ain't beneath him. He might be a doctor 'n all that fancy stuff, but that don't mean nothin' out here in the black. You were born knowin' how to fix machines Kaylee, he had to go to school to learn how to be a doctor. You have yourself a gift, and that don't make you any less then him. In fact, that makes you better then him." She looked up at him and a small smile emerged. " 'Sides, you're much prettier too."
Jayne had thought at very most, Kaylee would hug him. He was used to that. What he wasn't used to was her lips. As soon as the words left his mouth, she stood on her tiptoes and her lips were on his... and he was kissing her back. It had been a whole number of years since he kissed anyone. He had a whole no kissing policy when he had his way with the bar matrons on the outer planets. There was a reason for this, but he didn't want to think about Herpes Helga as they called her right now to be quite honest.
Right now he tried to focus on what was happening right now. Kaylee was kissing him, and he was reacting to her right back. He had forgotten how much he loved that feeling of someone inside his mouth, almost claiming it as their own for a short period of time. It was sexy, and Jayne definitely didn't have a problem with sexy. As her tongue danced with his, he could feel her hands on his back, her fingertips tracing a pattern down towards his boxers. He broke the kiss abruptly, he had to know something before things went too far.
"Kaylee, are ya here with me cause you can't have Doc?"
Kaylee shook her head. "It ain't like that Jayne. I can't say I didn't like him cause I did, but I always did have a thing for someone else on his ship, and it ain't the Captain or Wash."
Jayne looked at her quizzically. "Inara?"
Kaylee rolled her eyes. Jayne was a lot of things, and being dense beyond belief was one of them. "No you big lug, you!" She slapped his arm playfully.
Jayne's lips curved into a near smile. "Oh yeah?" He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "So all that time we was flirtin' a few years back wasn't cause you was just bored and needed somethin' fun to do?"
Kaylee rolled her eyes. "You know I ain't like that Jayne. I may have been a tease tonight, but its only to get what I really want."
Jayne wished that he wasn't just wearing boxers right now because in a second or two she'd know that all her teasing troubles was definitely having an affect on him. "If ya don't mind my askin', when did you start really wantin' me lately?"
"You're in my dreams almost every night." Kaylee shyly ducked her head down for a moment.
Jayne's mouth went dry. "What happens in 'em?"
Kaylee chewed her lip. "A little bit of everythin'."
"Everythin' including those strawberries and cream over there?"
"You could say that... course we weren't sittin' at the table eatin' them and talkin' if that's what you mean."
Jayne bent down and captured her lips with his for a quick kiss. "No Darlin', I wasn't plannin' on talkin' much longer." With one arm, he picked Kaylee up and placed her on top of the table. "I am though, plannin' on usin' this table right now." He grabbed the tub of whipped cream from the counter and sauntered back over to her. "But not for the kind of eatin' we usually do here."
***
River bolted up in bed. Another nightmare. Images that didn't make sense, and men with blue gloves who told her she was all sorts of things she wasn't. Everything was upside down in her dreams, and there was nothing she could do to turn them right side up. She threw off the covers and walked quietly as to not wake Simon. A drink of water would help. She was almost to the kitchen when she heard two distinct voices drifting out from the room. Tiptoeing closer, she peered around the door frame and her eyes grew wide when she saw Jayne moving above Kaylee on the kitchen table, naked and smeared with whipped cream. Her hands flew to her mouth to keep in any sounds that might escape and as quietly as she could, she ran back to her bunk.
.... To be continued...