Life Onboard Serenity: #42 - Of Jobs, Vaults and Things Gone Wrong
POSTED BY: EnglishIvy
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 22:19
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In amazement, Grayson watched Pain verbally calm Ivy down enough that she fell back asleep. That had never happened before... ever. Before, If she got worked up, it took sedation to calm her down.
Simon had flew in there as fast as the wind, checking over her vitals before declaring that it was indeed a loose lead.
Then John launched into a tirade. Grayson wasn't sure why he was so angry, but he laid his hand on John's shoulder as he started to leave.
"Did she say anything?" he asked, hoping that he could have some kind of insight. "About what happened to her? Anything at all? Believe me, I want to help her, I have to help her. But I need something to go on."
Grayson looked from Pain to John.
"Do either of you, or anyone on this ship, know anything more?"
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"No," John replied to Grayson's question, "unless she told Pain something none of us know anything. So, as you can see, being here is useless to you. I very much appreciate it if you would leave so we can get on with our lives."
This was taking too long. The ship had needs, which requires cash, which requires not floating aimlessly because a fed won't leave us alone.
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With tears nearly falling from her eyes, Ivy calmed down and looked up at Pain.
"Something... Something bad happened," she said to him softly. "There was a fire and something really bad happened."
Tears started streaming down her face.
"I think I did something very wrong," she continued. "And my head... my head hurt. It hurt a lot."
She reached for his hand and held it very tight.
"What could I have done?" she asked him. "What could I have done?"
Her eyes drooped a little.
"I'm so tired..."
"She does need to get some rest," Simon told them all.
With that, Ivy slipped back asleep, her face taking on an angelic quality.
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Infirmary
Pain watched as Ivy went back into the Land of Nod. He brushed away an errant strand of her golden locks from her forehead, as well as wipe away the remains of the tears that she had shed. She looked so beautiful and peaceful sleeping in the exam chair. He smiled at her and bent down, placing a kiss on her forehead right above her eyebrows. As the doctor went about monitoring her, Pain thought back on what she had said before nodding off.
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"Something... Something bad happened," she said to him softly. "There was a fire and something really bad happened."
"I think I did something very wrong," she continued. "And my head... my head hurt. It hurt a lot."
"What could I have done?" she asked him. "What could I have done?"
Seeing Grayson with John, he headed over to the lawman and asked as he placed a hand on the older man's shoulder, "Do you know anythin' about a fire?" He looked into Grayson's eyes and continued, "She says there was a fire and somethin' really bad happened. She said her head hurt and thinks she did somethin' wrong, but doesn't know what it was. Do you know anythin' about what it might be that has her wonderin' that?"
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"Yes. We know about the fire. A building that was said to have housed the slaves there was found burned to the ground near where she was found. There were three bodies inside. Two men and a woman. One of the men and the woman had been killed by gunshot wounds. The other man died of smoke inhalation."
Grayson looked at Pain and then back to John.
"It's good that she actually said something to you about it though," he offered with a slight smile. "It gives me hope."
"Who were these three individuals?" Pain asked him.
"We think at least one of the men was a guard, probably both. They found both of them in a type of uniform. The woman though, we don't have a clue where she was from, but it is thought that she could have been a slave."
"And her head?" Pain asked. But it only took a second before he made the connection there. "Is that when her skull was fractured?"
"You know about that?" Grayson asked him, wide eyed. "Did she tell you that?"
"No," Simon said from across the room. "I found it in a scan done a while back when she was injured in the cargo bay when she and Jayne collided during the Hoop Ball game."
Pain looked at Grayson who seemed mildly excited about the progress that Ivy had made, but Pain was less optimistic.
Then he remembered something that Tommy had told him.
"What does that have to do with guns?" he asked as he looked at Grayson.
"Guns?" Grayson asked him, trying to process his question. "Did she tell you something about guns?"
"While we were on the job, I made Tommy tell me that Ivy was sensitive to the sounds of guns firing," Pain said. A faint flicker of a memory popped forward. Pain turned to John. "That gun. My gun that she flipped out about. Do you still have that John? Can you go get it?"
Inara handed the CorPad back to Mal. She had watched it several times as well.
"That poor girl," she said.
"Do you agree with me, though?" Mal asked.
Inara nodded slowly.
"I'd say it was very possible," she told him as he turned around and rubbed his face in frustration.
"And they sometimes trained them for stuff like this?"
"Yes," Inara answered softly. "Let me make some calls. See what I can find out."
Mal nodded.
"Keep me updated," he told her. He started to walk out the door, but paused at the threshold. "Don't tell the others... especially Pain."
"Of course," Inara agreed. "We'll hold off until we can get a better idea of what they did to her."
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John had almost forgetten about the gun.
"I still have it, one moment." He left the room, calm slowly returning. As he entered his bunk, he wondered how this would all end. Secrets around here tended to lead to bad things. River's secrets had led them to Miranda. Where would Ivy's lead them? Where would his?
He handed the gun to Pain. "I need to go find the captain. We need to get back to work."
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Common Area Outside of the Infirmary
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"I still have it, one moment."
As both men watched John leave to retrieve the gun that had caused Ivy to freak out earlier in the day, Pain couldn't help but look over at her sleeping in the infirmary.
"She's so very pretty when she sleeps." he whispered out loud, a smile creeping up on his face.
He watched her chest rise slowly up and down as she breathed. He was almost lost in its hypnotic rhythm, before the sounds of approaching footsteps grabbed his attention away from the sleeping beauty.
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He handed the gun to Pain. "I need to go find the captain. We need to get back to work."
"Work is good." Pain replied, looking at the gun. He turned to John and gave the man a smile as he said, "Thanks for keepin' the gun. I appreciate it."
He turned back to Grayson, holding the gun out for the lawman to take and said, "That's the gun she freaked out about when she saw it earlier today right before the job. Don't know what about it that set her off, but it caused Tommy to tell me to get it out of her sight."
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"That's the gun she freaked out about when she saw it earlier today right before the job. Don't know what about it that set her off, but it caused Tommy to tell me to get it out of her sight."
"Tommy was even a little agitated as well?" Grayson asked in surprise. "I didn't think anything got past her."
Grayson looked over the firearm.
"That looks just like the one we recovered where we found Toms," he said. "It had some fingerprints, but they were too smudged and then with the fire damage, they were unusable."
He looked up at Pain.
"Do you suppose..." Grayson started. "Do you suppose that she knows and probably saw who shot those people?"
"Maybe," Pain said.
Or shooting them herself, he thought, keeping that idea to himself.
He looked down at her while she was sleeping and tried to calculate if she was able to carry out something like that. He didn't think she could, so then he started to wonder what could have happened in order for her to think there was no other way.
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