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firefly_fanfic2006-11-13 07:54 pm
arwen-lune.livejournal.com) wrote in firefly_fanfic2006-11-13 07:54 pm
Drabble: In Transit
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arwen_lune
Disclaimer: Joss is Boss
Setting: after the film. Spoilage.
Characters: Zoe. And Jayne.
In Transit
"WHAT are you doing?"
"Jus' walkin'. That a problem?"
"Is when you're doggin' my steps."
"I ain't. Just thought I'd go back to the ship."
"Go away. Do I have to be guarded like some insensible grievin' widow?"
"That guilt stuff only works on Mal."
"Was he..."
"Monty'll get him home."
"Suppose I shouldn't have yelled at him."
"Suppose."
"'Suppose'? You care when I yell at the captain now?"
"Why ARE you walkin' me home? Think I can't take care of myself?"
"Hell Zo, I know ya can. Don't like walkin' on my own. Figgered you'd protect me."
arwen_luneDisclaimer: Joss is Boss
Setting: after the film. Spoilage.
Characters: Zoe. And Jayne.
In Transit
"WHAT are you doing?"
"Jus' walkin'. That a problem?"
"Is when you're doggin' my steps."
"I ain't. Just thought I'd go back to the ship."
"Go away. Do I have to be guarded like some insensible grievin' widow?"
"That guilt stuff only works on Mal."
"Was he..."
"Monty'll get him home."
"Suppose I shouldn't have yelled at him."
"Suppose."
"'Suppose'? You care when I yell at the captain now?"
"Why ARE you walkin' me home? Think I can't take care of myself?"
"Hell Zo, I know ya can. Don't like walkin' on my own. Figgered you'd protect me."
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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.
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I read a fantastic Jayne/Kaylee Wash/Zoe pre-series fic, that had some just...amazing Jayne/Zoe moments, as well as some Jayne/Mal and Mal/Zoe (all in a non-romantic sense). It really flushed out some of the complications and intricacies between them all. I think Zoe and Jayne maybe aren't friends, but they're close to it.