the shiny NEW take turns writing
POSTED BY: ebonezer
UPDATED: Sunday, November 14, 2004 03:18
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Small amout of background on this one, its set on Serenity, but before Mal bought it, back when it still held that new spaceship smell about it. Oh, and its not called Serenity, its called Sidere (litteraly traslated it means 'run away!' in latin) (According to my friends latin book anyway) (it could mean ugly monkey for all i know, but i hope it doesn't)
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Teela Brown wandered around her new ship, a firefly class something something. Her brother-in-law had bought it for his wife, her sister, as an anniversary present and she hadn't liked it, said that it lacked pizzaz. Thus, Teela got the ship and Teela's sister got another new pair of diamond earings.
So Teela wandered around the ship because it seemed like something was missing, although she wasn't sure what. As she passed the infirmary it hit her, passengers! This ship needed passengers! Then she would have money to buy furniture for the ship. And food. And Gas.
As she climbed to the bridge, she realized she also needed a pilot.
Ok, she thought, pilot first, passengers later.
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Me! Me! Pick me! I wanna be the pilot! Me me!
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Yay! New TTW!
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Teela was wandering around the dock, looking for a pilot.
Pilot...pilot...need a pilot...
Teela surveyed the prospects. No...no...definently not...never... She sees Ebo. This girl's got something for her already. She's a girl.
"Hola, mi compadre. I need a pilot. You interested?"
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follows"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of the delete key.
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Soul stays back in the shadows, staring at the two women deep in conversation. They are obviously talking about a ship, but which one? Then his eyes settle on a Firefly, new by the looks of it, and by the way one of the women is gesturing to it, the Firefly seems like hers.
He needs a ride, a way to get off this rock, but if he asked, would the woman let him board the Firefly...?
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Ebo thought a moment, "Whats the salary?"
"Um...love and gratitude? And proten bars."
"Deal!"
"Alright, the ship you'll be flying for me is that one over yonder, Sidere."
"What, behind that heap of junk Firefly?"
"It is the heap of junk Firefly."
"Oh!" Ebo said a little to loudly, "and a lovely heap of junk it is," she quickly changed the subject, "Um, I'll just go put my stuff on the ship."
Teela gave her a fake smile, "You do that. I'll go collect us some passengers."
Ebo strode off and Teela went back to her heap of junk, -er, firefly, and sat down in front of it with a large sign saying, "Passage to rim planets, cheep, cleanish rooms, edible food."
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Soul made his decision and strolled up to the Firefly and to the woman now sitting in front of the boarding ramp holding a sign with the words "Passage to rim planets, cheep, cleanish rooms, edible food" written in what he guessed passed for english these days.
"You lookin' for a ride?"
Soul smiled. "That I am, if you've got the room."
"Well, I've got the room if you've got the cash."
Soul considered that, and then unshouldered his pack, making sure she noticed his guns as he pulled out a roll of bills and peeled off a few. The woman took the money and smiled.
"So where are you headed?" Soul asked.
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"Me? Where money leads me."
Ebo appeared again. "Shiny! I'm not the only one who wants to ride this piece of-" she remembers Teela "-hand-crafted excellence." She turns her attention to Soul.
"Hiya."
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follows"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of the delete key.
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Ebo dropped her large dufflebag on the ground and shook Soul's hand, "Nice to meet cha."
Ebo's eyes fell to Souls guns, "Oh, you must be the merc. I'm the pilot," she added before turing back to Teela, "I found us some cargo. Hope you don't mind."
Teela nodded, "Great! That'll make us some gas money. Where's it headed?"
"Ballard."
"Where's that?"
"I dunno."
"You do of course realise that is pilot, your gonna have to do some navigating as well."
"HA! Oh i failed that in flight scho-Um, I mean, Sure! No problem! I'll navagate our asses to Ballard so fast you're feet'll fall off."
"Good. Where's this cargo?"
"The guy said he'd bring it here, should be here in a coupla minutes. I'm gonna go get navigating."
"Sure, drop you stuff in the hold, I'll show you your bunk once were airborne."
"Sure thing."
Ebo picked up her bag and trotted up the ramp into Sidere. Soul picked up his stuff and followed her.
A few minutes later a man and a boy showed up on a quad dragging a trailer with a large crate on the back.
"Ello," the greasy looking man said, "I'm looken for a Teela, you be her?"
"Yep. I hear you got some cargo for me."
"That I do," he extended a gloved hand, "Me names' Jerry. This is my son."
A bow of about 7 looked up at Teela from under an oversized bowler hat, "People call me Badger," he said, glaring at her.
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Teela looked down at the boy. "Okay, Badger. What sorta cargo you got?"
"Why d'you need to know?" Badger said haughtily.
Teela found this amusing, but kept a straight face. "Just innocent cutiousity."
Jerry monitered the converstaion, and when there was a pause he said "Winthrop, help me with this."
"I told you, it's Badger!" the boy complained.
"When you run your own organization, you have whatever name you want." Jerry secretly smiled.
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follows"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of the delete key.
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Soul stood on the catwalk, his bag at his feet as he watched Jerry and "Badger" load the cargo. The boy looked mighty funny, nearly drowning in his huge bowler hat, but hey, to each his own.
"So Soul, where you from?"
Soul looked over as Ebo approached him. He smiled at her. Damn, she sure was pretty. Well, for that matter so was Teela, but Teela wasn't the one smiling at him now.
"Everywhere and nowhere," he responded, smiling back. "Wherever my guns take me."
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A young man with red hair watched the crate being hauled aboard the firefly with more than a hint of suspicion in his eyes. He breathed in deeply, before breaking into a fit of coughing.
'Note to self:' he thought wryly, 'never breathe in deeply in a ship port.'
Anyone who took a second look at him would notice the look in his eyes and the lack of baggage, and deduce that he was on the run from something or someone. Fortunately, hardly anyone gave him a second look.
He rooted around in his pocket. The few nuggets of gold he'd found were still there. He sighed. Time to be movin' on... again. He walked up to the vessal.
"Who'd I have to talk to to get offa this rock?" He asked quietly.
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