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"Five years."

Mal never remembers these things on his own. It's more when he steps up to the bar and he receives a note of congratulations from his mother the Barman and a cupcake from the bar.

"Wow."

Mal orders a Coke to go with the cupcake, requesting also a pad of paper and a ballpoint pen to get some notes written out for later.

Come on by when he settles into a booth. He's got the time, apparently.

[ooc: ~~open. very open.~~ not so open anymore! off to bed. <333]

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"Unless you recommend I head to Whitefall?"

Beat.

"Didn't someone try to shoot you last time you went there?"

"Precisely. I'm working on the not getting shot thing."

"Well, I have to approve of that as a goal."

"Well thank you. I am indeed trainable."

A very small smile, amused and affectionate.

"How's Inara? And everybody?"

"Inara is well. She's..."

Bored. Wanting to raise a family. Missing you and Kaylee.

"Putting up with me with her usual amount of grace."

He nods. "And River? I see her here every so often, but...."

"Good. She's doin' good.

"Need to ask her what she'd think on going out on work with us, but I imagine she'd say yes."

Beat.

"I know I don't need to ask you to be careful."

But I'm asking anyway, his tone says.

"That's a good thing to know, Simon," Mal replies, with a tone of finality that makes the extra communication behind it agreed to as well.

"How'd the party go? I know it was a while back, but Ma told me she helped Kaylee with desserts or some such -- "

"Oh -- actually, yes." He's smiling. "Pies. They were very well received. It went well, all in all."

In a rare moment of uncertainty, Mal's eyes narrow in a question, "I don't...'all in all' usually means somethin' kind of didn't."

Simon glances at him in mild surprise. "Hm? No."

Half a beat. "I think I just kept ... half expecting something to go wrong. And then nothing did."

"Good. You both deserve somethin' -- simple ain't the right word."

Simple, he thinks, might be exactly the right word.

"Uncomplicated?" he offers.

"That might work.

"Just so long as it don't get boring."

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