I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful 愛 Open

[companioning]

Who: Inara and OTA
What: Inara reading, exploring the ship or even attempting to use the holodeck.
Where: all over the ship
When: Recently
Status: Open and Ongoing.
Rating: PG-13, just to be safe

Inara hadn't expected to find any sort of peace on the ship, not with knowing what she had waiting for her back home, if she was ever sent back. But there was peace; it was just there beneath her veins, and she had somehow managed to not be quite so skittish and most importantly, she wasn't so wary of those around her. She might have also found a bit of hope, and that was probably due to Kaylee and Simon, showing her that regardless of everything that there was still something out there for each of them.

Still, she's kept herself a little distanced from those around her but she's more relaxed. It shows in the way she carries herself, and the bit of tension that has left her brows and her hands that are loose and not drawn into fists that were ready at a moments notice to protect herself if needed.

She's spent a lot of her time reading in Ten Forward, trying to catch herself up with a history that was vastly different than her own. Sure, there were similarities but the Enterprise's Earth hadn't been used up and its inhabitants forced to flee. Instead they'd managed to almost wipe out humanity with a nuclear and genocidal war and then with the help of Zefram Cochran, managed to initiate first contact with an alien race. She'd made she she read all about that, along with books of politics and poems and wars. She read like a woman starved but she was reading to keep her sanity.

When Inara wasn't doing that, she walked, exploring the parts of the ship was permitted and if anyone talked to her, she was quick to reply with a smile and a greeting. She might also be found trying to figure out how to program something for the holosuite, something that reminded her of Sihnon but well, that wasn't exactly something she understood.

Holodeck - OTA

[fallaces_sunt]

Natasha had only been a little flip when she'd told Stark she was treating being here as a vacation. Relaxing, or rather, burying herself in linguistic study, has been...

Nice.

Fun.

She wouldn't go so far as to say good for her, but buried underneath the intelligence officer is a thwarted academic who is still bitter the NKVD never let her finish her post-graduate linguistic studies.

And yet, the agent is what she is, and she needs to keep her edge - both for her work, and for her own peace and mind and paranoia.

So today, Natasha is in the holodeck, firing guns. She'd started with targets in a mock indoor firing range, and then moved to an 'outside' one. Handguns, then rifles. And if anyone walks in, that's where they'll find her: lying on her stomach on the dirt, shooting quick moving targets.

She's wearing ear-protection, so if anyone wants to talk to her, maybe wait until she's finished her round.

A Doctor walks into a bar [Open]

[madman_inabox]

Eleven saw Clara's name on the rooming list during the holiday party, and he found it odd that he hadn't seen her as of yet. Maybe she was spending time with one of the other hims, and he planned on ignoring those feelings of jealousy that swelled up in his stomach thinking about that.

So, since everyone winds up in Ten Forward at some point or other, that's where the Doctor planned on spending the foreseeable future. Eventually, Clara would appear, or Amy, or maybe someone else that he hadn't talked to just yet.

Eleven sat at a table near the window eating his favorite food, fish fingers and custard, something he assumed someone would question him on. Maybe. Eventually.