Life Onboard Serenity #44: Who We Were (NEW CHARACTERS WELCOME!!!)
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UPDATED: Friday, October 29, 2010 22:45
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Originally posted by DRPAIN:
"But yes I do get the same feelin'."
Good, she thought. The boyfriend is the detailed kind.
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Originally posted by DRPAIN:
"We're both very sexual and physical creatures. We usually have sex between two and six times a day. Our sex life is phenomenal or used to be before that little confrontation back there. I'll probably be sleepin' alone on the couch after this. Anythin' else?"
As to her question about their sex life, she was flabbergasted that he answered so frankly. That was good too. He wasn't shy about answering her questions. And that question was part of a test. That info, while being useful to gauge her behavior lately, really had nothing to do with any diagnoses.
"This isn't going to be easy... er... Pain?" Jacey started. What an odd name. "Is that actually your name?"
She shook her head and went back to the subject at hand.
"This isn't going to be easy, so I want to know if you are in for the long haul. I don't want to deal with someone who turns tail and runs when things get really bad. And believe me... things will probably get worse."
She looked at him closely.
"So which one are you?"
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On the Bridge
Ivy and Tommy were arguing. It was something quite odd to watch. Or feel. River felt "them" coming and it was painful.
She didn't know if John was feeling any of it or if he was wrapped up with the fact his brother was on board.
"Captain..." River said softly into the shipwide comm. "Galley."
Saying anything else was just too difficult. She put her hand on her temple, drew her feet up against her body and rocked back and forth in the pilot's chair. She hoped that the fighting would stop soon.
In the Galley
Mal recognized the tone of River's voice and high tailed it to the galley. There stood Ivy in the middle of the room, arguing with herself.
"He betrayed you, Ivy!"
"Maybe he just wants me to get better."
"He said he loved you for who you were."
"I know Tommy... I don't understand why..."
"It's because he LIED to you."
"He just..." Ivy couldn't think of a come back.
"He lied, Ivy."
"Maybe I should try the doctor..."
"Do I need to remind you of what happened before? Do you want to go through that again?"
"No... but..."
"It nearly killed you!"
"Why? What was so bad? What did he do to me?"
"I'm not so concerned about what your master did; I am more concerned about what you did!"
"What did I do, Tommy?"
"It's nothing, Ivy," Tommy snapped. Tommy accidentally said too much.
"Now you are lying to me too?" Ivy asked with a small voice.
Tommy knew that she wasn't helping. She thought about what had happened to Ivy. She had to appease her with something. Get her thinking about something else. Even if that something was painful.
So Tommy went over to one of the "tiles" that covered the secrets in Ivy's mind and lifted it.
Ivy's eyes went wide and her legs buckled. Mal caught her before she hit the floor. Ivy looked into Mal's eyes.
"He... he..." Ivy said, trembling.
"He what, Ivy?" Mal said softly, trying not to spook her.
"He... and some of his guards..." Ivy started again.
Mal's heart sank.
"I know, Ivy," he said as he scooped her up. "I know what they did to you."
He carried her towards the infirmary. When he got to the top of the stairs in the cargo bay, he yelled out.
"Pain! Ivy needs you!"
Then he added.
"And bring that fancy doctor of Inara's too."
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Originally posted by DrJaceyGarner:
She looked at him closely.
"So which one are you?"
"I'm in this relationship with Ivy for the long haul." replied Pain, giving the doctor a smile. "I'm almost thirty nine for Buddha's sake. I'm too old to be datin' girls left and right. I'm ready to settle down. I know I've got my work cut out with Ivy, but I love her very much. And for the record, Pain is a nickname, not my real one."
He was about to tell her what it was short for and its orgins, when he heard Mal's yell at the top of the stairs leading down to the infirmary.
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Originally posted by EnglishIvy:
"Pain! Ivy needs you!" "And bring that fancy doctor of Inara's too."
Pain felt a lump form in his throat and his stomach turn to lead as he got up. Taking the good doctor by one of her hands, he said, "Come on." Looking up the stairway, Pain shouted, "I'm already down here with Inara's friend! Go ahead and bring Ivy on down, Captain!"
Pain wondered what had happened and the worry shone on his face like a bright neon sign. He cared and loved Ivy a lot, even though she didn't think he did right at this moment. It always pained him whenever she had a meltdown or wasn't acting right. He hoped that she'd give Inara's friend a chance to help get better and become a little more closer to being whole.
