Life Onboard Serenity: #43 – Moving Back As You’re Moving On
POSTED BY: GraysonCornwell
UPDATED: Monday, January 11, 2010 22:06
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Originally posted by EnglishIvy:
"I love you Pain..."
"I love you too, Ivy." replied Pain, smiling at her before giving her a passionate kiss.
As their lips departed, Pain saw that she had already fallen asleep. He smiled and laid her head down gently on the pillow. He gave her a kiss on the forehead and got out of bed. The alarm going off was distracting him from having cuddle time with Ivy, so he got dressed and he decided to see what was going on.
He had just finished putting on his pants and boots when he slid the door of the passenger dorm open and closed it behind him. As he headed up the stairs near the infirmary, he had his shirt halfway on. By the time he rounded the corner and entered the galley, Pain had his shirt completely down and was adjusting it as he passed Grayson. The alarm was still going about it's business of being annoying.
Looking up he saw Zoe and River on the bridge with the captain. He got to the foot of the stairs and asked over the noise, "Hey! What's goin' on? Some fine happy Alliance hun dan needin' to pad his quota? Reavers? Someone sellin' cookies?"
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*pain stepped on to the bridge just as the ship shuddered*
Mal "some crazy son of a bitch appears to be trying to hitch a ride on our hull, pain, get up to the airlock and tell our piggybacking friend that whatever it is he's sellin', we don't want any!"
River "He's come home."
Mal "yeah, sure, whatever. Pain, get suited and answer the door will ya?"
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"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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Grayson stopped talking to Simon when he heard Mal's firm announcement calling Zoe and River to the bridge. He had also said that they had something right on top of them. They weren't actually talking per se, more like Grayson letting Simon that he knew who he and River were.
Then Pain came throught the galley on his way up to the bridge. He looked quite... content and was fiddling with his shirt a bit.
Grayson stood up, curious as to what was going on. He turned around to tell Simon that he'd like to continue their discussion a bit later, but found that he had already bolted from the room. Grayson sighed and then followed everyone to the bridge. As he arrived, he felt the ship shudder.
"Can I do anything to help?" he asked, but no one seemed to hear him, so he just leaned against the lockers.
He listened to Mal order Pain to get out the airlock and see what was going on, then River's eerie comment about someone coming home.
Before anyone got a chance to get started, Grayson spoke up again.
"Excuse me!" he said loudly. "My ship is still docked at your lower airlock. It isn't big, but I could take Pain here and do a flyby. Get a looksee as to what is going on? We could go faster than it would take him to suit up."
It would be interesting to see if they would let him help them out.
It took the full diagnostic on 13 several hours to finish up and now, Kaylee was looking at the culprit. A tiny capacitor that was used to store short term energy so that a circuit could be regulated effectively had malfunctioned in the area that housed how 13 dealt with environmental stimuli. Basically it made him a bit irrational when dealing with how he interacted with some folk. Just a tiny little capacitor.
Luckily, it was a relatively common piece, so she removed the defective part and replaced it with a new one. Now was the scary part... Turning him back on. He could either thank her or kill her, especially if she didn't perform the delicate work exactly.
With a shaky hand, she reached over and turned the screwdriver in his back to the "on" mode. And then she waited.
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Originally posted by BigWolf18:
Mal "yeah, sure, whatever. Pain, get suited and answer the door will ya?"
"Dahng ran, Cap." replied Pain, nodding to Mal.
He was just about to leave for his room to pick up one of his rifles, equip it with a case, and then make his way down into the cargo bay to suit up, when he heard Grayson yell. He turned back and saw Grayson leaning against the lockers and wondered how long the older man had been standing there.
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Originally posted by GraysonCornwell:
"Excuse me!" he said loudly. "My ship is still docked at your lower airlock. It isn't big, but I could take Pain here and do a flyby. Get a looksee as to what is going on? We could go faster than it would take him to suit up."
"He does have a point, sir." remarked Pain. "It would be faster to do that instead of havin' to get a vacuum suit on. Less cumbersome too I might add."
<< Dahng ran: Of course. >>
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As the ship approached, John let out a sigh. Yet another distraction from the job they needed to get to. He grabbed his guns from the table by his bed and went to the cargo bay and took a place in the catwalk within view of the door. If someone hostile came aboard. John would shoot first and ask questions later.
"What's going on?" John was startled by Inara's voice from behind him.
"Someone's trying to board or something," John replied.
"Why are you armed?"
"I just want to be prepared."
"Didn't we agree that you would depend less on violence to solve problems." She had him. Inara had helped him a lot, and that was one of her terms. He cautiously lowered his guns and holstered them. "Good. Now come inside, I need to talk to you and the others can handle this." John followed Inara into her shuttle agreeing that if anything happened he would be paged.
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Originally posted by DRPAIN:
"He does have a point, sir." remarked Pain. "It would be faster to do that instead of havin' to get a vacuum suit on. Less cumbersome too I might add."
Mal thought for a moment and the nodded.
"Do it," he said.
Grayson and Pain took off towards Grayson's ship. As they went towards it, Grayson looked oover his shoulder towards the infirmary and saw that Ivy wasn't there. His jaw clenched but he kept on. Once in the ship he got got buckled in and called up to Serenity's bridge.
"Just tell me what I might be looking for," he said.
He clicked off the comm and turned to Pain, who was strapped in next to him.
"I know you had sex with her earlier," Grayson said in a low voice as he initiated the sequence to release the air lock from the cargo bay. "I knew as soon as you came upstairs fiddling with your shirt with an all too happy look on your face."
