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By all rights, Scotty probably shouldn't have been inviting Miss Kaylee over for a tour of the Enterprise. And he did feel a bit guilty about doing it; they were supposed to ask Jim if they could bring people over, but Jim... the community seemed to have let him go. He could ask Spock, maybe, but he figured he was a good enough judge of character to bend the rules just a little bit, and besides, a fellow engineer wouldn't pose any threat to the ship.

So as soon as he told Miss Kaylee he'd beam her over, Scotty hurried up to the transporter room, got a lock on the signal of the device she was using to access the community, and brought her over, unable to help a small, cocky grin as she materialized on the landing platform. "Welcome t'the Enterprise."

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"Considerin' we are the law 'round here, here's hopin' we never have to," he replied, chuckling quietly. Alright, so maybe he shouldn't be approving of or encouraging illicit activities, but hell. He wasn't exactly a saint himself, no matter how much he tried to act it. And considering the sort of situation Kaylee's universe was in? If it'd been the same way here, with a central government trying to force its control over the populace, he didn't doubt that he'd be right there fighting back. That was the beautiful thing about the Federation - didn't want to be a part of it? Didn't have to be.

Kaylee wasn't much for politics, but she did know that there was an awful lot of of bad going on in her world. Maybe Scotty wouldn't understand that since he was part of that law, but she was in something completely different and he didn't seem so upset about it. "When ya come visit Serenity just know that you might find yourself in the middle of somethin'. Can't control it. I just make sure the girl runs when we need her to."

"Well, there's a reason I carry a communicator with me off-world," he answered. In case of emergency, call to the ship and beam back over. It worked alright for Sulu; there was no reason to believe it wouldn't work alright for him as well. Maybe Kaylee's world was a different level of potentially dangerous than, say, twenty-first century Cardiff where Jack and Ianto were from, but that didn't mean there was any reason not to visit, at least for a little while. Although, in all honesty, if he did find himself in the middle of something in Kaylee's world, it wasn't entirely likely that he'd just skip off and leave them to fend for themselves.

Kaylee frowned in concentration, "communicator? Oh, those." She pointed over to one of his crew who was holding something. She wasn't sure she was really catching on quite yet. They had something that worked like a communication device, actually a few of them, but nothing so uniform. She was finally feeling less intimidated by the whole situation and starting to see that it was really okay for them to have their different worlds and their different ships. She smiled up at him. "Anything else you can show me?"

"Well, let's see... there's the impulse engines, but they're nowhere near so impressive as the warp engines," he answered, although of course, if she wanted to see them, he wouldn't turn down the chance to show those off as well. "Other than that, I haven't got anything really impressive left to show off. Could see if there's any maintenance that needs doin'..." Usually, he wouldn't so much as think about letting someone who wasn't part of his crew touch his engines, but once again, Kaylee being a fellow engineer made her a special case.

"You'd let me fix somethin'?" Okay, this was the best news she's ever heard ever. She nearly bounced out of her shoes she was so excited. She was looking forward to getting her hands on some of this technology. It wasn't anything like she was used to, but that was what made it so exciting. She'd had to improv a few things on her own before and this would be just another way to expand her knowledge. She was a hands on learner after all.

"Aye, if you think you can handle it." He gave her a broad grin, and beckoned for her to follow him as he headed toward his office to go pick up his tool belt. He'd been itching to do a bit of hands-on work today himself anyway, and there really wasn't any better way to get familiar with the engine than to actually work on it. "Just something small, mind you. It's our secret, aye? Not that I think she'll mind, but the captain might no' be so keen on the idea."

"Won't tell a soul," she says cheerfully, completely beside herself that he'd let her touch the engine. Hell, she wasn't sure she'd let him near Serenity. She had her own kinks and quirks and she was much smaller. She had a very narrow margin for error with that machine. She followed on her toes, ready to do anything he'll let her and she assumed that she'd have to keep this quite for about... ever. She was okay with that.

There was a bit more room for error on a ship Enterprise's size, which was part of the reason he was even willing to do this in the first place. Besides, he'd be there to keep an eye on her, and long as it was a relatively minor something-or-other, it shouldn't make too much of a difference. He stopped by his office, grabbed his tool belt, and secured it around his waist, before heading off to find something that needed fixing, making sure Kaylee was following along behind. "Helm relays could probably do with a checkup."

Kaylee practically skipped with excitement - which to be honest, wasn't an uncommon act for her - while she followed Scotty too close for comfort. He mentioned what he'd let her check and she could understand relays pretty well, she'd just have to be sure that she wasn't making any mistakes. She'd had to give him more work than was necessary. His tool belt was also currently holding her attention because she really liked tools and some of these were much different than what she was used to looking at.

"Here we go, then." He stopped at one part of the engine that, to the untrained eye, probably looked like just about any other part of the engine, with a large panel for the helm relays. Since the best way to learn to do something was to do it yourself, and since Kaylee had engineering experience, even if it was on a different ship, Scotty took the tool belt off and handed it over, before motioning to the relay panel. "Go on, take a look."

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