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Jake Chambers and Oy ([info]aim_with_my_eye) wrote in [info]expresslogs,
@ 2012-01-06 21:53:00

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Entry tags:!dice, kaylee frye, {jake chambers

Observing
Characters: Jake, Oy, Kaylee
When: Friday night
Location: Observation car
Warnings/Rating: None anticipated
Summary: Jake and Kaylee apparently have the same idea in regard to the snow
Status: Private, ongoing




Jake's bare feet pressed against the thin carpeting of the corridor as he made his way quietly between the cars. He didn't know why he kept up some of the things he did -- moving quietly, thinking like a gunslinger, considering every situation first from the gunslinger's perspective and then the child's -- but it wasn't as though he could unlearn those things. He was who and what he was, and if this was what he got to do before he died, then he didn't want to lose what he was here for lack of practice.

He suspected, heavily, that some day he would blink and be back in the car. One day, he would blink, and he would have only a few minutes left to live. But until that day came, he was making the most of his time here. He was here, and Oy was here. While it would be great if Eddie was here, it would hurt, too, because Eddie was already gone in his when, and he didn't want to tell the other 'slinger what had happened. How he'd died. How he couldn't stay and watch. How he didn't want to hear the warning. The warning he was supposed to have passed on, but didn't, and it might be too late now.

Jake shook away those thoughts, bundling them in the back of his mind as he continued to walk along. He didn't think they'd be alone in the car -- the temptation to watch the sky had to be weighing on more people than just him. He just hadn't expected to see a stranger. Not that it mattered; they'd all been strangers at first, but friendships had formed. Bonds. Trusts. There was some friction, of course, but mostly everyone was doing all right.

"Hello," he said quietly from the doorway, hoping not to startle her. "Do you mind if we watch, too?" On the train, he knew it was hard to find time alone, or a private place, and he didn't want to intrude if she'd rather be alone.


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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-07 08:04 am UTC (link)
Kaylee didn't so much like to be alone, but she had her moments. The observation car was ideal too as it kind of took the mind off things, which happened to have the habit of getting all cluttered when there was not much else going on around her. Right now there were things set to worry her too. Wasn't bad here, the people where nice most were friendly too. There was plenty of food and she'd even found some clothes to change into that were comfy enough. Most of all she had some of her family here - Simon and River, the Captain. They were away from home but at least they were together.

The snow was a nice distraction, made outside seem so calm, peaceful as it fell gently - wasn't falling fast enough to build up and block the view. St Alban's was snowy like this, only they'd gone there to bury Tracey, didn't have the nicest memories attached to it. She wondered about Simon without being able to help it, worried over him a little too - only now thinking on it, she should have dragged him along. It just seems the right spot just to get words out - so long as they were alone. This 'talk' they had to have was sort of looming.

The appearance of the young boy was a surprise, even if she didn't expect to be alone the whole time here - he was so polite to be sure to ask and Kaylee smiled. "'Course I don't, come on in sweetie." She smiles warmly, waving him in. "Pretty spectacular, huh? You seen snow like this b'fore?" She asked as her gaze lifted to the ceiling again, assuming his curiosity had been piqued just as hers.

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-07 08:12 am UTC (link)
"Not on a train," he replied as he moved into the car. "Not on this train, either," he amended as he moved to a seat near hers but not so close as to be invasive about it. "The last scenery we had was all rain, and stormy skies. Maybe the train likes the dark."

Oy had been padding along behind Jake, though when the boy sat down, the bumbler moved to settle near his feet. Gold-ringed eyes focused on the woman, and his lips pulled back in a toothy grin. "Oy," he introduced himself.

Jake grinned slightly. "I'm Jake," he said. "That's Oy," he added with a gesture to the bumbler before he glanced up toward the glass ceiling. He figured she was new here, if only because he hadn't noticed her really before today. He'd seen her in passing, but he hadn't made any move to speak to her then. "When are you from?" He asked, since 'when' often proved to be the better starting point than 'where', at least on this train.

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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-07 01:37 pm UTC (link)
"Don't mind a good storm m'self- so long as I'm indoors." Kaylee mused, glancing between the boy and the glass ceiling. All the thunder and lightening was pretty exciting when you were safe and warm. "Always liked the sound of rain on the roof."

