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Tweak says, "Moriaty?"

Simon Tam (bigcitydandy) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2012-11-23 17:37:00

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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.

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bigcitydandy
2012-11-25 01:34 am UTC (link)

He knew he was a terrible liar and he wouldn't have been terribly offended if she'd pointed it out. Instead he listened to her story. Kansas wasn't really any more familiar to him than Lawrence was. Lawrence was the city, Kansas was the planet, perhaps? But then she told him the year. And his first reaction was, why would she tell him the year?

His second reaction was to turn a bit pale. "Twenty...twelve? As in two-thousand and twelve?" This wasn't normal. It was, in fact, impossible. He couldn't have traveled in time. It didn't exist, time travel, not even in his 'future' world. Space travel, sure, they had that down. But time? "I... That's not the... No."

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onefiercebitch
2012-11-25 02:13 am UTC (link)

She waited, let him process for a moment. When he lost color in his face, Ginger wondered if he might faint. That would be bad, here in the middle of the crazy crowd surrounding them. "Yes..." she nodded slowly, reaching over to tug gently on his shirt to get his attention and making a motion for him to follow her. They needed out of this crowd before she explained everything else.

Once they were free from the masses, Ginger looked back at him. "People...that end up here...they travel through space, time, dimensions. It's...complicated. And it's magic, crazy as that might sound..." she pushed her hair behind her ear. "Where were you, before you were here? What year was it?"

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bigcitydandy
2012-11-25 05:20 am UTC (link)

Frankly, given the shock, Simon was pretty easy to maneuver. When she tugged at him, he followed with no questions, no hesitation. He had one goal and that was get out of the crowded market or wherever it was they were. So when she led the way through the crowd, he followed willingly. Hesitantly, but willingly.

He tried to focus on her words, but they were impossible to understand. Space, sure, no big. But time? More, dimensions? And magic, well, that was impossible. Wasn't everything scientific once considered magic? He hesitated again before he answered. "I was on Ariel. Well...I'd just left Ariel. I was on a ship...the Serenity." Even now he was wary about giving even that much information. "The year was twenty-five seventeen," he added, pointing out that over five hundred years had passed for him.

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onefiercebitch
2012-11-25 07:24 pm UTC (link)

She wasn't sure where Ariel was, or what it was honestly, but she nodded as she listened to him explain his prior whereabouts. He was so hesitant, almost skittish, she wondered what sort of world he came from. Not a good one, she guessed.

"A ship?" her interested piqued at that term. "Like in the ocean? Or in space?" She asked curiously. That sounded vaguely familiar. She was pretty sure other people had mentioned it before. "Because there's some people around here that were talking about a spaceship, I'm pretty sure. Maybe you know them? I don't, really, though...so I can't really give you names. But I'm pretty sure most of them are at the complex, so it's a win-win, cause that's where we're going."

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