Simon Tam (![]() ![]() @ 2012-11-23 17:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | simon tam |
Who: Simon and Ginger
What: One minute you're returning to a safe, comfortable bunk, the next...Best Buy. For the holidays. Oh dear.
When: Early Friday morning
Where: Best Buy! (Lawrence has to have one!)
Warnings: Chinese swearing...possibly English swearing. And crazy people. It's Black Friday
It was all finally making sense. Why they had taken River, what they had done to her. And why she, and in turn, he, was now a fugitive from the Alliance. Why he'd spent so much time running, so much time hiding. It was a terrifying thought if he let it be. But they were safe for now, back on board Serenity. Back home. When had he begun to think of the Firefly class ship as his home? When had he been so willing to put Osiris behind him?
River was safe, though. Oh, it had been a close call, there was no denying that. But she was safe, and she was comfortable, or as much as he could manage to make her, considering. And he tucked her blanket more firmly around her as she finally drifted off to sleep. He stood to walk away, to get himself ready for sleep, when he realized something had drastically changed. For one, he was no longer on the Serenity. And if he was...well, something had gone terribly wrong.
The setting seemed odd. People rushed around him, some shouting, some seemingly quite angry. People pushed him from all angles. One swore in his ear to get the hell out of the way. "What the hell...?" he murmured in Chinese, glancing around. The things around him weren't familiar from any market. They looked more like something out of history books. Cassettes...no, videos. No! DVDs. That was them. And big devices, probably things to play the old DVDs on. Or not. Would those be snatched up by a very stressed looking woman in her forties and rushed off? Hard to say.
His head was spinning and, if he had any idea where his medbay was, he'd go there. But he didn't. Because it was clearly nowhere around.
Too proud to call out to the captain for help, and too afraid of the Alliance to call for River, Simon decided to try his luck with the others. "Kaylee?" he called out, wincing at the sound of his voice blending with so many others. There wasn't much hope, was there? He had to try. "Um. Wash? Zoe? ...anyone?" He looked ridiculous. But what else could he do? Maybe Jayne had drugged him and left him here. That...actually seemed a reasonable explanation. Oddly enough.