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gonna_live ([personal profile] gonna_live) wrote2009-02-15 08:16 pm

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The problem is such that she takes it to Simon's friend Jordie: where do you take a friend from out of town who had an upbringing similar to her own and feels a little off in places as fancy as anywhere Simon would suggest?

The response comes back via wave: Have a little more faith in your husband, but not much -- he never went to this particular bar as much as I did. Ask him (I'm assuming he knows your friend better than I do) what he would think about The Pig.

Apparently it's suitable for Jayne Cobb, and walking distance from their apartment, and so Kaylee and Jayne present themselves at a local speakeasy that from the outside is a mere door, no windows. A hand-written sign in Mandarin tacked to it pronounces the name of the establishment to be The Pig In The Poke.

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-16 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
". . . . now if I recall," Jayne says, slow and serene, "I ain't had the pleasure a hearin' about this particular outin' before. Or these blackmail-type pictures."

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-16 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
. . . this, right now? This is Jayne not making a joke about how Simon and Dean's little brother Sam might've been amusing themselves while Dean and Kaylee were trashed.

This is Jayne showing great restraint. Especially considering he wasn't invited!

"I was thinkin' whiskey," he says, letting it go for now. (Time enough to ask again after a glass or two.) "Less'n you're gonna go all frilly on me, an' I'm tellin' you now you can get what you want, but I don't believe in dilutin' good liquor. It's on moral grounds."

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-16 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Jayne is . . . sort of won over by this argument.

"You want somethin's gonna rot your teeth, that's your call," he says, and bellows over to the barkeep.

"Hey! A whiskey an' a Stoned Angel over here."

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-16 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Jayne looks blankly back at her.

"I ain't ever found that."

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-16 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Ain't never needed to," says Jayne, with some smugness.

When you're as devilish handsome as this fellow right here, there's plenty a ways to get what you're askin' for without resortin' to manners.

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-16 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Cunning: "Tell you what - you show me those blackmail pictures, I'll get you a recordin' of me please-in' and thank-you-in' it up good as a charm school Shepherd."

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-16 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Wouldn't have to tell him you showed me."

Their drinks arrive, shuffled over on a tray by a sour-faced old man; Jayne passes Kaylee hers (it's bright yellow, with gold flecks) and takes a gulp of his.

"I coulda stumbled on 'em all on my own."

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Didn't know about 'em for a year now," Jayne points out.

"An' I'm willin' to look places he ain't, on account of I ain't a gentleman."

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
". . . I can not sleep there."

Jayne is too cunning for you, Kaylee! TOO CUNNING.

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Couple a flaws in your genius plan there, little Kaylee," Jayne says, taking a gulp of his whiskey.

"First off, time all this comes around, I'll've already found those blackmail pics an' the whole point'll be past moot anyhow. And second off, you tell the cap'n an' Zoe an' Wash an' Naomi that the ship's repairs are waitin' on me actin' like a Tam-standard rarified gent, an' I reckon you'll get a full crew's worth of laughin' at in the face."

Yes, even from Naomi!

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Jayne eyes her. He is not sure she has earned the right to smugness yet!

"Where else is it you got the power t'fix up as a torture chamber?"

[identity profile] swinging-cod.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
"You," Jayne says, and punctuates with a pointed finger, "are bluffin'."