Episode seven.

INT. INARA’S SHUTTLE - NIGHT

INARA is tending to something inside her shuttle when behind her MAL appears at the doorway in a very smart suit.

He waits silently, for her to realise he is there, this way he gets to watch her for a moment. When she realises he is there INARA turns around and looks at him but says nothing.

Her face says she is still very angry with him for what happened on Sihnon.

MAL goes to enter but realises he has barged in again and takes a step back to smugly knock on the door.

MAL: You can’t hate me too much.

He gestures to the necklace she is wearing, it’s the one he bought for her. She holds it in her hand against her neck.

INARA: What do you want?

MAL holds out his hand for her to take.

INT. INARA’S SHUTTLE – CUT to later

INARA and MAL are dancing with each other. They are dancing formally and not intimately at all. There is no music or noise. As they spin and become consumed by each other’s presence they dance closer and closer.

MAL: Shoulda been me at your fancy ball.

INARA: Yes, it should have.

MAL takes INARA’S chin in his hands and after a very suspenseful full of tension moment, they’re heads fall into each other.

Just before they kiss INARA’S eyes flutter open in her bed where she has been sleeping.

IT WAS A DREAM!

INARA is facing away from the cockpit of her shuttle and is annoyed she woke up when she did. She tries to fall back asleep squeezing her eyes shut a couple of times.

When it doesn’t work she throws her covers off of her, turns over and stands up out of her bed.

She is met with a Reaver staring right at her face, it growls and she screams and the Reaver violently slams her across her bed. As she lands and the Reaver looks as though it could jump over the bed to attack her again.

INT. RIVER’S DORM – NIGHT

RIVER wakes with another gasp. She doesn’t cry out this time though, she keeps it quiet.

IT WAS A DREAM INSIDE A DREAM!

EXT. PLANET WOODS - DAY

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