Something To Think On: Chapter 7
Thursday, July 30, 2009
M/I. Post-BDM. Love, duty, and motherhood.
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Something To Think On
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Chapter Seven
He stood still for a bit after the boy’s departure, but it didn’t take him none too long to follow Simon to shuttle number one.
Poked his head in to find Simon working through the data on her Cortex screen. Felt some indignation that he was rummaging through the details of her life – but if he was honest with himself, he’d admit it wasn’t so much the invasion of her privacy (he’d done that plenty himself) as it was, first, that it was Simon, and, second, that the boy knew every bit as much about her as he did himself. “So.” A beat. “What’re we looking for?”
Simon didn’t look up. “Clues. Anything.” Voice faded off while he read over some information on the screen, but then he looked over his shoulder. “She told me how to access her official medical records, but, like I said, there’s more that she’s not telling me.”
“And you know for sure that’s the case?”
Simon nodded. “Abnormalities in her blood tests are consistent with the kinds of drugs I mentioned. Like I said, I’d never seen the effects myself, but I’m aware of them. Early drug tests on these products were inconclusive enough as to their benefits and effects that the ADA refused to approve them for distribution. But they’re available through other outlets. People call it – people call it the ‘fountain of youth.’” He sighed and shook his head. “And if she’s been participating in tests, or going to a backstreet distributor, something like that, she must have some record of it. A name, an address, an identification number. Something.”
Mal closed his eyes; took a deep breath. “Okay. Tell me what I can do.”
“Look around the shuttle while I search the Cortex.”
It was all manner of funny. When she lived here, him bursting in unannounced was nothing short of norm
Also interesting comparison between Atherton and Simon. And between Inara not letting in people and Mal the same way.
The Saffron thing, about the not being able to have children, that's a theory I like a lot. I feel so sorry for Inara though, I hope it's not true.
Also a great effort to try to get a confession out of Simon.
"You can't take the sky from me!"
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