”I will, but later, okay? Right now, I need my sleep.” Kaylee said with a yawn she couldn’t hold back any longer.

”Oh, of course.” Inara conceded.

”Call back in the morning sometime, we’ll talk more then.”

”I will. Good night, Kaylee.”

”Night Inara.” Kaylee replied, hanging up the comm. ”River? Hey, come on, sweetie, gotta get up and back to bed.”

River yawned and sat up, blinking sleep from her eyes again. ”What’d I miss?” She asked tiredly.

”We gotta go dig Inara an some other people out’a a’hole later.” Kaylee supplied.

”Oh… that makes sense then.” River replied, yawning again and moving in to kiss her, which surprised Kaylee of course, but in a good way. She laughed though when the kiss ended. ”Enough of that now, I’m too tired for that sort of thing.”

”You’re way too pretty, it’s not fair.” River said a little discontentedly, yawning again and getting up, walking back to bed and sort of falling back in.

Kaylee laughed again, very charmed by River’s very cute antics. She got up and, yawning again too, wrapped the sheet around herself and followed River back to bed, getting in and sort of wrestling River back under the covers with her.

They snuggled up together and both promptly fell back to sleep.

———-

They’d slept in that morning, and River had woken her up with kisses, and so it was that an hour and a half later, Kaylee found herself staring down into River’s eyes. River who was smiling up at her with such serenity and bliss Kaylee felt like she could hardly breathe. She whined a little piteously and lay down beside her new lover and buried her face in her shoulder. River turned them over on their sides and somehow unerringly found her lips and kissed her. Soon, Kaylee was on her back again being kissed. She moaned and broke away with only half-hearted resolve. ”You tryin’a do me in or somethin’?” She asked with an only slightly shy but mostly just happy sort of smile.

”No… but you’re hard to resist kissing, Kaylee. Is it too much?” River asked with a confused sort of innocent worry on her face.

Kaylee touched River’s cheek and looked into her eyes. ”Of course it’s not, it’s just… we’ve got things we have to do, ya know? We keep going like this, I won’t have near enough energy to do anything but sleep some more.” She explained. The truth was, she wasn’t really as close to getting tired as she might’a been givin’ the impression she was. Honestly, it was just gettin’ a little too intense for her and she wanted to take a breath as much as anything else of a more practical importance.