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Hiro has been busy -- very busy. But it's not the busy he wants. It's the busy, however, he delivers to Bar with a, "Purease give to the crew of... Sss...Su... Serenity. Delivery securetu!"

Bar takes the gift away, and Hiro sighs, content. The crew he's met has been so good to him (well, Jayne was scary, but that was logical, right?), it's only right to show them his appreciation.

Now done, he finds himself with his beer -- Sam Adams, since Mike got him started on it -- alone before the Observation Window.

There's a strange sense of melancholy to the man today; he looks at the emptiness on the other side of the booth, and he looks to the wall where the door should be.

"This is not how we roll," he sighs, and takes another swig.

Ando, at least, should be here. Charlie, he failed and lost forever.

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He does, eventually, relax. It's not that hard. Well, for most people.

Hiro smiles, just a little, and then says, "It's still very exciting to meet you."

Even if he's got to be getting tired of this.

"Yes," he says, with a slightly forced grin, "I know. But--just for future's reference I don't exactly enjoy being treated like a celebrity in here. I'm just another patron, honestly."

Yes, Bond is being humble. But that's only because he doesn't quite like people flailing at him all the time.

Hiro has to think no this a moment, and says, "It is very hard," he replies. "As I have-- just set off on-- my own-- mission." He purses his lips and leans over a little and says, "I have found my way to -- a -- haven for heroes! And now...'

He sighs and droops. "I see-- what I want to be, but-- am far away from!"

"Okay," he says carefully. "You're trying to be what, now?"

"A supaahero!" says Hiro, with all the gravity and zeal the statement is due.

Right.

The kid sounds a little delusional, but James will deal as long as Hiro's talking about himself and not flailing because he's talking to James Bond.

"A superhero in what respect?"

"I bend time and space!" Hiro says and grins a little. "Only- not very well. Not lately."

Not since Charlie.

"So you practice," he states, like one would say "duh."

"Unless it's something you can't control."

"I do. Only...' he frowns. "I fail somebody."

And now we have performance anxiety in the worst way.

"You fail who?"

"Charlie," he says forlornly.

"And why do you fail Charlie?"

"I couldn't stop her from dying," he says. "First, I go back! Six months, almost, because serial killah, he--" Well, HIRO gestures for the Big Deadness "... but... but she says, she has-- something in her brain. She's... not going to live anyway."

He looks like you just ran over his puppy, Bond.

Bond frowns. He's terribly sorry he metaphorically ran over Hiro's puppy.

"And you're afraid to use your powers again because of it?"

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