Meet-n-Greet

[cityship]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home

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[icanhashat]

He had found his Mother's hat.

The last gift he'd gotten from her was a orange knit hat that at the moment he was holding in his rough and work worn fingers as he let the events of the day process.

He was quiet and looking particularly dangerous glaring at anyone daring to make eye contact as he tried to wrap his head around the simply unbelievable circumstances surrounding today.

Could everyone really be gone? And everything?

No sense in falling apart about it. Fact of the matter was he never cared for most of the verse anyway. Hell he'd spent a good portion of his life making enemies in a fashion. All he could do now was keep going, find a way to do what he did best for profit.

He tucked his mother's hat in his pocket for now.

[flieswithdinos]

Wash felt better now that he was clothed - not a lot better, but somewhat. One of the lockers had contained his stuff, which made some kind of undefined paranoia creep up the back of his spine, but his cargo vest was there, along with the pistol he had favored on Serenity and his wedding band. He slipped the latter on his finger, mouth tight, thinking about Zoe.

Walking into the gathering of people was like a system shock - Wash had grown up on a core world, true, but so many years on the ship out in the black had gotten him pretty disused to crowds. He edged between the people, looking for someone familiar-

"Jayne?" Well, it wasn't the kind of familiar he was hoping for, but it was someone. "Jayne!"

And so it begins...

[icanhashat]

Jayne looked up hearing his voice called by a familiar voice and felt his blood run cold.

"Wash...?" He was struck dumb for a moment and then surprisingly enough a look of fear...absolute terror crossed his features.

"I'm dead...shit."

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[flieswithdinos]

Wash stumbled to a stuttering halt at the look on Jayne's face. It wasn't like he'd never seen the big man scared before, but usually it involved Reavers, or... Reavers. Having that look turned on him was something else.

"If you're dead, then I'm dead, and I don't feel very dead." He patted along his torso. "Not dead-feeling. Why do you look like you've just seen a pack of Reavers?"

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[icanhashat]

"You!" Jayne pointed in disbelief and then anger, "Stop that! Stop...moving. You're not supposed to be moving!"

If there was one thing that really got under Jayne's skin it was ghosts and spirits and things he couldn't kill because they were already dead.

Nine gets you ten it's Wash

[flieswithdinos]

"What?" Wash asked, blinking at him. Jayne looked just as disoriented as him, but Wash wasn't about to leave the only member of the crew he had seen so far.

He walked closer with a puzzled frown. "Did the slime do something to your brain? Well, what there was of it anyway," he amended.

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[icanhashat]

OK he was joking...ghosts didn't joke right?

And they were usually very aware of being dead.

Jayne's anger was not subsided however, this world was starting to mess with him worse and he didn't like it. "The hell's going on around here?" He grunted trying to change the subject. Testing Wash to see if he was in fact undead would have to wait.

"Good to uh...see you." He managed to choke out looking around suspiciously as if he expected someone to jump on him while he was distracted.

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[flieswithdinos]

"You think I know?" Wash asked. "I woke up naked and covered in slime same as you - haven't had a chance to do more than get felt up by creepy ship tentacles and stop by the lockers."

Jayne was acting weird. Weirder than normal, that was - although to be fair, Jayne was usually one of the least weird people on the crew. You could always count on him to be rude or violent, or both. "Sure you too - have you seen Zoe?"

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[icanhashat]

"No." grunted Jayne and a horrible thought flashed into his head. The last time he'd seen Zoe was her returning after a short trip away from the ship to visit some old friends. He'd been surprised that even in a couple weeks her belly seemed to have swollen twice it's size. Pregnancy was scary like that.

As much of an asshole as Jayne was...there was something eating away at him talking to the formerly dead pilot he used to threaten on a near daily basis.

Lucky for Jayne he had an old fallback rule. If you don't understand something it's probably not worth the effort.

"All the people in the verse to get stuck here with and I get your goofy ass." That was a more Jaynelike comment.

[flieswithdinos]

Wash scowled at him, not happy about being stuck on the ship with Jayne for company either. "Well, you're here, and I'm here. Stands to reason that the rest of the crew's here somewhere. You won't have to suffer through my magnificent company much longer."

Despite the fact that Jayne was probably his least favorite person on the crew, it was good to see a familiar face. And this ship was big, the pod cavern had showed him that. It stood to reason that his wife was somewhere on board.

[icanhashat]

Jayne scanned the area for any other familiar faces, thankful that he was taller then Wash, "There's a dragonman over there...why is there a dragonman?" He asked as his primal instinct was sizing up if he could take that manmonster in a fight.

"I need a drink." He added.

[flieswithdinos]

"There's a what-" Wash couldn't see over people's heads as easily as Jayne could, and dignity kept him from hopping up and down to try and get a glimpse of whatever it was Jayne was talking about. "I mean I already saw the snake lady, did you see the snake lady? I'm not going off in the brainpan, right?"

It wasn't just the snake lady that was odd. There were more than a few... creatures wandering around the observation deck. Then a gap opened in the crowd, and Wash grabbed Jayne's arm. "Wǒde mā - look!"

Outside the windows were not the familiar stars of the black, but the multicolored lights of the Bleed. Wash's jaw sagged open.

[icanhashat]

Jayne's eyes followed Wash's direction and he blinked unimpressed. In fact as far as things went this was the least confusing of all the things he'd seen or experienced so far.

Still to humor the tiny man he let out an acknowledging, "Huh..."

[flieswithdinos]

Wash, on the other hand, had just had his world turned upside down. "'Huh?' that's all you have to say? Don't you - what am I saying, of course you don't know how significant it is that we can't see the stars anymore."

Wash threw up his hands, disgusted. "Couldn't I have been stuck here with anyone else? I understand the universe hates me enough that my wife isn't here but... someone?"

[icanhashat]

Jayne growled reacting with the kindness and understanding that he was not known for. "Listen little man, there's a whole mess of strangers back there you can spend the rest of your afterlife bothering so don't go complaining when I'm not intimidated by the fact that we can't see the stars."

Though in the back of his head Jayne was thinking, That's actually pretty weird too now that I think about it.

"Ain't you heard what people are saying? Home's gone."

[flieswithdinos]

"What is it with you and your morbid fascination with being dead? I'm pretty not-dead, thanks." Wash asked. He was still staring in a kind of horrified fascination at the Bleed beyond the windows, so he almost didn't catch what Jayne said next.

Almost. "What? What do you mean, gone?"