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[alice]

Here I am, a rabbit hearted girl
Frozen in the headlights
It seems I've made the final sacrifice.

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Maria stood outside the beautiful ship. She was slightly in awe of it. She had never expected to win it, especially with a pair of fives. But the Captain she had played against had a awfully bad reputation for being an extravagant bluffer. She almost felt sorry for the guy, as she was sure she'd seen a few tears run down his cheek at seeing the ship go. She'd bought him a pint, and he'd given her the keys and now here she was. Smoking a cigarette outside her ship. Her ship. Crazy.

She took another long drag of the cigarette, letting the smoke waft slowly out of her open mouth. She then snubbed it out on the sidewalk and threw it away in a nearby trash-can. Then she began to descend the stairs to the door. She took quiet steps through the door, peering around for any crew members.

The old Captain had warned her that the crew was a bit of a mixed bag. They all had their issues, but he assured her that despite their personal faults, they were a good crew. Maria honestly couldn't have cared less about their pasts and their personality flaws. She had committed murder, and she wasn't a bad person. Was she? No. At least according to anyone non-Alliance. She couldn't exactly blame the Alliance for wanting her in chains, especially after executing one of their own Captains. But there was no way she was ever going to let Elias beat her again. Never again. She still had bruises and hairline fractures from him. The thought made her want to vomit.

But she pushed it from her mind as she wandered the hallways of the ship, towards the cockpit. So interesting. All a bit more dated than the Alliance ship she was used to, but beautiful and interesting still.

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STATUS ! Finished
STARRING ! Maria
LYRICS ! Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up):: Florence and the Machine
COSTUME ! Here. With her long hair down and curly.
GUEST ! OPEN
SETTING ! The Brown Recluse
SCRIPT ! 309
NOTES ! [/size]

[kelly]

He coughed violently into the sink blood and mucus dripping from his lips. He wiped at his mouth with the back of his hand before sniffing and looking up to the mirror in his cabin. Kelly Noyce, one badass mofo with a cough and lung problem at the moment, he knew damn well it was from the drinking. Running a hand through his hair before throwing on a cleaner white wife beater and his dark brown leather bomber jacket. He strapped on his boots and went to go meet the new captain. Hopefully he had more brains then the last one. Kelly opened the door to his cabin and climbed down the short ladder. Digging into the back of his black pants he fished out his crumpled pack of smokes.

Taking out one he placed it between his lips and lit it with the lighter he found in the right pocket of his bomber. Sniffing once more he rounded the corner and came to the cockpit, his solid bright blue eyes flickered around before he came to the doorway. It was already open, he assumed the new captain was in here. Leaning on the metal arched door frame he let smoke exit his nose. His eyes widened slightly, it was a god damn woman that won the ship.

He looked down at the grated floor, damn this was going to be interesting. Looking up he shook his head before speaking in his low raspy voice. "So, a skirt won the ship, I take it your our new captain" he said taking another long drag. His eyes studied the back of her, fro the back she didn't look half bad.

[alice]

Here I am, a rabbit hearted girl
Frozen in the headlights
It seems I've made the final sacrifice.

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Maria stood alone in the cockpit, bracing her self against the pilot's seat. She quietly wondered where the pilot was. The previous Captain had warned her that a few of the crew were also a bit... flaky. She shrugged, figuring he'd show up eventually. Or of course, she could always find a new one.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the sweet smell of cigarette smoke in the air, and then a voice. The voice was harsh, and almost scared her. Almost. She was careful not to show her surprise as she turned around to look at him. Her first thought was how well his voice matched him. Everything about him. It was definitely interesting. She reached out and plucked the cigarette from his mouth, placing it in her own for a second. She took a drawl, before placing it back in his mouth, if he would allow her.

It was invasive, rude. And she relished in the movement, letting the smoke she had inhaled wafted from her open mouth. And then, a smile tugged at the corner of her lips.

"I'm Maria. And I don't wear skirts," she said. Corney, she knew. But what else was she supposed to say? She extended her hand again, but this time for his taking. Polite. Almost comical.

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STATUS ! Finished
STARRING ! Maria
LYRICS ! Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up):: Florence and the Machine
COSTUME ! Here. With her long hair down and curly.
GUEST ! OPEN
SETTING ! The Brown Recluse
SCRIPT ! 214
NOTES ! [/size]

[kelly]

Kelly was slightly caught off guard when she walked towards him, his blue eyes scanning her body, she was impressive in more ways then one. But looks meant nothing unless you knew what the hell you were doing with yourself. She looked like a woman that knew how to do that. When she took the cig fro his lips Kelly smirked. His eyes watching her inhale, well she liked to smoke, that gave her one point from Kelly. The last captain hated smokes. Hated any drug, he was weak anyway. Kelly's smirk disappeared when she attempted to place it back into his mouth, he raised a hand taking it from her fingers. He placed it back between his lips taking a drag before he removed it. He let the fumes out before he spoke "good, shirts have no place on a ship." he commented to her own not wearing skirt comment.

