Drabble: In Transit

[arwen-lune.livejournal.com]

Author: 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."

Comments

[arwen-lune.livejournal.com]

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.

[rinalin.livejournal.com]

I am so very much the same. The story's in the journey, not the destination. ;)

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.