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[Thread] ' 'No More Dead Heroes ' '

Dec 27, 2008 15:58

Characters: OU Linda-058, OU Captain Keyes, Open to Halo characters
Where: the park/wandering around, the cafe
When: noon/early evening
Summary: Linda and Keyes arrive at just about the same time. Linda investigates the call for aid from a dead captain. Old friends unite. / Keyes, with Linda trailing, explores the new facility he finds himself in. ( Read more... )

[halo] spartan-058/linda, [halo] dr catherine halsey, [halo] the arbiter, [halo] master chief/john, [halo] captain jacob keyes, *open

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tactical_loop December 27 2008, 22:27:46 UTC

The meeting had been a startling one, to say the very least. Keyes didn't know what to think about--well, everything. There was simply too much to completely grasp all at once like that. He needed time to think, time to himself ( ... )

charlie_hotel December 30 2008, 02:57:17 UTC

Halsey had read the logs of Captain Keyes in Econtra, and from John's constant reports, she realized that Linda was here, too ( ... )

sierra_058 December 30 2008, 03:58:47 UTC

Linda halted instantly when she spotted Dr. Halsey walking towards them; the same keen eyes that allowed her to be such a perfect sniper easily spotted the doctor from a fair distance away. It took Keyes a moment to notice the Spartan wasn't still following but she paid him no mind for the moment even as he glanced back at her questioningly.

Linda straightened and automatically went into a salute when the doctor got close enough. It petered off into hesitance however after a few seconds and she lowered her arm in a slow gesture and nodded a greeting instead. "Dr. Halsey."

Behind her the captain moved to stand up next to her side and, if she wasn't mistaken, actually smiled for a moment as he gazed at the doctor. "Halsey," he said, "it's good to see you again."

Again? She hadn't ever realized the two had met. But then, she didn't really know a lot about the captain at all. And--truth to tell--she probably didn't really know all that much about the doctor except what the ONI civilian specialist wanted the Spartans to know. (Or anyone ( ... )

charlie_hotel December 30 2008, 04:45:31 UTC

For Halsey, it wasn't simply "good" to see Keyes again. He was not only one of Halsey's oldest and closest friends, but one of the many she mourned for when his life was taken in the Great War. Naturally, her proffessionalism forbade her from ever showing any sort of emotion: Neither Keyes nor any of her Spartans would ever accept it.

After being patched through John's suit on his conversations with the newcomers, indeed, it was too much for them to grasp in one meeting. Fortunately, Halsey had one way they could talk over everything -- Both from this place, and from their universe.

"Shall we go? I got us a few cups of coffee once I realized you two were here." Of course, truth being that she requested the Indigeo for three cups of coffee

sierra_058 December 30 2008, 04:57:06 UTC

Keyes blinked--he hadn't expected that. Of course, leave it to Catherine Halsey to plan ahead. Hell, not even just plan ahead--but practically read the future from a few scraps of the present. It was almost eerily unnerving; it was familiar, and comforting.

He nodded once and glanced at the Spartan. "We'd be more than happy to escort you, Dr. Halsey," he replied. Where the hell the word 'escort' came from even Keyes didn't know. He vaguely wondered how boyish and silly he sounded right then, as if he were trying to hide the fact that he was clearly not in control as much as he'd like to be.

Linda ignored any subtleties on the captain's part--really, was a Spartan, a being so un-used to being in prolonged contact with civilian and civilian-like atmospheres, truly even capable of picking up on such things?--simply skipped to the acknowledgment part. She nodded briefly.

charlie_hotel December 30 2008, 05:38:39 UTC

Halsey smiled. He was the formal man she remembered. Even when it was Keyes who accepted 'escorting' her to the café while the Spartan followed him around -She knew Linda would have a harder time than her or John in believing that Keyes was alive-, Linda would want to accompany them, nevertheless.

As the Doctor directed them to the café, she briefly looked at Linda: She began to wonder how hard would it have been for her Spartans that were drafted in Econtra to live no more under a government, but into a free -truly free- existence. She observed that John and Kelly, after a year here, adapted and became more social... But Linda had just been Drafted.

What would it be like, for someone who had lived her entire existence under strict rules -even to the point of embracing them-, to be so quickly given freedom?

Once they sat, however, they'd have to address the situation at hand: Econtra, and what happened after the destruction of the first Halo.

sierra_058 December 30 2008, 06:04:00 UTC

Linda and Keyes followed the doctor dutifully to the cafe. Keyes found himself walking instinctively by Halsey's side--a memory based upon a lie briefly came to mind, her arm wrapped 'lovingly' around his--and felt more or less at ease despite his winding mind. This was actually more familiar than he consciously realized: during the entire month or so that he had worked for with Dr. Halsey his mind had been wrapped around the idea of trying to figure their work out. The circumstances had changed, but the concept was still the same. He was still next to her, and trying to figure out a puzzling dilemma ( ... )

charlie_hotel December 30 2008, 07:11:18 UTC

Halsey found the Captain attractive for many reasons, but there were two reasons on why she hadn't done the very act Keyes imagined: ONI taught her better than showing her emotions, and the Captain was a married man. The very act of wrapping her arm on him would have costed her a lot... If her act of treason against humanity wouldn't cost her enough, already.

