oldMal's Serenity: Infirmary

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"I don't think he can do it," Jayne said with an air of finality.

He and Zoe were standing outside the infirmary, looking through the window. Both he and Zoe had decided that the tense atmosphere and the smell were too much for them. Of course, every time Mal made a sound Zoe had run back in, much to Jayne's general displeasure.

"Don't you dare," Zoe countered, but Jayne cut her off.

"Look, it's too far gone. Cap'n told the Doc to save his leg and now lookit. It's gorram near ready to fall off. Doc should just hack it off 'fore the rest of him can't be saved."

Zoe fell quiet at that remark.

Perhaps Jayne was right...

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That had to have been the drunkest he'd gotten since the first time he'd gotten married. His head hurt, his butt hurt... his whole @#$%&$# body hurt. His mouth felt like one of Jayne's socks, and his throat felt full of cactus and sand.

Then he heard the beeps and groggily realized that he was in the infirmary. "Uhhh?"

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"Mornin'," Zoe said softly.

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He tried to reply, but only managed to lift his eyebrows and half open his eyes.

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"Take yer time, I ain't goin' nowhere."

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"Water." Sam skidded to a halt in front of the door, boots gone now but hat firmly on his head.

Mal lifted his eyebrows again, thinking he'd never liked anything the nut had said as much as he did that.

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She got another glass. "Here."

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Mal drank eagerly, then lay his head back and fought the urge to gag. "What... happened?"

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She didn't say anything, but her gaze travelled to where his leg was.

Or had been.

She tensed slightly, waiting for the outburst.