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[goodjob]

Who: Fiona Gallagher and you.
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: the Marsiva
When: 1/20

[The camera manages to catch Fiona waking up with an angry yelp before she stumbles furiously out of bed, and off screen. Something like a muffled scream can be heard, but not seen. She's gone for a fair amount of time before she returns to addresse the camera directly.]

[She looks tired, a breath away from haggard. Her voice is harsh.] I feel like my room's been downgraded. What are our coordinates? [She frowns, scratches the back of her neck.] Where are we? And... how long's it been since the fire?

[That out of the way, she relaxes and asks in a more conversational tone:] And has anybody got a smoke? I'm definitely not quitting now. [She rolls her eyes.]

Oh, and Adrien, you owe me a drink. [Muttered:] At least.

[Anyone who wants to find Fiona on the bridge of the Marsiva is welcome to do so! They can find her when she just woke up, when she went off screen to scream into a pillow, or after the message when she'll be spending her time inspecting everything, and trying to find some cigarettes.]

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[goodjob]

[Opens mouth to argue... closes mouth.] Not in space.

[She runs a hand down her face.] Look, the pyromaniac gene skipped me. I'm sorry if you had some kinda traumatic experience, [From her tone, she clearly thinks this would be a dumb excuse,] with cigarettes. But I could really use one, so let's try to think of the bigger picture, here.

[sandhate]

[ His eyes narrow just slightly. ]

Of course not in space. But you're on a spaceship. Fires on a spaceship, that's a big problem. So if you have a history of that, it would be nice to know beforehand.

Try and think of the bigger picture.

[goodjob]

On a spaceship in space, that's what I fucking meant! I don't have a history of shit, it was only the one time to get rid of those fucking rats! [Gesticulating wildly.] And that was in Chicago, which is only 'space' if you buy from Fat Eddy.

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[sandhate]

[ A deep frown ] You thought it would be a good idea to start a fire, so you can get rid of rats.

[sandhate]

[ And at this exact moment, he realized he doesn't want this person on his ship ]

Good job. How did that work out for you?

[goodjob]

We had to smoke 'em outta the walls! I was in seventh grade, gimme a break. You think I could afford one of those fancy exterminators while I was busting my ass breaking child labor laws, you've got another thing coming.

[A pause to try and decide if she should care about how much she just revealed about herself.]

[Nah.]

What are you, the fucking fire brigade?

[sandhate]

[ Oh, that kind makes sense. And if she had left it there, he would have apologized. Because that makes sense.

But it didn't end there so neither does he. ]

You're on a spaceship. Everyone on a spaceship should be their own fire brigade! Or did you miss the part where I said fires on a spaceship is a big deal!?

[goodjob]

Everyone on a spaceship should be their own fire brigade? [She... laughs.] You sound like a fucking after school special, you know that? Jesus, you even got the haircut. [She gives him a little salute.]

[sandhate]

[ WOW. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH HIS HAIR. YOU FUCKING PHILISTINE.

stiffly: ]

Thanks. I'm sure you're an expert on after school specials.

[goodjob]

More of a hobby. [Shrug.] So what's your deal, huh? You new? [Like they haven't spent the last fifteen minutes yelling at each other.]

[sandhate]

[ well then.

he manages to not look exasperated. ]

No, I've been stuck here a month. They let me fly a ship, at least.

[ he gestures at his neck ]

Do you know which one you get?

[ snorts ] Wait, let me guess.

Pest control.

[goodjob]

[She snorts. Probably deserved that.] If there's a whole team dedicated to pest control, they need more help than I can give 'em.

No, I- [Her expression changes, and for the first time she really takes stock of all the knew knowledge just... residing in her brain now.] I guess I know how to fly a ship now. Jesus. This isn't even the weirdest thing that's happened in the last few months.

[sandhate]

Son of a bantha, you're a pilot.

[ he manages not to look completely baffled and frustrated at the same time, mostly because he doesn't know what his face should be doing. probably horrified. ]

Oh, that's just great.

[goodjob]

Hey, fuck you, I been driving since I was eleven. [It's said without any venom. Jokingly:] Or you got something against lady drivers?

[sandhate]

[ He doesn't even bother answering that, also more pressing: ] Driving and flying aren't the same thing, you know that.

And I've been driving since I was nine.

[goodjob]

Yeah, I know that. I never flown before, dunno if I'll be any good at it, but it's weird, I know all this shit about it now.

Guessing you learned the normal way?

[sandhate]

Sort of. [ gonna hold back on the space wizardry shit for now ]

It would be strange if you've never flown before. I got the same augument, I didn't feel anything different for most part.

[goodjob]

As normal as a planet with space ships, I got it.

Huh. Is that normal?

[sandhate]

Eh. I've flown ships before I got woke up here and I only have one of these so I wouldn't know what's normal.

Besides, you're pre-spaceflight human brought on-board for someone else's entertainment. That's about as normal as it gets.

[goodjob]

Hey, we been to space, just... not for shits and giggles. [Shrug. She's not interested in defending Earth's honor for long.]

[In a more serious tone,] Someone else's entertainment. I keep seeing that pop up on the network. Not real excited about it.

[sandhate]

[ pls don't bring up earth unless she wants anakin to list all the star systems he knows and ask if that's where earth is. we could be here for hours ]

Really. You aren't real excited about being on a holodrama.

Join the club with the rest of the crew.

[goodjob]

[anakin pls]

Jesus, you must be popular wherever you come from. Do you do this third degree shit to everybody you talk to?

[sandhate]

What, I'm only trying to say everyone shares your feeling about it.

[goodjob]

We need to work on your people skills. If I wasn't so goddamn gracious I'd have picked a fight with you already. [Said with a heavy helping of irony, maybe even self-deprecation.]

[sandhate]

Well, what do you want me to say?

There's nothing we can do about this situation we're in at the moment. And you're going to see a lot more weird, possibly unpleasant things on the network. The best you can do is try to live and help each other out when there's a call for it.