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[flybywash]

The door slides back with a clank. Wash steps down into Serenity's front hall, Tonks not far behind. There's a second's wariness on his part as she passes over the threshold -- that gŏushĭ with Crowley only happened because the demon was still alive five hundred years later, but hey, you never know when you'll be dealing with sudden wacky time

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[clumsy_auror]

"Chuh! Like I'd pass up a chance to see that." Tonks scampers up into the bridge after Wash, eyes eagerly taking in everything around her. Then she glimpses the field of stars beyond the windscreen, and just stops.

"Blimey."

[flybywash]

It's getting exactly that kind of reaction from the dirtbound that makes him the happiest, every time. He'll never get sick of it.

"And that," he says as he points to the windscreen, maneuvering toward the pilot's console, "is why I love my job. I've got the best excuse in the 'verse to stare at it all the time."

When he leans over and touches a screen to check the readouts, something beeps at him; Wash privately rolls his eyes and hits a sequence of keys in reply.

[clumsy_auror]

Tonks walks slowly up to stand behind the pilot's chair and rests one hand on the back; she eventually tears her gaze away from the hypnotic view of the black in order to follow Wash's movements. She watches him work, how assured and expertly he moves, and grins.

"Yeah. It's a pretty wicked gig, mate."

[flybywash]

"Not to mention exciting and occasionally alarming. We had Lilly Kane on board a couple weeks ago," he says, and with a modicum of dread, "Mal tried to give her flying lessons. I interrupted and took over his attempts at education for the sake of all -- hey."

He casts a stern look at the screen as the trilling beep starts up again, then transports a stegosaurus onto another panel to get a better look.

"Why are you doing that?" Coaxing, "Come on, don't give me that, we just fixed you four days ago. Work with me here."

Two more buttons, a solid thwap, and it stops beeping. Wash grins, satisfied.

"There we go. Sorry. There was drift. Drifting's been fixed."