Kaylee went to go on, but something else caught her attention, a creature she'd never seen before, following a the boy along like a dog - except it was watching her like it knew something as it curled at the boy's feet - then it smiled and it spoke to her. Kaylee hardly has time to hide her shock, before there's an introduction. "Nice t'meet you Jake and ..Oy, you too." She smiled to them both, leaning on the arm of her chair a little to get a better look at the animal.

"My name's Kaylee-" She replied, still equally captivated by the swirling snow around them, though it did bring her to hope that there was plenty of warm clothing to go around. She was asked specifically 'when' she was from, which was curious. "I'm from twen'y five seventeen- How 'bout you? You an Oy from the same time n'place?" She asked, already sure it'd have a pretty interesting place to have talking animals.

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-07 04:28 pm UTC (link)
"There was a lot of snow in New York. Where I grew up," Jake said. "Winters were cold and slushy and it was never clean snow. Not after it touched the ground." He paused. "New York's a really big busy city, with a lot of traffic. Cars and things." He wasn't sure if she was familiar with it -- he'd met enough people that weren't that he felt the elaboration was justified -- but there it was all the same.

He did smile at Kaylee's reaction to Oy. He thought most people here knew about his ability to talk, so that was just another sign she was new. Or had been keeping to herself. "It's nice to meet you too," Jake said before he shook his head to her question.

"Recently, we're from June of 1999, in a reality we don't belong to. Originally, Oy's from Mid-World, and I'm from New York of 1977. I don't really know what year it was in Mid-World," he admitted. "Time moves funny there, anyway." Jake was less reserved about sharing his story on the train when time travel and different realities were accepted because everyone had been kidnapped by a reality-jumping time-traveling train. Her year though ... "So you know the doctor and his sister?" It was a guess, based on the year, but also a feeling, too. They were the only other ones he knew of from that year on board the ship, and there were undefinable similarities that he could sense but not pinpoint exactly.

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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-08 09:30 am UTC (link)
“New York-” She knew that name, Kaylee’d listened well enough in school even if she’d been a little distractible. She knew the name mind, Earth-that-was but not much else of it - Jake definitely put a picture in her head when he described it. “Sounds kinda like a place called Persephone, where I’m from. Always bustlin’ there- lots of tall buildin’s’ and folk going about their day, plenty of business.” Could be similar, at least in her mind, best she can picture they meet up. “No snow I don’t think-” She added, just to be accurate.

Oy did keep catching attention now and then, she couldn’t help it so much. Though she didn’t speak up - she wanted to ask more about what exactly he was and how come he could talk. Perhaps this Mid-World he came from that’s just how it was. She made a mental note to ask a little later.

Kaylee pulled her knees up to her chest, her arms looping about them to bundle up a bit, amazed by how observant Jake seemed to have picked what he did about her and the others. “That’s right, Simon and River. We were crew on th’same boat. Our Captain’s here now too-” She grinned. “Real strange though, Simon’s come from a different time. Different stuff'd happened-” She paused as a thought struck her, Jake was only a little boy and if folks didn’t all come at once, what about his parents? His family? She didn’t want to ask if they were here, worried about upsetting him. “You’n Oy been on the train long?” She asked instead, not sure if it'd be safer.

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-08 09:39 am UTC (link)
Jake nodded. "I think a lot of big cities are similar, at least at heart. Maybe not always in structure, but cities draw certain kinds of people." Not that he'd know from experience, but it was just a feeling. The tall buildings part fit though, and he smiled a little.

Jake listened to her talking about different points in time, and he nodded. "There are a few other people here from the same world, but different points." It made him wonder if each similar reality had its own keystone world, or if there was only one keystone world, and the ones that were radically different had just started out that way. If time moved both ways in the other world, or only one. He sometimes wondered, too, if they were all just characters in a story like he was, but that wasn't something he even wanted to get into.

"A few weeks," he replied to her question. "We came in together, from the same point." Jake glanced down to the bumbler who glanced back up to him.

Jake offered Oy a slight smile, but somehow saying 'I'm pretty sure I'm going to die when I go back' didn't seem like the best idea. He didn't know her well and there was no need to make the conversation awkward like that.

"Ka," Oy grumbled before he arched his back and padded along the aisle, tipping his head to peer out a window.

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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-08 02:11 pm UTC (link)
“Makes for stuff t’be a little confusin’” Well, that was the short side of it anyway. Then again there wasn’t much about this place that wasn’t confusing. Jake and Oy left from the same place together - where they’d met, but weren’t from the same place to begin with.

“You must be pretty settled here, d’you like it okay?” She couldn’t help feeling a little sorry for him, and wanting to know that he’d found a place here. Even if the boy himself didn’t seem a bit troubled.

