This was written a long time ago and I guess I never posted it. In looking through some old files, I found it and decided to post.

I'm working on a new, really long story, that will no doubt take forever for me to post, so - these little ones will have to do until I finish it.

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The challenge table can be found here. These stories will not be linked into a series but will stand on their own and will in some way revolve around Simon Tam.

To see a list of the prompts, go Here.

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1.Moan

Mal rolled over and glared sleepily at the wall. With a string of curses that even Jayne would have raised an eyebrow at, he grasped his pillow and brought it down over his head. At this point, he wouldn’t have cared if it suffocated him. He was tired and cranky – and being forced to listen to two of his crew member’s decidedly un-cranky behavior was starting to grate on his nerves. ~*~ Zoe stared at the wall with a raised eyebrow and the faintest hint of a smile. While her heart still ached for the loss of her husband, she was glad that Simon and Kaylee had finally found comfort in one another’s company. Of course, she would have preferred not to hear – repeatedly – just how comfortable they had become with each other. But – she was happy for them, nonetheless. ~*~ Jayne leaned against the wall, his ear mashed so tightly against it, the appendage would no doubt be red and swollen in the morning. He grunted lustfully at the sounds, unable to believe the prissy doc could in any way satisfy the bubbly mechanic. He wrinkled his nose at the wall when he heard something he’d never want to hear again come out of Simon’s mouth. He bit his tongue and resisted the urge to yell through the wall for the man to be quiet. He’d rather hear Kaylee moaning. ~*~ River sat on the bridge, her knees drawn to her chest, her arms wrapped around them in their customary position. Gooseflesh pebbled her arms as she felt the passion spill out of Kaylee’s bunk. She closed her eyes and began some breathing exercises, hoping to calm the tingling anticipation spreading throughout her body. But the feelings were so strong, so heated, that she had a hard time blocking them out. She couldn’t fault her brother or Kaylee for finally giving into their desires. It had certainly taken long enough. Her genius brother took such looking after. River trembled and bit her lip to keep from whimpering. She squeezed her eyes shut and redoubled her efforts to set up those mental blocks. There were times she really wished she wasn’t a Reader. ~*~ Kaylee moaned long and loud as Simon’s mouth worked over her sensitive flesh while his fingers worked inside it. She squeezed her eyes shut and clutched the mattress beneath her as the familiar tension began to coil around her belly. All coherent thought flew out of her head as his insistent mouth and tongue drove her to a release so strong that she had to bite her lip from crying out too loudly. She panted his name breathily once she regained the ability to speak. Her hands slid into his hair and she tugged gently, wanting to kiss him, desperate to feel his lips on hers. She whimpered lightly as he ignored her pleas and continued with his ministrations. Not for the first time did she marvel that the man’s mouth was good for so many things other than talking. When he was finished, he crawled up her body, placing wide-open mouthed kisses, in addition to slow sensuous ones, to her damp, flushed skin. When he was close enough, Kaylee pulled his head to hers and kissed him deeply, all too happy to lose herself in this man, to lose her breath to him. She parted her legs wider in an unspoken invitation she was glad he understood the hint. A frustrated grunt escaped her lips when a few fingers grazed across her pert nipples, gently pinching, before rubbing away the pain. “Simon if you don’t stop teasin’ me –“ she panted when their lips finally parted. She could feel the low chuckle reverberate through his chest and into her own and trembled when he lifted his gaze to her face. So lost was she in his pretty eyes, that she gasped in surprise when he finally joined them. Her eyes scrunched shut and her swollen lips parted as he pushed forward - slowly. With her hair fanned out on the pillow, she arched her neck along with her hips, letting out a long, low moan as every solid inch of him slid deep. “Love this,” Kaylee could hear him whisper as he bent down to press his mouth to the pulse point in her neck. “Your face, sounds, everything. . .” His voice was a mere whisper but filled with such desire that Kaylee couldn’t help but tremble beneath him. Kaylee could feel his hands cup her cheeks, his wet mouth cover hers again before sliding to her cheek. She tried to tighten her legs around his waist, to get him to move at more than a slow, teasing pace. She wasn’t in the mood for slow tonight. “Open your eyes, xiin gan, look at me,” came his gentle command. He tended to talk overly much during the act, though there were times when Kaylee could render him entirely speechless. Tonight was not one of those nights – not yet. Keylee’s eyes fluttered open and her body tingled but the quiet moment was broken when he slid out of her and pushed forward so hard that the entire bed shook. She gasped in surprise and tightened her arms about his neck, tugged a bit more insistently at his hair. She grunted in frustration when he rolled his hips forward and resumed the slow, steady rhythm that she tried desperately to quicken. “Slow, Kaylee. Let me –“

“No, Simon,” Kaylee hissed, tugging a bit more forcefully at his hair. She had no problems telling him what she wanted, or how she wanted it. Some days it was sweet that he wanted to go slow, it drew out and lengthened the intimacy of the act, but tonight wasn’t one of those nights. She could see in his eyes when he accepted that he was going to have to set aside his desire to go slow.

