Homeless and maybe looking

[alwaysfree]

You sure like torturin' me, don't you? Thought you'd finished with that years ago.

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[companioning]

Surely you can't be that surprised.

[alwaysfree]

She ain't so much as looked at me in years, and now she's pullin' me out at her leisure? I'm not surprised, just sayin' I didn't think she was gonna do that.

[companioning]

I've learned to stop thinking mine wouldn't dare do something. [She sighs, shrugging her shoulders.] It's normally at those very times that she comes up with the worst ideas.

[alwaysfree]

I'm thinkin' that's a thing with these people. I caught her lookin' at one of those places. Amatomnes, or somethin'.

I ain't goin' there, nohow.

[companioning]

My mun tells me that there is... um, a version of me there, though she's married and has a baby. But I believe my mun would be quite thrilled to see you there.

[alwaysfree]

A baby? Really, now? [that's something he never thought he'd hear.] Well, I'm not thrilled about it. Doesn't sound like a place I'd go to, if you know what I mean. Not enough shooting and smuggling. [Okay, maybe he's joking around a little.]

[companioning]

[See this look, Mal? It's her you're not funny look.]

Oh, I'm sure you'd find something else to occupy yourself with. [She's not going to think of what the something else is, thank you very much.]

[alwaysfree]

[And he just gives her his most charming smile in return.]

Oh, I'm sure I will. 'Cause there's more to do than petty theft, especially in a place like that. [His smile gets bigger. Also, she's very free to smack him for being an insufferable idiot.]

[companioning]

[She kind of hates you right now, Malcolm Reynolds.]

Oh, so I've heard. [Why must you egg her on, Mal? Now she has to be snippy.] Are you sure you can remember how to live life without being a petty thief?

[hot4engines]

Don't think your mun's gonna listen to ya. Mine never does.

[alwaysfree]

It's worth tryin', though, right?

[hot4engines]

Guess it couldn't hurt ♥ Know where they plan on tryin' to put you?

[alwaysfree]

Not a clue. Seems she's just pullin' me out of the hat because she can.

Last time she put me somewhere, it was on some ship called Stacey. Wasn't anything like Serenity.

[hot4engines]

'least it was a ship, though! I don't got much in the way of ships or engines to work on here...

[alwaysfree]

Where's your mun got you? Probably ain't a decent place if there's no ships to poke at.

[hot4engines]

Place called New Moore thoughtformed. Ain't got none of the crew here. Simon's been around twice, but that's all.

facetwinnin' it

[writeswrongs]

Oh they never really finish. They always end up coming back somehow.

hell yes

[alwaysfree]

She's got a whole passel of others runnin' around. Thought she'd forgotten all about me.

[writeswrongs]

['Passel'. He likes it.]

Trust me, they never forget. They also get ideas that they think are brilliant but are actually awful.

[alwaysfree]

That so? I'm guessin' you're talking about your mun.

[writeswrongs]

Oh yeah. 'Let's send you to a city where you get to be a Norse god! You get powers! Oh, did I mention the random creatures of the night that come out to attack you? Sorry, my bad.'

[alwaysfree]

[That doesn't sound so bad.]

That's kinda the part where you start shootin' things.

[writeswrongs]

Not a huge fan of shooting things. I mean.. I can. I just.. prefer not to, if possible.

[alwaysfree]

So you're just gonna let yourself get jumped? [That's real smart, Castle.]

[writeswrongs]

No. I'm gonna get the hell out of there and hole up somewhere until the zombie creatures are gone.

[If only Beckett would actually listen and come with him.]

Then there's the place where I fell through a Rift of some sort. Apparently I'm now in post-Apocalyptic Chicago.

[alwaysfree]

Sounds like you're one of those with a good head on your shoulders. Though, I'm more the point and shoot type, but at least you're not gonna get yourself killed. [Maybe.]

Don't know where that is, but all right.

[writeswrongs]

United States? Mid-west? Windy City?

By the way, I held back on mentioning this, but you are an incredibly handsome man if I do say so myself.

[glassesonachain]

The context of the situation determines whether or not it can be considered torture. Otherwise, it sounds like you're exaggerating.

[alwaysfree]

Well, considerin' that mun person was looking at someplace where folks get all persuasive with each other, I'd say it's pretty close.

[glassesonachain]

Get all...persuasive? I'm not sure I understand your meaning.

[alwaysfree]

It's, uh, like when a couple of consentin' people decide they want to start a family. Or not, dependin' on the situation.

[glassesonachain]

Oh. That.

It sounds rather...unpleasant.

[alwaysfree]

Maybe it won't be so bad. I can't really say though, seeing how I've never been there.

[schooledinlies]

And just when we think they're finished, they start right back up again.

Torment is a profession for these 'mun' types.

[alwaysfree]

Is your mun messin' around with you too?

[schooledinlies]

Always. But not for any particular reason at the moment beyond what some might say is "the usual".

Is yours being especially difficult? Beyond planning to send you off to be trapped in some fēng​diān place, of course.

[alwaysfree]

I'm beginnin' to remember why me and my mun don't get on too well. Seems a thing with these folk.

And nothing I can't handle. She's just lookin' at places that ain't a right fit. She don't seem to know me too well, and I don't think she cares much about that.

[schooledinlies]

I can't imagine anywhere being a good fit for you that isn't the ship, with the crew. Although I suppose if there's thrilling crime to get up to that might take the edge off a bit.