Kaylee-Mal after Lilly returns.

Sep 07, 2005 00:27

[ooc: Lilly returns from the Dreaming.]

The last couple of times Mal talked to his mechanic, they were not exactly happy times.

Mal will at least attempt to change this, as he heads to the engine room from his bunk, fresh from Milliways.

kaylee, lilly

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gonna_live September 7 2005, 04:29:49 UTC
It's late.

Kaylee's starting to feel sleepy, even. She's in her hammock, braiding and unbraiding wires. Something to do with her hands.

She finishes the braid, and begins to coil it around -- a bracelet, a ring, a hook, a snake, a spiral.

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bad_in_latin September 7 2005, 04:32:50 UTC
Even when Mal and Inara weren't Mal and Inara, he would hardly ever knock on the door before entering her shuttle, and really wouldn't knock if he had good somethin' or other to share.

As the latter applies, he walks in brightly to the engine room and peers around the wrong side of the turbine first in search of Kaylee.

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gonna_live September 7 2005, 04:36:28 UTC
Kaylee looks up.

"Captain?"

A little curious.

A little wary.

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bad_in_latin September 7 2005, 04:37:52 UTC
That's when Mal hits his head on the turbine junction by standing too fast too close to machines he doesn't understand.

"Kaylee!" Mal smiles anyway. "Lilly's back!"

Well he gets to the point, don't he?

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gonna_live September 7 2005, 04:44:40 UTC
She blinks.

"...she is? She's okay?"

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bad_in_latin September 7 2005, 04:46:32 UTC
"Yes! Absolutely!" Mal continues happily. "I mean, she looked like hell, but she got healed by folk in the bar and seems perfectly fine. Physically anyway. And physically's a start."

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gonna_live September 7 2005, 04:48:04 UTC
Her smile is back. Finally.

"It's good enough, that's for sure -- good. Real good." She's relieved.

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bad_in_latin September 7 2005, 04:50:02 UTC
Oxygen entering his lungs - finally - Mal calms slightly and plops himself onto the stoop exiting the engine room.

"Also? I may have been the one responsible for drunkin' up your man in the Bar the other night."

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gonna_live September 7 2005, 05:01:02 UTC
Kaylee eyes him.

"I didn't know that."

She doesn't sound like she minds, though. As long as Mal didn't do anything bad to him.

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bad_in_latin September 7 2005, 05:03:09 UTC
"It gets worse though."

"We talked. And didn't argue. And he told me things that I should do, and I kinda believe him."

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gonna_live September 7 2005, 05:08:17 UTC
The eyeing intensifies.

"...okay."

On the one hand, it's good that Simon and Mal are getting along.

On the other hand...it's a little unsettling for reasons that Kaylee can't quite put her finger on.

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bad_in_latin September 7 2005, 05:10:46 UTC
"Well, then. Um."

Mal inhales rather dramatically and lets out something like, "The main reason why our last palaver worked as it did was while me 'n Zoe were in a job on Shadow I shot a man used to work for me 'n my ma on the ranch since turned to the Alliance 'n tried to bring a world o' hurt on my family."

Mal loves the run ons with Kaylee, folks.

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gonna_live September 8 2005, 01:51:16 UTC
Kaylee's quiet.

She's thought that Mal hung the moon for...literally years, now.

Wasn't like this was going to change it. Wasn't like this was worth yelling at her for, unless --

-- he was scared.

"We protect our own. Right?"

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bad_in_latin September 8 2005, 02:08:59 UTC
"Yeah."

Mal looks away from Kaylee. Avoidance is very useful for maintaining masculinity and captainness.

"Am I...Am I now at the part where folk I ... I wanted to protect are open target? Denton lived with us."

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gonna_live September 8 2005, 02:11:42 UTC
If he asked a question...Kaylee can try to answer. Maybe that's not prying.

"What would you do if one of us did somethin' bad to the others? Would you let us do it?"

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bad_in_latin September 8 2005, 02:15:52 UTC
"If you're gonna stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face."

She don't know that.

"Don't tell 'em what I did."

"I never really did nothin' after River decided to redecorate Jayne's chest."

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