boyRiver's 'verse - Onboard Serenity - Saving Lacey

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Save her. Her being a girl named Lacey. It's what they'd told them about. Mornbein didn't know it but for him they'd gotten rather loud. The voices normally did. When he went through the cafe door he'd landed right in the cargo hold and noted the four guns pointed at some girl he didn't know. His own gun was suddenly raised and pointed right back at them.

"River?"

His eyes narrowed slightly at his big brother. "Put 'em down."

"No ruttin' way I'm takin' orders from..." Jayne starts but backs up once that gun is pointed at him. He knows how crazy moonbrain there is.

"Now." River says those eyes just watching them. Once the guns are down and the crew backs up he cants his head and looks at the girl. No, she didn't go squish. Her brainpan was still intact. "Are you okay?"

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Her eyes go round and she unconciously grabs hold of his arm and clings tightly enough to pinch. "Oh...."

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"It's nice up here."

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Lacey is too caught up in the sensation of realizing that she's floating in the middle of nothing in a metal shell and fighting vertigo to hear him.

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"Should lay you down. Might help."

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She hears that and nods, making a small sound of discomfort as her stomach lurches. Don't worry, she's got strong guts and isn't giving Mal any excuses to hate her.

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And he simply takes her back to his bunk and lays her down.

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Lacey curls on her side, shaking and hugging herself as a few more tears run down her cheeks. -Why, God? Why? I wanna go home. Please? Please?-

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And River just covers her up. She'd pushed him away early so other than that he doesn't know what to do.