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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.
ex_heightens219: (your name was a contagion)

[personal profile] ex_heightens219 2014-02-13 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ when damon pulls away, elena makes a disappointed noise but lets him, leaning their foreheads together. there's even a little bit of a smile at his words, because she was expecting them and because somehow, stupidly, they make her feel loved. ]

Yes, but I'm an idiot who's alive. So there's that, at least.

[ without waiting for a response, she pulls him into another kiss, so exhilarated just by the fact that she's alive that she has no impulse control. she wants to kiss damon, so she'll kiss damon. if there's anyone staring, or who disapproves -- tough. she couldn't really care less.

after a moment she pulls away, looking into damon's eyes with a bright smile.
]

I love you. Just in case I haven't made that clear yet.
Edited (changing icon keywords always fucks things up whoops) 2014-02-15 13:26 (UTC)
dilemma: &e (pic#4441823)

[personal profile] dilemma 2014-02-23 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ he continues to circle his thumbs over the jut of her cheekbones, forehead pressing back against hers. ]

Time number a million Elena risked her life and didn't die for it. I would get cocky.

[ does it look like he's protesting? because he isn't. he presses his lip back against her and completely ignores the pending guilt that's going to kick in during the next twelve hours.

she kisses him again but when she pulls away he just keeps his forehead pressed against hers, hand settling down at the back of her neck, keeping her close. ]


Don't say things you can't take back, Elena. [ cause right about now, he wants to believe that he can latch onto that and not let it just be a gooey reunion moment in front of a pod. ]
ex_heightens219: (he helps to still the shakes)

[personal profile] ex_heightens219 2014-02-23 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, like I'm anywhere near as bad as you, Mr. I Almost Died of Werewolf Poisoning Twice. We're both apparently too important for the universe to kill.

[ if elena has anything to say about it, there won't be any guilt -- what do they have to feel guilty for? being in love? she refuses to feel guilty about that -- she wasted enough of her time feeling guilty for loving damon, she's not going to waste any more of it the same way. yes, she feels bad for not telling caroline, but up until now there hasn't been anything to tell her. stefan's not even here, it's not like they would hurt him by being together.

she's perfectly happy to stay close to him, beaming, too full of joy to contain herself. even when he's being ridiculous and she rolls her eyes, there's no venom in it, just fondness.
]

Why would I ever want to take that back? I love you, Damon. I've loved you for months, I've loved you the entire time I've been here and I'm tired of biting my tongue whenever I want to say it. I'm not sorry I love you, and I don't feel guilty about it, and I'm not ever going to want to take it back.

[ too bad for damon elena likes gooey reunions. ]