“I guess that makes us lucky- we both got someone important to us here.” Kaylee watched the creature wander, go to peer out a window. She was luckier still to have more than just one and family at that. “You know don't think I never seen an animal like Oy.”

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-08 05:20 pm UTC (link)
"It could be worse," he murmured. "It could be a suicidal train demanding riddles for its entertainment." While a smile was on his lips, the deeper truth of it was in his eyes. They'd been on a train -- well, a monorail -- that was exactly that. "I didn't know what to think when we first showed up here. We'd been in a car, and then suddenly we were on a train. I'm just glad I had Oy in my lap at the time." He shrugged a little. "I don't mind it so much. I'm not sure Oy's that impressed with it though."

"'ressed," the bumbler echoed as he sniffed around the leg of one of the seats.

Jake shook his head. "You wouldn't have. We found him in Mid-World, when we were traveling. He was skinny and all beaten up when ... well, I guess when he found us. He followed us, and then was part of us. He's a billy bumbler. Roland said they only parrot things they hear, but I think Oy's different. I think he understands a little more than a normal bumbler would, and it's not just parroting." Well, that was a lie. Jake didn't think that, he knew that. He'd been inside Oy's head, and the bumbler had been in his. If Oy hadn't been different from his kin before that, he surely would have been after that.

"Roland thinks his pack chased him out because he still did talk. I guess bumblers hadn't been heard talking for years before that. It's what Roland said, anyway."

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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-10 02:44 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah. That sounds worse-" A suicidal train? Kaylee attempted to mask how very unsettling it was not only to hear such a thing, but to hear it from a kid? Was hard not to wonder what he’d seen. “I was on a ship- Serenity. We were headin’ between jobs to another world- n’I was suddenly here.” She smiled a little in an attempt to cast off the slightly unnerving words he said, gazing up at the snow briefly as she thought. “I bet Oy’s happy to be wherever you are.” Kaylee added knowingly, with a glance to the creature.

It was simple enough to smile again. “Billy bumbler- I like th’ sound of that.” Was a cute name, and somehow it suited Oy, even if she scarcely knew him. “Wouldn’t be surprised if you thought right- he’s got real clever eyes.” Animals could have intelligence in their eyes where she was from, but not like what she’d seen when Oy had looked up at her. The strange thing was, Kaylee was aware of not wanting to talk down to the beast, even if he only seemed to speak a few words, that still made him smarter than any animal back home she’d seen.

“Shame he had trouble just for being diff’rent. Though that’s how it always is, ain’t it?” She was dying to pet Oy, though she didn’t know if he’d appreciate it, or if she ought to ask first. “Guess that’s how it was how he came to find you though?” She asked.

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-10 02:59 pm UTC (link)
"Probably. But I'm sure he would have gone on without me if he'd needed to." Jake glanced to the bumbler who looked back at him. Oy snorted before he padded back over to stretch out on the aisle between them. Jake knew it, and Oy probably knew because Jake knew. The exact how of Jake's demise was a mystery still, but he knew it would happen. Maybe if he could find a copy of his book ... but he wasn't sure he really wanted to know. Except to know that the writer had finished it.

It didn't really bear thinking about though, so he shook his head slightly.

"Eyes," Oy echoed Kaylee, blinking his gold-ringed eyes up at her.

"It ..." Jake shook his head. "It was ka, I'm sure. Fate," he clarified, since ka was one of their words. One of Roland's words. "We needed him to make it through. Without him ..." Jake shook his head. "There were places we would have gotten stuck. I would have gotten stuck." He was thinking of the air shafts. He was thinking of the mind trap. He was thinking about the future, about what would happen when he himself was no longer in the picture. When and how would Susannah leave? Voluntarily, or would she be killed as well?

"Ka," Oy repeated with a little growl before he stood up and stepped closer to Kaylee, peering up at her.

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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-10 03:38 pm UTC (link)
“Makes you wonder what’s going on back home without us a little, don’t it?” Kaylee murmured lowly, the fact she’d left a different time to Simon, different circumstances. So were those she left still there? Heading toward whatever it was that was ahead?

As Oy blinked at her, Kaylee was for a second time caught by how those eyes looked, bright gold-ringed. There just wasn’t another animal to compare them too, even the most intelligent animals she’d known had soft brown eyes.

