Disclaimer: It all belongs to Joss

Characters: Mal/Inara:

Rating: R

Timeframe: After Objects In Space

http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=13383>Part 3 - Of Companions And Whores

Something’s Gotta Give : Part-4 - Of Captains And Desires

By

Lattelady

With one hand Mal ran callused fingers across a smooth satin breast while the other hand was knotted deep in rich curly black hair keeping the woman’s neck exposed for biting kisses that traveled from her ear to her navel. The scent of warm flowers and citrus filled his nostrils. “’Nara,” he muttered and reached for the slender shaking woman who lived in his dream. Instead of the honeyed curves he sought, his arms wrapped around his pillow.

“Gorramnit,” his voice cut through the silence as he battled the seductive dream that had him in its grips. “Leave me alone, woman!” He shook his head as he came awake in a tangle of blankets to find he was indeed alone.

“Ohhh,” Mal gasped when he tried to stand. The swelling in his pants made movement painful. Cussing a blue streak he pulled off the restrictive clothes and flopped back down on his bed. He ground his teeth as his hand moved lower. A week of dreams like the one he’d just woken from had taught him that there was only one way he was gonna get any sleep.

Later, when he lay in his bunk panting in relief he fought hard to bury the fantasy of ‘Nara that had taken him through his release and hoped it was only his imagination that he’d cried out her name as his nerve endings exploded leaving him a quivering mass of almost sated desire.

The Captain blamed Shepherd Book for his predicament. Up until the late night conversation the two men had had regarding whores and Companions Mal’s dreams about her had been relatively infrequent. When she’d still been on Serenity he’d had the occasional sex dream ‘bout her, but it had been just that, a lonely man dreamin’ about a beautiful woman. Now his dreams raged in color and intensity. To make it worse,