Goldilocks and the 3 Stooges [bastian]

[Sebastian Gates]

Bastian was glad to hear that she could his ship in the air, but what she said next took him completely off guard. He gritted his teeth while she continued her spiel and by the time she finished it was taking all of his will power not to just pick her up and throw her off the ship. “I’m going to say this to you only once, so please listen to me closely,” he began, doing his best to remember who she was and where she came from. “You are new to this world, so I’m going to give you a few tips. Tip one, as captain of this ship, I’ll go where I please. Now I don’t particularly have an itch to be in that engine room, but it’s not your place to tell me otherwise. Tip two, don’t bite the hand of the man not turning you into the Alliance. I’m not interested in the bounty on your head, and I’ll protect you like I would my own flesh, but I demand more respect than that.”

As he spoke, he found himself calming down considerably. It wasn’t exactly her request that he stay out her way that bothered him as much as it was the way she chose to say it. “I didn’t fight my way to this ship just to have a nien ching duh like you telling me how to run it. Now I’ll stay out of your engine room best I can, and honestly I don’t think I’ll be needing to be in there anyhow, but I don’t want you slinking around this boat like you don’t exist either.” Bastian wasn’t sure what kind of life she had lead before this, but there was enough loneliness in space without having one of his own hole themselves up in one room the whole time.

“As for the fixing her up, you let me know what you need and I’ll get it for you. Better yet, you find it and I’ll give you the money for it. I’m not one for picking parts out of a pile. You shop from scrap yards where you can, and always find the best deal. We aren’t rolling in the platinum and sometimes you gotta make do with what you can get your hands on. Out there in space, there aren’t any fancy meals or an endless supply of money to roll around in when you get bored.” Now he was just being rude, and he realized it a little too late. “Look, I just want you to understand what you’re really getting yourself into. I’m going to do my best to get us honest work with good pay, the verse isn’t to kind to our likes. You get work where you can and take what you get. There aren’t many happy endings left out in there in the big black, and I need to know that you can handle what’s to come. Once we are in the sky, it’s on you to keep us there best you can."

[Toni Star]

Toni couldn't help the pout that appeared on her face as she stared at her soon to be boss. She wasn't used to not being in charge but perhaps that's what she needed in life, to be a kid. A talented and very smart but nonetheless, kid. She bit back a few smart remarks and tried very hard to be on her best behavior. It wasn't terribly hard. Wealthy families were always lying to one another. Especially when you grew up in an Alliance-friendly family. She wanted to be a Browncoat but she couldn't muster the feelings to hate the Alliance. They had never done anything to hurt her or her family. Actually it was quite the opposite.

She closed her eyes and breathed slowly, in and out, calming herself before she spoke. She didn't want to have a bad first impression. Which might have already been thrown out the window at this point... but she was gonna keep trying. "I understand its difficult... I also understand that... its nothing like I've experienced before... but I... that's the point. I need this..." She sighed, not sure how she could explain it to him. "I wasn't born to work in a lab or be someone's house wife. I need to get my hands dirty. I have an extremely high IQ and... if I can't use that for some.. something important... I don't know what I'll do..."

She sighed and shifted slightly where she stood and glanced around. "I feel potential here... I know you feel it too! That's why you're looking for someone to put her in the air and not giving up and just getting a different boat. I doubt you'll find too many people in the 'verse with the connection I have to this ship." She gave him the puppy dog eyes, hoping to win him over and show she wasn't just a spoiled brat.

She giggled softly and bounced a bit, excited to go rustle through trash and metal parts. Not many girls liked to do that. Actually most people didn't like to do it... "Well I'll come with cause its hard to figure out what we need till we get there. Plus I can probably salvage some things and make some of this more efficient..." She mumbled to herself and seemed to gaze off, doing the calculations in her head as she wandered around the room, taking inventory. "I'll need you for heavy lifting though.. maybe you can round up some muscle?"