No More Mechanacin' - K - Mal/Kaylee
Title: No More Mechanacin'
Rating: K
Genre: Family/Humor
Pairing: Mal/Kaylee
Prompt: Engine by scoob2222
Word Count: 328
Summary: We'll ne needin' a new mechanic soon.
No More Mechanachin'
-Prompt-
"Gorram! Kaywinnit! Is she fixed?"
With a sigh, Kaylee slid out from beneath her beautiful engine to half-frown, half-smile at her favorite captain. "She's near perfect, capt'n. All shiny an' hummin' like a satisfied woman."
"She'll run?" he asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
She nodded. "Better 'an ever!" Grinning, she stood up, holding her back as she went and wiping her oil smeared hands on her coveralls when she was upright.
"We'll be needin' a new mechanic soon," he reminded her.
She frowned at him before turning back around and fiddling with her tools.
"You can't stay down there forever, Kaylee." He was so dang stubborn!
"I can do my mechanicin just fine!" she told him, turning around with a proud smile. "I got her fixed, didn't I?"
"You always do."
She nodded.
"But come next month, you're not gonna me mechanacin' nothin'."
Her smile faded. "But ain't nobody know her like I do!"
"I know," he agreed. Her eyes teared up and he winced, reaching out for her. "Come on, now..."
She sniffled. "I can do it, I can!"
He rubbed her back. Her hormones were all over the dang place and she cursed herself for cryin' all over him. "You and our baby boy need some rest. Ain't nothin' gonna happen to the ship. If it does, I'm sure she'll tell ya somehow."
She nodded. "You promise?"
"I promise." He kissed her hair.
"Fine." She straightened up, wiping her tears away only to see him smile before he wiped her face of leftove grease. "Can I make sure he does it right?"
"Course. But stay out from under the engine. Last thing I need is you goin' it to labor early."
She smiled. "That'd be shiny, I think. Sooner she's born, the better."
He shook his head. "There's some strawberries up front if you--"
She was waddling away before he could finish and Mal just grinned at her exit. That was his Kaylee...