Kelly titled his head slightly looking at her outstretched hand, a shake?. He pursed his lips before placing the smoke back into his mouth. "Kelly Noyce, I'm your smuggler on this ship, I've smuggled everything, from weapons, food to humans" he ended making sure she knew that Kelly did anything, no questions asked.

He then took her hand, hers was warm and smooth compared to his rough and colder skin. Kelly had been sick lately, and it didn't seem to want to leave his body. He let his hand slip from hers before he brushed past her and leaned against the pilot chair, shoving his hands into the pockets of his bomber. "I'll stay here as long as ya know what your doing, been here for about a year" he stated his eyes never leaving her. And if she didn't want him, hell, Kelly had a million other things he could do. Smuggling was just was he was best at.

[alice]

Here I am, a rabbit hearted girl
Frozen in the headlights
It seems I've made the final sacrifice.

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Maria held a gasp in as their hands met briefly. The shock of the touch was electric. Interesting. But it was quite brief and gone quickly. As he moved to take a seat in the pilot's chair, her eyes following him, her ears listening to every word he had to say. Everything about him was... interesting. Smuggler. Made sense.

His comment about as knowing what she was doing wasn't unexpected. She knew she didn't look like much, but she wasn't to be underestimated. "I married an Alliance Captain. I lived on a ship for over ten years. Got to know how they work. And then I killed him," she said, with a bit of bravado in her voice. She had decided now was as good a time as any to share her secret. As she was figuring that a smuggler could keep secrets. And he looked as though a murder would get her brownie points.

"I'm here to cause a bit of chaos," she explained, a smile firmly planted on her lips. "Simple as that. And maybe make a little profit along the way." She leaned against the door frame now, reaching up to run her fingers through her long, curly locks. She wanted to seem dangerous. Sexy.

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STATUS ! Finished
STARRING ! Maria
LYRICS ! Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up):: Florence and the Machine
COSTUME ! Here. With her long hair down and curly.
GUEST ! OPEN
SETTING ! The Brown Recluse
SCRIPT ! 208
NOTES ! [/size]

[kelly]

Kelly kept his pokerface as she spoke. So she was an Alliance whore for a time. Interesting. But she had killed him, even more interesting. Pushing himself from the pilot chair he took a few steps towards her, he was a short man but knew how to work the rest of his stance. He removed his hands fro his pocket to take the smoke from his lips, he put it out on the metal wall of the ship, letting it fall to the ground. His eyes watched the cig touch the grated floor before it fell into one of the small holes, he couldn't count how many he had let fall through the ship that way.

Kelly's eyes then directed back to Maria, he caught her run a hand through her thick hair, nice. Dangling herself in front of him, true he was human like anyone else, still. He repressed a few thoughts that he didn't want to happen right now before speaking to her again. "Good, you seem to know what you've been doing for some time now, I hands my hands stained a few times, like I said, I'm willing to stay, I'm good at what I do and take pride in doing what I do... as I'm sure you do" he pointed out folding his arms across his chest as he walked out of the cockpit and leaned against the opposite wall staring at her "the rest of the crew will be back alter on, they went to get supplies before we take off... which is soon I hope, unless you have other plans?" he asked his eyes never leaving her. Kelly liked to see the people he spoke to.

"I have two smuggling jobs we can take, guns to White fall or this new drug to Persephone, personally we'll be suspected less if we head to Persephone, but I ain't the captain." he ended with a shrug of his shoulders.

[alice]

Here I am, a rabbit hearted girl
Frozen in the headlights
It seems I've made the final sacrifice.

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Maria was surprised at how ready he was to leave. Granted, she loved being in space, getting stir crazy whenever she was on a planet for too long. But being on such close quarters did that to her too. Made her body itch and long to go outside and run.

But his propositions were interesting. Both sounds like a good time, but she liked the danger in the mission to White Fall. Plus, it seemed like an easy way to get a leg up on screwing with the Alliance. Her favorite. But she watched him quietly as she mulled over her options. Every angle on his face was interesting. Scarred. A story in each one. She hoped that one day he would share them with her, but now was not the time to ask.

"But where is the fun in that?" she mused out loud as her large brown eyes watched him carefully. She waited to see his reaction, or listen to his answer. It seemed as though they were in a weird holding pattern, as they were almost uncomfortably close to each other in the odd doorway. But for her, the rush of encroaching on his personal space intoxicated her. And again, she ran her fingers through the length of her long hair.

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STATUS ! Finished
STARRING ! Maria
LYRICS ! Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up):: Florence and the Machine
COSTUME ! Here. With her long hair down and curly.
GUEST ! OPEN
SETTING ! The Brown Recluse
SCRIPT ! 214
NOTES ! [/size]

[kelly]

A smirk appeared on Kelly's lips when he heard Maria utter the words "where's the fun in that?' the smirk grew wider "your right" he finally agreed. His arms unfolding he took a few steps towards her, Kelly was never one for "bubbles" if he wanted into someone's space he'd get into it. You didn't like it, try and get him out, Kelly dared people too, he enjoyed pushing people. He learned that when dealing with his whore of a mother. Too many slaps, and pushes to the ground till he pushed her too far. It was a cold night, it was always cold in their home, she cut him with a broken bottle along his right forearm, that was the night he left. He wanted to kill her, but hell, it was his mother, deep down he did have some love for her.

