Something To Think On: Chapter 13
Thursday, July 30, 2009
M/I. Post-BDM. On making waves.
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Something To Think On
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Chapter Thirteen
Kaylee checked her over, just like she promised she would – though not until he spent a heavy handful of platinum on parts she said she needed to upgrade his new girl. All in all, it took her a day, but he conjured that by the time she was finished she’d made that old derelict into a state-of-the-art machine, every bit worthy of her new name.
Sitting around the dinner table in the galley, now, night before they were set to leave. (All but River and Inara there. He reckoned the little one was with the Companion. She’d been spending near all her time there, when she wasn’t wandering around Serenity like a ghost.) He stabbed his fork into a hunk of protein and lifted it to his mouth, all the while keeping on with the nonstop instructions he’d been doling out for a good hour. “While we’re gone, I want you to take care of getting Serenity the care she needs. Kaylee, whatever parts you reckon we need, now or for holding on to, you can get those. When we come back, we may be in a hurry. And if we don’t come back, I want her to be good for you, Zoe –”
“Sir.” Zoe, beside him.
(Jayne snorted: “Like he’s gonna listen to you.” And sure enough, he talked right over her.)
Talking around the protein he was chewing: “Arrange a docking space for Grace in Beylix. We’ll keep her there when we don’t have use for her. Use the credentials we have on her. They’re clean – won’t pull up our record –”
“Sir.”
“If you want to do some looking into jobs, now or future, Zo, you can ask around. Wouldn’t be any harm in our knowing, and wouldn’t do you any harm, putting yourself out there as our contact person. May be it’ll just be you, anyhow –”
“Mal.” Her voice hard, and he looked up at her,
"You can't take the sky from me!"
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