”I dabbled a little, back in school. I could give it a try if you want?” She questioned.

”Be my guest.” Kaylee told her. ”About time I took a break anyway, I’m thinkin’. Way things were goin’, I’m afraid I might have been like to say something unkind before long. And that never helps anything, now does it.”

”If you told someone they were being stupid when they were going to kill them self and they decided not to, that would be helpful… probably anyway.” River observed distractedly as she sat down and started scrolling through lines of code.

Kaylee laughed. ”Thought you said you hated logic.” She replied playfully as she went to get a glass of water.

”Only when it’s convenient to. I can be very fickle sometimes.” River replied. ”That might be a character flaw, I suppose.” She said, still going through the code while she spoke, making the occasional change here or there.

Kaylee laughed. ”If it is, I’ve probably got the same one.” She admitted as she poured the water into a glass for herself.

”It is fairly common place, I agree.” River replied.

Kaylee took a few drinks of water and then came back over by River, sat down behind her, wrapped her arms around her girlfriend’s waist, and rested her chin on River’s shoulder, leaning her head against River’s a little. ”Having any luck?” She asked.

”Luck and I are old friends by now, I think. She appears to like me, even if a lot of other people don’t seem to much.” River observed.

”What other people? The government? The Alliance?” Kaylee ventured.

”They didn’t like who I was, so they tried to make me into someone else. You have to really dislike a person a very lot to go to those kind of lengths, don’t you think?” River observed, her concentration still mostly focused on her work.

”…Yeah, I guess there would be some kinda truth to that, wouldn’t there…” She replied softly. She’d thought a lot about what had been done to River, as little as she really knew on the subject. What little she did know made her shiver just thinkin’ about it sometimes. Still, she wished she could somehow take all that hurt away for her, do something that really helped this woman she’d come to fall so in love with. River’d said before that she’d saved her, but the truth was, she’d done precious little as far as she could see. She couldn’t even manage to properly fix the shuttle, could she? No, her girlfriend was doing that too. It didn’t seem fair on River, her being so useless sometimes like she seemed to be. She’d never thought of herself like that before, because she’d always been the one to keep her crew in the sky. She tried to push those thoughts away though. ”You’re definitely my favorite person in all creation though, if it helps.” She told her sincerely.