"So you're saying that we keep her?" Simon voice was raised in disbelief.
"That's exactly what I'm saying, no one will even suspect she's alive, she has no where else to go, no one else who wants her". The minute he uttered those words Mal realised that was the truth of the matter, that he wanted her, that she had reawakened something deep inside of him that he had thought was gone forever.
"Besides, I kept you and River, when I should had thrown you out for all the trouble you caused, and your forgetting one thing, the fact of the matter is I'm captain of this ship and if I say Mist stays then she does. Mal finished.