Title: 5 Times Mal ends up wearing River's clothes

Author: gwenfrewi72 and damiarvn

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Mal/River

Fandom: Firefly

Length: 1,194 according to Word

Disclaimer: The great, almighty and powerful Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc. own the universe and characters. I'm just playing with them.

Author's Note: Thanks to srichard for her amazing beta skill and not killing me for my sometimes bad writting skills. Total kudos for damiarvn whose idea it was for me to write this and helping me write it. You both totally rock!

Copyright (c) December 2006

1st - The Joke

Mal shut off the shower, grabbed his towel from the hook and swiftly began to dry himself off. It was warm enough on Serenity with clothes, but when one was wet and naked it was down right chilling.

Stepping out of the shower into the small changing area, he looked for his clothes that he'd left on the small bench. All he saw there was a purple dress.

"Gorrammit, Jayne," Mal grumbled as he picked the dress up. It was his own damn fault for pulling that practical joke on Jayne the other day and apparently this was Jayne's payback.

I don't mind walking naked in front of people, but given the choice of a dress and being bare-assed naked when it's this cold and everyone's in bed, I'll take the dress. Mal thought as he slid the dress over his head.

Mal glanced down to see that the neckline on this dress plunged down damn near to his belly button and the hem came to just above his knees. Sighing, he gathered up his shower kit and towel and stepped into the common room to be confronted with the entire crew waiting for his entrance. They all burst into laughter when they saw Mal.

Kaylee was holding a capture in her hands and Mal knew then he would never live this down.

"Ha, ha. Ain't ya got work to be doing?" Mal demanded in his firmest Captainy voice.

"Ah Captain, we didn't wanna miss out on the fun," Kaylee giggled as she struggled to keep Mal firmly in the capture's frame.

"Well, get back to