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PICK YOUR POISON
PIC PROMPTS / TFLN / RANDOM SCENARIO
HAN SOLO velocities	BETTY MCRAE bombsheller	RIVER TAM subsulcus	RIVER TAM (AU) comprehender
SIMON TAM vest	BRIA THAREN exulted	NADINE CROSS bridaled	GU JUN-PYO toddler
available on special request: veronica sawyer, benjamin linus, imani, maria deluca, mushu, poseidon, niccolò machiavelli, malik al-sayf, chloe

Comments

[subsulcus]

If there's one thing the crew of the Roci will notice, beyond the rest of the chaos, it's that the new ship on the scene isn't aiming to destroy the Serenity, doesn't seem to pay any mind at all to them even when they do start shooting. Whoever they are, they want River Tam back alive, and each shot from the sleek Alliance interloper is strategic, meant to disable what little the Serenity has going for it.

Mainly, the engines.

They're in the cargo bay when the ship rocks again, Mal's shouting carrying down but not directed at them for the moment. It's all jargon, back and forth between him and Wash and Kaylee about how they need to go, how they can't, about how parts of the engine room are on fire now. The rest of the crew has their own places to be -- Inara getting her shuttle ready for a quick exit, Book helping in the engine room as best he can (and praying, probably), and Jayne and Zoe standing at the cargo bay doors with guns drawn for anything that tries to come through.

Jayne is grumbling to himself, vacillating between lamenting that they let Holden in at all and wondering if they can still claim the reward money on the Tams if they hail the new ship.

River isn't screaming. On some level, she knows it won't help any. On another, she knows it never did. On yet another, her throat is too closed up with fear to get more sound out than a keening whine as she pulls at her brother to bring him back and away from the doors.

"Simon, they'll come. They'll come and they reach inside --"

It's like words are just falling out of her mouth at this point, anxious and afraid, teary eyes trained with a laser focus on Simon, Holden's presence completely forgotten for the moment.