itstopped: (upset: young)
Felix Gaeta ([personal profile] itstopped) wrote2013-09-01 06:14 pm

Re-Entry 16: Video

((Backdated to before Racetrack's disappearance, sometime after this thread.))

[Private to Trip, CC: Dean]

[Honestly, as remarkable as what's happened is, it's almost as remarkable that Felix is the first one to notice. He just really doesn't spend that much time in his own quarters anymore. But he stops by to pick something up, and that's when he notices the changes. Specifically, this one, which is why the camera is currently on what looks like a very standard shower.]

...Trip? [If he sounds completely bewildered, it's only because he is.]

[Friends filter (if you think you're on it, etc. Including you, Morgana.)]

I, um... I graduated today. [He still doesn't really sound like he believes it.] And for those of you who know what I was thinking about why I hadn't, I think I was right, because I'm not really sure what I'm going to do next. But... whatever happens, I wanted to say... thank you. To all of you. You deserve to hear that.

Actually, that's not entirely true. I do know one thing I'm going to do next. [He smiles slightly.] The CES showed me Picon once, just once... I'm going to go to the pub, get a bottle of something, and go sit there until it shows up again. Feel free to join me.

[Private to Racetrack and Claire Bennet, separately]

I'd like to ask you a question.

[Public]

[And this one is from the CES, later, when he seems to have found both his bottle and his world. He's sitting on a long stretch of beach, a low grassy hill rising behind him, the wind and salt in his hair; and even though the sun brings out all his imperfections -- how pale he's become under the olive tones of his skin, the shock of gray hair at his temples, the dark rings under his eyes -- he looks younger and softer than he ever has before. He takes a drink from the bottle and rubs a hand over his mouth.]

Does anyone know... has anyone ever stayed on this ship without becoming a warden?
mistconduct: ([unmasked] well what do I do now?)

[Public]

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-09-01 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy shit, are you me?
mistconduct: ([unmasked] you talkin to me?)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-09-01 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, for real.

Because I'm a fuck-up who doesn't know the first thing about wardening?
mistconduct: ([unmasked] eavesdropping)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-09-01 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, at least I own up to it.

So why're you asking?
youwillgotohell: ("tear out my tongue")

private -> spam

[personal profile] youwillgotohell 2013-09-01 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[But why Felix, that doesn't make sense. She almost says nothing, because she just doesn't know how to parse this in a way that's fair: it's her instinct to be angry, and hurt, and she knows that isn't right. But she had wanted to see his home, and wonders if maybe it would be easier face to face.]

Leave the door open.

[That's all, she doesn't wait for a reply, because if he'd rather not have her, she'll find a closed door and that will be that. She half wonders if it's only an accident that lets her see this.

Inside, she walks along the beach slowly, looking out at the ocean as she makes her way toward him.]
mistconduct: ([unmasked] quick shoe check)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-09-01 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, neither am I, so what the shit.

Yeah, same. Home-world sucks, too.
youwillgotohell: (hanging in the wood)

spam

[personal profile] youwillgotohell 2013-09-01 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[It feels as much like a fairytale as the young Felix must have thought she was; two moons, blue water, she can imagine stories being set on beaches like this. He takes a while to notice, and she wonders why - and when he wipes at his eyes, she at least does him the courtesy of dropping her own.]

Hello.

[She takes it, sniffing before she sits down beside him, at a comfortable distance. He's been missed, too; she's missed all the people she pushed away. It was easier with him, because he pushed too, and now that he's not, she's uncertain how to broach things.]

Is this what you always drink? [Is it that terrible, burning swill he gave her in the pub.]
mistconduct: (are we sure about this?)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-09-01 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Going to someone else's? I mean, the Barge is great, it just sucks to live here long-term.
surfaceshine: (That's Not Real)

[ Filter : Video/Voice/?? ]

[personal profile] surfaceshine 2013-09-01 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[What happens first is strange; Dean picks up immediately and then says something, and it's either a What?! or a swear or some wordless sound of an impossible mixture of surprise, pleasure, disbelief, and... panic. Then there is some fumbling, a muffled impact, definitely a swear, and then a view of the communicator falling. It clicks off when it hits the floor.

A minute or so later, Dean is back on the voice only function, and his is difficult to read.
]

Felix?
mistconduct: ([unmasked] you serious?)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-09-02 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
So what's the dream, Felix?
surfaceshine: (Freckles)

[personal profile] surfaceshine 2013-09-02 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't mind Dean, he should know better by now than to answer his communicator when he's working underneath things. Like sinks.

Impatience creeps into his voice, because wow is that not the point.
]

I'm fine. Are you?
surfaceshine: (Intent)

[personal profile] surfaceshine 2013-09-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
I... see that. [There's the strange note in his voice, discordant and complicated and gone again.]

Question stands.
mistconduct: ([unmasked] shrugging)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-09-02 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, so....Shoot for Earth. Whatever you do, make that the dream.

End of story.
surfaceshine: (Showman)

[personal profile] surfaceshine 2013-09-02 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Too late. Although it is, right now, a very tiny panic. Panic on a short leash.

Dean is quiet and still for several long moments, trying to find something to say. What he settles on has the brassy brightness of his most ready to hand smile.
]

Well, shit. Congratulations.

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