Malcolm Beauregard Reynolds (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
badinlatin) wrote2005-10-11 05:43 pm
badinlatin) wrote2005-10-11 05:43 pm
Hallucination 2
Nobody has noticed yet, and Mal intends on keeping it that way. David was still there; for as much as he messed with Mal in life, he does all the more now.
David almost got him today, though.
Talking with Kaylee in the cargo bay, Mal saw the now-familiar image meandering around them both. Stopping behind Kaylee, David raised his hands and moved menacingly toward Kaylee's throat.
"Kay--" Mal had interrupted her more loudly than is ever required for polite conversation.
"Cap'n?" Kaylee returned worriedly, following his gaze back over her own shoulder.
David smiled and vanished.
"Nothin'," Mal covered weakly, mumbling something about her needing to double-check something for him.
Much later, back in his bunk, Mal finds David sitting on his bed, propping his feet on the back of Mal's chair.
Mal ignores the grin on David's face, inserting another soother into the pressure injector and rolling up his sleeve.
"Why do you go through all that?" David asks snidely.
With a hiss and the soother fully injected, Mal heaves a sigh as David disappears. "Because I have to."
David almost got him today, though.
Talking with Kaylee in the cargo bay, Mal saw the now-familiar image meandering around them both. Stopping behind Kaylee, David raised his hands and moved menacingly toward Kaylee's throat.
"Kay--" Mal had interrupted her more loudly than is ever required for polite conversation.
"Cap'n?" Kaylee returned worriedly, following his gaze back over her own shoulder.
David smiled and vanished.
"Nothin'," Mal covered weakly, mumbling something about her needing to double-check something for him.
Much later, back in his bunk, Mal finds David sitting on his bed, propping his feet on the back of Mal's chair.
Mal ignores the grin on David's face, inserting another soother into the pressure injector and rolling up his sleeve.
"Why do you go through all that?" David asks snidely.
With a hiss and the soother fully injected, Mal heaves a sigh as David disappears. "Because I have to."