Catching Fireflies (Doctor who)

Crime to be Done

As I promiced! New chapter into what's upcoming in the near future.

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It had been a month or so after everyone had boarded Serenity. Everything was going smoothly. No more complication, no more gun shootings, and thankfully no more feds.

The crew did a couple small jobs here and there, all decent, and kept food on the table. Kaylee was back up and working on the ship and just like the Doctor said, as if she was never shot. Kaylee had warmed up to the Doctor after the incident with River and they spent a lot of time in the engine room working together. However, Simon had found himself in there more often than he was willing to confess.

River had calmed down with a few minor breakouts, nothing serious. Simon started her on many different medication and she adjusted well. The Doctor didn't think so though. He would catch her staring off into 'no mans' land, and when he would ask her what she saw she would just shake her head and avoid him for a couple of hours.

The Doctor and River had become close. Not so close to have Simon question it but more like family close. They would talk and run around like children, she would try to correct him on something, trying to outsmart him, but he would end up teaching her as she sat starry eyed. They made quite a pair.

Mal, Zoe, and Jayne had just been thrown out of a local bar the planet they landed on two days ago. They started a fight with some of the customers in the bar and ended up pissin them off. After being pushed to the near edge of a cliff did Wash swoop in and save their asses.

"Woah, there's just about a acre of you fellas ain't there." Mal said as Jayne backed up next to Mal and Zoe. "This is why we lost the war ya' know." He said to Zoe. "Superior numbers."

"Thanks for the reenactment sir." She replied.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Jayne said as the men started pulling out their guns. "That ain't kosherized rules."

"I'm thinkin' somebody need to put you down dog." The heavy set bald man said. "What do you think?"

"I'm thinkin' we'll rise again." Mal said. Within the second Serenity pulled up from behind the cliff with Wash's voice on speaker.

"Every man there go back inside, or we will blow a new crater in this little moon." Wash said. The men looked at each other then decided it was best to do as the man/ship instructed. The front of the Firefly dropped down and Mal, Zoe and Jayne hopped on, scurrying in, Mal waving goodbye to his new 'friends'.

"Dumb men can't tell this a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." Jayne said as they entered into the cargo area. He laughed repeating Wash's empty threat. "Blow a new crater in this moon. HA!"

Zoe and Mal made their way over to Wash in the pilots room.

"I think ya' much." Mal said to Wash. "Nice timing as always."

"A pleasure." Wash said sarcastically.

"And how are our passengers?" Mal asked Kaylee as she rolled out from the bottom of the ships controllers.

"They're fine." She said, sitting up slightly. The Doctor did the same propping himself up next to Kaylee.

"What's he doin' to my ship?" Mal asked.

"Nothin' Captain. The most he's ever done is teach me different ways of fixin' things. He's got a bunch of things workin' now that I wouldn't have even thought of fixin' until now." Kaylee defended. The Doctor smiled at the complement.

"See, not such a bad guy." The Doctor said waving a tool around, almost dropping it.

"So, what happened?" Kaylee asked perking up. "Was there a terrible brawl?"

"Oddly enough there was." Zoe replied.

"Are you gettin' my wife in trouble?" Wash asked.

"I didn't start it." Mal defended. "I just wanted a quiet drink."

"Funny sir, how you always seem to find yourself in an Alliance friendly bar, come you day. Lookin' for a quiet drink." Zoe pointed out.

"See this is sign of the tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks a heart." Kaylee giggled with the Doctor over the squabble.

"Did we at least make a contact?" Wash asked.

"Ladies and men folk, we have ourselves a job." Mal announced. Kaylee and the Doctor then moved back under the dashboard of the second controller talking mechanics and such as Mal continued. "Get us out of the world Wash. We got ourselves some crime to be done."

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WOOOOO! Two chapters in one night! Hope you like it. I think it's a little short but most of my chapters are. Oh well. :)