The WASH continues--VFF
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Tillie: I was just comin' to get ya; tea's ready.
Upper: So what kind of food did you get?
Tillie: Brought back a bunch of fresh veggies, always good to have fresh greens when you can get 'em. Got tomatoes, spinach, bean sprouts... all kinds of stuff. Have a look for yourself.
Upper: How'd you get all this food? *realizes this may be an indelicate question* Uh, I was looking on the cortex and apparently fresh food is very expensive and difficult to obtain.
Tillie: Good friends and good trade. Don't always need credits when you can barter goods or skills. *she absentmindly puts her hand under her shirt and rubs the stitches on her belly* So ya hungry for anything in particular?
Upper: You okay under there?
Tillie: Oh, sorry, it's a little itchy.
Upper: May I see?
Tillie: *gives a smile and lifts her shirt to expose her torso, covered with red lines criss-crossed with shiny black bristly stitches* Looks a lot worse'n it is.
Upper: *whistles appreciatively* There's so many!
Tillie: More'n 'at, too, you ain't seen my arms and legs.
Upper: So how'd it happen?
Tillie: *bustling around the galley preparing food as she explains* There was an explosion, and we got hit with a bunch of broken -- something, glass or crockery, I'm not sure, but lots of broken pieces of stuff.
Upper: Oh how awful!
Tillie: Nah, it was nothin' serious, I mean not so much - little shallow cuts mostly, and nothing like those fragmentation bombs during the war -- Oh, sorry. I keep forgetting this is all foreign to you.
Upper: No, not really. There were bombs and wars in my time too. *she looks sober and sad*
Tillie: I'm so sorry honey. Didn't mean to make you think on a sad -- Say, how's your belly doin'? Heard you got some souvenirs yourself from training.
Upper: *laughs* Wanna see? *lifts her shirt enough to show her smiley-face bruises* What do you think?
Tillie: You're a walkin' poster for Spinebite's shootin' skills, anyway. I like it, we both got artwork on our middles, start a new trend. Next big thing.
*they laugh together comfortably as Tillie continues to make with the cooking*
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*Zero enters the galley as Tillie lifts up her shirt to expose her stitches. Zero cringes at the sight, but walks past her to get some tea from the pot on the counter. She pulls a small container from her jacket and opens it, then pours an amber colored liquid into her tea. She closes the cap tightly and stuffs it back in her jacket as Tillie begins to tell Upper the story of what happened. It was what she had wanted to hear in the first place, and the two didn't seem to mind Zero sitting in on their conversation. She chuckles at the sight of Upper's happy face bruises. She speaks to Tillie as Tillie continues to cook.*
Smells mighty fine in here.
Tillie: Thanks. It's one of my specialties. 'Think you'll like it. *smiles*
So you got into quite a predicament back on Greenleaf.
Tillie: Yeah, I guess we did. It was sorta startling--like we didn't know what hit us.
I can imagine. Those Alliance planets are never safe.
Tillie: But they got the best goods.
I know. Next time, though--if there is a next time--I might have Upper go with you. Upper, I hear, is doing good in her training so she can be a useful gunhand to you. *smiles at Upper* 'Sides, Spine and I make a good team and we can usually handle things on our own.
Tillie: Sounds great. I wouldn't mind having Upper along for a ride next time we need to head off on our own.
Good. But I'm hoping we won't have to send you off anymore for a long, long time. Especially where the place is crawling with Alliance officials. Plus, losing my mechanic wouldn't be the best thing for the Wash here. You and the rest of the crew are what keeps her running.
Tillie: *Smiles to herself as she continues to cook*
Say Tillie?
Tillie: Yeah Cap'n?
How good are you with guns?
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*tatertot is drawn by the delicious aroma coming from the kitchen, and walks in, she gets a cup of tea blows on it and takes a sip when she hears Zero ask Tillie...*
Zero: How are you with guns?
*tatertot nearly spits out her tea*
Wha-? Cap'n your not going to make Tillie go on jobs are you?
Zero: I'm not sure Tot. Let me hear Tillie's answer.
S-sorry...
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Tillie: *at Tatertot's spit-take* No, don't make me laugh, ow ow ow! *holds her belly, trying not to bust a stitch with the giggles that are threatening to overtake her* Tate honey, I'm not laughing at you, it's just the look on your face was priceless.
*to Zero* Don't think I could handle a smiley-face on top o' these, Cap'n. *pats her stomach* If you're thinking on havin' me gun-train too, I'll need about a month.
Tatertot: But Jie jie, we need you on the ship --
Tillie: *pats Tate's hand reassuringly* Mei mei, let's hear the Captain out. Maybe she wants someone on-board can defend the Wash while the rest of the crew is out on a job.
Are the menfolk gonna join us, or is it only us girls for supper?
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*as if on cue, BRG and Spinebite troop into the galley*
BRG: What smells so good?
Spinebite: Is there enough for everybody?
Tillie: *laughing* Dinner, and yes, if you don't eat it all yourself. We got tāng bāo, cài bāo zi, bái cài, bō cài－ *seeing Upperson's uncomprehending expression* －I'm sorry, you don't speak any zhōng wén, I mean Chinese, do you?
Upper: No, I recognise most of the food, it's just the names got me totally confused.
