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Spoilers: BDM
Chapter 1
"Gorram it River! Did you change our entry vector again?" Mal shouted as he stomped off the bridge of Serenity and headed towards the kitchen. He hated when River went fiddling around with their coordinates, just because she was almost always able to make the trip faster or easier didn't matter. It was his ship and when he programmed in a course that's the way it should stay. He walked into the kitchen to find his pilot sitting on the table where they ate with her legs wrapped around the waist of Jack his new mechanic, she was wearing nothing but a pair of combat boots, the man had even less on.
"River! We eat on that table!" Mal yelled as he quickly spun around so that his back was to the couple. From behind him came the sounds of swearing and then a crash and breaking glass.
"Sorry Captain, we didn't know anyone else was awake." River said as she quickly pulled on her dress and threw a pair of pants at her companion.
"Well what exactly is wrong with your room for this kind of activity?" He asked.
"We were there, but Simon and Kaylee said we were being too loud and told us to go somewhere else so they could get some sleep." The man said as he approached River and put his arms around her.
"I know you two are all hot and bothered being newlyweds and such, but the kitchen ain't the sorta place for this kinda stuff, not when I gotta eat here in the morning." Mal said trying to sound stern, but secretly he was happy his little albatross had found such happiness. Part of the problem was that he just couldn't get used to River being all grown up and a married woman, he still thought of her as the young crazy girl she'd been when he'd first known her. In the two years since Miranda River had become an entirely different person and the crew still had problems realizing that sometimes. Mal was lost in that thought and didn't realize that the couple was staring at him.
"Look we got an early day tomorrow. We gotta drop off the cargo before sunrise, so you two go get some shut eye and River how many times have I gotta tell you to stop messin with my coordinates?"
River gave him the same look she gave him every time he yelled at her for this, it was a look that said she knew she was right and she wasn't going to start listening to him anytime soon. He hated that look.
"Captain it's faster this way." River said exasperated to be having this argument again.
"Well next time you just leave things be. Shiny?" he asked.
"Fine shiny, but it is faster this way." She replied smugly. The brunette man standing behind River hugged her tighter and said,
"Damn my wife is smart isn't she Captain?" Mal rolled his eyes and replied,
"Yeah Jack, you're wife is smart, too smart for her own damn good most of the time." He turned around and headed to his bunk. River could clearly hear him muttering under his breath, "Gorram newlyweds." They held still waiting until they heard the sound of Mal's bunk closing then broke into laughter, Jack boosted River back onto the table and they continued from where they had been interrupted.
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A/N: So this chapter is pretty short but I'll be updating again soon. Please R&R. It makes me happy.
