Kaylee smiled a little to watch this and thought again just how amazing River was sometimes. All the inexplicable things she could do… but watching her falling off to sleep like that, she looked just like any normal woman. Well, she was also very pretty to look at, even with the blood and dirt and such, but still…

Kaylee sighed and forced herself to look over at the carnage that was piled up on the hatch and strewn about the cabin of the shuttle they called home now. ”This is going to take forever to get clean…” She said. And it was already starting to smell.

She didn’t feel like it at all, but they had no place else to sleep or live and she knew she had to start cleaning this up… and hope she’d be able to hold her stomach while she did, because, as she got up to start doing that, she really was starting to feel like she might throw up.

And it wasn’t as though they had so much in the way of food supplies that they could well afford her doin’ that, now did they?

———-

After laying down for around a half hour in a light nap while Kaylee had started the cleanup process, River startled awake and sat up, bolt straight, blinking her eyes in confusion a little.

Kaylee, who’d sat down by the window to take a break and steady her mind, noticed right away and got up to go over to her. ”You alright?” She asked in an almost shy sort of voice.

River looked over to her, blinking a few times, then fell back onto the bed and sighed. ”My head makes too much noise sometimes.”

Kaylee considered that for a moment, and, though she did feel kind of nervous around River again all of the sudden for some reason, she none the less went over on the bed and got down lying next to her, tilted River’s head to the side, and kissed her – once, then more often. Not really seriously, but very intently none the less. Soon, River seemed to get completely absorbed in the activity, which is what Kaylee had been aiming for. ”Better?” She asked softly after a while.