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lastvoyageslogs2010-08-26 02:19 am
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Another backdated HoHH rescue log
Who: Emily Prentiss and Neil McCormick, and probably some nasty ghosts.
What: CAN OUR INTREPID RENT BOY HERO SAVE HIS FED WARDEN FROM TORTURE BY GHOSTS? WILL THEY ESCAPE THE HAUNTED HOUSE WITH THEIR LIVES? STAY TUNED.
Where: In the basement, uhhh North Wing, then outta there.
When: Last day of port.
Warnings: Okay, so there's probably going to be some mention of violence, trauma, that kind of stuff, and normally I wouldn't bother with a warning, buuut. There'll be mention of child abuse. IDK how explicit? But still. Yeah. :C
Emily Prentiss had seen a lot in her time as a federal agent, and still more on the Barge. But it didn't entirely prepare her for five days of intensive mental - and sometimes physical - torture, with goddamn ghosts doing the torturing. The cell was small, cramped and dark; barely-lit at times, pitch-black at others. The basement was freezing, a fact not helped by soaking wet clothes that just would not dry. She lasted better than some of the other wardens she could hear over the shoddy lines of communication and in the cells in her wing. But the ghostly doctors were persistant.
And when the ghosts weren't trying to convince her she was crazy, the sobs and screams from the journal made her wonder if that would have been preferable. There was nothing she could do for them, that was the real problem. She could talk all she wanted, but there came a point when talking wouldn't help. And it wasn't like she didn't have her own problems to deal with. Slowly, her resolve had been wearing thin. Exhausted, weak, feeling sick and horrified, her good compartmentalisation skills had begun to break down.
Right now, Prentiss was sitting in the corner of her cell, curled up. Her legs bent to her chest, she was pressing her tightly-closed eyes against the tops of her knees. Tears soaked into her already-damp jeans. Her hands were wrapped around her shins in case she needed to fight in a hurry, though she would have infinitely preferred to cover her ears. She wasn't that far gone. Not yet.
What: CAN OUR INTREPID RENT BOY HERO SAVE HIS FED WARDEN FROM TORTURE BY GHOSTS? WILL THEY ESCAPE THE HAUNTED HOUSE WITH THEIR LIVES? STAY TUNED.
Where: In the basement, uhhh North Wing, then outta there.
When: Last day of port.
Warnings: Okay, so there's probably going to be some mention of violence, trauma, that kind of stuff, and normally I wouldn't bother with a warning, buuut. There'll be mention of child abuse. IDK how explicit? But still. Yeah. :C
Emily Prentiss had seen a lot in her time as a federal agent, and still more on the Barge. But it didn't entirely prepare her for five days of intensive mental - and sometimes physical - torture, with goddamn ghosts doing the torturing. The cell was small, cramped and dark; barely-lit at times, pitch-black at others. The basement was freezing, a fact not helped by soaking wet clothes that just would not dry. She lasted better than some of the other wardens she could hear over the shoddy lines of communication and in the cells in her wing. But the ghostly doctors were persistant.
And when the ghosts weren't trying to convince her she was crazy, the sobs and screams from the journal made her wonder if that would have been preferable. There was nothing she could do for them, that was the real problem. She could talk all she wanted, but there came a point when talking wouldn't help. And it wasn't like she didn't have her own problems to deal with. Slowly, her resolve had been wearing thin. Exhausted, weak, feeling sick and horrified, her good compartmentalisation skills had begun to break down.
Right now, Prentiss was sitting in the corner of her cell, curled up. Her legs bent to her chest, she was pressing her tightly-closed eyes against the tops of her knees. Tears soaked into her already-damp jeans. Her hands were wrapped around her shins in case she needed to fight in a hurry, though she would have infinitely preferred to cover her ears. She wasn't that far gone. Not yet.

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"Prentiss?"
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"No," she muttered through her teeth. She was stronger than this crap. One final swallow, and she lifted her head. Sparking flickers of light, but nothing else. Her voice cracked as she tentatively called out her inmate's name. "Neil?"
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"Hey." He spoke casually to hide the mounting fear in his chest. Offering a teasing-- ACTUALLY FRIENDLY, FOR ONCE-- smirk, he added, "You look like shit. C'mon."
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"Okay," she said, voice sliding back into calm special agent mode, hands checking her journal was tucked into her pocket, then brushing herself down. If Neil was looking at her, she didn't meet his gaze. "How do we get out of here?"
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"We gotta..." What was it? He racked his brains for a moment, then looked at her. "Find your warden thing."
Retconning her item, go!
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Then, as though a lightbulb just went off in his head, Neil quickly reached into his pocket and pulled his communicator out, offering it to Prentiss. "Here. It's got clues." He snorted. "Like a fucking scavenger hunt."
Even though he could've read the hints himself, he clearly wanted Prentiss to take the lead on this. She was the cop; she had to know how to make sense of everything, right?
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"Did you-" Something at the corner of her eye, far off light. She stared at the words on the communicator for another moment before looking back up at Neil. "How did you find me?"
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It almost seemed to get darker as they moved down the hallway, the light fading out, leaving murky darkness and that persistant flicker of a sickly glow behind them. The static got louder, and there were whispers mingled with the noise. It was hard to make out what they were saying. It almost sounded like the voices were calling her name. Neil's name. Emily made sure to stay close to Neil. If they got seperated somehow... She didn't want to think about that. There were doors along the corridor, but they looked like cells for the most part, not offices. She waited for the teenager to point their target out.
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1/2 - :|
"You look there," she waved a hand at a row of filing cabinets, already moving to another bank of cabinets on the other side of the small room and pulling the first one open. "It's a leather badge, like you'd see in movies... It has my name in it."
2/2 - FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
"Neil..." The voice came through the static. It cracked, blurring and distorting the words, but it couldn't entirely drown them out. The voice got louder, full of tenderness and love. "Angel."
AOIYDOHOFBIFugfuFgiUFFFFFF
"Coach?" he said, his voice soft, tentative, full of confusion with an undercurrent of hope.
I SECOND THIS AOIYDOHOFBIFugfuFgiUFFFFFF OF YOURS
If Neil looked hard, around the doorframe, he might be able to see a shape in the shadows, back down the corridor. It looked like a tall man, shaking, but the light was too poor to see his features clearly.
BAWWWW SO SKEEVY
"Coach," he repeated, less questioning. He tilted his head, staring intently at the shade. His one true love. The man who taught him everything, who made him feel so much, who showed him so much.
(It just happened, but he wanted it, he wanted it, he liked it. He had to have liked it, didn't he?)
"You left..."
Coach could take him away, keep him safe from this fucked up place and take him far away from here, far away from the Barge. He'd be free to love him again.
"Why'd you leave?" he asked, walking out the office, each step towards the shade less hesitant than the last.
1/2 - MAN. I am indeed skeeved out.
2/2
She grabbed it, and turned to tell Neil they could get the hell out of there. Unfortunately, all she could see was a last glimpse of his body moving out of sight into the corridor. Well, shit. Why was he leaving? Why hadn't he said anything? She registered the loud static as she headed fast out of the room after him.
"Neil?" she said, catching up with him and grabbing his arm. She hadn't spotted - or couldn't see - the shadowy figure. "Neil, what are you doing?"