[Video] After Luke Siths out

[wrench_and_ruffles]

[Kaylee's trying very hard to stay calm. Stress is bad for the baby. Which really makes all this lousy timing.

So she's trying to deal with this entire situation by the method she's learned from many of her nearest and dearest.]

You know. My favourite thing about Verdana is all the stuff that happened in Mayfield that doesn't happen here. You could count on people to actually stay the same person from day to day. I promise, I am plenty grateful already, I didn't need the reminder.

[She keeps reminding herself that Luke and everybody else will be back to normal sooner or later. But it's not terribly comforting right now.]

I am too hormonal to deal with this.

[She nearly ends the transmission there, but then she remembers one more thing. Luke was supposed to pick things up on his way home from work. And now she's feeling even worse than before.]

Could... somebody pick me up some ginger and crackers? Please?

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[Video]

[wrench_and_ruffles]

Yeah. One of the new people is from another one too.

[Video]

[herarrows]

That's...frightening.

[wrench_and_ruffles]

Thanks.

You hang in there, ya hear?

[She's not so wrapped up in her own misery as to miss that it's rough being a kid alone here]

[video ; private]

[wrench_and_ruffles]

I'm worried Jayne or the Cap'n'll do somethin' foolish when they catch wind of this.

[Because they're protective]

He's dangerous right now.

[wrench_and_ruffles]

[Kaylee nods. With Inara, she does]

He scared me. He was so hurt and angry.

[unofficial_ambassador]

[She doesn't know him that well, but it's still surprising.]

He was angry with you?

[wrench_and_ruffles]

With the world, I think. But me too. Kept goin' on about how I'd left him.

[She shakes her head]

If he was always like that I would have.

[unofficial_ambassador]

And he doesn't remember anything.

[How does something like this happen.]

If this is a . . . temporal . . . thing, maybe Salvation's AI knows something about it.

[pepperspray]

[Pressing her lips firmly together, Pepper nods again, the tears pushed back for the moment with the beginnings of what will be the adult Potts' fearsome ability to compartmentalize.]

I'll try my best. Um... what's your name? I probably should have asked that first, maybe.

[Video]

[wrench_and_ruffles]

It's a bit creepifyin'.

But when ya think about it... once ya know there's all these other worlds out there, it kinda makes sense...

[wrench_and_ruffles]

Remembers lots of things. Just nothin' that actually happened.

[Now that she mentions it]

Which does sound like somethin' she might know about.

[wrench_and_ruffles]

I'm Kaylee... Skywalker.

[Even if the person she got the name from wasn't acknowledging that right now]

[unofficial_ambassador]

There've been some strange - Do you know if he'd been seeing things earlier? Alternate timelines.

[pepperspray]

[Virginia doesn't have her adult self's ability to read someone's tone and body language quite as down pat, but the pause between the names is enough to catch her ear. She looks considering for a moment, and then brightens as she comes to a decision.]

I'll be right over with your soup then, Miss Kaylee!

[And so, off of the cameras and a quarter hour later, she does.]

[Action]

[cantcatchme]

Yeah, well, I've done dangerous before. I can handle it. Someone needs to talk some tense into the guy.

[wrench_and_ruffles]

He didn't say anythin'. And it's the sort of thing we would talk about, normally.

[Video]

[herarrows]

I...suppose it does, in a strange way. But I'd rather see Valdemar or Rethwellan, or hells even Hardorn or Karse before I see another place like this. [Those last two might be an exaggeration.]

I suppose we don't have much choice, though, do we?

[unofficial_ambassador]

You'd have noticed, I think.

[She pours some of the drink into a mug and brings it over to Kaylee.]

I probably don't need to warn you it's hot.

[wrench_and_ruffles]

General idea with tea, most of the time.

[Iced tea being an obvious exception. But really she just watched Inara make it.]

I've gotten pretty good at noticin' weird stuff brewin', but this came outta nowhere from him.

[Action]

[wrench_and_ruffles]

I don't want anyone gettin' hurt on my account.

[If he'd done that much to her... what would he do to someone he didn't remember some weird messed up history with?]

[Video]

[wrench_and_ruffles]

[She shakes her head. CHoice on that scale was a long time gone for her]

Just gotta play the cards we're dealt. Find a way to make the best of it.

[Which she had been doing right up until this]

[unofficial_ambassador]

Sometimes it doesn't really 'brew'. It just happens.

[Video]

[herarrows]

Just like home, hm?

[Action]

[cantcatchme]

Aw, he'd have to catch me, first! And Quicksilver isn't easily caught, I promise you that.

[He winks. This Pietro seems to think he's hot stuff even more than the last, if that's possible.]

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[wrench_and_ruffles]

That might not be enough. He can see things before they happen. Move things without touching. All that's part of the reason he always insists on trying to help everyone. But if he's usin' it wrong...