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paradisa2013-01-26 09:05 am
gottaknockhard) wrote in paradisa2013-01-26 09:05 am
Entry tags:
62; action/dictated
[Cold. Spike hadn't considered the weather when he made the decision to spend his morning working on the zipcraft. It had been put on the back burner shortly after he'd flown it through a wall and eventually transported it outside Brock's cabin. Of course he remembers now that he's trying to use the engine to warm his hands; he was going to wait until Spring before continuing that particular project, but recent events had Spike too anxious to do something (anything) normal. Even if it's something that he never had much of a knack for. Wouldn't surprise him if Brock had made more progress on the Redtail when he looked it over, and he's never even been in a spaceship. -- Still, it was his only idea, so he's sticking to it.
This isn't how ordinary people survive, and that thing with the mirror drove the point home. It happens again whenever he stops by the castle. Over and over, it's the same insane bullshit that he's getting clumsier at avoiding. And maybe there's a part of him that welcomes insanity. A place without blame or guilt. Where the past doesn't matter. If he thinks of it that way, it's not so bad.
They've all lost their sense of place in the world...
Annie's voice comes to him as clear as a bell, but everything that follows is immediately swallowed in haze. Were those her last words? Spike draws his hand back with a sudden jerk, and sparks fly out as the engine dies again.] --Dammit.
[No. He was wrong. This is really getting old.]
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( Faye )
[Sometime later, after the noise coming out of the engine sounds less immediately suspicious, he bites the bullet. He'll feel better when it isn't hanging over his head anymore.]
Back from your vacation?
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[Distant music filters in from the open journal. Not the kind of music you'd expect to hear from someone from the distant future. Old fashioned jazz. He's had it playing since he started working on the zipcraft, and now that he's done and waiting, he can actually sit back and enjoy it.]
They say the music you listen to says a lot about you.
[Mostly, it points to who has taste and who doesn't. Which can be a hard thing to come by.]
I wonder if they've got a club around here.
ooc: open to action and over the journal
This isn't how ordinary people survive, and that thing with the mirror drove the point home. It happens again whenever he stops by the castle. Over and over, it's the same insane bullshit that he's getting clumsier at avoiding. And maybe there's a part of him that welcomes insanity. A place without blame or guilt. Where the past doesn't matter. If he thinks of it that way, it's not so bad.
They've all lost their sense of place in the world...
Annie's voice comes to him as clear as a bell, but everything that follows is immediately swallowed in haze. Were those her last words? Spike draws his hand back with a sudden jerk, and sparks fly out as the engine dies again.] --Dammit.
[No. He was wrong. This is really getting old.]
---
( Faye )
[Sometime later, after the noise coming out of the engine sounds less immediately suspicious, he bites the bullet. He'll feel better when it isn't hanging over his head anymore.]
Back from your vacation?
---
[Distant music filters in from the open journal. Not the kind of music you'd expect to hear from someone from the distant future. Old fashioned jazz. He's had it playing since he started working on the zipcraft, and now that he's done and waiting, he can actually sit back and enjoy it.]
They say the music you listen to says a lot about you.
[Mostly, it points to who has taste and who doesn't. Which can be a hard thing to come by.]
I wonder if they've got a club around here.
ooc: open to action and over the journal
[Action]
Why are we going into the woods?
[Action]
Because that way nobody will hear you scream.
[Action]
God forbid.
[Action]
I'll try not to keep you.
[Action]
Isn't that nice of you.
[Action]
[A cold wind causes him to hunch his shoulders; he really should have considered waiting until Spring before he was committed.]
[Action]
[Faye does the same, her hair blowing across her face as she pulls her coat tighter across her chest. She moves beside Spike, subconsciously deciding to use him as a wind block.]
[Action]
Of course he doesn't mention any of this to Faye. He just keeps leading her further and further away from the castle.]
[Action]
Spike, how much further to this little surprise?
[Action]
That depends on how lost we get in the woods.
Re: [Action]
Lost?
[Action]
Just kidding.
[Action]
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Hm.
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[Action]
[Totally serious.]
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It's a few feet ahead, next to the cabin.
[Then he tosses it over. The key to her Redtail.]
[Action]
How did you...?
[Action]
You left it behind.
Re: [Action]
You mean... the other me?
[Action]
Of course he'll leave out that story if it's up to him. He did what he could to fix it. -- He shrugs.]
Does it matter?
[Action]
[Of course it doesn't. Faye just wants to have a leg up on something. But she abandons her hostility, considering he'd just found her ship.]
A little.
[Action]
Maybe you knew you'd be back for it.
[Action]
[She turns in the direction of the Redtail, just able to see it through thick shrubbery and flurrying snow.]
Must be why I hid it so well.
[She's still under the impression that he just found it out here. The thought that he could have known it was here all along was blocked, by ignorance or maybe denial.]
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