Life Onboard Serenity: #41 - Changeable Weather
POSTED BY: Isahiah
UPDATED: Monday, February 9, 2009 04:48
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"Fraid I'm not privy to those particular peices of information, you'd have to the captain whose away on business. Or you could ask Zoe who I suppose is acting captain." John had sensed his disappointment but also his suspicion. "I'd get her but that's leave you by your lonesome which wouldn't be to shiny for you considering you wouldn't be able to tell whose who. But you look like a respectable type so you just stay right here and I'll go get her and that manifest.
The information would be no problem, forged peices had been common for the ship forever, but he didn't trust the lawman and he hoped Pain and Inara would get down here soon.
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Cargo Bay
Pain made his way down the stairs into the cargo bay. He was still wrapping his ahead around the whole 'Aiko is Inara is Ivy who's your girlfriend' idea of River's. He had to admit it was a good plan, a little confusing at first, but a good one nonetheless. The only problem was pulling it off to where it'd convince Grayson enough for him to leave Pain the rutt alone.
Spotting Aiko, Pain put on a big smile and embraced her with a hug in the most convincing matter he could muster. It was a little awkward for both of them, but Pain was blocking Aiko from Grayson and John's view for the moment.
"Just roll with it." Pain whispered into her ear. "I'm about as uneasy about this as you are, so don't be thinkin' you're the only one feelin' all manner of uncomfortable. Just relax, grin, and go with the flow."
He let go of her and the two of them walked over to where John and Grayson were. Pain hung his arm on Aiko's shoulder and gave the lawman a toothy grin.
"Ah, Grapeson, right?" Pain asked, intentionally screwing up the man's name, but making it look like he was trying to remember it. He gave John a smile as he rubbed Aiko's upper arm and gave her a comforting pat. Turning back to Grayson, Pain said to the man, "Where are my manners? Grayson, this is my girlfriend, Inara. Inara this is Agent Grayson. He seems to think you're the missin' girl he's lookin' for."
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WWJD: What Would Jayne Do?
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Oops! Double posted.
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Quote:
Originally posted by DRPAIN:
"Ah, Grapeson, right? Where are my manners? Grayson, this is my girlfriend, Inara. Inara this is Agent Grayson. He seems to think you're the missin' girl he's lookin' for."
Grapeson.
Pain was pretty even keeled when they talked in the grain store. Grayson didn’t note anything other than a need to put some distance between the two. Normally, Grayson wouldn’t have given him another thought except for the niggling feeling he had in the back of his mind. A hunch.
Since their initial meeting, the big man’s demeanor has moved on to almost paranoid when Grayson tried to go talk to his girlfriend in town to the very aggressive and confrontational one he was displaying now.
“They call you Pain?” Grayson asked him.
“Yes.”
“Strange name, is it short for something?”
“Yes. You can add ‘in the ass’ to it for the full effect,” Pain added.
Grayson looked at the man with a slight smile on his face.
“You have a real name?”
“Yes.”
“Could I have it for my records?” Grayson asked as he jotted down a couple more things on his CorePad.
“No.”
He’s sure upfront about his attitude, Grayson thought. Downright blunt.
Grayson turned to his girlfriend. She looked about the same build as the girl in the street. He could just be wrong about his hunch. He hoped he wasn’t though. He wanted to find Ivy.
Pain has his arm around the girl, but she looked nowhere near as close as Pain and the girl on the street. They had a certain amount of intimacy between them on the street and he wasn’t getting that vibe right now. She looked stiff and almost terrified.
“And your name is Inara?” he asked.
She nodded slowly.
“Last name?”
With that last question, a simple enough one, the girl got the ‘deer in the headlights look.’
While they were talking, River worked quietly in the corner where Ivy's crates were located. She could tell she wouldn't be able to move them without being heard, so she threw a couple of fabric covers over them. Maybe it will not draw any undue notice should the lawman go looking around the cargo bay.
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Ivy almost floated up to her and Pain’s bunk with a wide smile on her face and her packages in her hands. When she got came down the ladder and looked to the far wall, her face fell.
The gun locker loomed in front of her. Lingering traces of what happened earlier that day edged along her memory.
“Don’t look,” she said out loud. Not even needing Tommy there to tell her.
She set the packages on the foot locker and rifled through them until she found what she was looking for. The clingy black t-shirt Pain bought for her. She quickly put it on and looked in the mirror. It had the effect she was hoping for. It hung on her every curve and ended a little higher than mid-thigh. It was slightly sheer, so shadows could be easily seen, highlighting the details of her body.
She looked back up at the gun locker and felt her heart pound a little. She needed to center herself, so she sat down on the floor, did some breathing exercises and started to go through some yoga poses.
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I'm going in for some surgery tomorrow, so I'll be gone for a bit. I only plan on staying at the hospital one night (did you know they had free wifi there?), then be home. It will just be determined by how awful I feel.
Hopefully it won't be long, cause no matter what, I firmly believe that sitting with your laptop somewhere comfy is a viable recovery strategy (or at least I'm telling myself that).
-Ivy
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John quickly retrieved the documents and returned to the fed. Pain could hold his own, it was Aiko he wasn't sure about.
"Here you are sir." John said stepping inbetween Aiko and the man. "Now if that's all you need I'd like to politely ask you to peruse these papers quick like and get on with your life."
John knew that with every minute the man's paranoia grew. Aiko was nervous and if things went poorly Pain wouldn't hesitate to shot the man. John hoped this could be resolved quickly. Of course on this ship, it wasn't likely.
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Before the handing over of the paperwork.
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Originally posted by GraysonCromwell: “Last name?”
"She doesn't have one." Pain replied. "It just plain old Inara. Simple as that. Kinda like that chef who has that one cooking show on the Cortex. You know the one who speaks with that weird accent and acts sort of goofy."
Currently.
Quote:
Originally posted by johnthetheatrefreak: "Here you are sir." John said stepping inbetween Aiko and the man. "Now if that's all you need I'd like to politely ask you to peruse these papers quick like and get on with your life."
"Yes." Pain added raising an eyebrow and placing a reassuring hand on Aiko's left shoulder. "Is everythin' in order? Have your questions been satisfactorily answered? Are we done now?"
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WWJD: What Would Jayne Do?
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Ahhh...
Don't you say a word Mobs...
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Grayson looked over the papers and gave a quite eyeball of the cargo bay. Everything seemed to be in order. As for incomplete admission of their full names, he figured that it was probably due to his status as a lawman. There were still people there on the rim, most notably browncoats, who were cagey when it came to dealing with a fed. He sighed a bit, hoping that he had for once gotten a hot lead on Ivy, but it didn't not come to fruition.
"I guess everything looks in order," he finally said as he handed the papers back to John. He started to walk away, but stopped and turned back around. He pulled out the picture of Ivy. "If any of you happen to see this girl around, please, please call me. I really need to find her. She's not well and I fear that she's gotten into trouble. She needs to come back home where she can get the help she needs."
"Like I said in town," Pain told him. "I haven't seen her before."
Slightly defeated, Grayson nodded and went on his way, continuing down the docks looking for someone who might have seen her.
Pain turned to Aiko.
"Thank you. You have no idea how much this helped her, but can you do me a favor?"
"S-sure," Aiko stammered.
"Don't tell Ivy about what you saw."
"O... OK," she said. Aiko looked over at River, who was hiding in the corner and then back at John. Quickly, she bolted from the cargo bay, heading back to her room.
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