Fic: Not So Dense (Mal/Inara )
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xfirefly9xTitle: Not So Dense
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Mal/Inara
Prompt: #015 Unknown
Word Count: 306
Rating: PG
Summary: He’s not as dense as Inara may think he is.
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He’s not as dense as Inara may think he is.
He knows she didn’t just climb down into his quarters, find him unconscious and fall. He knows it better than he knows Serenity, and Serenity he knows awfully well. It makes no sense at all that she’d fall like that.
Inara is a Companion. Her every move is the essence of graceful. Hell, if he looked up “graceful” on the cortex, Inara’s name would be written beside it.
She’d have had to been sick; not herself. Of course, finding him could have unsettled her, but he highly doubted that it was the cause for her mishap. She possesses too much poise in everything she does, no matter how disconcerting the situation – he’s seen it himself on many an occasion.
He doesn't believe she’d let Saffron kiss her, either, or vice versa. It doesn't quite add up in his mind, what with Inara’s reaction earlier. She’d been rather mortified, if he read her correctly, and had told him she found the whole thing degrading.
Not as much slips past his attention as Inara may think, anyhow, which is why he has to lie.
If he admits he knows the truth about what happened, it could tear them farther apart. Complications and such. He hates those.
He can only erase all doubt in her mind that he knows she kissed him, and that he was semi-conscious when it happened. He won’t tell her it made his heart race for her; that he wants her. Badly.
He won’t scare her away.
He takes a deep breath and forces a smirk onto his face. It really isn’t hard. He just has to remember that she, Inara Serra, the highly trained Companion kissed him.
He says the final words that will put an end to this confusion.
“I knew you let her kiss you!’
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Mal/Inara
Prompt: #015 Unknown
Word Count: 306
Rating: PG
Summary: He’s not as dense as Inara may think he is.
Notes: Written for
30_forbidden. Tag to “Our Mrs Reynolds”.Beta:
lvs2read.He’s not as dense as Inara may think he is.
He knows she didn’t just climb down into his quarters, find him unconscious and fall. He knows it better than he knows Serenity, and Serenity he knows awfully well. It makes no sense at all that she’d fall like that.
Inara is a Companion. Her every move is the essence of graceful. Hell, if he looked up “graceful” on the cortex, Inara’s name would be written beside it.
She’d have had to been sick; not herself. Of course, finding him could have unsettled her, but he highly doubted that it was the cause for her mishap. She possesses too much poise in everything she does, no matter how disconcerting the situation – he’s seen it himself on many an occasion.
He doesn't believe she’d let Saffron kiss her, either, or vice versa. It doesn't quite add up in his mind, what with Inara’s reaction earlier. She’d been rather mortified, if he read her correctly, and had told him she found the whole thing degrading.
Not as much slips past his attention as Inara may think, anyhow, which is why he has to lie.
If he admits he knows the truth about what happened, it could tear them farther apart. Complications and such. He hates those.
He can only erase all doubt in her mind that he knows she kissed him, and that he was semi-conscious when it happened. He won’t tell her it made his heart race for her; that he wants her. Badly.
He won’t scare her away.
He takes a deep breath and forces a smirk onto his face. It really isn’t hard. He just has to remember that she, Inara Serra, the highly trained Companion kissed him.
He says the final words that will put an end to this confusion.
“I knew you let her kiss you!’
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Date: 2012-12-16 09:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-16 09:42 am (UTC)Yes, I imagine if he'd been truthsome, there'd have been some very... interesting... reactions. (Define interesting?)
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Date: 2012-12-16 09:53 am (UTC)(translated into modern(for us) Earth-That-Was English)
1. Aha!! I knew it!
I dunno what you're talking about.
Bitch please. You kissed me.
Pshh. No such thing.
Wh-... Admit it! There is proof. You passed out!
Yeah, from your bad breath!
Aha, then you kissed me!
Oh, sh-.... No I didn't!
Oh, come on... *he grabs her and kisses her to prove his point*
*She kisses him back a micro second*
*she jerks away startled and looking like a little girl*
*she slaps him and runs away*
*Kaylee walks in, sees the fleeing* What did you do, Captain?! *runs after friend*
*Mal touches cheek* Women!
or something.
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Date: 2012-12-16 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-16 11:32 am (UTC)I have bunnies about this particular train of thought my own self. They're hopping again now! Thanks!
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Date: 2012-12-16 12:34 pm (UTC)Shiny! Always glad to feed the bunnies.