Mal we're still dealing with the 'whether or not you're able to handle a relationship with a friend that also happens to be a dude'. Jumping to wanting kids or wanting to be married when we're still leveling out from that is a little hasty, don't you think?

[ Not that he doesn't have this low warm clench in his gut at the thought. A ring on his finger, Mal at his side wed legally, a kid to raise. ]

I um. I would, you know. If things were different down the line.