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[cannotforget]

CHARACTERS: Leo Elster and anyone who sees him.
LOCATION: Basecamp, then medical bay inside the ship.
WARNINGS: Mentions of blood and open wounds.
SUMMARY: Leo heads back to the ship to charge.
NOTES: Feel free to run into him either on his way to the ship or once he's already there!

[Everything that had been happening in the camp had left Leo with a good distraction to go and take care of the biggest issue he had in this strange world. He didn’t care so much about the people that came back, and while the contact with the new strangers would’ve usually caught his attention more, his biggest worry was making sure that his brain didn’t stop working because of the lack of power. The electricity grid he was working on with Tony was coming along nicely, yes, but it still had some ways to go. So the only thing Leo had left was what he had been using since he’d arrived, despite it being far from the best of safest method.

When it’s late enough for almost everyone to be asleep (or at least so thinks Leo) he leaves the small tent he had claimed for himself with his backpack over his shoulder. He’s careful as he leaves towards what’s left of the ship and into the medical bay and straight to one of the emergency lights. He takes a cable out of his bag, along with a shirt he uses to take off the light bulb. After he connects one end of the cable to the wall, he lifts the left side of his shirt and moves away the blood covered bandages. Keeping it open had been another challenge, a quite painful one since the nanite tattoo kept trying to heal the wound with whatever power it had in it. His fingers dig over the wound a little until he pulls out a couple of wires from it and, after letting a sigh out, Leo connects the other end of the cable to it.

It’s hard not to groan a little when the feeling of electricity running under his skin starts again, despite it being far from something new to him. He lowers himself to the floor, closing his eyes and sitting down while he waits to get some energy in him.]

Comments

[cannotforget]

...I'm not sure how you plan to help in the first place.

[So maybe. Depending on what he offers.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

Have you ever used a battery pack for a car? [ he's been mapping it out in his head since he got home tbh. ]

[cannotforget]

A couple of times, yeah.

[It wasn't often they had access to a car that actually had working batteries, after all. And since he and his family were on the run, staying in one place was never a good idea at all.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

I'm thinking of applying the same principle to you. [ slightly different process, but the idea is the same. ]

[cannotforget]

[It's not like he hasn't thought of something like that, but... When they can hardly get an electric grid going, how could they make a battery for him?]

I didn't know you had a battery hidden somewhere.

[letmetakeaselfie]

I don't, but I could build one. This whole... thing, this is child's play for me. I mean, the grid. Surviving is-- [ well he's done that too, even if this is a different climate. tony sighs. ] Let me do this for you.

[ he's practically begging. ]

[cannotforget]

[While building the grid wasn't exactly child's play for him, he was a bit more used to the surviving part. In another kind of circunstance, sure, but having to look after his brothers and sisters, making sure they weren't found out... He had failed, of course, but for some time they had managed. It was weird being without their support, he hated being along, away from them and having to deal with so many things he never thought he would have to deal with in the first place.

Like people knowing. People caring.

He thinks of the Hawkings, how they tried to help, at least most of them. He'd thought of them as a special case, as people who just were the exception to the rule. Maybe he was wrong. Maybe not everyone would be like most people, scared and wanting to destroy his family, and him as well.

So it takes him a moment to answer Tony's request. He's still unsure of how to feel about this, about how much this person wants to help him despite not knowing anything about him at all. He can't help but think of Mia and how much she'd want him to open up and recieve help when he clearly needs it.]

...Fine, we can do that.

[letmetakeaselfie]

Alright. [ his whole demeanor changes. serious, focused. relieved to have a project. he writes a line on the floor with a bit of coal. ]

How much do you know about the type of energy required to power your system?

[cannotforget]

Any kind would do. I've used generators, car batteries, stuff like that.