Life Onboard Serenity: Into The Black
POSTED BY: bigwolf18
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 13:27
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Kellen: Ye' git tha' right. Ma' time planet side is very short. Ye could count it in tha' minutes! 'Nyway! Thenk ye for ye time. Ah' better go.
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"I work mostly as a mechanic and as a hand sometimes. Haven't been around plants much. Whose Tommy?" he was sharp and latched on. Their was a flair in her mind. He had stumbled on to something, but strangely not the entire mind felt this way.
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Quote:
Originally posted by johnthetheatrefreak:
"Whose Tommy?"
The flower bulbs she had been bouncing in her right hand slowly shifted into her left hand as she regarded John for a few scant seconds before the bulbs shifted back into her right. Ivy blinked.
“I’m sorry,” she said sheepishly. She quickly sidestepped his question like she never even heard him ask it. The cheerful giddiness that marked her disposition earlier returned quickly. “Not been around plants much? You mean there aren’t any on board? I’ll have to talk to your Captain. You know it would help with the air quality in here if you all had more plants on board. Sooo, how long have you been here, working on this ship? Anything exciting ever happen around here?”
“Ivy!” John said sternly. It got her attention and she fell silent. “I asked who Tommy is.”
The plant bulbs switched back to the left hand again for another couple of split seconds before shifting back to her right.
“Tommy? We grew up together. We’ve been best friends forever,” Ivy said as she tossed the flower bulbs back into the crate, then picked up a couple of completed terrariums. “I’m going to go put these in my dorm. Don’t want them in anyone’s way.”
She started to walk away, but turned back to smile widely at him.
“Now John, don’t forget to tell me what kind of plant you’d like or else I’ll have to pick one for you, but I’d have to get to know you first,” she said as she gave him a wink. Then she disappeared back into the dorm area.
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Kellen left Scathac's dorm, thanking her before leaving back down the narrow corridor. A girl was comming down from the cargo bay. Ivy or something...
Kellen: Ye need a haund?
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Something about her words clicked in John's head. He walked around looking for the captain and found him outside his room. "I wouldn't worry about a stowaway, everyone's clean." He returned to the engine room and sat on the hammock, the passenger dorm had become too full for his liking. He attempted to get some sleep.
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*Wolf sat in the cramped space within the ship, he was getting restless, needed to do...anything.
if he didn't do something some he'd go mad. a light blinked on the control panel, he was being hailed by the alliance*
Wolf "bugger."
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Shaman.
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.
"of course i've gone mad with power, ya ever tried going mad without power? its no fun, nobody listens to you!" The Simpsons Movie
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(OOC: I am not even going to try to write Kellen in his native Scottish brogue, so just kinda imagine it OK?)
Quote:
Originally posted by Kellen:
Kellen: Ye need a haund?
“Oh… Thank you so much!” Ivy said as she handed Kellen two out of the three terrariums she was carrying.
Kellen helped her carry them to her dorm. She opened the door and then took them from him, setting them down wherever she could.
“Hi, I’m Kellen. I bunk up there,” he said as he pointed to one of the upper dorms.
Ivy shook his hand.
“That’s so shiny! I almost asked for one of those too, but it would have been too hard to cart things in and out.”
Kellen looked around the room. Aquarium looking things with special lights for growing plants and such were stacked everywhere. Even on the bed.
“All that gonna fit in there?”
Ivy looked back at what she had.
“Hell no!” she laughed giddily. “Getting the stuff growing right away will help me get ready for when I find a permanent place to set up shop, but in the meantime, I’m gonna end up sleeping somewhere else.”
“Somewhere else?”
“I saw a couple of couches that looked comfy. I just hope no one gets angry.”
“What’s with all the stuff though?”
“Oh! I’m a botanist. I got a new position within my company. I will be selling seed or plants or flowers or herbs to people out this way.”
“Herbs? What kind?”
“Basil, Oregano, Rosemary, stuff like that,” she said. She started looking around. “Where did I put that one? I already got it made up.”
