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Aug. 1st, 2007 11:10 pmGabriel Tam's hospital room is as spacious and comfortable as hospital rooms can get, as befits a senator. And -- as befits a senator badly wounded by an assassination attempt -- windowless and very, very well-guarded.
His bodyguards are feeling more than a little like failures, and accordingly more than a little paranoid.
The family can come and go freely, of course; River checked. (Not aloud. She knows the map of these corridors now. Knows where the eyes are, and where the walls change angles, and how many guards will follow her at a discreet protective distance if she leaves.) Simon's at Milliways, or back on Serenity.
Her father's asleep. So is Regan, having ignored the spare bed to curl up in an armchair next to her husband's bed. The resemblance between mother and daughter is rarely so strong.
River was asleep too, earlier. The floor under the corner table; Simon tried to make her take the bed, but River refused, more and more strenuously until he gave in and soothed her and tucked a blanket over her instead.
She's awake now.
His bodyguards are feeling more than a little like failures, and accordingly more than a little paranoid.
The family can come and go freely, of course; River checked. (Not aloud. She knows the map of these corridors now. Knows where the eyes are, and where the walls change angles, and how many guards will follow her at a discreet protective distance if she leaves.) Simon's at Milliways, or back on Serenity.
Her father's asleep. So is Regan, having ignored the spare bed to curl up in an armchair next to her husband's bed. The resemblance between mother and daughter is rarely so strong.
River was asleep too, earlier. The floor under the corner table; Simon tried to make her take the bed, but River refused, more and more strenuously until he gave in and soothed her and tucked a blanket over her instead.
She's awake now.
