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Oct. 15th, 2007 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
river_meimeiRiver's in the hallway between her room and Simon (and Kaylee)'s, stretched out on her stomach. She's examining a physics magazine: from Milliways, apparently, to judge by the glossy pages and the fact that the crew hasn't seen a mail drop or market in a little while; usually, if River gets a magazine or book there, she devours it the same day.
Her only concession to being in the way of traffic is that she's settled up against her own wall, instead of lying right in the middle of the floor.
Her only concession to being in the way of traffic is that she's settled up against her own wall, instead of lying right in the middle of the floor.
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Date: 2007-11-04 04:37 am (UTC)"Everybody," she says in the general direction of his knee.
"You're hurting. Simon. I know it. Every day."
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Date: 2007-11-04 04:53 am (UTC)He looks down at his hands, twining together.
"It isn't going to help." Quietly. "I'm sorry, meimei."
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Date: 2007-11-04 05:01 am (UTC)"I want to."
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Date: 2007-11-04 05:02 am (UTC)"I know."
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Date: 2007-11-04 05:06 am (UTC)"I try, and, and I can't."
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Date: 2007-11-04 05:14 am (UTC)(know the kind of pain you're dealing with)
all too familiar.
"Not that way. I'm sorry."
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Date: 2007-11-04 05:17 am (UTC)Slowly, slowly, and without looking up, she leans sideways against her brother.
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Date: 2007-11-04 06:11 am (UTC)Neither of them says anything, for a moment.
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Date: 2007-11-04 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-04 06:35 am (UTC)And they're the wrong words, but they're the only ones there are.
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Date: 2007-11-04 06:36 am (UTC)But River doesn't say that.
Just turns her head a little more into her brother's shoulder, and breathes out slowly.