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In which our intrepid hero finds himself...

Jun 19, 2010 01:14

Characters: Leroy Jethro Gibbs lrjthrgibbs and OPEN!
Location: Deck Five
Date: His first day on the Elegante
Rating: PG-13, since Jethro has a potty mouth
Warnings: Cursing...and that's it

( ...in the most peculiar and unexpected situation. )

gibbs, marco, zeke, open

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have a cranky giant robot in case stuff is too normal for ya! :D fracturefall June 19 2010, 14:44:12 UTC

Barricade, just clomping around because he's having a bad day, nearly trips over the squishy. Stupid place to leave a squishy. Fraggin' firehazard.

Worse, the squishy seemed a bit...wobbly. And was just standing there. Awesome. Barricade flexed his talons.

"Hey, what?" he said, surly, "This your slaggin' hallway?"

Re: have a cranky giant robot in case stuff is too normal for ya! :D lrjthrgibbs June 20 2010, 05:20:56 UTC

Gibbs looked over at the...thing, eyes wide. "What the hell are you?" No more alcohol for him for a long time. "I don't even know where the fuck I am. It's not my hallway!" It was rare that he dropped the heavier swears, due to the fact that some cases had him working with kids.

Re: fracturefall June 20 2010, 05:29:09 UTC

"What the hell am I?" Barricade frowned. Yeah, it all looks mean. Whatever. "What do you think I am? The slaggin' welcoming committee? Housekeeping?"

Fraggin' squishy.

"I KNOW it's not your hallway. So what the slag you doin' standing there like a spore mold?" With a box. A box of intriguing things he seems protective of. In a bold maneuver of Poor Social Skills and Curiosity, he blurts, "What you got in that box, anyway, meatsack?"

lrjthrgibbs June 20 2010, 05:44:01 UTC

"Got nowhere else to go. I woke up here." He held the lockbox close. "Nothing you'd be interested in. Just paper." He didn't feel like he could trust this thing at all. "I just want to know where I am."

fracturefall June 20 2010, 13:03:04 UTC

"You...normally wake up in strange places you don't remember?"

Barricade thinks. Maybe this is normal for a squishy. It's only happened to him the once, when he got here. But, well, that doesn't mean it's abnormal stuff for squishies. "Because, I gotta suggest to you, as a sort of intel specialist, that falling asleep in strange open corridors is pretty much like begging for someone to steal that little box you're clutching so tightly, there, friend."

"Where you are is the Elegante, apparently the ship of Freaky Slag and Doom or something."

lrjthrgibbs June 23 2010, 01:57:40 UTC

He shook his head. He wondered exactly what the hell this giant metal thing was and why it kept calling him 'squishy.' He didn't want to really get to know this thing. "I fell asleep in my bedroom at home. Normally I expect to wake up where I fall asleep." He tilted his head when it mentioned being an intel specialist. What did it work for, then? "A ship?" He could feel the gentle rocking of waves, and wondered why he hadn't noticed it before.

fracturefall June 23 2010, 02:08:09 UTC

"Yeah? Know that feeling. Same thing happened to me. Woke up here." Barricade looks...supremely unhappy. (Can you tell?) "You...uhhh, normally snuggle up with your little Box o' Secrets, though, meatbag?"

"Yes, a ship. The floaty-on-water kind. Not the sensible nice, civilized 'warp drive through space' kind." He frowns. "And trust me, it gets...even weirder from here."

lrjthrgibbs June 23 2010, 03:15:33 UTC

He shook his head at that and tried to smile. Even though he didn't know if he could trust this thing, he could sympathize with it. If it was possible to sympathize with a big metal...thing. It almost reminded him of that killer humvee from a few years back. "No. I don't." The box normally stayed tucked away in the very back of his closet, and he wouldn't touch it if he hadn't been in such a bad place.

"I know what a ship is. I've been on 'em before." Although he had never even thought that spaceships were possible, other than the shuttles NASA used.

fracturefall June 23 2010, 05:17:43 UTC

"Well, for the record, sleeping with something is pretty rotten security. Of course, having a hard copy of anything at all is pretty bad security." Barricade taps the side of his helm. "Onboard storage is better. Unless," and the optics get crafty, "that isn't data but something materially valuable?" He's not greedy, really. Just...still trying to figure things out himself.

"I wonder if it'll be any good now," he mused. "Just, seems weird everyone else shows up practically with nothing, stripped of weapons...and you got your box."

"Well then fine. We're on a ship. And unlike the ships you've been on before, Sailor Moon, you don't get off this one."

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