Simon leaned over her and snapped his hips downward, driving the breath from her lungs. Kaylee watched his face, just as he watched hers. He could easily give her what she wanted. Sometimes she just had to ask for it.

She could see that he wanted to say something. But he held back and they just moved together, giving and taking, forward and backward. But in the back of her mind she wondered what he wanted to say. Words tended to be a very difficult thing for him to voice – well, words other than those of a medical or diagnostic nature, anyway. She didn’t like to talk much during the act anyway – not like Simon did.

~*~

The last few months had been a whirlwind of incredible pleasure and truly amazing sex. Simon still wondered what Kaylee saw in him, what she truly wanted out of him. Was it just sex, or did she want something more meaningful? He’d thought about it a lot lately, but hadn’t really voiced anything for fear of scaring her. Right now, though, holding her in his arms, he didn’t want to think about those things. He didn’t want to think about this night, or any night in the future, coming to an end.

He had no delusions that she would tire of him. He was so different from her even if they fit together in other ways so perfectly. He didn’t want to think about that day; the day he’d say something wrong and upset her enough to end their relationship. Things had gone well so far, and he hoped that it would never end. It would end, he knew, if he did something, or more likely said something, that ended it.

Kaylee’s moans drew him out of his disturbingly dreary thoughts and he was suddenly consumed with an overwhelming desire to give her everything. He reached between them and brushed his fingers across her sensitive folds, and grinned when her body began to tense.

He groaned and dropped his head to her neck. He sucked at the soft skin there and squeezed his eyes shut when her body trembled beneath him, signaling yet another release. He gasped at the increased pressure, tightness, surrounding him and quickened his pace, feeling his own end building rapidly.

He wanted to tell her he loved her. He wanted her to know that the last few months had not just been sex to him, but all coherent thought fled his mind as she tightened her legs around his waist and tugged at his hair.

~*~

“C’mon sweetie,” Kaylee panted, knowing he was close. She knew that he loved it when she talked to him, urged him on, and while it wasn’t something to which she was accustomed – most of the men she’d been with were just happy to hear her moan and feel her writhe beneath them – she was more than happy to oblige her lover.

She tightened her arms around his shoulders and dug her nails into his back, knowing that he liked a little bit of pain mixed with pleasure – something else she’d discovered about her quiet, unassuming doctor in the few months they’d been together. It had been a very pleasurable surprise.

“Ai ya, Kaylee,” Simon panted against her neck, close now, so close his eyes began to cross and his head began to swim. He slid one hand around her waist to the small of her back, lifting her with each sharp, quick snap of his hips.

She tugged the lobe of his ear into her mouth and sucked insistently, dragging her teeth across the sensitive skin.

Simon did his best to muffle the groan that escaped his lips as his release thundered through his body and into Kaylee with enough force to momentarily blind him. He briefly wondered if it was like this for her. Panting, Simon collapsed for a few short moments, unmoving, until he finally had enough energy to lift his head.

With a low grunt, he rolled onto his side and drew her into his arms, pressing kisses to her cheeks, eyelids and mouth before relaxing into the mattress. He was tired and he didn’t even try to fight his body’s desire for sleep. It was the middle of the night and he knew Kaylee was just as tired as he.

Kaylee returned the kiss and snuggled against his chest, her eyes drooping with exhaustion. As much as she wanted to stay awake, her body had other things in mind and she was soon snoring lightly, comfortably encased in his arms.

A sharp knock on the hatch above interrupted their post-coital slumber. The two lifted their heads and squinted at the ladder, their weary bones and their exhaustion preventing any quicker movement. Thankfully, the pounding stopped and they settled into one another’s arms again but then the comm.. on the wall beside the bed chimed and the captain’s rather annoyed voice boomed through the room.

“Are you two done? There are some on this boat who would take it as a kindness if you let ‘em sleep through the night!”

Simon groaned and buried his face into Kaylee’s hair, crimson coloring his cheeks in embarrassment. But she just chuckled against his chest.

“Guess I was too loud, huh?” Kaylee asked Simon with a grin that told him that she in no way felt any bit of regret.

“I didn’t think we were very loud,” came Simon’s muffled voice.

“Well, Jayne’s been gettin’ sexed kinda regular like since I known ‘em and the Cap’n could get sexed all regular if he’d stop bein’ all stubborn.” She tightened her arms around Simon’s shoulders and shifted her body closer. “’Bout time you an’ me got sexed good.”

Simon lifted his head and a smile began to spread its way across his face. “It is good, huh?”

Kaylee licked her lips and kissed him. The sultry smile that graced her face promised more to come once they’d rested. “Oh yeah.”

Eyes drooping again, Simon settled into the mattress, with Kaylee snuggled against his chest and murmured, “Shiny.”

If the captain couldn’t handle the occasional noise, he could always take quiet refuge in Inara’s shuttle . . .

Simon didn’t even have the energy to chuckle at that thought.

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