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Adele "Juliett" Le Blanc ([personal profile] venenatis) wrote2014-06-13 02:17 am

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I'm not in at the moment, leave a message after the tone and I'll get back to you as soon as I am able.
sklent: (long hair; you exhaled)

day 114; afternoon; voicemail after calling alpha

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-20 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
He doesn't have to come back.

I just want to know if he's alright or bleeding in a ditch or starting a war.
Edited 2014-07-20 19:16 (UTC)
sklent: (long hair; listen to what I say)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-20 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I told him the truth about Kilo's food. He took it well, and then he didn't.

[ Breath in. Breath out. Calm. Too calm. She is emotionally distancing herself from this. ]

I think I've fractured something in my arm. I'll find someone to look after it.

sklent: (long hair; from the north end of guinea)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-20 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ All right. To her feet, then, and going through the process of locking up, leaving the safehouse for...the day, the evening, who knows? At the moment she isn't as terribly inclined to concern herself with details of the future.

Right now she has to get to a clinic.
]

You don't need to come for me. I'll be fine.
sklent: (long hair; where nobody goes)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-20 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a huff of a laugh. ]

That's fair.

[ And in this new life of hers, she can appreciate the comforting lie of fairness when it occurs. ]

I will see you then.

[ For now: Finding the nearest clinic. Smiling at the intake nurse, it's my arm, I fell, not sure what's happened to it. She gives an alias if only for paperwork's sake, and lists Juliett as her emergency contact and person for release from this procedure.

Whatever it is. At this point she doesn't even care, she just hopes they give her a sedative. A strong one, if fortune is on her side.
]
sklent: (long hair; please now just hear me out)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-20 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She makes conversation with whomever wanders in, asking about upgrades and the risks attached to them. It's just chatter, something on her mind but not at the forefront; there's a good chance she won't remember what she's being told anyway.

It takes a minute for Natalia to rouse, opening her eyes and blinking slowly at Juliett.
]

Oh good.

[ She wouldn't be here, Natalia knows, if she hadn't found him. ]
sklent: (short hair; let's go outside)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-20 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Natalia's face crinkles up in a smile that is much more relaxed than she could normally manage. She hadn't taken any of her own sedatives since Dmitri arrived - being possibility incapacitated seemed like a poor personal choice, and then there had been Kilo's. No room for retreating into the distance chemicals created between the mind and the world as is. ]

Very light. It's because I haven't taken any, in a while, I think.
sklent: (short hair; take me to that place)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-21 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...probably.

[ Just give her a moment to haul herself upright and get her feet on the floor.

The room doesn't spin. It's more like it swims. Natalia giggles.
]

I may require handholding.
sklent: (long hair; yes I did)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-21 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
You don't have to apologize. It's not as though I minded the wait. Or paid attention to the time.

[ Her injured arm is in some sort of stabilizing mechanism that Natalia remembers very little about other than being asked if it were too tight. She peers at it for a second before smiling back at Juliett. ]

You're kind to us.

[ That's different. Not unwanted, not by a long shot...just different. Very different. ]
sklent: (long hair; of the underside)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-21 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ What a lovely pillow. Natalia gives a sigh of contentment, legs crossed at the ankle and shoes left on the floor of the vehicle. ]

Neither of us sleep very well. None of us? I've no idea if you sleep. You don't have to tell me.

[ At Juliett's remark about their similarities Natalia gives her a sad smile. ]

I'm sorry. Did you at least volunteer?

sklent: (Default)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-21 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
It means something, that we can't sleep. I wonder if we'd have more luck all piled in together. [ Giggle, snort. ] I've been thinking about it a lot, it was nice with you.

[ Her expression turns serious as she listens to the short story, frowning at the ending. ]

Oh, no. I was hoping it stayed sweeter for longer than that.
sklent: (long hair; I'll confuse them)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-21 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Natalia makes a noise and moves her good arm so that she can place her hand on Juliett's cheek. ]

I don't want you to stay sad. But sadness is not something that is easily controlled. It's like water; it seeps into cracks, it pulls things apart, but everyone needs it for something.

Nothing stays sweet except short lives.
sklent: (long hair; I'll let the world)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-21 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Natalia frowns. She isn't going to like this conversation at all, is she? ]

I thought they let Callsigns 'retire' these days.
sklent: (short hair; that was our deal)

[personal profile] sklent 2014-07-21 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Natalia's thumb begins to rub circles in the skin on the back of Juliett's hand.

This conversation is important. Will be important. She doesn't want to think about that and yet she has to acknowledge the truth of it. That there are very few accidents, even fewer coincidences. She's not being told a bedtime story.
]

I don't like it.

I know it's sounds childish but I don't. Not that it matters, really. It'll just be very upsetting. But I like you.

I've lived so long it feels like that should be enough.

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