"That ain't..."Women, he didn't know how to talk to them. So he just grumbled under his breath something in Chinese and folded his arms uncomfortably giving her a look. He was trying. "Only got the one to compare anythin to and I wasn't even sure it was anythin to begin with. It was..complicated. Mostly just fought till the other turned blue." He said with a shrug and remained standing. Maybe he should have accepted the drink for his sanity, but he didn't always drink. When he did, it was stuff a hell of a lot stronger than what she was sipping. He wasn't aiming for getting smashed at the moment. As much as he felt like it after throwing on that ridiculous Halloween costume.
Ridiculous Earth Holidays. He really didn't enjoy them much. Specifically the upcoming few. Though to be fair he'd never really bothered celebrating any of them. The last time he'd done Christmas was back home on the ranch as a kid. Before he'd ended up how he was now. "Guess I didn't exactly handle it right.." He admitted in response to her statement of living together too soon. "Only ever really given anyone orders mostly." He was still trying to get used to not being in a constant captain frame of mind.
Simon had made it plainly clear he didn't need his captainy protection, and Claire made it clear she didn't need orders either. But he wasn't used to being just another guy. It would take him a while to get it right. If he ever got it right. At least he hadn't called her a whore yet? He was doing pretty well on that front. It helped that she wasn't a 'companion'. He'd often had issues with Inara's so called profession. Made him all kinds of paranoid and maybe now that he looked back on it a little jealous.
He'd had flings with women sure, even got married once apparently around the camp fire on a boarder moon. But actual relationships were alien to him. He had no clue what he was doing. "Guess it ain't so bad havin you around. Nights don't suck as much. Nightmares ain't as bad." He wasn't exactly a Casanova when it came to words, but he tried.