Joint Firefly Story - help to write it now!
POSTED BY: SimonB
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Kaylee's hands were ringing tightly together, a sign of nerves already reflected in her grime-streaked face.
"What's goin' on? The Shephard ain't ever hurt so much as a fly, right?"
Mal still had his gaze locked firmly on the Shepherd. "I've done a good deal a ponderin' on that there subject. I imagine we all have."
Wash hurried down the gantry to stand behind Zoe, in time to hear the question, and in time to check everybody's faces. Everybody was doing their damned best to keep any of their ambivalence from showing. Jayne, in particular, looked almost defensive of Book.
"Man's got a right to secrets," Cobb said. "Why have a mouth if we can't keep the damn thing shut, time to time?"
Book looked at him. "That's awful noble of you, son. Now if you don't mind, I'd like you to stand in front of me when that bay door opens. Nothing personal."
Everybody gave the hulking mercenary a knowing eye. Jayne was never the most trustworthy of folk. He shrugged indignantly, turned his attention to the ship's rear hatch.
"Besides," Book sighed, "I imagine they just want to compliment me on a sermon they once heard me give."
"I hope you're right," Mal said pointedly. "Derrial."
With all eyes on Book wondering why the Alliance wanted him. The cargo bay doors open to revial 5 Alliance troopers with guns and a Alliance captain.
"Who's Derrial Book?" the captain said with a slight fear in his tone.
"I'm Book." Replies Book.
"And he's a shepard." says Mal
"And why ya all need to board us for a shepard? Missed a sermon or something?" says Jayne.
"Thats none of your business." replies teh captain, "Take him." He says to the troops, who abediently take Book through to the Alliance cruser.
"And don't try and rescue him." The captain says to the crew of Serenity before closing the cargo bay door.
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"Didn't even have t'go to the trouble o' hidin' them crates," Jayne muttered, "What they want with him anyway?"
Kaylee bit her lip, "Well, we can't just leave him with them, can we? I mean...we don't know why they took him. They might could wanna...torture him or somethin'."
"One thing havin' the Shepard here has taught me, little Kaylee," Mal responded, still watching the closed metal door as though it might spring to life and tell him the answers to everything he wished to know, "He can take care of his own self if'n he needs."
"Any thoughts as to why they want him?" Zoe asked, arms folded and frowning slightly, "I'm conjurin' it ain't for his preachin'."
"Maybe somethin' t'do with afore he were a Shepard, "Jayne shrugged, "He's mighty comfortable with a gun in his hand."
Mine is an evil sugar high laugh! Bwahahahaha!
Morwen
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Mal was watching Jayne cautiously. The big man's face was clouded with an unusually complex mix of emotions that seemed out of place on his rough cut features. His fingers were gripping and flexing over the butt of his sidearm in a manner that Mal wasn't altogether keen on. He looked dangerous, as if the slightest spark would cause him to explode. As surely as Mal did not want to provide that spark, he also didn't want Jayne to set off trouble that would as like to get them all killed.
"Jayne?" He called, slowly and calmly "You'd not be thinkin' on .." His words were cut off by the metallic hiss of the metal doors unsealing. They all started in surprise. They'd expected more time to figure things out. The Shepherd had barely been gone five minutes.
A tense silence fell as the doors slid open to reveal Book's closed, set face. He stood rigidly for a moment, his back to the Alliance Captain that stood at his shoulder.
The starched officer cleared his throat uncomfortably. "If it's any help, sir, I really am very sorry."
Book didn't turn but hunched his shoulders slightly and gave a small, mirthless smile. "Thankyou, son." he uttered in a wearly, gravelly voice. "But it's no help at all.". The bitter edge to his words cracked out like a whip, causing the Alliance soldier to step back in surprise. The doors slid shut in front of his unhappy face.
Mal stepped foreward. His burning curiousity combined with the seeting mess of frustration in his stomach from this whole situation, causing his tone to be sharp and abrupt as he snapped "Shepherd, You mind explainin'..."
Book didn't wait for him to finish, whipping his head round to pin Mal with a dark look, biting off the words "Yes, I do!" before striding past the others and out of the cargo bay.
Kaylee made a move to go after him, her pretty face crumpled with concern and confusion. Mal put out an arm to bar her path. "Leave him." he said softly, his eyes dwelling on what he'd seen flashing in those usually soft brown eyes that had sent shivers down his spine. "Let him be, for now." he qualified, as he stared after the retreating man. He would find out what was going on here. He just hoped it wasn't a secret that would rip apart their happy little group.
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Cool - this is working well so far! (I'd post more, but I wanna see where this thread goes and not hog it myself)
Can't wait to see what happens next!
- Shiny. Let's be bad guys.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die
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"Is the Alliance gone?" Simon says as he and River emerge from their usual hiding spot.
"Anger, rage, hands of blue" River saysout of the blue like she aways does, it didn't make sense to the rest of the crew and so they idlely ignored her.
"Wash, get Serenity up and running again, lets get to the moon before the Alliance come back looking for more then just Shepard." Mal says, returning his attention back to the cargo that needed to be moved so they can get their pay and to send Badger his share of the loot.
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The ship had been sailing through the void for some time with the same uneasy atmosphere cloying around her decks. Book had holed himself up in his quarters and had made an express wish not to be disturbed.
Kaylee was on her way to the galley when she caught River lurking outside the preacher's room.
"River? Are you okay?"
"The clock stopped ticking."
"Come on away from there, darlin', Shepherd needs himself some alone time now."
"Won't start ticking again, needs new parts, Blue Men took them all away and buried them."
Kaylee held the younger girl's hands, tried to guide her away from the door. "What do you know, River?"
River's eyes narrowed as she concentrated, then suddenly seemed to regret pursing the line of thought. Her eyes went wide.
"The alarm is ringing. It's so loud. The bad men and the preacher man, they're all the same. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock."
River let out a scream, then dropped onto her haunches, rocking back and forth.
"River," Kaylee soothed, "It's okay, mei mei, it's okay."
"Bad news," River whispered. "They gave him bad news. He's all alone. Never be fixed..."
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