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Kyle [ Kyle XY ] (not_an_alien) wrote in indarkness_logs,
@ 2010-08-21 23:12:00

Entry tags:

!complete, 2032 08, faith lehane, jaime davies, kyle trager, malcolm reynolds, parker, river tam, simon tam

RP: I want to help
Characters: Kyle, Simon, Jaime, Parker, River, Mal, Faith
Time/Date: evening/night August 21
Location: Infirmary
Warnings/Rating: none?
Summary: Kyle wants to feel useful
Status: Complete

Kyle wanted to be useful, he just didn't know how. He wasn't a leader, he felt like he was in the way when people were cleaning up, he wasn't very good at trying to comfort people - the services for the fallen had mostly confused him. He didn't know what to do, or what he would be good at. He wandered through the lobby, gazing at some of the broken out windows, the boards torn loose, the glass scattered on the floor. He couldn't clean that up, but he was sure someone would eventually.

The lobby med area wasn't as busy as it had been last night and even early this morning, but maybe he could help with the people who didn't need immediate care.

He wandered to the second floor and peeked into the only open infirmary room. What had happened to the other one, he wasn't sure, but it was closed up now, and he wondered if there'd been things in the room, or if it had been cleaned out. When? Today? How? Sometimes, Kyle wondered how they did the things they did here. His mind flicked along different tangents and he let his thoughts play around in the back of his mind as he stepped into the one room.

Blue-green eyes rested first on Jaime, who was curled up in a chair next to a bed, holding onto Mal's hand. He watched her for a moment as her blue eyes focused on the older man, but she didn't seem to notice him here. He looked instead to the doctor who was busy sorting something on the desk. "I want to help," he said softly.

Simon half turned, enough to glance over his shoulder. He parted his lips, but he didn't even know what to say just then. There wasn't really much to do right now. The worst of the injuries had been tended to, and it was just ... recovery for the most part right now. Simon looked around and gestured to Jaime. "See if you can get her upstairs to bed," he suggested.

"He can't," Jaime informed Simon, her jaw setting stubbornly. "I'll go to sleep when Mal wakes up." The odds, actually, were pretty decent she'd beat a retreat once Mal did wake up, to save herself from the mortifying knowledge that he'd know she'd been here, waiting for him to wake up.

"I can't," Kyle dutifully reported to Simon.

Simon was tired, and Simon was edgy, and Simon wanted to both take care of his patients and to take care of his sister, and doing both was proving to be an impossibility, as evidenced by the fact he had no idea where River was just then. "Then ..." He spied a pile of laundered towels, and he gestured. "See if you can ... fold those up." If the boy really wanted to help ...

Kyle smiled as he started over to the pile of laundry to start folding it, happy to be able to do something, even if it was menial and simply busywork.

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accordingtoplan
2010-08-28 05:34 am UTC (link)

"I make no promises," Mal said with a grin. "You leave 'em here, they may be gone in the morning. You leave 'em over their on the counter they'll be less likely to disappear though, you don't feel like stoppin' back in to check on the old and infirmed. Your call entirely, darlin'."

If he'd known Jaime a little better, or trusted that she knew him well enough to know when he wasn't being serious, he'd have said that it would be her fault if he died from overdose, and Simon would blame her. He may have gone on to say that Simon was always looking to increase his cadaver supply. But he didn't trust her to not take him seriously, and that might be the statement that would cause her to take the pills away with her. And maybe she wasn't interested in coming back in the morning to make sure he took the next batch.

"Really, darlin', I'll be fine," he assured her. "You go get some sleep an' don't worry 'bout a mean ol' man like myself. I've lived through worse."

She shivered a bit, feeling electricity in the air like it was a touchable thing, and she let it surround her, not certain how much of it she was imagining, and how much of it was actually real. Her breath left her in a bit of a quiver, and her stomach was in knots. She wasn't certain, exactly, why she was nervous, knowing on a purely logic level that the thoughts surrounding the nerves were foolish. What if she was a bad kisser? What if she did it wrong, and Kyle did not like her afterwards? What if she was wrong, and this... wasn't what was supposed to happen?

But the strength of the desire building in her did a good job of erasing those worries from her mind, and she nodded quickly a few times before she closed her eyes and leaned up to press her lips against his.

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finder
2010-08-28 05:45 am UTC (link)

Jaime nodded and set the pills on the counter. "You're not mean," she pointed out as she glanced over to him. But really ... he was going to be crashed, and she needed to sleep, and as nice as it would be to curl up in bed beside him ... it just wasn't where they were just then.

"So ... I'll see you. Text me if you need anything." She hesitated, lifting one hand before she turned toward the door to let herself out. "Sweet dreams," she added before she drew the door open and slipped into the hall.

Kyle rubbed her back gently as she seemed to hesitate. He had never kissed anyone before, though he had seen it on TV and understood the idea behind it. He smiled when she nodded, and he closed his eyes - which resulted in a slight mis-aim before his lips found hers.

He tightened his arms around her gently as he returned the kiss softly, sweetly, and tenderly.

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accordingtoplan
2010-08-28 08:48 am UTC (link)

"Am too," he said, trying to joke but the words sort of slurred. Oh, but Simon always had the best stuff to share - he was already feeling better. Maybe. Or at the very least the pain in his head was making way for a really awesome feeling instead. Who had said that? He was reminded of a blond guy with strange hair and a weird way of talking...

"'Night darlin'," he said, vaguely aware that Jaime was leaving and unable to hide the pouty face that came with that realization. But he didn't think it mattered - at this rate, he'd barely get his boots off before he'd be asleep. He just hoped that he landed on the bed when he inevitably toppled over.

