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BLUE SUN ROOM FAN FICTION - DRAMA
In this segment you will find out what happens to Anya and Mal tells Simon what he thinks of his and Kaylee's relationship.
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Disclaimer: Joss and I don't go way back. In fact, I'm sure if you asked him who I was he'd have no clue. I guess I need to accept the fact that I'll never be a associated with Firefly. =o(
Author's Notes: Hmm... What can I say about this chapter? READ IT!!!
Right and Wrong By Kay Sky Part Eleven
She wasn’t dead, not yet. Jayne and Zoe kept their guns on Vincent as Mal stood over Anya. “Girl, do you keep getting stupider by the minute?”
She wasn’t going to make it. The best doctor in the ‘verse wouldn’t be able to save her. Two factors needed to be present for healing to take place. First, without sufficient medical treatment a patient’s chances are limited. Second, without the patient’s will to live, that patient’s chances are even more minimal.
“Too much hurt…” She spoke softly, “I can’t hurt anyone else now… I couldn’t risk hurting my…” Darkness fell over the cargo bay. Krestanya Arabella Aarons was dead.
“She’s gone.” Mal said to the crew. He hated how she hurt Kaylee. He hated how she endangered his whole crew. He hated her, but in these last few seconds something seemed real sincere about her. For the first time Mal didn’t think she was lying. “Simon, take her to the infirmary. Clean the girl up.” Mal lowered his head in his hands. “Jayne, take Vincent back to the holding room. I need sometime to think.”
Mal headed up the stairs to his room. It had been one hell of a night…and morning.
Jayne didn’t need to be told twice. He was disappointed he didn’t get to do any shooting or get to kick Vincent out the airlock right then, but he didn’t need to be told twice. He knew now wasn’t the right time to question Mal. “You heard the captain, pretty boy.” He said as he pulled Vincent off the ground. “Don’t make me do to you what Zoe did to Anya.” With that being said the two left the cargo bay.
Book was kneeling by the girl’s body, saying a prayer. He knew what the girl did was wrong, but he had sympathy for her. She must have gone through something terrible to go from Kaylee’s best friend to her worst enemy. The poor girl…
Inara walked over to Kaylee and Simon. She was scared for Kaylee. There were a lot of people Kaylee didn’t like, but none that Kaylee would want to see dead. “Meimei…”
River had followed behind her. “Now there is The Sole Musketeer.”
It made since now to the three of them. Kaylee was the friend who was lost by the Sole Musketeer. After the events that took place, any ties of friendship she had with Anya or Vincent was broken. When Anya died, Vincent was The Sole Musketeer.
“The Sole Musketeer lost a friend and someone who was more.”
Okay, so maybe the three of them didn’t get it. Kaylee was the friend who was lost, but Anya couldn’t be the something more. Not to Vincent. He said she was nothing more than a roll in the hay. Different scenarios started filling their minds. Maybe he had secret feelings for Kaylee and she was the something more he had lost. Maybe he really did love Anya and never spoke of it because she didn’t return those feelings. Maybe this, maybe that…
“I guess I should take her to the infirmary now. Inara, will you stay with Kaylee?” He was use to asking others to stay with River, to keep an eye on River, but at this moment in time he thought Kaylee was in greater need of care. “Why don’t you take her and River to your shuttle? She really should get some rest.”
“Certainly, Simon.” She turned to Kaylee offering her a hand to get up. “Come on, meimei, let’s get you ready for bed.”
“No…”
Inara looked at Simon and Simon looked at Inara. “Baobei, you need rest. Let Inara take you to her shuttle.”
“I can’t... a lot of bad stuff went on tonight, I can’t help feelin’ responsible. Seein’ how some of that bad took place in Inara’s shuttle… I don’t wanna remember right now. I’m not ready.” Her reasoning was understandable. She’d been through a lot in the past hours. “Besides, I think I been sittin’ too long. I can’t get up.”
“Okay, baobei, I’ll take you to my room. You’ll be very comfortable there.” He turned to Book, who was still at Anya’s side. “Shepard, would you mind taking her to the infirmary? I need to help Kaylee to my room.”
Book nodded and Simon picked Kaylee up, cuddling her in his arms. “Everything’s going to be okay, Kaylee.”
