Slight future from where we left them off last.... three weeks to be exact.

BUCKY AND BOB - The sounding

board of reason is spelled B.O.B. ....................

Year 2512

Fall

Onboard Serenity

(Written by Blake and Jena)

~~cont. from http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=5716 ~~

Asleep.

He shaved his face, showered, got all smoothed up and clean, brought her dinner on a tray, and she was asleep. It wasn't as if Wash could sit down there for long with Zoe's door wide open and he wasn't about to shut it and stay in there while she was asleep. An invitation was one thing, but sitting around staring at a sick person had a creepy connotation to it.

Zoe was in slumberland and Wash took an evening meal ribbing for his 'baby face' for what was looking to be no apparent reason. He had to come up with some pretty good excuses for why he did it to.

'Why'd you grow your moustache?'

"To make me look older."

'Why'd ya shave it off now?'

"Because I was sick of it."

'Didn't ya like it boy?'

"I did."

'How long did'ya have it?'

"A few months."

'Twart much of a time.'

So on and so on. It was ludicrous in his mind only because the pilot knew why he did it and here there was no pay off after the ribs.

Oh well. Life wasn't perfect and it wasn't like this was a planned event. Like other fortunate occurrences, these things sometimes just happened. Finding Mal Reynolds was a chance happening and look where it brought him today: A shaved, baby-face reunion.

Weeks went by that they didn't talk about it once Zoe recovered. That chance happening of helping her to her room, getting her to talk a little bit about a potential hook up was long gone. So what did Wash do? What he always did. Shaved his face every gorram