Night 51: M41-50 Hallway

Aug 27, 2010 20:16

He hadn't expected to see a note to him from anyone other than his commanding officers. He'd caught the bulletin (from Dean, wasn't it?) addressed to him before the dinner shift. McCoy remembered him well enough. Rough looking kid, thought he could practice some medicine with nothing but a belt and dirty jacket, but generally had his heart in the ( Read more... )

claude, guy, venom, ritsu, kibitoshin, lunge, wolverine, two-face, mccoy, green arrow, the scarecrow, natalia, matt

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M44 full_score August 28 2010, 17:55:46 UTC
The dinner shift probably could have been a little better, but it wasn't awful, either. Claude had managed to get a few bites of food down, and his roommate hadn't invaded his personal space too much. All things considered, that was all he could have asked for.

Hearing the Head Doctor go on about sleep studies made Claude tense up, and he was half-waiting to hear the door open up again so some orderlies to drag one of them away. He hated that feeling of helplessness, that all he could do was sit there and wonder if their room would become so unlucky again. But then he heard the faint click of the locks sliding back out of place, and Claude couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Thank goodness... He wasn't sure what he'd do if he or his roommate got targeted, but thankfully he didn't have to worry about that for tonight ( ... )

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Re: M44 razing_phoenix August 29 2010, 04:12:35 UTC
[From here.]And so he had made it to Claude's room in hardly any time at all. Guy was curious about whether or not his friend's roommate might be around this time, but he also realized that he hadn't met any of them except for Asch, and that didn't quite count. He hadn't been Claude's roommate the second time around, anyway ( ... )

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Re: M44 full_score August 31 2010, 13:25:19 UTC
Mason had already left, which meant that Claude was on his own until someone showed up. Not much time had gone by, however, before he heard a knock at the door, followed by a familiar voice. He instantly straightened in his seat, perking up when he realized that Guy had arrived after all. That sure was a relief! As much as he hated to admit it, he wasn't sure if he trusted himself enough to properly look after Natalia while she tried to heal him ( ... )

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Re: M44 razing_phoenix August 31 2010, 22:24:54 UTC
From the sounds of it, Claude was actually in pretty good spirits. It didn't seem that Natalia had made her way there yet, but that made sense; she had a much farther distance to travel. Once again, Guy was just glad that he and Claude had been placed in the same block of rooms, if not the same hallway ( ... )

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Re: M44 full_score September 1 2010, 20:22:31 UTC
Claude smiled as he heard the door open. Though it was a little odd that Guy hadn't heard from Luke, he'd actually seen him today during lunch, so he didn't think there was necessarily much to worry about. Maybe he just hadn't checked the bulletin or had overlooked Guy's message. The most surprising thing about what Guy said, actually, was that their friend Tear was around as well ( ... )

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Re: M44 razing_phoenix September 2 2010, 04:58:47 UTC
It was a bit odd that Natalia and Tear had shown up so soon after each other, but Guy wasn't about to complain. Maybe Natalia would have been better off back on Auldrant (assuming that time did continue on, and that still wasn't certain), but having Tear here again was definitely a good thing ( ... )

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Re: M44 full_score September 2 2010, 22:55:21 UTC
While ideally no one would have been trapped here at all, Claude had to admit that Tear was pretty lucky to have people she could trust to give her the run-down of this place. He could see how someone new could be pretty suspicious of some of the claims the captives here made -- at least, if they didn't have any friends to help them out ( ... )

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Re: M44 razing_phoenix September 3 2010, 00:51:49 UTC
It was only after Claude asked for clarification that Guy realized that his statement might have seemed odd out of context. "Oh, yeah," he said with a smile as he glanced over at his friend. "When we went on that big journey to stop Van" -- had he even mentioned Van to Claude before? Well, there was a first for everything -- "it was myself, Luke, Anise, Natalia, Tear, and Jade. With Ion joining in for some of it." Claude had met Ion, too, hadn't he? It had been in the middle of a fight, true, but it still counted. So he even knew their honorary team member, not to mention Asch... both of who were supposed to be dead ( ... )

