No noise was heard as Mal stand alone at the pilot’s chair and looked out into the black. He had not been sleeping much since Miranda and even though River had taken to piloting the ship so easy he couldn’t let her handle it all by herself even though she could. The girl could anything she put her mind to.

He didn’t mind being on the bridge by himself as long as he knew all on Serenity were safe yet everytime he stepped up there he anticipated seeing Wash. Setting in his pilot’s chair, driving the ship or making out with Zoe something Mal didn’t not like interrupting especially since Zoe could handle a gun better than Mal even if he cared to admit it. No one had spoken about Wash and Book’s deaths since Miranda not least of all Zoe she kept pretty much to herself stayed in her bunk a lot of time only coming on jobs if necessary. The deaths affected everyone on the ship even Jayne. The mood on the ship was very sombre.

While Mal went to hit a switch on the control panel there in front of him they were. He caught the two of them and looked at them oddly.

“Never seen the attraction in playing with dinosaurs myself” he said to himself. He still remembered the first time he caught Wash with them.

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(Flashback)

“So Wash we all good to go?” Mal asked as he entered the bridge then he stopped.

“What in the blue hell are they? Are you playing with dinosaurs? Please tell me you had some kids in here playing with them or even space monkeys left them there because I’m getting worried now Wash” Mal asked.

“No there is no kids or space monkeys in here, I will have you know that this is a Stegosaurus and this a T-Rex and yes Mal laugh I play with dinosaurs” Wash said looking at Mal who was in hysterics now.

“So you’re the pilot Tanaka raves about and Renshaw's trying to get you on his crew

and you play with plastic toys well you learn something new everyday” Mal said still laughing.

“So I like playing with dinosaurs it that a problem