It's funny that those two really only have that few intereaction moments... of course there's a bit of threatening going on at points also.
My theory is that when Jayne first came aboard, he thought he could take Zoe on - one way or another - and she stamped him down hard enough to establish in his thick skull: 1) I am first mate, 2) I'm with Mal, all the way, and 3) forget about anything happening between us.
I think it took a couple of days for Jayne to get over that, and since then they've settled in a companionable routine - they know what they have in the other. I also note that Zoe teases him a bit, but never maliciously (insulting his intelligence, like Wash does), and that he has this almost complimentous low-level-leer for her.
I'll probably write some more about them, though it'll likely about this stage - I have more fun writing realising-there-could-be-more than with the let's-do-this-thing stage of relationships.
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My theory is that when Jayne first came aboard, he thought he could take Zoe on - one way or another - and she stamped him down hard enough to establish in his thick skull: 1) I am first mate, 2) I'm with Mal, all the way, and 3) forget about anything happening between us.
I think it took a couple of days for Jayne to get over that, and since then they've settled in a companionable routine - they know what they have in the other. I also note that Zoe teases him a bit, but never maliciously (insulting his intelligence, like Wash does), and that he has this almost complimentous low-level-leer for her.
I'll probably write some more about them, though it'll likely about this stage - I have more fun writing realising-there-could-be-more than with the let's-do-this-thing stage of relationships.