capt_reynolds (capt_reynolds) wrote in parabolical, @ 2008-08-02 17:41:00 |
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Entry tags: | niki/jessica sanders (future) |
WHO: Mal and OPEN
WHAT: Mal arrives on Earth That Was
WHERE: Starting in hospital, ending in downtown Santa Monica
WHEN: Saturday afternoon
RATED: PG-13
Mal woke with a start. Only moments ago he had ended his battle with the Operative and he was now alone in a white hospital room. He struggled as he pulled out the primitive devices hooked to his arms wondering exactly what outer planet his crew had taken him to.
"ZOE?! .... JAYNE?!? ... WA--" He caught himself. Wash was dead. He stood-- a bit wobbly-- and opened the hospital drawer. He found his clothes but his guns were missing. "What kind of bughouse-- KAYLEE?" Nothing.
He threw on his clothes and left the hospital- his charts marked him as "John Doe" and had no further information. Once safely outside of the UCLA medical hospital he asked a passing student...
"'Cuse me Miss but... what planet am I on?"
She looked at him funny and answered sarcastically, "Earth. Welcome."
He blinked, figuring she was joking-- but she had already had enough of him and had since walked on. He pulled the arm of another passing student, "What planet am I on?"
"Earth, buddy."
"No, see-"
"Weirdo." He walked away.
Mal ran his fingers through his head, finding a rather sore goose-egg spot in the process. Maybe it was just his head. He was delusional. There was no way he was on Earth because Earth didn't exist anymore. Walking down Westwood Village, he found a newspaper stand. Doing a double take, he found that the year was.... well, not the year he was from.
He still hurt from before- if there ever was a before. What if he was dead? What is heaven (or hell) was being sent back to Earth-That-Was? Well then, he thought to himself, at least Wash and Book would be here. He stretched his arms and relaxed them behind his head. He had a whole lot of nothing to do and plenty of time to do it.