The Need Epilogue Author: J.J. Subject: Rayne Rating: NC-17 Disclaimer: The characters in this fic are not mine, they belong to the Power that is Joss and 20th Century Fox. I'm just borrowing them for fun. Summary: Post BDM. Rayne. Serenity's deadliest begin to connect after a long stint in the Black. Author's Note: This is the last Chapter of The Need, everyone. Thanks for reading and responding!

Epilogue-- One year Anniversary

It was almost a year since Jayne and River became a couple. Adjustments were made both physically and mentally by the crew as a result. Jayne and River now lived in the Inara's old shuttle which River decorated in rich reds, oranges, and golds. Everyone had become accustomed to Jayne kissing River or River pinching Jayne's ass. Or Jayne tell ingRiver he loved her before a job, or River telling him she loved him back.

Though the couple was very much in love, they did have their fights. Sometimes physical, that lead to other physical activities, that made the Captain declare that anyone who gets caught sexin each other in the common area gets kicked off of his boat.

Even though River sometime complained about Jayne's overbearing nature publicly, privately she loved it. And even though Jayne publicly declared several times that River was still feng le as all Hell, privately he enjoyed when she taught him things or recited poetry to him. Their favorite time was after supper when they would sneak away to their shuttle and crawl into to bed, sometimes it was to make love and others it was to just hold each other and talk about the day, or the future, or the past. Jayne was humbled when River started to open up to him about the Academy though sometimes it left him feeling helpless about what she endured.

Jayne was really becoming attached to little Walk, when he wasn't busy with work he would play with the one year old and tell him stories, little Walk bonded so much with Jayne he started calling him Da da, even when Jayne corrected him.

River wanted to have Jayne's child badly, she took herself off the contraceptive shots, but she knew from Kaylee's experience that even though she was off the shot, didn't mean she was going to get pregnant. Kaylee had been of the shot going on two years and she still hadn't gotten pregnant and that was becoming a source of frustration, stress, and conflict for her and Simon.

River turned to Jayne the night before their one year anniversary and asked him, "If I could not have babies would you still want me?"

"I want you with half a brain, don't I?" Jayne said his eyes closed. River put her head on his chest.

"But if I can't have a child?" she pushed for a direct answer.

"We will just have to be happy being an Auntie and Uncle," he kissed her forehead and she nodded.

"Make love to me?" she asked and Jayne's eyes opened. he knew Simon and Kaylee's fighting was putting a strain on her, but he didn't know it was shaking her to the core.

"I love you, Riv, no matter what. Kids or no kids." he kissed her and then moved so he was in between her legs. She wrapped her legs around his waist as he entered her.

"I stopped taking the shot," River said and Jayne looked at her.

"You want a baby?" he asked her and she shook her head.

"No, I want your baby," she answered. He smiled and kissed her.

"In that case, let's make a girl tonight."

"What is the difference in making a boy or a girl?" River asked puzzled. Sex was determined genetically, wasn't it?, she thought. Jayne whispered some very dirty things in her ear as he began to move inside her and she blushed.

"Oh, well that's a theory I'll have to put to test." she gasped.

The END???