Disclaimer: all of this belongs to Joss and the other dudes.

Dedication: I’m only doing this cause, he thought up of this short story. So Thanks Matt who is the Drummer in the Band GWAP, which was formerly known as Second Solution. I could go on but you’ve probably already stopped reading this…

Rebuilding Haven: Space Monkey Pirates and I do the cha cha like a sissy girl.¹

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The morning after the crew arrived on haven, they decided they would check out what was happening on the surface of the planet. The small crew walked out of the elevator room onto the dusty surface of the planet. Mal walked out in front of his crew and turned around to look at them. Seeing his crew functioning at all made him a lot less grumpy than he is after something bad happens to him. Like being captured and tortured by Nisca, or having a fake wife try to steal his ship. But seeing his crew happy and working together almost perfectly made him ecstatic.

He examined the bunch gathered before him. He saw Simon standing tall with his arm around Kaylee’s shoulders and she was holding him around his lower chest. Mal laughed remembering the time when he had asked sarcastically to the closest person what they were up to last night… That closest person happened to be River who just looked at him deadpan and told him.

Jayne was standing at the back of the throng. He kept looking over his shoulder and was holding on to ‘Vera more tightly than normal. Mal would find out about the shotgun totting father after he stowed aboard Serenity. Mal quickly started liking that guy. Jayne on the other hand learnt to lock his door at night.

Inara was looking as beautiful as always and having her around made Mal happy by itself. River just walk/Skipped along getting slightly saner day by day.

Zoë caught his attention. She was smiling, must be thinking about Wash he thought. He did make us laugh. By now River was next to him not looking at Mal she said “She isn’t thinking abo