“I plan on doing the cooking here. If I had the coin, I would buy some from you. Fresh herbs like that would be a plus in the galley.”
She turned and looked at him, excitement evident on her face.
“What a good idea!” she gushed as she gave him a big hug. “No need for any coin though. I need to get some of these things planted so that any customers I might have could inspect them. As they grow, they will need to be harvested so that it doesn’t get too cramped for space. Once that happens, it will become unhealthy and could kill the plant. I could give you one of these with herbs in it. You could keep it in your room, in the galley by the cooking area or wherever you want.”
After looking for a moment, she finds the terrarium and hands it to Kellen. He took it eagerly.
“This is real nice, but don’t you need it?”
“Like I said, just enough to show customers. You can use what you like as long as you make sure there is always some left. They regenerate rather quickly, so as long as you don’t go all wild with them, they should stay pretty plentiful.”
Kellen got a wide smile of his face too.
“That’d be great. Maybe help me plead my case to the Captain.”
“Your case?”
“I love to do this for a living some day. Maybe become part of the crew.”
“I haven’t had your cooking yet, but I’m sure it will be perfect,” she genuinely said.
“Thanks.”
Ivy hugged Kellen again, excitement and enthusiasm bubbling over. Kellen headed out to put the terrarium somewhere. Ivy closed the door and turned back to look at her work.
“This is going to be so shiny!” she exclaimed. “I almost wish we could stay right here.”
“Don’t get so used to it. You know it is temporary. Besides there are too many people. We don’t know anything about these people.”
“Oh Tommy! You need to have faith.”
“Faith has nothing to do with it. Was it faith who got you out of that Hell hole you were in? No. It was me.”
“I know,” Ivy conceded as her mood became more somber. “But these people. They seem very nice-“
“We know nothing about them. Already you have someone grilling you. What was his name?”
“John.”
“He’s too nosey.”
“He’s just a nice guy. Probably just doing his job.”
“I’ll have to keep an eye on him.”
“I guess so,” Ivy murmured as she sat defeated on an empty patch on the floor.
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Pain's Bunk
He was bored and tired, tired and bored. Granted there had been an influx of passengers who were all shiny in their own way, but he really wasn't in the mood for idle chit chat or small talk with them. Normally he would've taken the initiative to talk with them, but for some reason in the past seven months, his need to talk to others had diminished somewhat. The reasons for it could've stemmed from the fact that most of the people he cared about had either left the ship, died, or just plain disappeared. He had planned on talking to the doctor about it, but he was too busy "having fun" with Kaylee.
Pain rolled over in his bed and looked at the time. He had another three hours of sleep out of five before he did his routine night sweep. He didn't mind it of course. The only sounds during his sweeps had been the sound of Serenity's engine humming, the twitters and tweets of her sensors and various electronic devices, and of course there was the occasional sound of Kaylee and Simon rutting like a couple Jinye prairie dogs. However he was sure there would be new ones now that Serenity had taken on passengers. Passengers the captain reminded Pain, that needed to be watched just in case any of them tried to get the drop on them.
Lying on his back, Pain closed his eyes and tried his best to get in three hours of shuteye.
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WWJD: What Would Jayne Do?
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Suddenly...
Softly slipping sidewall along the hallway, a shadow slithered sneakily, slumbering shootists on his sly mind.
Now moving with absolutely no alliteration whatsoever, 13 plunked his way (quite gracefully, I may add) to a door. Behind it, lay his destiny, the build-up of his entire life. His existence manifest, his reason to be, his purpose. All he'd ever done, he had done for this moment.
There were no regrets as he shouted the following into the bunk of the one known as DrPain:
"PAIN! WHAT'S WITH THE SLEEP, DAWG? WANNA GET PUZZLED ON SOME BREW OR WHAT?! MEAD, DOGGIE! LIKE OLD TIMES!"
Q: Fish or Hogarth?
A: Marillion.
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