Comments | beyondtherift: Extreme ways are back again, extreme places I didn't know-

der_weevilkonig in beyondtherift

Extreme ways are back again, extreme places I didn't know-

Dec 05, 2008 14:47

Owen has two fractured ribs, a bruise on his head that stopped just short of a concussion, and a shoulder that feels like someone took at sledgehammer to it. He's also got a vested interest in being nowhere near the infirmary at the moment, so he took some painkillers and vacated the premises ( Read more... )

marshall flinkman, owen harper

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akablackkitty December 5 2008, 21:14:16 UTC

Marshall is usually in the CCTV room, if only because that's just where he's most comfortable. That's what happens when you spend so much time in there.

He gives Owen a look that's almost pouty, considering what went down in that room with the gun cabinet, but this is not the first unpleasant thing he's ever had to bring up on the CCTV for anyone and he swivels his chair to the appropriate console, pokes through the feeds and finds what he's looking for.

"All right, um... Here. Is that what you're looking for?" He stops on a feed of Suzie coming down the hall and starting on the electronic lock. "Further back, further forward? Something or other?"

He's... Oddly somber, so he's actually quieter than normal. Well, it's not every day someone tries to kill themselves. It makes even his unshakable aura of content a little shaky.

der_weevilkonig December 5 2008, 21:20:33 UTC

"Right there," Owen says, wandering up behind him and looking over his shoulder. "Play it." After a moment, he adds "and do we have a camera pointing at the corner just about-"

He indicates a point just off one of the screens - where he would have rounded the corner to see Suzie.

"Something happened, and this time, I don't think it was the building."

akablackkitty December 5 2008, 21:41:18 UTC

Marshall obeys and then frowns for a moment, considering the question. "Possibly. I wanna say we do, but.." He looks up at Owen, gives him a sheepish smile that might be apologetic for the almost-ramble, and then proceeds to find precisely what he's looking for. "There we go!"

The angle shifts and the feed loops back to Owen just as he's coming around the corner.

der_weevilkonig December 5 2008, 22:15:35 UTC

Right. That works. Got him, got Suzie, and there they see each other, he steps forward-

A dark flash along the hallway between them, and then they're both crumpled into the far wall.

Well, at least he knows he wasn't hallucinating. Even so, dark flash doesn't tell him much.

"You have a frame-by-frame on this thing?"

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