Life Onboard Serenity: #41 - Changeable Weather
POSTED BY: Isahiah
UPDATED: Monday, February 9, 2009 04:48
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Originally posted by johnthetheatrefreak:
Zoe took over from here. "I need to know who that man was"
"He was my father's best friend," Ivy told them as her hand slipped into Pain's. "He promised my Dad that he would keep an eye on me if anything ever happened to him. I guess he was just doing what he promised, only he was using a very bad method."
Zoe seemed unconvinced.
"I told you that no one would be coming to look for me, except maybe Grayson," Ivy said as she looked at John. "I just didn't expect him to actually take my Dad's request quite that much to heart.
"I think he would have been fine if my Dad had passed by natural means, but he didn't..."
Ivy's voice trailed off, her eyes taking on a far away expression.
"But he didn't..." Ivy tried to finish, but she was lost in her memories. "I just can't quite remember what..."
"Can't remember what?" Zoe asked. "Why was this man so bent on finding you? He pulled a gun on John!"
"Let me think, maybe I can remem..." Ivy said as her eyebrows scrunched up, looking for a reason.
Pain leaned over and put his arm around Ivy.
"Don't look Ivy," he whispered into her ear. "Don't look."
"Don't look," River echoed from across the room.
"K..." Ivy said as she blinked and Tommy slid forward, her demeanor becoming more aggressive. "He's just a family friend who basically used his position to try to find her faster. Ivy hasn't done any wrong."
Tommy paused a second.
"You know, none of this would have happened if your yú chǔn Captain hadn't taken away her Portable Coretex Link. If she still had that, she could have just waved him back when he would check up on her. Ivy's just a girl, not some kind of outlaw."
Tommy turned to John.
"And you should know that."
Zoe narrowed her eyes a bit.
"Her?" she asked. Ivy had referred to herself in third person. "What the Hell is going on?"
Definition:
yú chǔn = silly/stupid
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"I'm sorry, but why is he so intent on taking her. Like she said he pulled a gun on me, he played the fed card. I can't simply believe he just cared too much. He was desperate to find her." John said.
"Her?" Zoe repeated.
"She has a split personality. We're talking to Tommy," John whispered to her.
"If we give you back your cortex link will that make it more likely that this won't catch up with you?" Zoe gave her very little time to answer. "Good. I won't tell Mal." With that she turned from the room.
John remained standing there, however. When she was gone he spoke. "I don't like the idea of Ivy having all these dark secrets. Dark secrets killed two of my best friends. Dark secrets killed her husband. And to be honest this makes me uneasy. I just had a gun pulled on me and if that woman hadn't had shown up. Either we'd be dead or you'd be gone. Maybe both. Why?" He figured she wouldn't respond with the whole story, and that would be okay he just needed something more.
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OOC: Sorry guys, I got hammered by the RL train.
The storm had long since withdrawn to the east by the time Mal and Isahiah emerged from a meandering alley and into the ever abuzz marketplace that adjoined the docks, with the captain holding his fellow man at gunpoint.
"Captain, is this all really necessary?" asked Isahiah. "I still fail to see what I have done to incense you so."
A sour-faced Mal butted the blunt end of his gun against Isahiah's back, urging him forward.
"Oh, don't be like that. I got you your money, haven't I?"
"I suppose that's one way of putting it," Mal said in a stiff voice.
"Then, if I may ask, why is it that I once again find myself at the pointy end of your weapon?"
"I don't recall going on a thuggery binge as being part of our agreement," Mal growled.
"I see. Well, let's call it a tacit clause then."
Mal couldn't help but chuckle at the man's sheer nerve. "You're lucky there's a crowd about else..."
"...I expect I'd be sorry. Now would you please put that thing away? You're gonna get us looked at."
Mal grudgingly complied. They marched on in silence, Mal's eyes drilling holes into Isahiah's back as they went. He considered the stout leather pouch that hung at his waist and thought he would readily forsake its content for a chance to smack the smug smile off Isahiah's face. "You just wait 'til we're in the air," he murmured for his ears alone as they came within sight of the ship.
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BigWolf18 "Way i remember it, you said you was leavin', dare say that saved us a whole peck o' trouble. now i gotta wonder what could spur on a fine disreputable man like yourself to show your fine disreputable face here again."
...Dust monkeys...
