The Junkyard, Monday Morning

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

Today was the day. Kerrigan eyed the dropship with some apprehension. Today.

Running a hand through her hair, she reshouldered the bag on her shoulder for the umpteenth time upon approach. It was ready. It was fixed up. She had her armor, and her rifle, and she'd seen River off to graduation...

It didn't make this any easier. But-- she was needed. Yeah.

It would be an hour or so before she finally made the engines run, the sparks would pass from cable to cable and the ship would lift off, shuttling a fast wind across the junkyard as it forced itself into the sky.

For now, though, Kerrigan was here.

[ open, for anyone who wants to say goodbye to Kerrigan, or who has any business in the junkyard, yay ]

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[doubleohblonde]

It was pure co-incidence that found Bond at the junkyard that morning. Really.

"Morning."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

Kerrigan glanced away from the ship, but she knew long before he'd even spoken-- "Morning, Bond."

[doubleohblonde]

"Nice day for it." Not he was entirely sure what 'it' was.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Not for this 'it'," Kerrigan snorted, "But I've been lagging behind already."

[doubleohblonde]

"Well, there's nothing wrong with arriving fashionably late."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"There is when there's a war on," Kerrigan said, frankly, and leaned back against the bulkhead.

[doubleohblonde]

"That does change things somewhat," Bond conceded, dragging his knuckles along a random, rusting hulk.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"I'm taking you'll be hanging around for the summer, then?" she asked, tilting a little. Letting him speak seemed like the least of courtesies.

And kept her mind off her own situation. Fun times.

[doubleohblonde]

"Ah, yes, I will," Bond replied with a slight wince. "I received my own instructions on that front. Apparently it keeps me out of trouble this way."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

She snickered. "Knowing you, I wouldn't understand why."

[doubleohblonde]

Bond smiled. "Exactly, I have a shining and unsullied reputation."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Is that what they're calling it these days?" Her ponytail squished back against the metal as she bent her head. "Take care of yourself, Bond. Or should that be 'take care not to take too much care of others'?"

[doubleohblonde]

"But there are just so many lonely tourists in need of a helpful fellow traveller," Bond pointed out, before sobering. "You take care of yourself also, Kerrigan."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to war," she said, dryly. "Taking care of myself's the last thing I'm supposed to do. Well. In a manner of speaking."

[doubleohblonde]

"My point still stands," Bond said quietly. "It's not about dying for the cause, it's making the other guy die for his."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"You're simply sparkling with idealism, Bond." But Kerrigan was smiling-- albeit wryly-- anyway. "Don't worry. I intend to make the other guy pay."

[doubleohblonde]

"I try to be a ray of sunshine," Bond replied, brimming with sincerity. "Give them hell, Kerrigan."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"It's what I do," Kerrigan said, pulling away from the bulkhead. Before entering the ship again, though, she came to a pause, glancing over her shoulder. "Oh, and Bond?"

[doubleohblonde]

"Yes Kerrigan?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Stop trying to bullshit the telepath," she said, with a snicker, "It never works."

[doubleohblonde]

Bond burst into laughter. "Do try to come back sometime, Kerrigan, we'll hit the casinos and leave them reeling."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"If I do, I'll hold you to that," Kerrigan replied, grinning, and stalked into the ship to resume the last of the repairs.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River approached quietly, not announcing her presence. It wasn't necessary after all.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

There was a quiet tiiing and a scrape of Kerrigan's boots against the metal floor of the dropship, but that was more than River needed, too. "Hey," she said, softly.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Hello." River smiled at her. Everything ready?