It's Not the First Time I've Fallen Through a Floor...
Characters: Duo, Galadriel, Jin, Quatre, OPEN
When: Sometime today
Where: Out and about the Safe Zone, looking for a building
Rating: PG for mild language
Summary: Duo goes looking for a new place to stay... and gets in a little trouble. Quatre goes to find him, and gets lost!
Duo was still frustrated with Quatre. Things had not smoothed over between them yet after their little argument over the pills. The blond had been avoidant, and Duo was not good at these things, so he'd let him be that way, figuring he'd come around again on his own.
So far... not so good. Either way, the American was now officially frustrated.
It didn't help that Unohana had become a mother hen. It wasn't that Duo didn't appreciate her concern. However, her attentions combined with their surroundings wasn't helping his nightmares or the memories that were being dredged up from some dark corner of his mind he had long since thought locked and buried.
He was tired, frustrated, and distracted. He was worried about people he hadn't seen. He wanted to stop being aggravated with Quatre. He hated this place... time... dimension... whatever it was. He needed a place to stay where he could settle his head again... away from a woman that reminded him of Sister Helen... away from this place that looked like L2...
He wanted things to go back to normal... or start being normal.
He pushed through another door, deciding this building needed too much work to be usable as well. He sighed. So much for that. Plus, it didn't have a good enough ground floor to be used as a workshop/garage. The door in the back was big enough, but...
Duo froze when the floor creaked dangerously under his feet. Damn. He hadn't been paying attention. Now that he really looked, this wasn't a very safe place at all. How could he have been so stupid? He knew why. Because he wasn't thinking about what he was doing, he was thinking about things going on around him that he clearly had no control over. He'd let himself get distracted. He couldn't do that if he wanted to survive. Just like...
Just like on L2... the gang... on his own... scraping to get by...
CRACK!
"Shit!" It felt like slow motion, and Duo knew he couldn't stop it from happening now. The floor under him gave out, and he went through. He pulled his arms in, covering his face against the dust and debris that went with him. He grunted as he felt something twist and pop painfully in his left ankle when he landed. His leg gave out immediately, and he fell onto his left side. He curled and put his arms over his head as quick as he could before the rest of the debris came down on top of him.
That's when everything went really dark...
When: Sometime today
Where: Out and about the Safe Zone, looking for a building
Rating: PG for mild language
Summary: Duo goes looking for a new place to stay... and gets in a little trouble. Quatre goes to find him, and gets lost!
Duo was still frustrated with Quatre. Things had not smoothed over between them yet after their little argument over the pills. The blond had been avoidant, and Duo was not good at these things, so he'd let him be that way, figuring he'd come around again on his own.
So far... not so good. Either way, the American was now officially frustrated.
It didn't help that Unohana had become a mother hen. It wasn't that Duo didn't appreciate her concern. However, her attentions combined with their surroundings wasn't helping his nightmares or the memories that were being dredged up from some dark corner of his mind he had long since thought locked and buried.
He was tired, frustrated, and distracted. He was worried about people he hadn't seen. He wanted to stop being aggravated with Quatre. He hated this place... time... dimension... whatever it was. He needed a place to stay where he could settle his head again... away from a woman that reminded him of Sister Helen... away from this place that looked like L2...
He wanted things to go back to normal... or start being normal.
He pushed through another door, deciding this building needed too much work to be usable as well. He sighed. So much for that. Plus, it didn't have a good enough ground floor to be used as a workshop/garage. The door in the back was big enough, but...
Duo froze when the floor creaked dangerously under his feet. Damn. He hadn't been paying attention. Now that he really looked, this wasn't a very safe place at all. How could he have been so stupid? He knew why. Because he wasn't thinking about what he was doing, he was thinking about things going on around him that he clearly had no control over. He'd let himself get distracted. He couldn't do that if he wanted to survive. Just like...
Just like on L2... the gang... on his own... scraping to get by...
CRACK!
"Shit!" It felt like slow motion, and Duo knew he couldn't stop it from happening now. The floor under him gave out, and he went through. He pulled his arms in, covering his face against the dust and debris that went with him. He grunted as he felt something twist and pop painfully in his left ankle when he landed. His leg gave out immediately, and he fell onto his left side. He curled and put his arms over his head as quick as he could before the rest of the debris came down on top of him.
That's when everything went really dark...