jedibuttercup

Very nicely done. Inara as an almost spy makes perfect sense. And the fact that brought up the war, his privacy issues, and just blew ideas of him and her hooking up was a rather brillant and in character way to get their entanglement out of the way for the moment (which I am now convinced you'd have to do to hook him up with any other female crew). And you still show their connection to each other in all that so well.

On his trust issues, is he going to test her allegence sometime? He really wants to trust her and take her at face value, and yet very much knows nothing about her is on face value. But just maybe with this out in the open they could eventually get to some mutual level of trust, given time and her being more truthful from now on.

Lastly, I liked that it was really only female crew they talked about when mentioning who's told and not. Simon and Jayne are general outsiders, but especially that comment about Kaylee makes you think the female crew have more shared personal connections than many SF series show. Really I'm of the thought that if you put a bunch of women together they will connect with each other even if they may be very different personalities. So just interesting you maybe hint at that.