#015 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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30_forbidden. Tag to “Our Mrs Reynolds”.
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 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 would 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 Companion kissed him.
He says the final words that will put an end 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”.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 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 would 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 Companion kissed him.
He says the final words that will put an end this confusion.
“I knew you let her kiss you!’
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Date: 2008-03-24 06:51 am (UTC)fav line...
"Hell, if he looked up “graceful” on the cortex, Inara’s name would be written beside it." *grins*
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Date: 2008-03-24 02:13 pm (UTC)You're definitely not the only one who wants to hit him after that scene. I still remember the cold stab that went through me when I first saw it. Sooo mean! :P (I love it though. Mal and Inara are so great. *dreamy smile*)
Hmmm.. Now I wanna go read M/I fic!! *runs off* :P
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Date: 2008-03-24 02:52 pm (UTC)I liked this line. Very nice job! :)
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Date: 2008-03-25 01:17 am (UTC)Everytime he gets it wrong at the end of that episode I just want to yell at him LOL
You're not the only one. :P
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Date: 2008-03-24 09:12 pm (UTC)Complications and such. He hates those. So true.
He won’t tell her it made his heart race for her; that he wants her. Badly. GUH.
Lovely little moment!!
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Date: 2008-03-25 01:17 am (UTC)Haha! Oh Mal. And yet he IS dense to not DO anything!!
Very true. :P
I'm glad you liked.
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Date: 2008-04-05 04:55 pm (UTC)I loved Mal's thoughts in this, something I can really see him thinking.
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Date: 2008-04-09 01:00 pm (UTC)Always good to hear that.