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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2014-02-07 09:55 pm

twenty-eighth jump;

CHARACTERS: Any and all.
LOCATION: Gravity Couches and beyond.
WARNINGS: Maybe some swearing, or even some violence, and more than likely some implied (and possibly explicit) nakedness.
SUMMARY: Another month, another jump, another round of new faces.
NOTES: It could just be the standard sensation of air on wet skin, but if you bother to check, you might notice the steam rising from your body, barely there and gone within a minute. By the time you get to the showers, it will be clear that it's not just taking you time to adjust. The room is cold — colder than usual, but no worse than the last jump. While it's nothing dangerous, it's certainly motivation to hurry through the usual routine and get dressed quickly.



It's getting closer.





YOUR EYES ARE OPEN.

KEEP LOOKING.


You wake up in darkness.


There's a breathing tube jammed down your trachea, and you're suspended in a tube of clear blue fluid. Upon registering your level of consciousness, the gravity couch drains the fluid surrounding you and retracts the breathing apparatus; the doors in front of you open, and you're deposited on the floor of a stark, sterile medical bay.

You are not alone.

There are others who have come before you, others who are awakening beside you. Some may be familiar to you, perhaps even friends. Others have much less amiable plans. Some are merely alien and inexplicable, but there are always those who might mean you harm.

After you catch your breath and your vision returns, you notice a number on the inside of your forearm. Maybe it's a familiar number. Maybe it means something. Maybe it's just a number. But the number—completely unique to you—is a tattoo, and it does not come off.

If you enter the room adjacent to the medbay, you will find a small locker with your number on it, surrounded by rows upon rows of identical lockers. Inside, you will find a few of your personal items, a communications device, and a ship's uniform in your exact size. The comms device is fully powered and connects directly to the ship's network; it's your only means of communication beyond physical conversation. Upon turning the device on, a neutral, automated voice will say, "Please take the blue lift to the passenger quarters." Any other attempts at communicating with the rest of the network are met only with static.

This is your welcome party.
coy: (smile ⋆ bashful)

[personal profile] coy 2014-02-16 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ its funny how caroline believes in redemption arcs, how she can be forgiving of so much, of so many, but when it comes to damon, she just... can't. nice things can't make up for the way he made her feel about herself, about the things he did to her, the way he used her in a worse way than she ever used him, trampled her heart, and took away her consent. caroline was bitter and it would take time for that to change, more time than just the short time that had already passed.]

That's good. [she means that in a way, she knows how crushed elena would be. and just like damon had/would save caroline because it would make elena sad if caroline died, caroline would do the same for elena. only for her.]

Yeah, basically. [ she laughs, moving to hug her friend again.] So no more running head first into danger without me, okay?
ex_heightens219: (that's what family's for)

[personal profile] ex_heightens219 2014-02-18 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ no matter how much elena can understand that -- and she can, she makes a point to never ask caroline why she can't just get over her thing with damon yet because there are some things you just can't get over, and that's fair, given what damon did to her -- she still wishes things were different. it's hard for her, to have her best friend and her boyfriend so at odds.

no harder than it must be for caroline to see elena be with someone she hates so much, though, so elena tries her best not to make any kind of deal out of it.
]

Thank you. For looking after him. Was he okay? I mean, obviously he was mad, but other than that? [ she's pushing her luck by keeping the damon topic open, she knows, but she wants to make sure he was okay -- as okay as he could be when she was in danger, anyway. ]

[ elena isn't about to say no to more hugs, and she clings to caroline happily. ] No more running into danger at all, I promise. Jenna and Ric and Damon would kill me, and then you'd bring me back to kill me again. I like living.