David Collins (
hostileterritory) wrote in
lastvoyageslogs2024-09-09 12:42 am
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variable two;
Who: David, Saga, and YOU??
When: Post-event in August, into the uneventful part of September
Where: Infirmary, his cabin, art gazebo, see prompts.
What: BABY'S FIRST DEATH TOLL and September catch-all
Warnings: SH related violence likely to be discussed, the usual gamut of warnings around David--brainwashing, issues of consent, institutional abuse, military violence, and exploitation.
i. infirmary - closed to first Saga and then existing CR
He wakes up. Because he always wakes up. It's becoming an inevitability. What's different is that he aches, at least where he doesn't feel like he has bits of something stabbed through him. They must be trying something new, for it to hurt this much.
The bland ceiling of the infirmary is familiar, in a disappointing way. A dream, then? A very long, very strange dream, maybe hallucinations mixed in. Too vivid for only his imagination. The slow awareness of someone next to the bed makes him feel cold inside. He wouldn't mind going back to the hallucinations, even that last one. He keeps his eyes on the ceiling and lets the blankness do its job.
It won't just happen the first time he wakes up, either--for as long as he's in the infirmary, David's going to be just a little bit temporally unmoored.
When: Post-event in August, into the uneventful part of September
Where: Infirmary, his cabin, art gazebo, see prompts.
What: BABY'S FIRST DEATH TOLL and September catch-all
Warnings: SH related violence likely to be discussed, the usual gamut of warnings around David--brainwashing, issues of consent, institutional abuse, military violence, and exploitation.
i. infirmary - closed to first Saga and then existing CR
He wakes up. Because he always wakes up. It's becoming an inevitability. What's different is that he aches, at least where he doesn't feel like he has bits of something stabbed through him. They must be trying something new, for it to hurt this much.
The bland ceiling of the infirmary is familiar, in a disappointing way. A dream, then? A very long, very strange dream, maybe hallucinations mixed in. Too vivid for only his imagination. The slow awareness of someone next to the bed makes him feel cold inside. He wouldn't mind going back to the hallucinations, even that last one. He keeps his eyes on the ceiling and lets the blankness do its job.
It won't just happen the first time he wakes up, either--for as long as he's in the infirmary, David's going to be just a little bit temporally unmoored.

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He doesn't like to go, especially if they have a reason to look at him, but he would for friends, get someone in that needs it, and hopefully despite looking like shit himself, he can make the excuse of death toll and head back to his own room once he's done.
Peaking in, he spots David and makes a bee line for him. "H-hey! How's it going, bud?"
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"Hey." Maybe it's because of the way time keeps bending in his head, maybe it's something else, but he feels more loose-tongued than he should. "I didn't know if I was here."
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"Jesus, I feel like shit but I'm not like, disassociating. Wh-what happened after Saga got me out?" She should have taken David first, he'd been stabbed...and while he knows if she had, he might not of survived himself, it didn't make it feel any better.
He was supposed to protect his friends, and here he was, getting them all killed. David, Erskine, Nico, Cloud, potentially other people he knew decently enough that didn't deserve to get burned just because he existed and fucked with magic he didn't quite understand.
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'F e l l a s l e e p.'
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"Can I get you anything? I- I made you something by the way, it's kind of stupid but-" he reaches into his pocket, pulling out a paper doll of the Terminator, rather silly all things considered.
"Figured he could keep you company while you recovered if no one is visiting."
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Bonus exhalation-based laugh!
"Definitely... here. Good to know." He rubs his thumb over the sunglasses and tiny scowl. "I like it."
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He would have the day before but that was a lot of getting sick in-between people yelling at him and him listening to people yell at him and feeling really bad. Great day.
"You got a headache? I was gonna sit here a bit, if you didn't mind, brought my Zune. I'll share an earbud with you, if it wouldn't give you a migraine?"
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He lets his arm rest on the bed again, still gently worrying away at the paper doll's face with his thumb. David studies Hanna with very blue eyes.
"How bad you getting your ass kicked?"
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He tries not to let the comment hurt too bad, at least on his face, reaching out to ruffle David's hair, "Well, let me get the next one if we're in danger. I owe you, and we can trade off, kay? I'm good for it, might even have all my magic next time, it'd help."
He fits the other bud in his own ear, resting his elbow in a lean so he's close enough they can share and shrugs, "probably not enough for what I did. Nico made me intangible to harm, I didn't want to say no because if I did he might have to deal with giving me another rez and that sucks. Kid didn't deserve to land me right before I fucked up like that."
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“David. Hi. How are you feeling?” He asks as he steps around to help himself to looking at his chart.
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"Bit like shit," he says, softly ironic. His voice is scratchy but clear.
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And didn't bounce back this time, annoyingly.
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"Redhead with a kitchen knife. Uninvited guest."
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infirmary
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It isn't until Saga moves in her seat or shifts position or some other noise draws his attention her way that he actually sees who's sitting next to him. No clipboard. No monitors or vials or things to prod him with.
He frowns, vaguely confused, wondering if he's hallucinating again or--
"Are you real?"
He sounds like his throat has rusted shut.
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"How are you feeling? Need some water?"
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"Where is this?" Maybe she's involved in the project and he took her face and voice and made someone in his head. It's possible.
He closes his eyes, tries to swallow to clear his throat, and coughs raggedly instead. His guard is sufficiently broken that he can reach for the glass, though it might end up dumped on his chest.
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"We're in the infirmary," she explains, "on the Barge. You died from your wounds, so I brought you here to get some of the metal that got stuck into you taken out before I revived you."
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"Agent Anderson?" He takes several long, careful sips of the water, sucking as much as he can through the straw when his lungs ache and chest muscles feel somehow sprained. The disconnect is disappearing, though, with more evidence about where he is. Her memory of things matching his, the way she answers without hesitation.
The infirmary. The infirmary on the barge.
He swallows, pauses to catch his breath.
"You made it through all right? Hanna got where he needed to be?"
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"I was planning on checking in with him once you woke up. But the-" what the hell do I even call this? It wasn't a flood. And it sure as hell wasn't a good time "-the Overlap that was happening with that strange industrial world full of monsters is gone. We're in clean up now."
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"Don't be too hard on him," David manages. He pauses, takes another sip of water, savors the feeling of cold liquid pouring all the way down his scorched throat. "He wanted you to take me first. He--"
A wheeze cuts off the sentence. David takes a second to regroup and drink more water. The cold is clarifying.
"He's a good guy. He knows he made a mistake."
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No interest, her tone says. It's not that she's not upset that this happened. It's that she doesn't think that his choice in this case holds the weight of what happened on the boat. He didn't choose to do this any more than anyone else did. He just happened to trip over the lever.
"I'm sure he'll be glad to see you up."
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CW mention of RL traumatic events
Re: CW mention of RL traumatic events
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