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[ Doctor Simon Tam ☤ SCI»010»030 ]

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River.

[yeah okay that's enough of that.]

Is everything all right?

[thoughts]

[ she's quiet a second, thinking thinky thoughts that have nothing ( everything ) to do with his question. ]

Can I come visit?

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[There is the tiniest pause, as if this wasn't something he'd really thought about before.]

You can always come visit, you don't need to ask.

[thoughts]

I won't get in the way and I won't throw things, promise. I'll be good.

[ reassuring simon or staff or herself? the medbay at large, probably. she'll apologise to the doors and the hallways too. ]

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There are other doctors here. [Doctors that are not me, is the implication.] They're not going to hurt you. It's safe.

[thoughts]

I know.

[ stop. too fast. try again. ]

I. I'm trying to know. She said to try. A house of cards. Move slowly.

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You've been doing a good job.

[And he means that, sincerely, because he's seen her on the network, making friends, talking to people--and it's nice to see. It's more than nice.]

You can come visit me whenever you like, mei-mei.

[thoughts]

[ she chews her lip a second then smiles, cheeky. ]

Xièxiè, Dr Tam.

[ still her favourite part of being on tq, hearing people call him that. ]

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You don't have to call me that. That's just for...everyone else.

[thoughts]

Everyone should say it. Best damn doctor in the 'verse.

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I don't know about that. There are a lot of verses here.

[thoughts]

Not ours. Make a girl a liar.

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I won't, you know I won't.

[thoughts]

Just like I know you will. Daddy will be proud and māmā will cry. You're saving lives again.

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I was saving them on Serenity.

[But he knows there's a difference playing medic for eight people on a spaceship and running an entire department, and she knows that, too.]

[thoughts]

She's proud too. Stitched her up and made her whole. Still flying.

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We'll go home.

[thoughts]

[ this conversation came from hers with takeshi, and she thinks of it again now. of home and parents and the ones that make you. so she repeats what she told him then with a smile. ]

I have Simon.

[ and he is a very good mother-father-brother. she said to try. ]

I'll come by later. I know the way.