Wash was not so easily thwarted by her verbal distraction. Sure, there were a lot of things they should be doing. They should be figuring out why the ship wasn't live or where the rest of the crew was. Yet as it was, alone with her on his lap in this fashion, Wash found it difficult to concentrate on anything except a little 'quality time' with his wife.
But the touch to the back of his head proved to be the ultimate buzzkill. His face twitched into a teeth-gritting expression of pain and Wash inhaled sharply. When he fell, he had fallen hard and had the forming contusion to prove it.
"Since the moment's gone anyway.. might I ask why you knocked me out flat? Because that's gone unanswered and now it's won me a trip to the hospital."