On request epilogue 2 takes place.
1 yr later..
'We are getting married.'
"WHAT!" roared Simon and Mal instantly.
"We are getting married." repeated Jayne, looking at them both as though they were deaf.
"Oh I heard that part!" yelled Simon standing to his feet. "Like to explain what kind of sick joke this is?"
"I'm with the doc on this one Jayne, how long you been sleepin' with my pilot?" screamed Mal.
"No sexual intercourse has taken place… yet." said River, beaming proudly at Jayne from across the mess hall table. He beamed back, digging into his protein mash, trying to hide the blush that was evident on his cheeks.
To his left, Inara, Zoe and Kaylee began giggling, whispering things amongst themselves like school girls from earth that was.
"This ain't not laughing matter… how long has this…" Simons said gesturing with his arms. "Been going on?"
Jayne laughed remembering the time they told the crew about their future nuptials. River had done and exact impersonation of all the crew and put on the exact accent and voices of their family down the road. They had moved to a small moon not long after the destruction of the Academy. The academy doctor had been set free much to Jayne's unpleasantness, none of them ever seen him again.
Right now Jayne was lounging on his couch watching as she finished up the remainder of her act. It had been five years since that day. Jayne had reached the age of thirty seven, and River twenty three.
They'd bought that small moon, that Mal had been describing, and made a home for themselves. Eventually after about three years some settlers has landed, looking for a peaceful retreat, now they had a nice little community, Mal was the president.
They'd made a home for themselves, like they said they would. And River was on her way to having her first baby. A little boy, she had said, after seeing a vision of her birth.
Jayne had grown well adapted to the strangeness of her ways, in fact it made him fall more in love with her. The lil' boy inside her…. or lil' Cobb as he liked to call him, was about four months in development, and soon he'd be a proud father of his little Cobb family.
Though he wouldn't be the first father. Mal and Inara had tied the knot not long after they did, and now they had three little offspring running around, two twin girls and an older boy who'd be four this year. Simon and Kaylee were to be married next month if all went to plan, Simon wanted the perfect wedding, and Kaylee just relented, relishing in the fact she finally got the man she wanted.
River sat on Jayne's lap comfortably, her little bludge poking into his chest proudly. Jayne smiled, running a hand down her arm, looking into his wife's eyes with all the happiness in the world. "You know, I think we've made a pretty good life for ourselves."
River nodded, kissing him gently on the cheek. "I know we have." she whispered, before plunging in for a deep kiss. "And I'm about to make it better." she said pulling away, giving her one of her mischievous grins.
Jayne raised an eyebrow, lifting her into his arms as he stood. "I'll never tire of you." he said, smiling at her wholeheartedly.