Titel: Colors (Ch.I) - Orange
Author: Raven_40 / alphadine
Fandom: Firefly
Pairing: Rayne
Rating: T , but changes to M with the next chapter !
Disclaimer: I don't own them though I'd love to.
Summary: River experiences something new

Orange (Play of Colors - Prologue)

The silence of the night cycle had fallen over 'Serenity' and most of her residents were asleep. Although she had, quite a while ago, learnt to push back all the invading thoughts from the crew to minor background noise, there were these rare quiet hours which the ship's small psychic pilot enjoyed the most.

Not bothered with the onslaught of foreign thoughts and emotions she sat relaxed in the pilot's seat - her feet carefully placed on the panels so her boots could do no harm to all the switches and displays - and admired the passing lights of far away stars and solar systems, while she occasionally checked the course of the ship.

She sensed him more than she heard him, as he entered the cockpit and when he let his bulky form fall ungraciously into the co-pilot's seat she didn't even look.

"Lookin' for patterns in the stars again?"

"Hmmm." She hummed an affirmative. He sensed her reluctance for conversation and fell silent, too.

She continued to watch the stars as the room around her filled with comfy orange warmth. Shifting in her seat to find a more snugly position, she only vaguely noticed that her skirt had rode up, revealing some of the creamy skin of her thigh.

Lulled from the warmth into the most relaxed state she had been in for a very long time, she contentedly closed her eyes and missed the sharp intake of breath from the other side of the bridge. As the warmth increased partly from the cozy orange to a warmer bright red-it feeling like someone caressing her bare thigh-she breathed a pleased sigh and languorously followed the path of the Red with her fingers.

The loud thud of Jayne's boots hitting the floor when he jumped out of the co-pilots seat made her reopen her eyes. He stood just there and gulped audibly, his eyes glued to the warm spot on her leg where her fingers still trailed slowly.

"I'll be in my bunk!" He rasped hoarsely and before she could even say something he was already halfway out of the cockpit.

It took her a while before River noticed that the warmth and the soft orange glow had left with him.