Something To Think On: Prologue
Thursday, July 30, 2009
M/I. Post-BDM. Serenity gets herself a renter.
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Something To Think On
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Prologue
Funny thing was, he hadn’t even been looking for a renter. Of course he’d said he’d been, later, but it wasn’t the case. When Kaylee’d first walked through Serenity’s hatch off of Persephone, the woman with the long-lashed doe-eyes and black locks (where most folk just had hair) almost floating ahead of her, it’d not been on his mind in the least. Fact of the matter was renters’d always struck him as more trouble than they were worth. Passengers were one thing. Even if they were trouble, it was trouble of a temporary kind. And if the trouble became too mighty, they could always be deposited before their destination. Plenty of other folk out there willing to give them a ride for coin, after all. No, renters were a different breed; they were permanent-like. Not long on board and they started thinking they were crew. Poking into things they got no business poking into. Botching jobs. And that’s when some were liable to get hurt. No, renters weren’t for the likes of Serenity. Only ones belonged on Serenity were her family.
But then there was little Kaylee, walking up Serenity’s gangplank grinning like a cat just eaten a canary, nodding and gesturing at the vision of a woman whose lashes fell slowly to her cheeks as Kaylee yammered, words coming out a mile a minute. “Miss Serra, this here’s Malcolm Reynolds, cap’n of Serenity. Cap’n, this here’s Miss Inara Serra. She’s lookin’ to rent that shuttle.”
He crossed his arms across his chest, cocked an eyebrow, and smirked at the girl. “And just which shuttle might that be, Miss Kaylee?”
From behind the stranger, Kaylee was making desperate little gestures: she pursed her lips and tugged on an earlobe, rocked back and forth a bit on her feet, cleared her throat. “You know, Cap’n – that shuttle. The one you were lookin’ to rent.” A beat. “You know. That shuttle
Let's see, well, first, I still love the idea of KAYLEE coming up with the shuttle renting. It does always seem kind of odd that Mal would take that risk, without having any guarantee that he might be turned in by said renter. Ha! I guess he made up that part in the series about the prospectors being interested, at that point I guess he changed his mind and wanted some kind of advantage in bargaining?
Well, anyway. And isn't little Kaylee here devious? Adorably so, but aside from the "Aw, setting up her captain!" sense I'd gotten before, I didn't really notice how otherwise sneaky she is. Bringing Inara without Mal finding out about it... and the way Kaylee works Mal over so innocently, I think Saffron could learn a thing or two!
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