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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That startles her and she grabs a handful of his shirt, only to start and give a slight shriek as something moves under her hand and squeaks.

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"Just Yahto." River states simply. "A tribble."

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She stares at the tiny scrap of pale blue fluff. "Tribble."

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"Yes. Tribble."

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"But tribbles are only in stories." Brain teetering on the edge of breakage.....

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"No they're not."

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She stares at the little blue thing a little desperately, but then remembers that things in a different place could wind up with the same name. "Are there Klingons too?"

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That makes River blink. "No. Reavers. Not Klingons."

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"Do... do you know what Klingons are?"

Now's proly not a good time to mention the Cafe.

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"No. Don't know."