Ka. That wasn’t the first time it’d been said, before Jake offered up a translation for her. “Ka- it means Fate.” She considered, nodding a little as he added just how important it was for Oy to have been with them. Little things that seem to change everything. As Oy stepped closer Kaylee ventured out a hand, giving the billy bumbler a gentle stroke between the ears before drawing her hand away, cautious in case he wanted to protest. “You think it were fate too then?” She asked Oy directly now, before turning back to Jake. “Funny how those you think you’re only meetin’ by chance can change a whole lot.” She liked these two, she found it easy enough to share, just talk on. “Simon and River comin’ on board changed so much for us-”

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-11 02:12 am UTC (link)
Jake shook his head. “I don’t think we’re really gone there. I think right now we’re outside of it. Outside of time and the world. It doesn’t make sense any other way,” he pointed out. “I think … we get back, somehow, and then it’s like things never changed. I’ll be in the car, and Roland will be next to me, and Oy will be in my lap, and … maybe I won’t even remember the train.”

“‘olan,” Oy repeated, his expression clouding briefly as he looked troubled. Well, as troubled as a bumbler could. It was forgotten quick enough as his ears splayed slightly when Kaylee stroked his head. “Ka,” he assured her, blinking once more before flopping down by her feet.

All things serve the beam, Jake thought, but aloud he said, “I guess everything happens for a reason. Maybe this is part of it, somehow,” he said, though he doubted that, still. This was something else. This was something that wasn’t related to his story. Not directly, and not even sideways like that mess in the middle had been. This had nothing to do with the Man in Black or the writer, he was sure of it.

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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-11 08:25 am UTC (link)
“Guess it could be so-” Kaylee agreed and there was part of that thought that was somehow worrying- mostly when she thought of Simon. What he’d go back to- whatever was so bad about the place he left. Still it was hard not to focus on the way the boy spoke - he seemed so calm and full of thoughts- not at all like a kid. “Maybe we won’t remember.” Probably it would be better that way, how would you go back and just fit right back into place.

As the pat seemed well received, Kaylee let Oy settle at her feet and she reached down to stroke his fur again, was a pretty coat he had.

“Never can tell-” Kaylee agreed with a small smile - Jake definitely seemed wise beyond his years and from the things he’d said, she could only guess it was more to do with where he’d come from, what he’d experienced. “So tell me more ‘bout where your from? What’d you and Oy like t’do for fun?” Kaylee keen to lighten the conversation, lighten the mood given all the snow- and well, he was just a little boy. “Did’ya like playin’ in the snow back in New York?”

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-11 11:22 am UTC (link)
Even if they did remember, he knew he didn't have long for it to matter. "It makes you crazy," he said quietly. "When you remember things happening two ways. It's a paradox, and you remember both, but you know it can't possibly be both." Like when you remembered being killed but also being saved on the same day. Remembered meeting/not meeting someone. "I wouldn't want to go back to that," he murmured. "I went through that once," he explained before he glanced up out the window. "I had a very interesting time before I came here," he added with a sad little smile.

"We didn't really have much time for fun," Jake admitted. "We were on a quest. There was a little while though, in the Calla, when we were ... sort of taking a break." It hadn't been a true break, not really, and his heart was heavy with the memories of the Calla. There was death everywhere in his path, but so much of it was there, or related to there. "Before ... before all that though, I liked bowling," he offered. "Do you know what that is?" He didn't want to assume either way, so he glanced over to her to see her answer.

"And movies," he added. "I liked watching movies. I didn't really play in the snow that much."

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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-12 12:56 am UTC (link)
Kaylee couldn't help a small frown, Jake wasn't speculating here, this had all happened to him. Kaylee was willing to believe anything given folk here came from different places, future, past - even different times from the same place. "Sounds like-" She said softly, her tone lower. She only hoped he'd have something more stable here, yet a train that could travel through time and space didn't sound it. Still she had faith, she'd look out for him whether he needed it or not. "Seems like it's safe here." She added a touch more warmly, though she'd been on the train all of a few days she hoped it might help.

Not that Serenity was always all fun and games - was worse to see a kid say they hardly had time for fun. Wasn't fair. Though she smiled to him all the same, not wanting to show her concern. "Seems like you got all the time in th'world now-" She encouraged, before he asked about bowling, she gave a nod. "Sure do-" Kaylee confirmed brightly, probably not exactly the same as he remembers. "Didn' have a set of pins aboard our boat though." She grinned, thinking back. "But we used to like throwin' horsehoes to pass th'time. Or play ball."

