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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.

why was this not in my inbox dw i really hate you sometimes

[personal profile] catatonics 2014-02-20 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ for a moment, she can't even form words, too full of rage to think. her hands have started to shake, her thoughts racing -- marty's dead, and jumps are weird, he could have been dead for months already and she wasn't there with him, she wasn't there --

she clenches her hands into fists and grits her teeth, trying to ignore her thoughts. there's no time to break down, not here.

without a word of warning, she springs at derek, drawing her fist back and slamming it into his face.
]

You bastard, I'll kill you! You had no right to do this to me, I didn't want this!
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[personal profile] altercate 2014-02-25 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's a good hit. derek's head snaps back with it, permissive, before his hands come up to catch hold of hers. there's something exasperated and embarrassed in his expression, aware that this is a scene, that people are going to look. ]

You think he wanted you to die?

[ it's not an easy argument for derek to make. it's too personal, twists into things that are far too close to his own traumas. but he spits the words into her face, fingers tightening around her wrists. ]

[personal profile] catatonics 2014-03-03 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ dana doesn't give even the slightest hint of a fuck about anyone watching them. the only thing she cares about is inflicting the most pain possible on derek, hurting him for taking away her choice and for forcing her to live when she had no desire to. shouldn't it be her choice? she was tacitly responsible for the end of the whole goddamn world, shouldn't she be able to end her own life when she wants to? ]

It doesn't matter what he wanted, does it? He's dead, and if you had any shred of humanity at all you'd have let me die with him!

[ for one furious moment dana wishes her shift was voluntary, that she could change her fingers into claws and tear at the hands around her wrists, tear sharp teeth into his throat. all she wants is to hurt someone as much as she hurts right now, and since derek is the cause of her pain, it only seems fair that he bears the brunt of her rage. ]