Relaxing

[Haven Tam]

Haven had been helping her father do a checklist of everything in the infirmary today. She was exhausted. Taking off her sweater and lounging in t-shirt, Haven grabbed her water and gulped it down. When she was finished, half the glass was gone.

Leaning back, Haven stretched across the couch and relaxed.

[danieltam]

Daniel crawled out of the engineering access by the passenger dorms. He had been up there checking all the secondary systems. He came out panting and using his shirt to dab the sweat off his forehead. He looked up to see his sister worn out on the couch. "*pant* Hey... *pant* hey sis... *pant* hard day?"

[Haven Tam]

Haven looked at her brother. "Yeah, a bit. Dad wanted to check our stock of all our supplies." Closing her eyes, she sighed. "What about you? Mom got you working hard?" Haven knew their parents wanted the best for them, but sometimes that came at a bit of a price.

[danieltam]

Daniel crashed on the chair across from his sister. "Mom made me check the back-up life support and atmospheric regulators. But what she didn't mention was that it was like working in an oven up there." Although Daniel enjoys being a mechanic, he keeps thinking their mother pushes him too hard when Serenity is planetside. Daniel looked over at Haven's glass of water, leaning over and arm outstretched he asked "can I get a sip of that please?"

[Haven Tam]

Haven looked at her brother and held up the glass. Raising an eyebrow and the glass, she held it up. "This? This nice cool glass of water? You want this?" An evil littl esmile broke out across her face. Haven loved teasing her brother like this.

[jayne]

Jayne strolls in and takes a chair near Haven. He ponders for a moment, trying to remember what he did today. He has been sleeping most of the morning, now he cannot remember anything before he fell asleep. He waves at Haven and scratches his head.

[danieltam]

Daniel took one look at the expression on his sister's face and his head just sank down with his arm still outstretched. He knew full well what was going on. Given the fact that he was still exhaused from the heat, Daniel had only one option available to him. He had to beg for the water now. He lifted his head back up and whimpered "Aw, come on sis please. I'm dying over here. Just one little sip?" Daniel was so hot and tired he never even noticed Jayne walk in.

[zoe]

"Haven, don't tease your brother like that, can't you see he's dying?" came the sweet familiar voice of Inara as she stepped into the common room from the direction of her shuttle.

Inara, as per her usual, was wearing one of her more casual dresses, though it was casual by Inara standards and not by the others, so she still looked just as flawless and elegant as always. The dress was a recent favorite of hers, a deep red skirt that faded into a deep gold bodice.

[Haven Tam]

Haven looked around and saw that she was out numbered. “Aw ok.” Sitting up a bit, she gave her brother the water. “You win this time.” After handing her brother the glass, Haven laid on Jayne’s lap, one of her many extended family and waved. “Hay’ya Jayne.” From him came a strong odor of alcohol so she sat back up. “Uncle Jayne, you been drinking lately?”

Haven smiled at Inara. She always loved having her aunt’s and uncle’s about. They weren’t technically blood related, but they’d been around since she was born and Haven loved them like family none-the-less.

[zoe]

"That's like asking Mal if it's Black out in space." Inara told Haven pointedly, reguarding her question to Jayne.

She moved to sit in one of the chairs and rearranged her skirts so as not to wrinkle them too much. Though Inara had no children of her own, she loved the Tam's like her own.

Always careful to keep her mental blocks up, she'd had excellent training with them as it used to be a favorite pasttime of the little readers to try and get through them, none have succeeded yet, much to Inara's Pride.

[Haven Tam]

Haven laughed and nodded. It was true about Jayne. But in her heart, Haven was worried. She knew her uncle would drink, but he was forgeting little things every so often. Smiling she tickled his famous beard.

"Hey Inara, are getting new passengers here?" It had been awhile since they had had passenger and Haven loved new people and wanted some more freshmeat ot bug.

[danieltam]

Daniel gave a sigh of relief when Inara walked in. He could always rely on her to rescue him from the torment of his own sister. He took the glass, mumbled "Thank you," and took a sip of water from it. He was about to put the glass back, but with his sister now focused on Inara and Jayne, he decided to take a couple more cheeky sips while she wasn't looking. He slouched back into his chair and just let his mind drift off into a world of its own.

[jayne]

Jayne tries to keep his eyes open. "I think I had a little this morning, but not enough for this to happen. I think its just part of the aging process." He begins to stand up but falls back in the chair. "Where's Mal?"

[Haven Tam]

Haven eyed her brother and shook her head. She'd be nice today and let him have some more water. Sitting up, she felt a little worried for her uncle. He was sixty, and though in today's society it's young, all his years of halling weapons takes a toll.

Pulling her legs up close to her chest Haven let out a sigh. "I want to go out, but dad said I had to wait for Aunt River to get back."

[Simon Tam]

"Hey kids"
came a familiar voice from the doorway just as simon stepped through.
"You helping your mother out Daniel?"
He asked with a slight smile as he saw the state of his son.

Simon walked over to the fridge and poured himself a small glass of water. leaning against the workbench, he looked over at the others.
"And what have you been up to Jayne? more sleeping?"