Pushing those thoughts to the back of his mind he leaned beside Maria against the door frame. "I take it you wanna go to Whitefall with the guns, their rifles, fast load.. should fetch alot on their market" he stated nodding slowly as if agreeing with himself. He turned his head to look to his new captain "what do you smoke?" he asked his voice less defensive now. He took notice of her slender fingers running through that hair of hers he licked his dry lips before speaking "you just doing that to get a raise out of me, or you just like doing it?" he asked his eyes looking to her, they were close against the door frame close enough that their arms almost touched, his tone was slightly annoyed. Beautiful woman like her, with the simplest of gestures to push any man over the edge. Kelly knew this woman, Maria, she knew she was good looking, it was a dangerous mix.

[alice]

Here I am, a rabbit hearted girl
Frozen in the headlights
It seems I've made the final sacrifice.

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Maria laughed softly and stuck her tongue out at him as he verbally took notice of her habit. It was getting under his skin. She liked that. He didn't seem like a dolly that was easily shaken. And here she was, rattling him a little. Just to see what his insides sounded like.

"Maybe a bit of both," she answered, honestly, but teasingly. And she did it once more for good measure, pushing her chest out slightly, sexually. She was a predator. A tease. But then she withdrew, staying in her space but pulling back her advances ever so slightly. She decided to move on to his previous question.

"I roll my own cigarettes," she answered, "I don't really care for all that crap they add to the factory made ones." It was honest. She'd gone months before without a cigarette out of abstinence from the awful factory produced things. In fact, the drawl from Kelly's cigarette still stung a little.

"Would you care for one, Mr. Noyce?" she asked, so close to him. She resisted the urge to touch him.

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STATUS ! Finished
STARRING ! Maria
LYRICS ! Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up):: Florence and the Machine
COSTUME ! Here. With her long hair down and curly.
GUEST ! OPEN
SETTING ! The Brown Recluse
SCRIPT ! 202
NOTES ! [/size]

[kelly]

Kelly took notice of her chest, this woman was a tease, but she wouldn't break him. No one did. He cleared his throat listening to her speak about rolling her own cigs. Interesting, she trusted her own hands, smart woman. But she was still new to him, he had been with her long enough but not that long enough to know if she really knew what she was doing. He shook his head at her offer "no, I'm heading out" he aid flatly pushing himself off the door frame. He didn't bother to say bye, or nod even, Kelly just simply walked off down the narrow hallway. This captain was interesting, an improvement over the old one.

Still, Kelly really did hope for his skin she knew what she was doing. Alot of people who knew what they were doing, went cold, stone like a zombie when pushed into a scene of utter horror, something they couldn't control. He hoped Maria knew how to control herself, both inside the ship and out in the Verse. It mattered alot, the crew was technically her responsibility, if she didn't take care of them hell, he'd leave. Just cause she was good to look at didn't mean he had to take her , or take her orders either.

If Kelly didn't like what she did, he'd leave. Simple as that, no ties to nothing. That was how he was. A loner, a killer, a smuggler and everything in between. Walking off the ship he decided to kill time abit with a few drinks till the rest of the crew showed up. Then they would be off to Whitefall.

[alice]

Here I am, a rabbit hearted girl
Frozen in the headlights
It seems I've made the final sacrifice.

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Maria would've been lying if she had said that she wasn't surprised when he took off. It left her with telling wide eyes, as she silently watched him go. It was odd. All of this seemed surreal. But she was definitely intrigued. He wasn't exactly handsome, but an enigma, a mystery for her. It left her wishing he'd stayed around more.

But he was leaving, and she knew that trying trying to stop him wouldn't work and would only leave the both of them on bad terms. And that was the last thing she wanted, oddly. She wanted his respect, his approving glance. She shook the thoughts from her head, sliding down the doorway to sit on the uncomfortable grate floor.

She was waiting for the crew to come back. If they came back. If they were all on land, they'd probably already sought out the previous captain and learned of the fate of their home. It was possible that some of them wouldn't even serve under a woman. She bit her bottom lip as she thought about it, and began to feel unsure of herself. She wasn't exactly a paragon of control. And she'd never led a group of people before. She threw her head back, hitting it rather loudly on the metal door frame. It hurt. But it shook her out of her reverie. The pain felt good. Simple. And made things quieter in her head.

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STATUS ! Finished
STARRING ! Maria
LYRICS ! Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up):: Florence and the Machine
COSTUME ! Here. With her long hair down and curly.
GUEST ! OPEN; Kelly
SETTING ! The Brown Recluse
SCRIPT ! 238
NOTES ! [/size]