Her waist-length, golden brown hair was hanging loose for the first time since she had been on the ship. Usually Inara did it up in a neat and plain way, so that it wouldn’t get in her way in the lab. “What do you think you’re gorram doin’?” He was more surprised at the fact that she didn’t bump into him but stopped short of doing just that. And then there was the fact that she looked completely different. “Oops, sorry Jayne”. It was one of the few times she had called him by his name and not just avoided it all together. She smiled and went on singing on her way to the shower, like nothing had happened. He couldn’t understand why she was always nice to him when he was so rotten to her.
-- And where there is life, there is hope by LillyStygian