they never told you it was like this

[brainsqueeze]

CHARACTERS: Maria Hill + anyone boozing up for Shepard + Javik
LOCATION: Space bar
WARNINGS: Swearing + manly tears
SUMMARY: A 'wake' for Lydia Shepard and Javik
NOTES: Be sad, drink and mingle??

Comments

[brainsqueeze]

( What she thinks is a lot more pleasant than some of the responses that he received. Maria doesn't know the man, just his idea for where recon should go and that was not an idea she liked )

It should be someone already involved. Someone that knows what to do.

( Otherwise it would get people killed if it was someone like Lensherr. If Maria hadn't already been involved she'd probably have stayed out of it, but then she also wouldn't be sat here drinking to a friend )

It's not going to go easily.

[kutte]

Nothing's easy.

[ not here, not anywhere else. but she knows that. jax doesn't really have to say it. ]

I don't think it matters. Once you're out there, all the preparation in the world doesn't do shit.

[ there was no one who could say shepard hadn't been prepared, hadn't known how to do it to the best of her ability. it didn't seem to matter. jax looks at her, leaning back a little against the bar. ]

You ever get Petrelli to tell you about Hotspur?

[brainsqueeze]

Hotspur?

( There's a small frown regarding the nape. She'd talked to Petrelli but that name hadn't come up. Whether or not it meant that Petrelli had told her or not... maybe he just didn't use names )

And maybe not. It'd make me feel better about those going out, though.

( But it hadn't helped Shepard. Hadn't helped any of them when they'd been sucked into the halls. The recon teams had been the first ones lost and half of them were military - half of them would have been prepared )

Nothing will change the ship. We can accept that and give up or try and learn, whether or not it works.

[kutte]

[ hotspur. the way nathan had talked, it had rung like some kind of ghost story. but it was true. jax had looked. he'd watched the recording. it was something, and jax--

well, it didn't bode well. didn't fucking bode well at all. ]

Used to be one of the passengers. There's some recording on the Network of him dying. [ cheery stuff, you know. ] He found something. And then he died. Just like Shepard.

[ and jax is clearly implying, just like anyone else who figures anything out around here. ]

Learn, or try to survive? Is there a way to do both up here?