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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"You'll be okay." He whispers.

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Lacey starts slightly and opens her eyes, blushing as she realizes that she's being hugged by a boy. Her overwrote mind immediatly goes into a giddy blankness.

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"Hungry?"

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She shakes her head, though if she paid attention she's faint from it. Supper had been the reason for her walk across the feild. But right now, even though she feels terrible, she's comfy and doesn't really want to move....

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"Okay." So he just sits there and holds her. Not doing much of anything else.

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She's nearly asleep, and even having those odd half-dreams that make you start and jerk, when her stomach suddenly loudly lets the world know that she is so hungry.

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Which is why whether she wants to go or not River takes her to the galley because so far he's had no intention of letting go of her.