Pain looked down at his lap, knowing that he had been found out.
"I've been a lawman for near 20 years," Grayson said coolly as they detached. "Need I remind you that she was injured gravely not too long ago and if you hurt her. I will kill you?"
Grayson looked Pain full in the face with a most serious look.
"Got it?" he asked.
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Inside Grayson's Ship
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Originally posted by GraysonCornwell:
"Got it?" he asked.
"Oh I got it alright, but what are you goin' to do when Ivy finds out that you killed me?" Pain asked. "She wouldn't take it too kindly I'd reckon. Might make her become more distant and unstable. Do you really want that, Grayson? Do you really want to send her down that path and make her trust in you wither even more? Do you really want to piss away the fatherly relationship you have with her by killin' the man who loves her even with her faults? Cause that's what'll surely happen if'n you're yu ben de enough to go through with that little threat of yours'."
Pain gave Grayson a smile and added, "Can't imagine my captain would like it either. He don't take too kindly to them that threaten bodily harm to his crew, let alone death. Makes him a tad unfriendly if'n you know what I mean. He'd likely shoot you and then space you. If'n you're lucky, he might even do it in that order. And for the record, the sex was consensual and I made sure to go very slow so as not to cause Ivy any discomfort." He saw the other ship and changed the subject, "There she is. Lets go see who they are and why they're payin' us a visit. Afterwards I'll tell Ivy what you said to me and you two can have a very loud and not very friendly chat."
<< Yu ben de: Stupid. >>
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*As the ship rounded Serenitys hull, they caught sight of the intruding craft, and its owner. Bending over serenitys upper airlock was a medium sized man in a deep green space-suit. He had an oddly shaped shotgun on his back and a large box under one arm. He appeared to be waiting for someone to come out of the hatch.
Grayson flipped on his ships lights and flooded the intruder with white. Startled, the man rolled away from the hatch, no easy thing to do in zero-gee, and rose to one knee with the box in the crook of one arm and his side-arm in the other hand, trained on the unknown assailant. He blinked and shielded his eyes from the brilliant illumination, as his vision adjusted, he slowly lowered his gun in awe at the ship and its occupants, staring right at him.*
Wolf "Ah Crap."
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"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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"He's armed," Grayson said as he powered up his ship's weapons. "Who do you suppose that is and what do you think he's doing?"
"You have weapons on this ship?" Pain said, looking at the console.
"I am law enforcement with very specific duties," he told Pain. "Sometimes things can go... amiss and the need to defend myself does rear it's ugly head."
Grayson flipped a couple of switches that armed the ship to its fullest extent.
"Mind you that I am not a gun boat or anything, but what limited resources I have has worked for me in the past," Grayson explained. He adjusted his comm. "Well, let's see if a little authority action gets his attention..."
Grayson got a firm tone to his voice and said:
"Attention intruder. This is the Allied Law Enforcement Vessel, Phoenix. Please stand down and identify yourself!"
As they waited for a response, Grayson glanced at Pain.
"Is Toms aware that people could be breaking into your ship?" He clenched his jaw in annoyance. "I don't care what you think, she's not safe here."
Pain was losing favorable points in Grayson's book.
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Ivy woke up in the passenger bunk that she and Pain “borrowed” to realize that Pain was gone. She vaguely remembered alarms sounding as they were together earlier. She listened to see if there was anything amiss and heard nothing so she dismissed the thought.
Thinking about their first time back together since she was shot, Ivy smiled. It felt good to be with Pain again. She loved him and craved his touch. They had an extremely physical connection and relationship. She never felt this way towards anyone ever in her life. He was such a big part of her life.
She turned to roll over, but was assaulted with searing pain. She gasped aloud. Her wounds burned with an intensity that she had not felt in a few days. Carefully, she forced herself into a seated position, threw on a T-Shirt of Pain’s that was left there and slowly made her way to the infirmary. Luckily, Simon was there, taking inventory.
“Simon?” she called out to him at the door. “I ain’t feeling too hot.”
He took one look at her and jumped up to help her back to the bed. He ran a diagnostic.
“The wounds haven’t been compromised. You might have just overexerted yourself. Have you been walking a lot?”
“Maybe… a little,” Ivy said quietly.
Simon looked at her intensely, sorting out her body language. He took in what she was wearing too.
“When did you first feel the pain?” he asked.
“I woke up and I could barely move.”
“You didn’t try to stay in your bunk already did you? The ladder would definitely cause you some discomfort.”
“N-No…” she hedged. “I fell asleep in one of the passenger dorms.”
Simon kept scrutinizing her.
“Was Pain with you?”
Ivy hung her head and whispered something, but Simon couldn’t hear her. He chuckled in realization.
“You should take it easy.” he told her as he fetched a mild pain killer for her. Simon helped her lay back on the bed and placed a blanket over her. He administered the drug and looked down at her.
“But I missed him,” she told him.
Simon sighed.
“I’ll give you some more of this analgesic to use if you persist in this… behavior,” Simon told her. “It will make you sleepy, so when you take it, leave yourself enough time to recuperate, OK?”
“Yes, doctor,” she answered.
Simon paused a bit.
“And after you’ve rested, can I ask you a couple of questions regarding Grayson?”
“Of course…” Ivy said softly as her eyes began to droop.
And then she fell asleep. Simon went anxiously back to taking inventory… and thinking back to the conversation he had earlier with Grayson, wondering whether or not he should be afraid of Ivy’s friend.
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