home sweet home? (closed)

[bloodbathing]

Who: Leonard Church and Agents Washington, Texas, and Maine
What: Meetings, reunions, and definitely no awkwardness.
When: shortly after the April intro log
Where: Islet #4, Cottage #3
Warnings: canon typical language


[ What's better than a group of space marines with lots of interpersonal baggage? Plucking them all from different points in time, then shoving them in the same house and seeing what happens.

MINGLE POST. Make your own top-levels, tag around, go nuts. ]

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[counterblows]

I guess we'll have to see.

[Tex is one thing. Maine is another.]

You talked to Maine yet?

[a_shadow]

Briefly. I think he didn't know it was going to be me.

[ And that there is said pointedly—it's an accusation. ]

[counterblows]

Well, you both know that you're here, so I guess that's something.

[He squints at her.]

What do you mean by that?

[a_shadow]

You could have said something, that's all.

[counterblows]

Sorry. Seeing Maine again after everything must've made it slip my mind.

[He could barely string words together for the first few seconds, so paralyzed in shock that he was.]

[a_shadow]

[ She's silent for a moment, patting the tigerlily, looking over and taking in the look on his face. She doesn't know what his tone and expression imply, and she doesn't know if she should ask. She doesn't know if he would take that well.

In the end she decides not to. Maybe sometime they'll have their own issues sorted out well enough where she'll feel she can, but not now. ]

He's from way behind the rest of us, isn't he?

[counterblows]

Before Sigma. Before any of it.

[His throat is whole. Intact. He can speak, enunciate, communicate. He doesn't have headaches. He doesn't lapse into staring at a wall for hours at a time.]

[He's still Maine.]

[a_shadow]

Yeah.

[ It's half a sigh. ]

He spoke to me. Told me how to deal with my soreness from overdoing it.

[counterblows]

He's recommended we build a gym.

[He would be more in support of this if he didn't have to consider how much work this is going to be. Is going to be, because it's almost certainly going to happen now that Maine's here; it gives Wash something to work toward, which is something.]

[a_shadow]

[ Tex's ears seem to perk up at that. The main thing she dislikes about being in this new place is the aimlessness, the lack of a united goal. At least when she had arrived on the Moira she'd been given a job. ]

He's got a good thought there.

[counterblows]

Yeah, well, I have no idea how to even begin setting one up.

[Where's the inventiveness and improbable resourcefulness of the Reds when you need them?]

Start looking for building materials, I guess.

[a_shadow]

Tend to need those to build something, yes.

[ She ponders it for a moment. ]

Are there any huts like this one sitting empty? That might be a place to get started.

[counterblows]

A few, but I'm not sure I'd want to use one of them. More people show up every month, and some houses are already full.

[Still, there are probably some structures lying around on Ensō they can appropriate for a gym. Right?]

[a_shadow]

What, you're worried about people ending up homeless? It's a jungle, not Sidewinder.

[ She shrugs to herself. ]

Maybe we can just use a house for workouts while we build.

[counterblows]

I don't want to be a dick.

[Wash you already are.]

...but that sounds more doable.

[a_shadow]

Hell, yeah, of course it is.

[ Tex carefully untangles herself and rises. Ami seems not to want her to go; the animal bumps its head against her hand. Therefore, Tex doesn't move away, just returns to petting the tigerlily's head. ]

[counterblows]

She's needy.

[That's his fault, probably. He didn't have anyone or anything else to really...have around, after C.T. and Carolina left.]

[a_shadow]

Maybe so. It's all right, for now. But I need to take a walk and do a workout.

[counterblows]

All right, well. C'mere, girl.

[He hooks one arm around Ami's neck and draws her closer, and she begins nuzzling him almost at once.]

Better make your escape while you can.

[a_shadow]

Thanks.

[ And without another word, she leaves. ]