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021: You Can't Sleep Forever [Visual]

Aug 15, 2011 20:14

It was late in evening when DG returned to Taxon after three weeks of something far stranger than sleep. The moon that should have been shining above her was obscured by thick cloud and she stepped out of the deserted work shop into a wall of snow ( Read more... )

glitch, { temperance brennan, dg, wyatt cain, @ osten, { liz parker

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[visual / location: osten] oh hey it's tl;dr justaddmarbles August 15 2011, 20:09:03 UTC

There was a ridiculously swanky club, with a bar and a restaurant and a casino upstairs, and Glitch had found himself turning up there after RoWSA had beeped at him enough to shoo him from the shop. It was a bit of a balm before making the trek back to the palace, always filled with Extras laughing and a band playing jazz, or just a piano player crooning the same song over and over: You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh...

That night he was having a coffee to ward off the chill from the storm outside, but very nearly spit it out when he heard that voice. He shot up from the table, blinking, jaw dropped open as nearly two years of memories shuffled around and turned upside down and suddenly everything made sense and he was furious.

"What's your problem, buddy?" a male Extra drawled from behind him. Glitch wheeled, heart pounding, the outrage which couldn't be directed at the aliens roaring up and he gave the Extra a solid right hook to the jaw. A woman screamed, there were shouts, get him out of here, ( ... )

[text (locked to cain) ] justaddmarbles August 15 2011, 20:21:05 UTC

And in transit to meet DG, Glitch sent the following:

They brought DG back. I'm pretty sure I owe you an apology.

Exactly what he had to apologize for was complicated, but he was sure he'd work it out.

[text (locked like a locked thing, for once) ] tin_hearts August 15 2011, 21:43:57 UTC

Don't. I'm happy. Cain typed back, fingers hovering over the touchpad for a split second before adding a little something to this...sudden bout of honesty.

He may have made a promise not to advertise, but some part of him wanted to share. He hadn't felt this close to okay in a very long time, and with DG back-- Well.

Things make more sense now, at least. It's something.

[text (shhhh, seeekrits~) ] justaddmarbles August 16 2011, 02:53:53 UTC

A lot more sense. If only one could convey ruefulness in text form. He'd been thinking...oh, miserable things (and looking back he suspected there were moments in which he almost knew what was wrong) but now the perspective had shifted. The loneliness hadn't been something he'd missed, but something he'd been missing, and that was--

More than something, I think. Almost comforting.

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[Visual] tothelightshown August 16 2011, 10:44:58 UTC

Piper had returned to the city without any memory of her time in Taxon. The friends that she'd made in the city still remembered her. When Kaylee and River had gone missing, it had been different. Their absence had gone ... not unnoticed, as such. It was difficult to describe. It left a gaping hole in the memories of their loved ones, but, until they returned, the gap went largely unnoticed.

DG was no stranger to amnesia, but that trick was enough to make her shudder in distaste.

"He's my best friend," she said, firmly. The word 'boyfriend', while technically correct, had never sounded right. Besides, she'd been gone - erased - for a long time. She didn't want to think about what might have changed.

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[Visual] tothelightshown August 18 2011, 21:33:09 UTC

"The best," DG agreed. She'd never tire of meeting the friends that he'd made in the city. He'd been alone for so long in the O.Z that he deserved every single one of them.

"I'm DG," she added, realising that she should probably offer an introduction of sorts. She'd been shaken at first, but she was also very good at taking weirdness in her stride. She could deal with this, just like she'd dealt with everything else.

[Visual] bonescientist August 17 2011, 19:32:38 UTC

"They took you, too," Brennan stated instead of asking. The anthropologist wore a dismayed expression, eyebrows pinched and lips pressed tightly together. It hadn't been long since she'd had a conversation with DG about other people getting pulled temporarily from the city, and now it had happened to the woman in question. The irony wasn't lost on Brennan, and she didn't really like it.

[Visual] tothelightshown August 17 2011, 21:50:48 UTC

DG nodded in response to the question that wasn't a question, offering Brennan a wry smile that didn't contain as much humour as she would have liked. She was tired and cold and still unsure of exactly how much she'd missed.

"Maybe they were fed up of me telling people their secrets?" she offered.

[Visual] bonescientist August 20 2011, 16:01:58 UTC

Brennan had no answer to that, if that was indeed an actual question and not simply an attempt to be facetious - she often couldn't tell.

"Are you alright? Do you need assistance?" she asked instead, a note of concern in her voice as she appraised DG with her gaze, trying to determine if the other woman was injured.

[Visual] tothelightshown August 23 2011, 15:41:07 UTC

It had been a joke without humour, attempting to cover up just how worried DG was by the current situation. Only the slight frown betrayed her uncertainty.

"I'm ..." Fine. But she wasn't, was she? She didn't know why she'd been taken or where she'd been taken and she definitely wasn't all right with that. "I'm not hurt. I just wish I knew what I'd missed."