He always made her feel safe. Just being in his arms made her feel a hundred times stronger. She nuzzled her head underneath his neck. “Course, it’ll be okay silly… you’re gonna take care of me…lumps, cuts, and all.” She smiled as she slowly drifted asleep in his arms.
“I’ll never stop taking care of you, baobei…never.” As Simon carried her to his room, he couldn’t help but notice how well she fit in his arms.
* * * *
Mal laid in his bunk. The events of the last hours were swarming his mind. First someone breaks into the ship, then Kaylee is taken hostage and becomes a cutting board, next thing he knows the girl that caused all of this actually seemed sorry for it. Who else couldn’t she risk hurting?
There was a knock at the door. “Open.” His thoughts were interrupted with reality.
“Sir, we do have to decide what we are going to do with Vincent…and Anya.”
“I came in here to think. I’ve been thinkin’. Anya shouldn’t be kicked out the airlock. She should it least be buried next time we hit planet side.”
“A funeral, sir?” Zoe raised her eyebrow.
“I didn’t say nothing about a funeral. I just don’t think it’d be right to unload her into space.”
“And what about Vincent, sir? Do you feel right about dumping him into space?”
Simon laid Kaylee down on his bed. He smiled as he pulled the covers to her shoulders, tucking her in. She looked good in his bed. She looked good anywhere, but especially his bed. He leaned down and kissed her cheek.
“Simon…” Kaylee said sleepily.
“Shh…shh...Go back to sleep.”
“You’re not gonna leave are you?” Simon could tell she was scared. He couldn’t blame her. Last time she was alone…
He sat down on the bed. “I do need to take care of…I need to go to the infirmary. Besides, you could use another dose of pain relievers. The injection I gave earlier will be warring off soon. I’ll call Book and ask him to sit with you. I won’t leave until he gets here and he won’t leave until I get back.”
“Why do you think she did it?”
He began stroking her hair. “I don’t know. I find it hard to believe she thought she could take down Mal. Especially when Jayne and Zoe had their guns ready. I don’t know what she was thinking.”
“Looked like she said somethin’ to the captain.”
“I can ask Mal, if you’d like.
She was quickly consumed by a big yawn. “Thanks, doc. Just make sure to check on me…” She was out like a light.
“I’ll check on you soon. I promise.” He kissed her lightly on her bruised forehead. “Don’t let the space bugs bite, Kaylee Frye.”
Mal came in to the infirmary. “How’s the patient?”
“Her face is fairly bruised. I’m sure Vincent had something to do with that. It will take some makeup, but she’ll look attractive again.” Simon put down his tools and turned to Mal. “Kaylee wanted me to ask you what she said.”
“How is lil’ Kaylee?” He was well aware he was avoiding the question.
“I think she’s doing okay. She went through a lot.”
“You think?” Mal raised an eyebrow.
“One minute she seems so weak and the next…she seems fine. It’s hard to explain.”
Mal laughed to himself. “Son, she’s doing just fine, shiny even.”
“I just said…”
“And listen to what I’m saying. Ever since Kaylee came ‘board this ship I made a promise to her daddy that I’d look after her. I promised him I’d keep her safe. Now, up until recently I was the one Kaylee looked for when she needed to feel safe. I’m a bit jealous.”
“Jealous?”
“Those times when you think she’s weak, is she near you? And those times when she seems so much better, she’s close to you, in your arms maybe?”
“I haven’t really thought…”
“You do too much thinking, Doc. Kaylee seems so much better the times she’s with you because you make her feel safe. It’s not like I’ve been replaced, I will always make her feel safe, but I’m her second choice now.”
Simon blushed. “I didin’t realize…”
“I’m sure once or twice I may have mentioned my feelings on shipboard romances and while I don’t like them, I can’t stop them. And after seeing you two together these past couple of months, I don’t know that I would want to stop this one.”
Simon couldn’t remember a time hearing Mal be more sincere. “Thank you.”
“Ain’t no need for thankin’, boy. And it don’t change the fact that if you hurt her, I hurt you.” He loved watching Simon squirm. “Anyways, about Anya…I’d like you to examine her.”
“Why? We know the cause of death.”
“I have a gut feeling there is something more to that girl than we know about. And that something might be found by a medical examination. Think you can handle that?”
“You’re the boss.”
To be continued...
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