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Gabriel Tam ([personal profile] gabriel_tam) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2007-04-27 09:48 pm

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In the last few weeks, he's been keeping hours that start before dawn and end deep into the darkest hours of the night. He looks it, too, enough so that a few media reporters have inquired.

When they do, Gabriel just smiles and tells them that some things are worth giving up a little sleep for.

Still, he knows he can't keep this pace up forever. He doesn't care-- it doesn't matter, as long as he can keep going long enough. Which means, of course, that he's got to find at least a little more time to rest, and soon.

With that in mind, Gabriel brings a sheaf of documents with him to Milliways, and settles at a side booth to review them. If he can get a few hours' work done here instead, then he can spend those extra hours sleeping back in New Mayfair.

Or so he hopes.
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-29 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
A quick, crooked grin. "Don't get me wrong, though -- just as nice not havin' people underfoot everywhere, you know? Bad and good in most everything."
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-29 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Weary enough for her to notice the change, and Kaylee's gaze sharpens a little. "Everything all right? I mean -- if I can ask?"
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-29 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
"With the...?" She nods to the papers. "The bill thing? The IIGA?"
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-29 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
"...but?" Curiously.

And a little hesitantly.
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-30 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Kaylee looks -- almost startled, for a moment; she picks up her teacup and doesn't respond immediately.

When she does, it's with a slightly wry half-smile. "That's...not exactly the only thing I'm worried about, but it's a pretty gorram big one." And then the wryness is gone. "Thank you. I appreciate that."

That's not the same as saying that she believes him; she's smart enough to know that that's a big promise, that nobody will get hurt.

She's also smart enough to know why he's making it.
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-30 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
"And now I do." Easily -- and it sounds as though she's smiling.

"Just -- you groupin' yourself in with anybody else? It -- just looks like you been workin' a lot. Is all."
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-30 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"...don't want you to take this the wrong way, but..." Kaylee's eyebrows are raised, ever so slightly. "A little?"
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-30 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Kaylee takes a sip of tea.

(At least he'll admit to it. That says something.

She's pretty sure, anyhow.)

"...can I ask what it is has it necessary for that?"
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-30 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
"And -- there just wasn't supposed to be this many people tryin' to poke holes in it?" Curiously; Kaylee likes to know how things work, the whys and wherefores.

Even if people aren't as easy to get as machines.
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-30 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
"What kinds of things are they sayin' about it?"
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-30 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
It takes her a couple of seconds to process all of that, and Kaylee isn't quite sure what he means by the last part of it.

Which is why she asks, a little cautiously, "And who is it that's sayin' what, with all of that?"
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-30 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Kaylee nods.

He's talking to her like she's smart enough to get it. About something that isn't the weather, and about something that isn't awkward.

That's a change, and it's one she likes.

"I know the captain's behind it, and I know -- he's been talkin' to people out on the Rim who're...suspicious. People he knows, I mean." Not the feds, for example. "Are people bringin' up the whys and wherefores of that kind of suspicious?"
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[personal profile] gonna_live 2007-04-30 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
She catches it, and maybe smiles, a little, but doesn't comment.

(It's not only a Core thing. You learn to ride over what ought not to be commented on. That's all.)

And Kaylee nods, instead. "Good." That's quiet. "Seein' as it's them this thing is gonna hit the most."

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