Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
steelartisan) wrote2007-08-20 12:23 am
steelartisan) wrote2007-08-20 12:23 am
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Serenity is a very nice ship. Cozy. The room Kate and Piotr inhabit is small, but it's comfortable, and Mal and his crew are both kind and generous to let them live there for so long.
But small passenger bunks on a small spaceship, however cozy, do not have lots of extra room for easels. And it's generally considered rude to accidentally smudge oil paint on your host's floor and walls.
Which is why Piotr is out by the lake, taking advantage of the morning sun to work on a new canvas.
But small passenger bunks on a small spaceship, however cozy, do not have lots of extra room for easels. And it's generally considered rude to accidentally smudge oil paint on your host's floor and walls.
Which is why Piotr is out by the lake, taking advantage of the morning sun to work on a new canvas.
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And then they do, in fact, do one of those, and lie curled together afterwards, Piotr's hand stroking Kate's hair, Kate listening to his heart beat under her head on his chest.
Later, though, Kate wakes up and sees her hand resting through the pillow and feels her stomach drop out beneath her. She thought--she knew, of course she knew, but she'd hoped that maybe this time she--
It doesn't matter. (It's all that matters right now.) She phased, either way.
She takes her pill that night after a murmured explanation to Piotr.
It's just a delay. All she has to do is remember that. Just a delay.
For a little while.
She just doesn't know how long that might be.