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Kaylee (fixesthings) wrote in silverage,
@ 2011-08-26 21:31:00

Entry tags:

!log, neville longbottom, simon tam

Who: Kaylee, Neville, and anyone else who wants to join!
When: Friday evening
Where: Central Park - between the great hill and harlem moor. Right about where 105th and 7th would intersect.
What: crash-landing a shuttle and being very very very confused!
Rating: Low
Status: closed/openish!

It was impressive how much the ship could fall into disrepair when Kaylee was out of commission so to speak. The wound had left her sore for a few weeks afterward, but with the doctor's help - and was she ever pleased the doctor was staying - she'd gotten back to her feet in no time at all. After making sure Serenity wouldn't drift off aimless, she set off to fix the comm link in the other shuttle. Inara's had been fixed up no problem, but this one was proving just a bit trickier. As she crossed the two copper wires, the door hissed shut and the shuttle shot out of Serenity. "Cap'n!" Kaylee yelled into the comm stupidly before realizing that she hadn't fixed it. No matter, she'd just pilot her back and face his wrath and everyone's snickers when she redocked.

The shuttle seemed to have a mind of its own and it careened towards the nearest planet, which Kaylee was shocked to see looked almost exactly like the maps of Earth-That-Was. How had they managed to terraform it like that? The shuttle wasn't turning around, and oh, of course it was heading for the city center. The shuttle had enough manoeuvrability so that she could direct it towards the only green area she could see. The wasn't a docking pad to be had anywhere around, and Kaylee wondered if this was a failed planet of some sort. No matter. The Cap'n would come. Angry, but he'd come.

Landing wasn't nearly as tricky as she thought it would be, and she glided down, skimming over a body of water and coming to rest near a large open-topped hill meadow area. There were some picnic tables about. First thing she did was open the control panel and see what was up. The haltmac coil had fried. No matter. It was an easy enough fix. She stepped cautiously out of the shuttle, wincing as she saw all these people looking about at her.

"I'm lookin' for a haltmac coil," she said, addressing the first person she saw, a rather nice looking blonde man. "So if you can just point me in the right direction, I can be outta your way again real soon." Granted, the Cap'n would probably come before that, but that was okay. She needed someone to pay for the coil.

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profplant
2011-08-28 05:43 am UTC (link)

Neville quickly backed away from the terrified girl. "Miss Frye, I'm sorry. I'm not- I'm not going to hurt you. I wouldn't hurt you, I wouldn't hurt anyone. I haven't- I wouldn't- I'm not-" He found himself stumbling over his words, tripping up in his rush to explain himself. He didn't know what to do, or how to explain what had happened.

"I promise, I swear, this is Earth. Earth, 1964. Lo-look, I-" He frantically checked his pockets, wishing and hoping he'd bought a paper that day. Of course I didn't. That would have been too easy, wouldn't it.. He held his hands up, out slightly and raised, in the universal sign of surrender. "Look, I don't have any weapons. I'm not going to hurt you, Miss Frye, I swear that to you." When a well dressed young man in what appeared to be a doctor's uniform appeared and recognized her, he let out a sigh of relief.

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fixesthings
2011-08-28 05:51 am UTC (link)

He was one of the more curiouser 'bad guys' she'd ever come across. And he seemed to be doing a really bad job at it. "Kaylee," she said, rubbing her palms together. She was relaxing a little. No one this terrified of her was going to hurt her, right? "Maybe you're ill," she said softly, mostly to herself, when she noticed Simon.

"Simon. Xie tian xie di," she said to him. "Where's the Cap'n 'nth'rest of 'em? I think ..." She paused, then added in a much softer and kinder tone. "I think he's not well." She believed him when he said the last time that he wasn't going to hurt her, but he had said she couldn't leave, and well, Simon was here now.

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can_swear
2011-08-28 05:58 am UTC (link)

Simon had arrived in time enough to gather this man was trying to explain the situation to Kaylee, and he flashed a little smile in his direction for the effort. "He's ... I'm sure he's fine," Simon said, glancing briefly toward Neville. "It's New York, '64, on Earth-That-Was before it wasn't."

He exhaled softly. "The others aren't here. It's just me. It's been just me for ... a few weeks," he admitted, uncertain just then how long it actually had been. Two weeks? Three? Time had blurred a little.

"We ... we're stuck here. As far as ... anyone seems to know." He glanced again at Neville before extending a hand. "Simon Tam," he introduced himself in an effort to avoid the awkward 'third wheel' situation.

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