Okay, we'll start over. *points to each dish in turn* We got: dumplings with real meat, vegetable dumplings, cabbage, spinach, a salad with tomatoes, and some broth. There's sides of spicy pickled cabbage, bean curd cubes, and rice. That one is kind of spicy, that one has garlic, and that one's just oil and vinegar and a few herbs. Those are dipping sauces for the dumplings, and that's the soy sauce.
Spinebite: All right! *leans over the table and starts piling stuff on his plate*
Tillie: *pulling his shirt* I SAID: if you don't eat it all yourself. You get to wait until everybody else fills their plate. Then you get to fill yours. Dǒng ma?
Spinebite: Who do you think you are, the Captain?
Zero: No, but I am, and I think you can wait a minute or two. We all want some, and *taking dumplings off his plate and putting them back in the steamer one at a time* we wouldn't *dumpling* get *dumpling* to try *dumpling* any *dumpling* if you *dumpling* had taken *dumpling* them all *dumpling*.
*Spinebite pouts but lets Zero empty his plate* Just lemme know when it's my turn. *goes and sulks on the comfy chair*
*When everyone else has filled their plates, Tillie makes a plate for Spinebite and brings it over to the round table*
Tillie: Gonna eat here, or join us at the grown-up table?
*Spinebite glares up at her* Here's fine.
Tillie: *leans over, talks softly* What's up? You were being selfish, and Zero made you give the food back. Big deal. You still get to eat; look, lots of food. We all know you're a big muscular man, and you need lots to eat. You just can't take all of it. Come on back to the table, Ian; don't you want some sauce for your dumplings?
Spinebite: You go; I'll be there in a minute.
Tillie: Okay, meet you there.
*Tillie returns to the table and sees that Tatertot put a napkin over Tillie's plate to keep her food warm* Thank you mei mei.
Tate: Everything okay?
Tillie: Sure, everything's just fine.
*Everyone's a little surprised when Spinebite returns to the table*
Spinebite: What? I gotta dip my dumplings like everyone else...
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*Zero watches as Spine comes back, almost slightly reluctantly pretending he's only coming back to "dip his dumplings." Zero just laughs after he mentions it then takes a bite of one of her dumplings.*
Well, as I was saying before Tillie, I think I might need you to handle a gun anywhere you go. There's no telling when you might run into trouble and such. And when we go out on this mission, since you're stitched and sewn, I'd feel a bit more comfortable if you kept a gun around. At least a pistol. You know, just in case. There may well be a day when you have to go to Greenleaf again or some dangerous backwater planet on your own and you run in with some bad fellows wanting to take advantage of you or something. Can't have that now, can we? *takes a bite of bái cài.*
Mm, this dinner's good as usual...
Spine: *with half-chewed food in his mouth:* Gee, Captain, it's not like you to be all concerned-like 'n stuff. Never seen that side of you before.
*Zero almost spits out her food, but swallows before it comes flying from her mouth.* Well, you see... it's my crew, you know. First Captain abandoned ya'll and myself... and I don't plan on doing the same. *looks down at her food while she eats some more.*
Tillie: Well I think it's mighty jǐng xíng of you, Cap'n.
Tot: *Nods and smiles while chewing her food.*
Well, I can't really say I'm as jǐng xíng as you think. *Coughs as she stands up and grabs her plate.* I'm going up on the bridge. I need a little time with just me and the black.
BRG: If you need any assistance, I'd be happy to oblige you Captain.
Thank you Doctor. I'll call if I need any of your help. *Gets up and goes up to the bridge.*
*jǐng xíng - noble
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*tatertot eats slowly then swallows*
This is really good, Tillie!
Tillie: Why thank you mei mei.
So...*looks at the rest of the crew* Anyone have any interesting storys to tell?
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Well, I have a few stories, nothing interesting though. I'm sure Spine has something from his little "Shock Platoon" adventures...
Spinebite: Nope. Even if I did, wouldn't share none with nobody anyways.
*BRG eats the last thing on his plate* Well then, I guess I'll have to tell you one about Shock Platoons. During the last year of the Unification War I was stationed on the planet Boros. We'd won the main battle on the planet, but there was still loads of scattered resistance.
We had only a few outposts and thing on the planet since most of our forces were headed to Hera and Serenity Valley. It only happened one time. Independent Shock Troopers attacked our outpost. The 21st Riflemen, the platoon I was with, were sluggish to respond. We lost four people in the first minute. But then the 76th arrived and our combined forces managed to eliminate the shock troopers. And the remainder of them ran into a small nearby town, some mining town. The 76th went in with a few of us from the 21st. We spent a few hours going from house to house. After we couldn't find them the 76th began burning houses. When people tried to run out, they shot them. And laughed, and-
Tillie: OK Doc, we've heard enough... *she pauses for a moment* Bad people, those 76th?
Criminal platoon. Alliance made people with high sentences fight in platoons that were called exactly that. Bad Platoons. Afterwards, charges were brought up against all of the 21st and 76th, but all the ones against the 21st were dropped after balistics proved that none of us had fired a single round in that town. 
Wuo duh ma...
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Sorry to sound uninformed, Doc, but when you say 21st and 76th you mean Alliance regiments, right? Just wanna be clear. You positive the number on that Bad Platoon of Alliance criminals was 76?
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