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ten_fwd2016-01-03 04:19 am
companioning) wrote in ten_fwd2016-01-03 04:19 am
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I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful 愛 Open
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.
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.
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They hadn't spent as much time together as he might have expected, but that was almost normal for the two of them. He'd always been friendly with her on Serenity, but he'd also rarely gone out of his way to seek out the company of others of the crew, beyond River and Kaylee. And here, he'd been busy with Kaylee and with his work.
That didn't make him any less happy to see her, so when he saw her sitting a table in the lounge, he got a pot of tea from the replicator and brought it over to her.
"May I?"
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But now, she was feeling a bit better and she had missed his company.
"Of course, please, sit." She set her padd down before resting her hands on the table. "How have you been? Busy as always, I imagine."
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They were still friends, even if their time together hadn't been frequent since she got here. Between time with Kaylee and his shifts in the infirmary, both scheduled and unscheduled, he'd had little time for much else other than the reading and research that were still a constant part of his schedule here.
He set the tea down in front of her, with two cups. (He'd missed tea with Inara on the occasions when he'd run into her in the kitchen on Serenity.)
"Ah, yes. I suppose that's not much of a surprise. I'm working in the infirmary, so there's always plenty to do. I should ask how you've been doing. This place, uh, takes some getting used to."