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About halfway down the cargo bay stairs, Ivy looked up at Mal.
"I'm OK," she said softly. "I think I can walk on my own."
She smiled slightly.
"That is if you don't mind me holding your arm."
Mal looked at her for a few more steps and then gently put her down. She hooked her arm around his and he stayed on the ready to catch her if she was to fall again.
"I don't mind at all darlin'," Mal said with a smile of his own. This was different. She wasn't incapacitated as before. "Pain is just right downstairs. He's waiting for you."
"I know," she said casting her eyes away, therefore stumbling a bit. Mal steadied her and the kept going downstairs. "He kinda blindsided us with the doctor thing."
"There is no us, Ivy," Mal told her. "There is just you. You're strong. Stronger than you think.
"He meant no harm. He just wants to see you well. You set my ship on fire the other day and almost killed a couple of folk."
"I'm sorry."
"I know you are, but don't that kinda warrant some concern and maybe some medical intervention? He's scared. As scared as I ever saw."
"I know."
"So no holding grudges."
"But Tommy-"
"What did I say?" Mal reminded her. "There is no Tommy and you. There is just you and you're strong."
"I'm strong," she echoed.
When Ivy got to the bottom of the stairs, she ran to Pain and hugged him fiercely. His arms wrapped around her quickly as some of the tension fell away.
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Jacey stood off to the side as she watched the exchange between Pain and Ivy. After a moment they parted and Ivy turned to the doctor.
"Would like your help," she told her, straightening her back and trying to act strong even though she was a mess underneath. "I would like to be whole. To function as a normal person."
Ivy turned to Pain.
"I don't need to go to the infirmary," she told him. "I just got caught off guard."
Jacey motioned them over to the couches nearby. They all sat down.
"What caught you off guard?" Jacey asked sympathetically. "Can you tell us?"
"I remember... I was raped while I was a slave. At first it was just the master. The guards were told not to touch me, but they did anyway. He did this to several of the girls for a while, then there was just two of us. Me and Serena. We were kept in the master's bedroom nearly all day, just waiting..." she choked back a sob. "Just waiting for when he had a hankering. Sometimes it was just once. Sometimes it was more."
She looked down at her hands.
"I remember talking to my other doctor about it. I know it wasn't my fault. There was nothing like love involved. It was about power and his own satisfaction. Truth is, he was just a twisted, sadistic man."
"How does that make you feel? And now that you remember these events, how are you feeling overall?"
"I put this behind me quite some time ago. I have the love of a good man, who shows me what healthy relations are like. I don't know why I repressed this memory."
She got a far away look as the name 'Serena' echoed over and over and over in her head.
"Serena..." Ivy whispered.
Then she flinched as she heard a gunshot reverberate through her mind.
"That's enough for today," Tommy said gruffly as she slid forward. "Pain... Take us back to our bunk."
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Pain hugged Ivy back tight, resting his head on the top of hers' as their bodies pressed against one another in a warm embrace. As they continued to hug each other, Pain gently stroked Ivy's back until the two of them finally departed.
Pain stood close to Ivy as she talked to the doctor about wanting her help. It brought a smile to his face that she did indeed want the doctor's help. He was very proud of her for taking that step. He wondered if the Captain had given Ivy a pep talk before they entered the cargo bay. He was sure that the man did.
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"I don't need to go to the infirmary," she told him. "I just got caught off guard."
"That's good." replied Pain, giving Ivy a small smile. "I was worried that you had somehow gotten hurt."
As directed by Inara's friend, both Pain and Ivy sat down on the couch with her. Pain sat on Ivy's right while Dr. Garner sat on Ivy's left. Pain sat close to Ivy, putting an hand on her lower back and giving her small back rubs.
He listened intently as Ivy answered Dr. Garner's question. It made him angry and mad as he learned what happened to her, but it made him happy that she was able to tell it. He wanted to do very bad things to those who had both put her into slavery and raped her. He had no sympathy for slavers or rapists. If he ever met up with Ivy's former master and his goons, he'd make them regret what they did to her something fierce.
Pain then smiled as Ivy mentioned what a good man he was. It gave him a warm tingly sensation inside of his body. He loved Ivy very much and cherished their relationship equally. Then he watched as she began to get that far away look in her eyes and knew that something was about to happen. He hoped it wasn't something major to offset the breakthrough in clarity that Ivy had.
