itstopped: (event: kid #1)
Felix Gaeta ([personal profile] itstopped) wrote2013-08-09 10:45 am

Re-Entry 14: Spam/Video/Spam

[Spam for the Lab]

[It's not unusual for Felix to stay in the lab all night if the wardens let him. He insists that he doesn't need much sleep -- so far, this has actually seemed to prove true -- and he tends to get on tears with things that interest him enough. This particular evening, something on Iris's bioreader has him absorbed, and he just doesn't make it back before it's too late to be worth going anyway. In the wee hours of the morning, he winds up drifting off at his station.

He doesn't wake up when the flood rolls in, but a little while later, a young boy -- 11 or so -- wakes to find himself, not in bed, but surrounded by a veritable sea of shining scientific equipment. His eyes widen.]


Cool!

[Video]

[He found two keys in his pocket and he's not sure which is the right one, but going to this one felt more normal, somehow, so it's Dean's room in the background. Felix settles the camera carefully on the desk, fiddles with it for a second, then settles, sitting conscientiously straight-backed.]

Okay, um... [He hesitates, reaches over to fiddle with the camera again, then nods in satisfaction and sits back again. He smiles, but sort of politely.] Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad. I'm having a good time at camp. [Or... whatever.] I'll be back in a few days. I saw a bioluminescent bacterium and something called a bat flower. [What? It was cool.]

So... have a good weekend, I guess. [His polite surety fades a little. He shrugs awkwardly, then waves again and switches off the feed.]

[Open spam throughout the flood]

[He's heard that this place is a prison, but it's certainly not like any prison he's ever heard of. Not like the ones in the movies, anyway. He'll be busily exploring throughout the flood, poking his nose into just about any place that will let him in, up to and including the infirmary, the CES, the pool... and of course the library.]
fuckvelvet: (Default)

spam

[personal profile] fuckvelvet 2013-08-10 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Mal has covertly been exploring the library herself. It's actually the only time she's mildly annoyed rather than angry; at the same time, it's probably pretty obvious that she's not thrilled.]

[Her stack of books is, by this point, fairly unwieldy, so she slides it onto Felix's table without any apparent acknowledgment that there's another person around. Because why not.]
tinywitch: (once I was here)

[personal profile] tinywitch 2013-08-10 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Other...planets? [It's a familiar word, one she thinks she understands without being entirely certain of how.] I don't...there's only Earth. What's Caprica? [A beat] What are grades?
tinywitch: (your eyes get darker every day)

[personal profile] tinywitch 2013-08-10 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[They can just be hugely puzzled at each other.]

What's a good one?
Edited 2013-08-10 03:07 (UTC)
fuckvelvet: (☀ like o! like h! in your gut)

spam

[personal profile] fuckvelvet 2013-08-10 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[She hesitates. Respect actually does get you somewhere with her. Then folds her arms and leans over his shoulder to try to get a look at what he's reading, because respect apparently only goes one way.]

Fine. What's that?
fuckvelvet: (☀ take the hinges off the door)

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[personal profile] fuckvelvet 2013-08-10 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Then why are you hiding it?

[She holds out her hand. Give. Right this minute.]
tinywitch: (once I was here)

[personal profile] tinywitch 2013-08-10 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
What is Kobol? [she feels like she's missing a joke, but she'd rather know what she's laughing at than laugh just to fit in.]
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[personal profile] fuckvelvet 2013-08-10 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
I can be delicate.

[FINGERWAGGLE.]
tinywitch: (I will be real once again)

[personal profile] tinywitch 2013-08-10 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't playing at anything. [At least he looks as confused as she does, now.] I don't know any of those places.

[There's a faint familiarity, like the way you know a distant cousin's distant cousin; like she's heard it before, but can't tell where.]
tinywitch: (once I was somebody's child)

[personal profile] tinywitch 2013-08-10 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. I'm from Camelot. Have you heard of it? It's one of the great kingdoms in Albion.
tinywitch: (once I had something to lose)

[personal profile] tinywitch 2013-08-10 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[That gets a laugh, though she doesn't intend it to be mean, and stops when, like him, she thinks he might take it that way.]

I don't feel like a fairy tale.
fuckvelvet: (☀ i was 8 i was sure)

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[personal profile] fuckvelvet 2013-08-10 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry! I'll take the blame. I'm likely to get in trouble for at least two other things before the day is out, so they'd believe me if I said I did something else wrong.
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[personal profile] venturemistborn 2013-08-10 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Camp?
tinywitch: (once I was real)

[personal profile] tinywitch 2013-08-10 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs again at that, though she's not certain she should be insulted or not.]

What is that supposed to mean?

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