Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Mal/River, Zoe/Wash, Simon/Kaylee, mentions of Mal/Inara, and River/Jayne (if you squint and turn your head)
Timeline: 21st century
Summary: When a body turns up in the small town of Serenity, Texas, Captain Malcolm Reynolds tracks it to a bounty hunter and a mysterious young woman.
Mal woke to the sound of his phone ringing. He dragged himself up to retrieve his pants from the floor.
“Reynolds.”
“Hey,” Zoe greeted, “I noticed you weren’t in this morning. Are you still in San Antonio?”
“Yeah,” Mal answered looking around the room. There were no signs of anyone other than himself having been there.
“Get anything useful from the bounty hunter?” Zoe asked.
“No,” Mal answered, “Nothing at all.”