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Re: M44 full_score September 4 2010, 22:31:16 UTC
"Van?" Claude echoed as he tried to recall some of the conversations he'd had with Guy in the past. As far as he remembered, his friend had never mentioned this Van person before. "Was he an enemy of yours?" Just from the presence of people like Sync, it was clear Guy and his friends had made a few of those during their journey, but he'd never really been clear about what it was they'd been fighting over ( ... )

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Re: M44 razing_phoenix September 5 2010, 01:15:00 UTC
So apparently he hadn't mentioned Van until now. Guy held back a sigh as he tried to think of how to even answer Claude's question, which happened to be far more loaded than his friend even realized. He and Van had a long, difficult history, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to launch into an explanation when Natalia would be showing up soon, meaning they would have other things to worry about. Speaking of which, where was she ( ... )

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M44 nobleobliged September 5 2010, 15:58:48 UTC
[from here]

At last. The fonmachine's light, the flashlight, settled on M44 for a beat. Snapping into darkness, she replaced the device and allowed her eyes to adjust once more. If Jill truly was at that man's mercy, then there wasn't a moment to lose. Yet, Natalia found half a minute passing as she swept a few fingers over her hair (if only she could have a headband), and wrinkled her nose at her drab attire as it cleared with her vision. It seemed a shame that his sight would be restored, and met with awful clothes and an awful room decor.

Perhaps, her priorities were slightly out of order. Perhaps, she ought to have given more credence to the possibility that it might not work; yet, Natalia could not allow something as negative as sheer practicality to threaten her. Starting out with the wrong attitude could be fatal.

Squaring her shoulders, shifting her hold on the radio (her fingers slid over its cool surface and she remembered, again, that last gasp), Natalia raised her hand and rapped her knuckles below the number ( ... )

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Re: M44 full_score September 6 2010, 00:27:07 UTC
Claude listened to Guy's explanation, softly frowning as he heard more about this Van person. How could someone who had such close ties to other people want to try to destroy the world? And enough to fight against their own family? Defeating someone with such extreme ideals was one thing, but Claude couldn't imagine what it would have been like if he'd actually had any prior connections to the Ten Wise Men. That would have made dealing with everything that much more complicated, he was sure ( ... )

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Re: M44 razing_phoenix September 6 2010, 08:54:51 UTC
That knock on the door left Guy more relieved than he'd realized he would be. Van was a difficult subject, so the fact that they could focus on the matter at hand instead quickly put him at ease. Not to mention this meant that Natalia was safe and sound after all; it had just taken her a while to make her way over from the female block, which was understandable for someone so new ( ... )

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Re: M44 nobleobliged September 6 2010, 21:27:28 UTC
"Oh, Guy!" Natalia exclaimed, returning his smile with delight. She hadn't known whether he would be present for it. It may not have mattered in any length of run, but she wouldn't deny taking pleasure in his company ( ... )

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Re: M44 full_score September 7 2010, 01:46:07 UTC
Claude listened as Guy got up from the bed to open the door for Natalia. It sounded like she hadn't had any problems coming over here -- or, at least, she hadn't mentioned any, and she'd managed to get here all right. He sent a smile over in their direction, but grew still for a moment as he heard Guy express his gratitude for her agreeing to help. Claude's a good friend, he'd said. Genuinely touched that Guy would speak so highly of him to one of his long-time friends, he ducked his head with a softened smile ( ... )

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Re: M44 razing_phoenix September 7 2010, 08:53:18 UTC
It didn't take Natalia long to step inside, half-reprimand him for even thinking to thank her, and then set herself up near Claude, complete with orders for him. While she asked politely, Guy couldn't help thinking back to a few years before, when she would have done that with all of the haughty attitude expected from a princess who had grown up in luxury ( ... )

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