Hap-py? What is? [Open, but expect slowish tagging]

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

After the holiday planet, someone's gotten a cheering up. It seems that Jaime Reyes is finally turning his bad mood around, finally recovering some from the bridge run, finally coming to terms with everything.

It's helped that he's taken time to grieve, but having taken time on the mission to just help others has helped even more.

In fact, Jaime's used his spending money for presents. Some of it for people he knows, but he also picked up stuff he could give to just anyone on the ship, and he intends to just...give them stuff to cheer up whoever needs it.

So, Meatship, there is short Latino teen going around the ship giving random people presents. Enjoy!

"Who wants cookies?"

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[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"Didn't make, bought--and I'm doing better. How's Paco? He's really...quiet, around me. But then we're just kinda quiet around each other. So I don't really know, uh, how he's feeling, since--you know--"

Jaime is the one person he can't tell, really.

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

"He's holding up okay, considering. Trying to look forward to having an arm with laser sights in it." She smiles sheepishly, munching on a cookie (which is quite delicious thank you!)

"How are YOU hanging in there?" she asks, reaching out to rub his shouldera a little, unconsciously examining his head a little closer as if worried she'll find a hole. "I know you were kind of a quiet mess yourself for a while."

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"I, um." This is Brenda, so he's perfectly honest. "I went into the Sensoriums and sulked in a holographic version of my room, and then I talked to hologram of my dad that knew it was a hologram but reminded me of all the things my real dad would say, and then I bawled my eyes out, talked to a few people about stuff--and felt better."

Honest to god truth, he does feel better.

"Not all the way better. But, maybe, like 'a month after Vista Verde' better. It still stings, but I'm starting to feel more like myself again."

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

How Jaime was that, really? Holographic Alberto, sulking and all.

"Good. I'm glad. I'm just... glad. I was worried about you but I just didn't know what to say. Everything's been such a mess, so many upset people." Her voice gets tight for a second there but she shakes it off, putting on an only half-forced smile.

"I'm just happy you're okay."

She's bad at lying to Jaime, bad at hiding it when she's worried, but Jaime never liked it when she was dishonest with him anyway.

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

He hugs her. He's one of the few that can get away with it without risk to life and limb.

"Enough about me, though. You two always look after me, and I just get you into trouble. How are you doing?"

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

"We LIKE looking after you." Brenda says with a little sniff, returning that hug a bit too tightly. "I'm okay, just... confused and worried about everything. Getting off the ship for a while helped."

She still sleeps really terribly, she's still really confused about how she feels on a few levels, but she's holding it together at least halfway well. "I'm getting there on the being myself again too."