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Felix Gaeta ([personal profile] itstopped) wrote2013-05-20 08:36 am

Re-Entry 08: Video/Spam

Help!

[The cry goes out while the video is still turning on. The picture, when it appears, is chaotic: Felix Gaeta, ashen grey and soaked with sweat and tears of panic, but only for a second before the shaking camera turns on what looks like an empty Western ghost town, caught from a high vantage point, shingles visible at the bottom of the screen.

Not empty. There are snarls and yowls and a terrifyingly organic sound coming from below.

Felix's voice cuts in again, tight with fear. He's not a hero. He's not a fighter. He's the one at the controls, and for all that he's usually good at staying calm in a crisis, it's a lot frakking easier when there's a console between him and it. He sounds a little hysterical.]


SOS! SOS! I'm pinned down in the-- oh, gods-- [There's another furious roar from below; his voice hitches, the camera shakes.] --the CES. Something attacked us. I think Dean is dead. I--

[There's a scream from underneath, unmistakeably human. The communicator drops against the shingles--] Dean? [--and cuts out.]

[Open Spam for Level Two/Infirmary, Later]

[After it's all over, after they've done what they can with Dean's corpse and patched up whatever needs to be on the survivors, Felix is set adrift into the aftermath. He should get cleaned up and then stay with Dean, he knows, or else he should get back to work and keep something like this from happening again. But he can't seem to make himself go to the latter just yet, not with Dean dead less than an hour, and the former...

He's always known that the death toll exists here, but he's never had to really confront it before, not in a way he couldn't brush off and ignore. The truth is that it scares him more than almost anything else about the Barge, even here, even now. It's not ignorance; it's not that he's never seen anything like it before. It's that he has.

The pull to sit by Dean's side and wait is powerful, but in the end, he winds up haunting the door to the infirmary, still red-eyed and disheveled, constantly peeking inside.]


((Right after/congruent with this, obviously.))
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[personal profile] bodilesswarrior 2013-05-20 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sees the message too late to do anything. The least she can do, then, is visit the infirmary.

When she sees Felix her chest tightens, and it's a moment before she speaks, voice soft and concerned.]


Hey.
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[personal profile] bodilesswarrior 2013-05-21 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Barbara smiles back, a little, but then she's shaking her head.]

You really don't have to do that.
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[personal profile] bodilesswarrior 2013-05-25 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes that makes it worse. [After a brief hesitation, she reaches out to take his hand.]
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[personal profile] bodilesswarrior 2013-06-03 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's not going to push. Felix is a private person, quiet and controlled, and if not breaking down is more important right now - that's fine.

But she won't leave him alone, either.]


It freaks me out. [It's a quiet, solemn confession.] Resurrections - they've happened on my world, but they're not exactly an everyday occurrence. It's not natural, not for us.

[Her lips quirk.] But I guess that's kind of hypocritical, considering my deal is supposed to bring people back. I'm hoping it just - changes things so they never died.
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[personal profile] bodilesswarrior 2013-06-04 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Barbara considers this, for a moment.]

Were the Cylons based on humans?
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[personal profile] bodilesswarrior 2013-06-05 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her nod is grimly earnest.] Humanity without mortality - it doesn't work. We're not built for that, not raised for it.

[Her voice goes quiet.] Especially when you're coexisting with people who can die.
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[personal profile] bodilesswarrior 2013-06-18 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Barbara can only nod at that. On the one hand, she's glad people come back; she's tired of losing them. On the other, it feels so unnatural.

She's always accepted that she's going to die, probably on the job. Coming back, on the other hand...]


It probably helps that it's - we know it's not forever. Eventually, we go home. [After a moment, quietly.] Or we disappear.
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[personal profile] bodilesswarrior 2013-06-24 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's not. I'm sorry. [She can't say she's not glad he's here, glad he's alive, but it's not fair that the choice was taken from him. Would she ask for him back, if he died here? She doesn't know.]

It might be another way to keep us off balance.