Their bunks, the engine room, his ship... the one thing the City had yet to provide him with. "You won't go hungry and you ain't going to be on your own. You can stay with me an' Inara. It's her place, but she'll turn me out on my rear before she'd refuse giving you a place to stay."
When the nurse returned to collect Kaylee and lead her to the exam room, Mal followed right behind. And when the nurse stopped, touching her hand to his shoulder so as to pause the man and ask if he was related; Mal didn't skip a beat.
"Excuse me, sir? Are you family?"
"No, I'm her captain." The woman didn't have a chance to protest, Mal went right on pass her with Kaylee into the sterile room.