Disclaimer: Characters do not belong to me. Until Joss's movie comes out, I'm just entertaining myself and others.

Set after Objects In Space, but Inara hasn't left.

Chinese dictionary

Lese – garbage

Ee-chi shung-hoo-shi – Let's take a deep breath.

chusheng xai-jiao de xiang huo – animal fucking bastard

ni meí shì bà? - Are you okay?

Chunren – jerk

qingwa cào de liúmáng - frog humping sumbitch

diyu – hell

yuchun- idiot

hundan - bastard

At the bar, Mal smiled to himself. The job was over, they'd been paid and even better, this world was light on Alliance presence; yet, it still boasted enough attractions that all of his crew was happy after several days leave. The black was a good place to be, but now and then it was good to return to civilization and appreciate it. For once, things had gone smooth and all was right in his 'verse.

Signaling the barkeep for another drink, he turned on his stool to check that the rest of his crew was not getting into too much trouble. Jayne, Book, and the doctor were playing cards with some of the locals. The girls had suckered Wash into accompanying them on their shopping trip around the small settlement. Shaking his head, Mal returned to his drink. Better Wash than him, he thought. Mal could stand all the frippery only so long before he knew he'd do something to get all of Serenity's women mad at him. He'd definitely slipped up somewhere picking his crew – now that all of the women on Serenity got along, well, crew discipline seemed nonexistent until trouble started. Come to think of it, it was all Wash's fault. After Zoe got him to agree to their relationship, everyone seemed to figure that their captain was just plain soft.

Finishing his drink, he stood and made his way over to the card game. "Time to go folks. Let's go save Wash from breaking his back with packages."

"In a minute Mal," Jayne growled while glaring at the Captain.