RP: "Badger's Betrayal" or "Adventures in Gunrunning" - ACT 6
POSTED BY: Astriana
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 17:10
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Book's move
Location: Galley
Book, after cleaning up his mess, has been busying himself with trying to impress Rowan with his cooking skills. He's got an extremely satisfied grin on his face as he thinks about new opportunities to spread the word, and his singing has moved on to early 22nd century aria's. He pauses in his musings to look at his hands which are covered with a sticky protein substance. He's grimacing at them, when Zoe rushes through and grabs his arm.
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To BOOK: "Shepherd, didn't you hear that? I think someone might be needin' your help down there."
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Book wipes some of the goo off his hands on an apron tied around his waist, and seeing the rush Zoe is in, quickly follows after.
EM
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OOC: Hey, Ravenwhytewing, lets keep the action going until we have something else to do. let the others finish up the Simon/River thing inside before we bust down their door. unless of coarse you don't want to fight, you can leave if you want, Damon can hold up a bit longer ^_^
Oh and by the way, Damon has a medium sized duffel bag with him- forgot to mention that before.
Damon's turn
Location: behind the crates, near dock 4 (Serenity is just around the corner)
Damon kneels on one knee, still breathing heavily, holding his weapon in one hand, and his bleeding leg wound in the other. The shiny metal of the severed Alliance handcuffs, still tightly attached to Damon's wrists, are barely visible beneith his bloodied long sleeve shirt.
Damon opens his mouth to ask something, but hesitates when he notices the tattered blue glove on the stranger's hand. He starts to raise his gun and then sees another group of Feds getting into defensive possitions across the street. He looks up at the man, trying to decide whether or not he can trust him.
The guy told them that he had trapped the suspect, Damon thought to himself. But why would he kill those Feds if he was on their side? Why would he be wearing that glove if he wasn't?
"Stand up and put your weapons on the ground or we will open fire!"
Damon decides that if the guy was on their side, then he (Damon) didn't stand a chance, even if he did kill him.
"Nothin's ever easy," he mutters to himself. He pulls the cloaked man behind the crates and opens fire on the Feds.
Everyone dies alone...
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LOCATION - SIMONs ROOM
Just before everybody rushes in.
Simon sits up and scrunches himself into the corner - gathering all the balnkets and sheets around him. He is shell-shocked and even trembles. But in true Simon-esque fashon, he asserts his control. This time 'tho, it is a huge strain. His eyes focus off in to the distance, a stare off into eternity.
EOM
OOC:Squee excellent idea, I always considered that type of 'mutiple location playin' sorta like the cuts to other scenes you see in shows and movies.
OK, that should set up for the rush of questions and the like. I'll be back to post after everyone else weighs in.
Hope this works for ya'll!
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Rowan's Move:
Location: Simon's room. Everyone but Zoe, Book and Jayne have arrived.
Seems like the glut of the Firefly's crew has answered the call. The young man in the corner looks sickly and incredibly out of sorts. Watching the girl - River - curl up next to him brings to mind a memory she hasn't thought of in more than fifteen years. The summer cabin in the mountains on Ariel, the year her brilliant big brother was going off to some Alliance-run school. How they sat at the end of the dock, watching the sun set. She was twelve at the time and heartbroken over losing her first love.
"I'll come home mei-mei," Ru said and kissed the top of her head. "Don't you worry."
So she didn't. She hasn't seen him since.
Stepping back, she's near the door when the woman who had come on board with the captain storms in, hell bent.
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Zoe
"What in the Tien xiaode is going on down here?"
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Everything about her is fiercely intimidating, and formidable. Seeing a kindred spirit of sorts, Rowan settles back against the wall to see how this little drama will play out.
EOM
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River looks at Rowan. She says:
He hasn't forgotten.
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!
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Book's Move
Location: Hallway outside Simon's room.
Book arrives at the scene a few seconds after Zoe. His extra height allowing him to see over her head, Book notes Simon and River on the floor and goes quickly to the infirmary, returning momentarily with a small med bag.
"Let me by."
He steps past Zoe and kneels down next to Simon and River, setting the bag on the bed.
"Who's hurt? Where are you hurt?"
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Inara's turn
Inara hurries into Simon's room behind Rowan and Mal.
Simon is tangled in his bedsheets on the floor, a forlorn expression on his face. From the doorway, she can see him tremble slightly, but with his usual stoic resolve, his eyes unfocus, his brows knit, and the trembling subsides. He is left looking like a man who is living out a nightmare inside his own skull. River seems to fare no better-she is curled up agasint Simon's back, rocking slightly.
Inara brushes pas Mal and Rowan as Book returns from the infirmary with a bag. She goes to her knees on one side of him, stroking River's hair with one hand, and placing the other gently on Simon's back. Doctor...
she shakes him gently
Simon..what's wrong?
Inara glances at Book worriedly
End Inara's turn
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Rowan's Move:
Location: Inside Simon's room, trying to stay out of the way.
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River looks at Rowan. She says:
He hasn't forgotten.
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It's like a blow to the solar plexus. Those haunted eyes so filled with agony and compassion for the young man on the floor, turning abrubtly to meet her gaze with such a forthright stare. In three simple words, Rowan can feel Ru's hand in hers again, and the strength of that last hug on the departure platform the day he left.
Feeling her heart pound, Rowan lifts a hand to cover the pulse point at the base of her throat, letting the loosely tied robe fall from her left shoulder.
ROWAN to herself: Wo de tien ah--that girl's downright fearsome.
EOM
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Rowan's Move:
Staring at the young man shuddering violently in the corner, cradled in River's arms, Rowan watches Book approach them both cautiously and try to render some manner of aid.
ROWAN (quietly): "Um--I certified as a medic awhile back on a Defalco T7 supply cruiser called Rembrandt on the Persephone/Shadow run."
Actually, she recalls spending nearly as much time chasing the doctor's hands out from under her shirt as was spent learning basic first aid. She was adamant about it, though. He was in need of a medic and she was willing to learn it. Then she taught him a few things on one of the counters in the ship's infirmary, and he paid for her Cortexed certification test which she passed with high marks. A beneficial exchange for everyone in the long run.
Leaving the wall, answering the plea in River's eyes, she takes a step forward.
ROWAN: "Let me help, Shepherd."
EOM
OOC: I did say she was a jack of all trades - time to start proving it.
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Kaylee's Move
Location: Simon's Quarters
Kaylee watches as everyone crowds into Simon's room. Book brushes past with a medical bag, and Rowan--"Guess she's a passenger"--moves up to help.
Kaylee bites her lower lip as she backs slowly out of the room. She hates seeing Simon likes this, and knows that there's nothing she can do to help but stay out of the way.
She makes her way back to the engine room, big tears rolling down her cheeks...her heart with the young man curled up on his floor.
"Oh, Simon," she whispers. "What have you done?"
End Move
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