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Agent Carolina | McAlister ([personal profile] youfallback) wrote in [community profile] paradisalogs2013-05-02 11:42 pm

But the ghosts that we knew {OPEN};

Who: Carolina and you!
What: Training at all hours of the day. Like sane people do. c:
When: 0400-1200 and 1400-2200 (the gym), 1200-1300 (the kitchen), 2200-2300 (the kitchen)
Where: The gym and the kitchen
Rating: PG-13 maybe for language and/or violence


[Most nights, Carolina couldn't sleep. The near-constant feeling of not being secure or safe enough to shut her eyes kept what adrenaline she had left pumping through her well enough to keep her awake. That said, she can't run on fumes all week long and when she does sleep, she dreams about home. About twin voices screaming her dead mother's name in her head, when plugging her ears only amplifies the sound. About a teammate taking two axes to the chest, from a soldier Carolina had never trusted, never wanted to trust. About another teammate grabbing her around the neck, yanking the AI chips from the back of her neck, tossing her from a cliff like a piece of garbage. About waiting in the snow. About never being good enough. About throwing a lighter.

It's one of those nights when her body forces her to sleep long enough to recharge enough of her battery to somewhat function, but the nightmares don't stay away. They never do. And she wakes up early, in a cold sweat, shaking, screaming. It's enough to keep her awake for another couple days, she hopes, that her body got enough to last her. Two days awake is always too short a time, but she can't get herself to stay awake longer and the four hours or so of sleep are always too long.

So, she's out of bed in an instant, tugging her armor on before all but sprinting down to the gym at 0400, needing a distraction and a purpose to her life.

Or what she could call a life in guilty conscience.
]

(ooc: I will have open threads, just tag wherever! Just specify the time please so there can be multiple threads per location. c:

Current threads: South's is around noonish. Church's is before 1400. York's is at 1400. )
originalcopy: (grouchy)

[personal profile] originalcopy 2013-05-05 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course they do you stupid bitch!

[One last desperate burst of rage and he' left feeling exhausted. His shoulders slump. He's not going to bother trying to get away.]

I just... I need to go.
originalcopy: (pfft)

[personal profile] originalcopy 2013-05-05 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sighs. Well, she did die years ago. That part at least matches up.]

If she died before the project then how the hell do you know her?

Why does it even matter to you how I know her anyway?
originalcopy: (grouchy)

[personal profile] originalcopy 2013-05-05 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
God damn it... fine. If it will get you to leave me the fuck alone...

[At least she isn't throwing a damn fit anymore.]

I... we dated.

[Not the whole truth, but hopefully enough to get her off his damn back.]

Happy?
Feel better hearing about it from me instead of Wash or York.
originalcopy: (grouchy)

[personal profile] originalcopy 2013-05-06 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, until she left me to join the military. Not sure you call anything we did after that 'dating'...

you got a problem with that?

[He looks and sounds insulted. What was it with Freelancer being so surprised that he dated Tex. Sure she's a rotten bitch but she's not the fucking boogeyman. Sure he's not the best catch, but come on.]

originalcopy: (back)

[personal profile] originalcopy 2013-05-06 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[He just looks angry and confused until she says the "goodbyes" thing. He flinches.
That was how he knew it was over, that he'd never see her again when she took Omega back and got on the ship. She had said goodbye.]


Look... I answered your question.
I'm going to go now.

[He doesn't sound angry or sad or really anything. His voice is completely neutral.]
encryptedlock: (are you sure)

[personal profile] encryptedlock 2013-05-06 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[And he'll make sure she gets there safely. Not that there's really much in the castle that could interfere with her, but at least maybe she'll take a break from what he's sure is constant training. She needs about a week of sleep, and he's betting she won't get it.]
encryptedlock: (h: accidents happen)

[personal profile] encryptedlock 2013-05-06 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, that stops York for two reasons. She'd found Church already? Damn. Though on the other hand, she hasn't seized him or anything. But why is she asking him that? Some kind of new loss?]

Uh, well, we met when she wiped the training floor with me and Maine and Wyoming. You were there watching, remember? I got a grenade to the face?
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[personal profile] encryptedlock 2013-05-06 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, that's her name. Is there another Allison you're thinking of? Cause she's the only one I know.

[Welp that sure would be awkward if he knew what she was thinking about.]
encryptedlock: (got your back tex)

[personal profile] encryptedlock 2013-05-06 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
I would know, Carolina. Hell, Church knows better than anyone. They've been dating for ages.

Which begs the question, why do you care? She's not here right now. [Can she really not take her mind off Tex for five minutes?]
originalcopy: (back)

[personal profile] originalcopy 2013-05-06 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[He's just going to go now.]
encryptedlock: (cha cha cha)

[personal profile] encryptedlock 2013-05-06 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[That's not a good sign. What is it about that name that--

It's been teasing at the edge of his memory for days, especially since it's been years, but it finally dawns on York that Allison's name was the last thing she'd heard before her first collapse with her AIs. Maybe it had done something to her. Made her have a bad reaction to the name. Hell, maybe that's why she'd forgotten it was Tex in the first place. Trauma can do weird things to the human brain.

York puts a hand out to support her against the railing.
]

Hey. It's okay. You're here in the castle, okay? Nothing's going to hurt you while I'm here.
encryptedlock: (never turn your back to an enemy)

[personal profile] encryptedlock 2013-05-06 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[He'll at least follow her to her door to make sure she doesn't fall down the stairs or anything.]

Just be careful, okay?

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