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“Grayson is what he is and that is all,” Tommy growled at him, hopping mad. “He sees Ivy like a daughter. If you had a child and you didn’t know where she was and whether or not she was safe, wouldn’t you be a little on the desperate side? Perhaps do some crazy things?
“And as for her ‘dark secrets’?” Tommy continued. “You’ll not be asking her relive anything from that whole part of her life. She’s come very far in the last two and a half years and I won’t let her get lost inside herself again. That’s why I am here. That’s what I do. I protect her.”
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Aboard Serenity
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Originally posted by EnglishIvy:
“You’ll not be asking her relive anything from that whole part of her life. She’s come very far in the last two and a half years and I won’t let her get lost inside herself again. That’s why I am here. That’s what I do. I protect her.”
"That's my job now." Pain corrected Tommy.
He had listened to John as he pushed and forced Ivy to remember something that she didn't want to remember. He even went as far as to threaten her, which Pain didn't like one bit. That was the key reason why Tommy came out and why she was mad. It was also why Pain was starting to get a tad defensive about the whole situation that she was being put in. If John pushed too far, it would most likely send Tommy over the edge and have Ivy go into another meltdown.
Turning away from Tommy, Pain shifted his focus on John, a hint of anger in his tone as he took up a defensive position between her and the empath, "John, buddy ol' pal. You're pushin' and proddin' a little to deep for comfort here, don't you think? I'd reckon you back off a little and give my girl a chance to calm down a bit before things turn from good to worse. And right now things ain't lookin' like they're goin' so good."
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WWJD: What Would Jayne Do?
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"Fine," John replied, "but don't think this takes you off the hook. You're right Pain about things getting worse cause that's what happens. You let things go, you let things fester, and next thing you know you're fighting for your life on some gorram planet because these secrets come out. You wouldn't know. You weren't there. I won't let the ship go through Miranda again. Maybe I'm being melodramatic and maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but I can't handle that again. And I won't let it happen." John had said his peice. It was time to step back and hope for the best, yet prepare for the worse.
As he was about to step out of the room he turned. "I won't tell the captain, but you both need to realize something. Hiding from your past doesn't make it go away. For Ivy to really get past this, she going to have to except whatever happened." He left the room and walked to the stairs and had a seat. He felt like a hypocrite and he was tired. Almost getting shot takes a lot out of you.
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Evelyn Forester walked purposefully toward the Firefly. She'd been ordered to come here, and from as high up as the order had come, she hadn't been able to refuse even if she'd wanted to. When she reached the ship, she didn't bother with knocking, just walked right in. Her contact knew she was coming anyway, at least that's what she'd been told.
As luck would have it, he was right inside the cargo bay, sitting on some stairs. She walked over to him and said what she'd been told to, "She sent me."
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"See, I've secretly been kind of a fan of me for some time now. I've seen everything I've ever done. I'd love to meet me, but I'd probably just stare and not be able to say anything witty or anything." -- Joss Whedon
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"Hiding from your past doesn't make it go away. For Ivy to really get past this, she going to have to accept whatever happened."
Tommy clenched and unclenched her fists as she heard John talk then leave. Pain still stood in front of her, looking a bit on the angry side as well. After a moment, Tommy started to fume.
"Just accept what happened? What does he know? He doesn't know what she's been through," she exclaimed, more than a little annoyed. "She tried accepting it and all it got her was almost a year of Hell. I won't let anyone take her back down that path. Not if I have anything to do with it."
Then the next part she said chilled Pain to the bone.
"I'd almost rather see her dead than go through that again."
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He had forgotten about his request to Doc. But as she had said she had sent someone. "Oh," he said rising. "I don't really need you anymore, but if you've come all this way why don't you just give me the info and leave"
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Evelyn sighed. She'd known this was going to be harder than just saying that.
"She wants me to stay," she told John, and as expected, just to make her life that little bit more difficult, he said no.
"She told me that you owe her," Evelyn continued, hoping that this time it would work. It didn't.
"Why does she want you to stay?" John asked.
Keeping her face perfectly blank, she said, "She didn't say. She just told me to stay."
"You're lying."
There was a slight, surprised reaction to that statement, but Evelyn quickly quelled it. "So?" she questioned.
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"See, I've secretly been kind of a fan of me for some time now. I've seen everything I've ever done. I'd love to meet me, but I'd probably just stare and not be able to say anything witty or anything." -- Joss Whedon
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