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"That's enough for today," Tommy said gruffly as she slid forward. "Pain... Take us back to our bunk."
"As you wish, baobei." replied Pain as he got up off the couch. He smiled at Dr. Garner and shook her hand as he said, "Thanks for your time, Doctor. I'm sure we'll chat some more at a later time."
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Ivy slid back forward as her and Pain walked back to their bunk. He held her by the shoulders, making sure she stayed upright. She seemed tired from the talk with the doctor, but Ivy thought she felt a lot better. Less fragmented.
It was nice.
But something in the back of her mind still evaded her. Something big.
"Just so you know," she started. "I'm OK. Actually I feel pretty good. Talking about it really helped."
She looked down at the bed briefly.
"I am a bit tired, though," she told him.
As she stood there in from of Pain, she disrobed completely, folded her clothes into a neat pile and slid beneath the sheets. She looked at him.
"Hold me?"
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Jacey was very encouraged by the progress they made today with Ivy. She had remembered part of her past. A really difficult piece of her past and stayed pretty much intact.
She was pretty sure that this Serena person Ivy mentioned was somehow linked to the most difficult memory of all. She'd have to breach that subject very, very carefully.
She went back to her bunk and wrote down some notes. She needed to talk to some of the other crew. Gather more information.
So she set out into the ship to see who she could come across.
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Pain and Ivy's Bunk
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Originally posted by EnglishIvy:
"Hold me?"
"Of course." replied Pain, giving Ivy a smile.
Pain disrobed just as Ivy had done not too long ago, leaving his clothes in a pile next to hers'. He then lifted up the sheets and got in next to Ivy. He wrapped an arm around her stomach and pulled her close to him. He placed a kiss on top of her head, the smell of her shampoo and conditioner wafting into his nostrils, making him smile.
Pain rested his head on Ivy's shoulder and whispered, "I love you, baobei."
Elsewhere on the ship...
Kaylee ran into Inara's friend after just coming out of the engine room a few moments later. She had a bit of engine grease smeared on her chin and a few stains on her jumpsuit. Her hair was tied back into a ponytail, but some of it had escaped and hung loosely around her forehead.
"Hi!" she exclaimed in her cheerful as usual tone as she extended a hand out to greet the woman. "You must be Inara's friend. My name's Kaylee. I'm Serenity's mechanic."
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Originally posted by DRPAIN:
"Hi! You must be Inara's friend. My name's Kaylee. I'm Serenity's mechanic."
Jacey shook the perky girl's hand.
"Yes, my name is Dr. Jacey Garner. You can just call me Jacey though. I'm not the formal type."
She looked at Kaylee.
"Are you busy?" she asked. "I'd like to ask you some questions... about Ivy."
"A little, I have part of the engine disassembled and need to get it back together in case the Captain needs to go to full burn," Kaylee explained. "But let's get a drink and we can talk while I work."
"Fair enough," Jacey responded.
They got a drink and headed back to the Engine Room. Kaylee seemed so at home there. Even had a makeshift hammock. She wondered how much time she might spend there, even when something didn't need fixing.
"Were you here when Ivy had her episode?"
"Yeah, I was," Kaylee answered, her face getting serious as she slid under the engine. "She set a fire in the vent in her and Pain's bunk. It was scary. She didn't seem to know where she was. Was instead doing this thing like she was acting, but she weren't acting. Do you know what I mean?"
"Yes, I do. She was acting out a repressed memory and from what I understand, she also transferred some attributes of this traumatic experience to the people around her."
"Something horrible happened to her, didn't it?"
"I believe so," Jacey answered solemnly. "So can you tell me everything you can remember about the incident?"
Kaylee talked for quite a while. About the fire, the thinking that there were too many guards around, her asking for someone named "Serena," how she took Jayne captive and calling the Captain for help.
"One of the weirdest things she did was to freak about about there being more guards than were supposed to be there and she kept calling out for someone named Serena."
"Hmmm..." Jacey said. Then she had an idea pop up.
It was like Ivy had a plan of some sorts. She knew how many guards there were supposed to be. She created a sort of distraction. She called out for someone named Serena. Could it have been an escape plan? She had mentioned someone named Serena before. Who was this Serena?
"What exactly did she say about this Serena?"
Jacey was now getting the feeling that everything had to do with whoever Serena was.
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