Kaylee nodded once again, still enthusiastic to talk on lighter things. "Oh me too- sometimes we'd get old movies off the Cortex." But they didn't so much have a big screen to watch it on. "Wonder if there's a car that's got somethin' like that set up?"

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-12 01:49 am UTC (link)
Jake shrugged in response to her comment about the safety. "So far," he said. Nothing had happened to him yet, and while the stop had been in a place that could be construed as dangerous, he hadn't fallen to any harm. He just couldn't help but think it was going to stay friendly as time wore on.

Still, he recognized that he was bringing down the conversation, and he shook his head at himself. There was no need to be so grown-up right now. "What kind of ball?" He asked. He was thinking baseball, but he was curious what she'd really meant by it.

"'all," Oy mumbled before he yawned and rested his jaw along his paws.

He shook his head to her question. "I haven't seen one, if they do, and we've pretty thoroughly explored all the cars. You think if they were planning on keeping us here for weeks and months, they'd give us some sort of entertainment." He paused. "We have books. They got them on the last supply run. They're up in the baggage car. But that's all we've really got."

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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-12 01:00 pm UTC (link)
“Oh- well it was kinda just somethin’ we made up.” Kaylee smiled thoughtfully, missing them or no it was hard for such memories to be anything but fond. “Didn’ really have a name- no rules neither.” She thought about how best to describe it. “Three on each team- n’we just tried to get a ball through a hoop in th’middle.” Pretty much any move was acceptable, tackling, shoving, even launching the ball from wherever you might like.

Kaylee peered down at Oy, watching his wide yawn before he settled - near made her a little sleepy to watch.

“Wouldn’t mind takin’ a look through the books they got here.” Kaylee supposes Simon’s already had a browse. “Seems a shame- maybe if there’s another salvage mission going on soon, once we got the basics, th’important stuff we could look into somethin’ to keep folk occupied. Games an’ th’like. Maybe even movies and somethin’ to play ‘em with if we can find it.”

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-12 02:46 pm UTC (link)
Jake tried to imagine it, and he guessed it was something like basketball, though he guessed the 'hoop' idea might have given him that sort of imagery. He wondered if they'd be able to convert one of the cars, but he wasn't sure there was one that wasn't used. Or that someone hadn't already commandeered for something else. "That sounds like fun," he offered. Something to do, anyway, because who knew when the train was going to stop again? They didn't even currently have a destination.

"I think they have to restock on supplies at every stop," Jake replied. "But there's a lot of people now, so it shouldn't be hard to find some people to put in charge of finding entertainment. It just kind of depends on what time wind up in, what kind of things we can find. Maybe if we stop somewhere more modern, we'd have some luck," he suggested as he watched Oy. He knew the bumbler wasn't asleep, not even close, but to anyone else's glance, that's exactly the way it would appear. Oy appeared to be relaxed, with slow, even breathing. Jake knew he was still as alert as anything, and he grinned slightly.

"It would be good though. To have things like that, and to keep people from thinking too much about ... what is."

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[info]rainbow_parasol
2012-01-13 12:48 pm UTC (link)
"Hey, you’n me could always be in charge of it?" It wasn’t quite a tease, there was probably more important things they could be put to if there was a group looking to collect supplies and they were needed. But keeping spirits high and folks together could be just as important as any other sorts of supplies.

Tempted as she was to pat Oy again, she let him alone as grew still. “Looks like we’re keepin’ someone up, huh?” Kaylee observed a little more quietly of the sleeping Oy with a grin. Watching him reminded her of the way a dog curled up at your feet, she felt kind of accepted - that he was so relaxed, even made things feel a little homey, in a way.

“Yeah, exactly that's right.” Kaylee agreed softly. “Stop folk thinkin’ on what they miss, their homes n’people and such.” She tried not to linger on it too long, it hardly helped. “N’you know, help folk to get to know one another better too.”

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[info]aim_with_my_eye
2012-01-13 02:56 pm UTC (link)
Jake grinned. "We could," he agreed. She might have a better idea of what the adults would find entertaining, though he guessed even grownups read comics. He guessed it would depend on where they stopped and what was available.

He shook his head as he glanced to Oy. "He can pretty much sleep anywhere," Jake assured her. It seemed easier than saying he was sort of just faking being asleep.

"That's a good idea," he replied. "Helping people get to know each other." He didn't think he had met everyone, and he thought they'd all do better with more friends to talk to and people to associate with.

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