attitude: (levity)
While Faye heard about the apartment explosion in Ocean View some months ago, she still feels an initial wave of surprise when she hears that Jim has moved out of the urban setting and into a bonafide house.

Granted, the shock doesn't last long. There's something about his enthusiasm that Faye thinks would play out nicely in a house, where the main goal is to make a comfortable living space for a family. With all the devotion that Jim's shown over a crew that isn't even present in Darrow, a house makes the most sense for him while he's still caught in the city. The slightly more domestic alternative to the giant ship Kirk had in the sky.

She waits outside of the construction area, relaxing her shoulders so that she gives off less of the air that she's been waiting for him. Even though that's exactly what she's been doing.

Laid out on top of the ship's modest hull, Faye lets the cigarette smoke pass gently between her teeth, rising up into the air. If she glances up at the sky enough, she can forget, for brief patches of time, that there's an invisible cage lining the top. Sooner or later, she'll face that challenge directly.

It just requires some due diligence.

The sound of approaching footsteps has Faye glancing to the side, arching a brow as the cigarette remains neatly held between her lips. "I met him, you know. Spock," she says.
attitude: (gimme gimme gimme)
You know what I've discovered as time goes by? The good ones never linger. It's the kind of thing that makes you hope that there's something that comes after this, because life itself is too hard, and the good ones never deserve half of the burdens they're shouldered with. If life is supposed to be this precious thing, then it makes no sense to strike the good out when they're young.

God, maybe I'm getting sentimental.



It's been about a month since Bolin disappeared from the city, and somehow, bounty hunting doesn't feel quite the same without him. The kid wasn't present at all of Faye's assignments; she always knew that he didn't really have the stomach for all the work she puts herself to. And, well. Maybe she just didn't want to shred that innocence entirely to pieces. It's a wonder he still thought so highly of her in spite of everything that she gets up to.

None of it really matters anymore, because he's gone, and so is half of Faye's drive.

That's why she finds herself at a bar tonight, seated on an unused pool table near the back of the dive, gambling right in the open. It's nothing complicated, nothing likely to get her into too much trouble in the midst of an unobservant, drunken crowd. Just a bit of dice, and a magnetic circlet on her ankle.

She's just making some easy cash until the next distraction comes.

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Faye Valentine

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