Title: Venus
Prompt by: n/a – for Shuffle Drabble Challenge
Rating: G/K
Setting: unknown
Originally posted: 16th April 2013
Notes: inspired by the song Venus by Bananarama

She was supposed to be above all this. Love was very nice, but it didn't fit with the life she had chosen. She couldn't give in.

Inara was a companion, worshipped by her clients like some kind of goddess. Mal skewed everything. He called her a whore and for the first time in her life, it stung.

She wouldn't show him she cared, not for a moment. Sweeping out of the room with her head held high, she cursed him in elegant Chinese.

In ten minutes he would follow, to apologise or argue further. It didn't matter, she'd be ready.