Even when Mal and Inara weren't Mal and Inara, he would hardly ever knock on the door before entering her shuttle, and really wouldn't knock if he had good somethin' or other to share.
As the latter applies, he walks in brightly to the engine room and peers around the wrong side of the turbine first in search of Kaylee.
"Yes! Absolutely!" Mal continues happily. "I mean, she looked like hell, but she got healed by folk in the bar and seems perfectly fine. Physically anyway. And physically's a start."
Mal inhales rather dramatically and lets out something like, "The main reason why our last palaver worked as it did was while me 'n Zoe were in a job on Shadow I shot a man used to work for me 'n my ma on the ranch since turned to the Alliance 'n tried to bring a world o' hurt on my family."
Kaylee's starting to feel sleepy, even. She's in her hammock, braiding and unbraiding wires. Something to do with her hands.
She finishes the braid, and begins to coil it around -- a bracelet, a ring, a hook, a snake, a spiral.
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As the latter applies, he walks in brightly to the engine room and peers around the wrong side of the turbine first in search of Kaylee.
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"Captain?"
A little curious.
A little wary.
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"Kaylee!" Mal smiles anyway. "Lilly's back!"
Well he gets to the point, don't he?
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"...she is? She's okay?"
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"It's good enough, that's for sure -- good. Real good." She's relieved.
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"Also? I may have been the one responsible for drunkin' up your man in the Bar the other night."
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"I didn't know that."
She doesn't sound like she minds, though. As long as Mal didn't do anything bad to him.
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"We talked. And didn't argue. And he told me things that I should do, and I kinda believe him."
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"...okay."
On the one hand, it's good that Simon and Mal are getting along.
On the other hand...it's a little unsettling for reasons that Kaylee can't quite put her finger on.
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Mal inhales rather dramatically and lets out something like, "The main reason why our last palaver worked as it did was while me 'n Zoe were in a job on Shadow I shot a man used to work for me 'n my ma on the ranch since turned to the Alliance 'n tried to bring a world o' hurt on my family."
Mal loves the run ons with Kaylee, folks.
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She's thought that Mal hung the moon for...literally years, now.
Wasn't like this was going to change it. Wasn't like this was worth yelling at her for, unless --
-- he was scared.
"We protect our own. Right?"
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Mal looks away from Kaylee. Avoidance is very useful for maintaining masculinity and captainness.
"Am I...Am I now at the part where folk I ... I wanted to protect are open target? Denton lived with us."
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"What would you do if one of us did somethin' bad to the others? Would you let us do it?"
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She don't know that.
"Don't tell 'em what I did."
"I never really did nothin' after River decided to redecorate Jayne's chest."
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