This is an awesome prompt and I'm sure someone else can do this better but here goes nothing...
Honour-bound
It was a fact universally known amongst the Ton that a ball would not be proper unless there was a scandal and it was no exception at Lady Inara's ball that evening. Rumours amongst those in attendance was that two of her guests had some sort of misunderstanding in the brief intermission between the quadrille and the waltz and the gentlemen in question decided to settle their differences with pistols at dawn the following morning.
"... and how would you like me to proceed if you fall, Sir?" Hoban Washburne asked, returning the pistol to his Captain after his inspection of the weapon was complete.
With a smile that didn't quite put his good friend and loyal soldier at ease, Malcolm Reynolds replied, "I would hope that as my second, you shall acquit yourself admirably but let's not worry about that yet, shall we?"
Firefly: Wash and Mal
Honour-bound
It was a fact universally known amongst the Ton that a ball would not be proper unless there was a scandal and it was no exception at Lady Inara's ball that evening. Rumours amongst those in attendance was that two of her guests had some sort of misunderstanding in the brief intermission between the quadrille and the waltz and the gentlemen in question decided to settle their differences with pistols at dawn the following morning.
"... and how would you like me to proceed if you fall, Sir?" Hoban Washburne asked, returning the pistol to his Captain after his inspection of the weapon was complete.
With a smile that didn't quite put his good friend and loyal soldier at ease, Malcolm Reynolds replied, "I would hope that as my second, you shall acquit yourself admirably but let's not worry about that yet, shall we?"