THanks for all of the feedback :D Annnd I'm gonna quit being lazy and start translating the chinese as of now.

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“No.”

“He has information I might…”

“No.” Mal raised his voice as his arms were crossed and he gave Simon a stern look. “Listen doctor, I don’t care if he’s got the formula for turnin’ rocks into gold…” he paused and mulled that over. “Scratch that, I don’t care if he got the cure to cancer, that fella nearly killed all of us and went crazy all night. He ain’t bein’ freed on my boat.”

Simon set his jaw. “He promised to be civilized.”

Mal snickered. “Is that a fact.”

“You know Captain, I understand you enjoy degrading me to a certain extent. Like this morning? And…” He lifted his chin up and frowned as he stood up to Malcolm. “And how you hurt Kaylee in the process…”

“Hey…” His muscles tightened. Opening his mouth to say more, Simon was in a worse mood than he was and cut Malcolm off.

“But don’t take this away from me. What he knows could cure my sister, allow her to feel normal again. Let me to talk to him,” Pausing as he didn’t want to finish it “please.”

There was a silence that cut through the area as they stared one another down.

“I haveta say no, I can’t risk it.” Mal shook his head slightly and moved away.

“Ni zhi xi can wu tain he shi wu sheng ku... dai bang dong." Muttering as he turned around and stormed off, Simon already had a plan b. Or at least a rough outline of one, all that mattered was finding out what John knew.

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Mal walked into the infirmary and watched as the man studied him. How aqua eyes paid attention to his every detail, every step, every exhale. Fingers curled in a form of anticipation of how to kill, Malcolm could see it, their prisoner was coming up with various killing scenarios in his head. Yet after those first initial seconds, the blonde in chains seemed to check himself, relax. Still looking like a hunter, but one at ease and less of a threat.

“Little birdy