She tilted her head, seeking his lips as he sought hers, and found nothing odd about it, or wrong. And when their lips touched, she felt nothing wrong about that, either. She felt all sorts of emotions bubbling inside of her, in all shapes and sizes. She let out a soft noise of contentment, hands reaching up to brush through his hair, to run down his back. She had an overwhelming amount of energy all of a sudden that she needed to do something with, and moving her arms, touching him, moving herself so that she was more flush against him, all seemed to be ways to help with it.

Her lips parted against her, and she breathed, "More," against his lips before she returned to kissing him, relying on instincts she wasn't aware she had as she pressed her lips more firmly against his, parting them slightly as she deepened the kiss.

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not_an_alien
2010-08-28 10:23 am UTC (link)

"More?" Kyle echoed as he drew his head back, a grin on his lips as he regarded River. He wasn't precisely certain what she meant by 'more', though he was getting an idea as she returned to kissing him. Deciding that was likely what she'd meant, he returned her kiss.

It took him a few tries to work out the proper amount of pressure and suction to make it feel best (though all of them felt varying degrees of good), and once he thought he had a handle on the kissing part, he started to rub her back gently, holding her body close to his.

"How much is more?" he mumbled against her mouth as he opened his eyes to gaze at her, blinking slightly as he smiled to her. Kissing was nice.

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lilalbatross
2010-08-29 08:33 am UTC (link)

She whimpered softly against his kisses, her breath still coming out in soft shudders, clinging to him desperately as he kissed her and held her.

"Am not certain," she murmured as a response to his questions. She had an ache somewhere around her middle, and she wasn't sure if it was in her heart or her stomach or somewhere else entirely. There was also a tingle moving through her entire body that she couldn't quite place or determine what it was doing. She was going to have to read up on the subject, and oh - wouldn't that please Simon to hear about. She thought that kissing Kyle was helping the ache, but there was definitely an element of making it worse. It was... good though? The feelings were new and confusing, and River wanted more of them, but was also shying away from it because it was so different than anything she'd experienced before. The only thing she could equate it to was feelings that she'd had second hand, from Simon and Kaylee, or Inara, or even Jayne, and experiencing these sorts of things second hand and feeling them for yourself were entirely different situations.

She broke the kiss for a moment to think it over, pressing a series of almost rapid kissing along the line of Kyle's jaw, feeling especially sensitive to the movements of their bodies against each other. She was hyper-aware of everywhere Kyle was touching her right now, and it was both not enough and too much in the same instant.

"Overstimulation," she moaned softly into his neck, just below his ear. "Don't want to stop." She in fact was contemplating the possibility of breaking the laws of physics so that - in a truly innocent way - two objects could inhabit the same space at the same time so that she could be closer to him, but she didn't think she had the right tools to attempt such a feat, and like hell she was putting any distance between herself and Kyle so that she could get them.

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not_an_alien
2010-08-29 08:53 am UTC (link)

"Overstimulation can be bad," Kyle pointed out as he tipped his chin down to gaze at her. He smiled at the kisses to his jaw though, and he stilled his hands on her back. Should they stop? Would they accidentally go too far if they didn't?

River didn't want to stop, but was it right to go ahead? He lifted his hand, stroking her hair gently as he peered at her. "Perhaps should dance slowly first to learn the steps well," he suggested. She would learn the steps quickly, he knew, but he wanted to take time to explore everything.

He did hold her close against him, but he gazed over to her bed as well. "Perhaps we should sleep on it?" he suggested. "I will not leave if you do not wish me to," he continued with a soft smile to him, bright eyes gazing at her innocently.

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lilalbatross
2010-08-29 11:01 am UTC (link)

She wanted to point out that she didn't need to dance slowly to learn the steps, but she understood what he meant when he said it, and part of her agreed with the meaning behind it. So she pouted a bit, but nodded her head.

"Sleep," she agreed, somewhat hesitantly, wondering how realistic that idea was. She didn't think it was possible to get calmed down enough to actually sleep in this state, but maybe just lying together would be enough to ease the confusing thoughts boiling around inside her. She nodded to her own thoughts before she gazed up at Kyle hopefully. "Stay?" she phrased it as a question, even though he had just said he would. It felt less like she was ordering it that way, and she didn't feel as guilty for needing him there.

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not_an_alien
2010-08-29 11:25 am UTC (link)

"I will stay," he promised her. It had been a long couple of days, and he really thought they could both benefit from a sound night's sleep. He released her and stripped out of his shirt because he'd discovered some time ago he didn't like sleeping in it.

"On the floor or in the bed?" he inquired. Normally, he'd simply assume that he should take the floor, but now that they had kissed, perhaps the rules of where he was to sleep had changed? He had a feeling she wanted him to remain closer to her, and he saw no reason to protest this.

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lilalbatross
2010-08-29 11:58 am UTC (link)

She watched as he stripped out of his shirt, swallowing hard for a moment, and her fingers reached out to trace the lines of his chest briefly if only because she could not help it. But she did manage to force her thoughts into a more coherent pattern so that she could respond to his question.

"Irrelevant," she murmured with a shrug of her shoulders. "Bed is of more comfort should we wish it, though if floor is more fitting, I would not protest. Would sleep with you there."

She assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that he would just be sleeping with her. It didn't matter whether that was on the bed or the floor to her, as long as he was with her.

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not_an_alien
2010-08-29 12:02 pm UTC (link)

Kyle nodded. "In the bed," he agreed as he started toward it, slipping off his shoes as he went. He climbed in beneath the covers and smiled over to her. "Will not tell Big Brother," he assured her with a smile. In his naivety, he did not think Simon was going to ask any questions to which Kyle would have to reply that yes, he did sleep with River sometimes.

He reached out his arm for her with a little smile, his eyes already half-closed. It had been a stressful few days, and he was glad it was over, and they were safe.

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