Some of Linda's thoughts were shared by Halsey. The Spartans were always attracted to combat. Their loyalty to humanity and the UNSC were unbreakable, to the point she knew they would have stood and fought on Earth had she not intervened. The only Spartan that confronted her about her true intentions it was Kurt -- moments before his second death. If Kurt used to be here, then how much did John really know ( ... )

sierra_058 December 31 2008, 03:57:33 UTC

Keyes's memory wasn't faulty--and he didn't have to imagine the scene that came to mind when he walked next to her. It had really happened--for all of about two seconds. Then Halsey had sensed him stiffening in discomfort and let got with a sigh. The reasoning behind the act had been perfectly reasonable and should have been equally acceptable, but that didn't mean Keyes was used to such intimacy, real or for show, and therefore that part of the act had to be dropped. Parents looking for their child's ideal school indeed--just not very close parents apparently ( ... )

charlie_hotel December 31 2008, 04:36:45 UTC

Everything. The word John refused to elaborate. He didn't know whenever if to blame him or not. She couldn't help but smirk to herself with amusement when she read the logs of John when he talked to some newcomers about the nature of Econtra -- Especially with those of Tony Stark and of the Arbiter: After they questioned his sanity, he most likely gave up on telling the newcomers the truth about... magic.

Halsey quickly thought of a way to describe to them the nature of Econtra, then began talking with a calm tone.

"Remember that, with alternate universes, it can also means alternate laws of reality. And... Some of these residents have survived through their own means in their own worlds by interacting with their own." Halsey drank from her coffee. She attempted to use every term to describe the residents that were able to manipulate reality -- It must be mentioned, she wanted any and every term, but magic"This place has been known as the center of the omniverse for many of the residents, so it should be no surprise that different ( ... )

tactical_loop January 10 2009, 00:42:59 UTC

Linda frowned behind her helmet, probably only a physical reaction to Halsey's words because the Spartan knew no one could see it. What Dr. Halsey made sense--in the abstract--but it also did not answer the question to her wishes. A glance at the captain confirmed she wasn't the only one to think in this vein; a soldier is a soldier is a soldier, and they all tended to think alike in certain matters.

Captain Keyes's face was a thoughtful frown. Emphasis on the frown. With a hint of--not quite confusion, but perhaps perplexity and slight disbelief combined together. The idea that Halsey was avoiding the subject--and yes, he could tell she was skirting around something--gave off a troubling air. He ignored that for now. More importantly, along the same lines the Spartan was thinking, he was more interested in getting a straight answer. Or at least something that made sense in a lateral sense ( ... )

charlie_hotel January 13 2009, 08:43:59 UTC

Halsey looked at Keyes, with little to no changes in her expression after the Captain asked her for a straight answer. She expected it. As much as she would explain about the possibilities of Econtra, the two of them preferred a straight answer over an unelaborated statement, and over a beating around the sides of a bush.

"Before I tell you the truth, keep in mind that, in our known universe, energy doesn't exist by itself, which rules out the possibility that they would've been born in this one. With the powers they have shown here, they might as well be a species that have been evolving for at least several million years in a variety of alternate physical laws."

The Doctor paused. Neither Linda nor Keyes liked the hinting that Halsey and John were making, but she just knew they would hate the truth that they would soon realize about multiple universes. She sighed at the very thought of admitting that... magic... existed.

I'm really starting to hate magic, Halsey thought. While on better circumstances ONI would have gained an ( ... )

tactical_loop March 19 2009, 00:52:40 UTC

Keyes frowned at the beginning of Halsey's statement. Again, she was using terms and tangents that hardly meant a thing to him. While he was a bright and learned person, he was by no means a scientist, and did not think in the terms generally used by such people. No doubt, Linda felt the same at the moment ( ... )

charlie_hotel March 19 2009, 08:21:57 UTC

Halsey only sighed at their reaction, understanding their hesitance to accept the existence of that art, and remembering she had the same reaction when she had heard it not from the Norn Urd, but from her Spartans. The Doctor had predicted how hard it would've been for the two of them to be told by her about... magic. If anything, however, she managed to keep herself calm and in stride as she talked.

On the outside.

On the inside, Halsey cringed at the fact she had just surrendered her logic towards accepting the existence of magic.

Luck was one thing, and no doubt it had helped them in their brutal war. Watching Mr. Stark turn into a small, joyful, anthropomorphic mechanical robot was a violation and an insult to all known laws of reality. It mocked all of her years receiving Doctorates. It made fun of even her most basic understanding of reality ( ... )

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