Firefly: Albatross - Chapter 2
Saturday, April 21, 2012
The crew heads to Bellerphon to complete their job while River and the ship's guest grow closer.
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Chapter 2
“Well did we make a clean getaway,” Simon asked from the table as the captain and first mate entered the galley.
“It appears we did,” Mal said as he walked over to pour himself some tea. “The alert on the cortex is for an unidentified ship, not even a make on it.”
“I wantna know who those men were,” Jayne ask sitting back in a chair next to the table.
“What do you mean?” Zoe ask leaning up against one of the galley’s pillars.
“Well they sure as hell weren’t normal security,” the merc started, “unless you’ve heard of security waiting outside a place and setting up an ambush.”
“Could they have something to do with Jayne being kidnapped recently?” Inara asked as Mal sat at the table next to her.
“How would they know where to find us again? I checked the ship before we left Blackwood, didn’t find any trackers,” Kaylee added from the small seating area.
“Could be Bernoulli tipped ‘em off,” Jayne said.
Aleksander sat up in the seating area, “My father would not do something like that.”
“He’s right,” Mal added, “Bernoulli would not have had him come with us if that were the case. Now we got cargo that might have gotten shot up a bit. Aleksander, you’re the expert, why don’t you go and check.”
“Okay,” the young man replied glumly as he got up.
“I’ll help,” River said and followed him out of the galley.
“Are you thinking Bernoulli had something to do with this, Sir?” Zoe asked once Aleksander and River were out of earshot.
Mal took a sip of his tea and replied, “I don’t think he would tell anyone where to find us, but he might have forgot to mention a thing or two.”
“Well if he didn’t tell anyone someone must be tracking us somehow,” Jayne stated.
“I already said there ain’t no tracking devices on Serenity,” Kaylee said annoyed.
“And you could be wrong. Lots of places on the ship to hide one,” Jayne replied.
Kaylee frustration grew, “only smaller ones, but they wouldn’t have the range to track us across a system.”
“May not need to,” Mal said calmly.
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Tricky moral dilemma you have here. River pregnant when she doesn't want to be is definitely not the best case scenario, so she kind of does need the injections. At the same time, just because someone is a min-reading and possibly partially pre-cognitive super-soldier assassin genius doesn't mean they know everything and can't be taken advantage of. Especially what with her condition.
And with her condition, there's some question about the neurochemistry, River is potentially vulnerable to addiction and nymphmaniac tendencies, and that's if her judgement is 100% there, which it might not be always. There's also a good chance she might be less clear after, accusing someone she might have actually consented with.
Altogether, too complicated to be worth it. I've actually think that River ought to keep Pandora's box closed for business. It may not be her fault what the Alliance did to her, but the situation is such that now she does have certain responsibilities to the people she cares about, and that includes not putting those people she cares about in potentially morally compromising or life-threatening positions, or even just starting relationships that due to those same responsibilities can't actually go anywhere.
Just my thoughts, from someone who's had to make a similar decision herself. Without the painful traumatic involuntary brain surgery parts of it anyway.
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