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Stiles Stilinski ([personal profile] voluntaryapnea) wrote2015-06-29 12:12 pm

28. I like to keep my issues drawn/It's always darkest before the dawn

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[Stiles has already packed up a bag, and it's sitting on his bed. There are clothes, food, his laptop and some various other small things including a couple of books inside, and atop the bag is his pillow. It doesn't show in the video when he turns on the communicator. All you can see is that he's sitting at his desk.]

Like Anya said, no one goes after him. You wanna talk about it, you can come and take it up with me.

[And that's all he's saying, because he had to say something. He knows there's a possibility that someone -- or multiple someones -- may take him up on that. He'll deal with it if they do. He disconnects the feed. He doesn't send a message to the rest of his friends. Doesn't really feel like talking about it. He picks up his bag, his pillow, his bat -- because it's his warden's item -- and he drops the note he wrote on his bed.

Staying down in Zero. Stiles. The others will find it. The pack. They all have access to his room, their own keys.

He leaves the room, locking the door behind him.]


[Spam for Dean]

[There's a resigned feeling that's settled into his chest. He's terrible at being a warden. Probably since the beginning. No. Definitely sense the beginning. He is not his dad. He doesn't have his dad's tolerance and fairness and he doesn't have what it takes to do this kind of job, and he wonders why the admiral ever offered him a deal at all. He had to know Stiles would be shitty at it, right?

Regardless of how he feels about it, how he feels about himself, his duty is to Dean and he takes it seriously despite everything else. Right now everything else has to take a backseat to that. He makes his way down to Zero with his things in hand and looks around, taking note of the cell that's been decimated, bars cut away since Dean had locked himself in with Anya. He lets out a breath, purses his lips and slowly heads down the corridor until he stops in front of Dean's cell. He drops his bag and sets down the baseball bat.

Dean doesn't look that bad. Iris took care of that part. There's not much Stiles could have done because he's not a doctor and he doesn't do well with blood and injuries. His nose is bruised, and Dean doesn't even look up at him. For a long moment he just stares at him silently.]


Hey.
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[personal profile] theresalwayshope 2015-06-29 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not part of the Plan. She has her routine, it keeps her level, together...but the message bothers her, and when she finds the note in his room, she gets irritated.

When she gets a good fix on his scent in the room, however, she decides to keep it to herself.

Instead, she simply takes Duchess and Brownie for their walk, and brings them with her when she heads down into Zero, and unceremoniously plants herself beside him. Brownie greets Stiles with a quick doggie kiss before she goes to sniff around the cells, whole and otherwise, while Duchess remains happily tucked in the purse Allison sets on the floor.]


Hey, Stiles.
theresalwayshope: (talking} casual / frazzled)

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[personal profile] theresalwayshope 2015-06-29 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Allison watches, equally impassive as Duchess squirms just enough to lick and nuzzle at Stiles' chin for a moment, then finds a comfortable place to snuggle up...right under his chin.

Satisfied the animals are fine, she rolls her own head to glance at Dean's cell door, then back at Stiles.]


So...that happened.
routemistress: (srsface)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2015-06-29 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dean is uncommunicative, all but catatonic, and it kills Iris to see it; it's worse, in some ways, than the punishment inflicted on Anya.

She hadn't set out to guard or babysit him, she just couldn't make herself leave. When Stiles arrives, she walks up to him, slow and very deliberate, and enfolds him into a hug.]


Over to you, sweetheart.
punched_hitler: [tfa] ([pre-serum] and to the side)

[personal profile] punched_hitler 2015-06-29 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
You need anything down in Zero, let me know.

[He expects Stiles to be camped out in Zero, or to be planning it.]
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[personal profile] routemistress 2015-06-29 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Broken nose, stab wound in 'is arm, a couple of laser burns. Nowt that'd even slow 'im down if 'e 'adn't wound 'imself to a stop. I think 'e'd got a lot riding on this succeeding. Well, of course 'e did, that's 'ow Dean works. Throw 'imself into the last chance as 'ard as 'e can.

I've done all I can for 'im. For now. Let us know if you need anything, won't you, Stiles love?
punched_hitler: [tfa] ([pre-serum] examination room)

[personal profile] punched_hitler 2015-06-29 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[He'd thought about voice or text, but Stiles would've found out eventually, so it's easier just to get the staring out of the way.]

Told the Admiral I didn't need the serum to be a warden.

I also don't need it to make sure you and Dean have stuff to eat. [So, you know. He can stop by with food when you need it.]
surfaceshine: (There'll Be Peace)

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[personal profile] surfaceshine 2015-06-29 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[There hadn't really been anything obvious leading up to this; there was no real way for anyone that wasn't inside his head - or who hadn't taken seriously the things he'd said when he arrived here a year ago, spoken at the time in vicious, half-deranged certainty - to know what he had planned. He hadn't told anyone. Not even Clementine, who he trusts more than anyone else on this ship. He hadn't told anyone.

But he had withdrawn from what little of the Barge society he had engaged, filling his time with activity from an external point of view, reading, repairing his room, constantly moving from place to place, bothering no one and asking no questions.

Hunting.

But that's over now. He'd been on the wrong scent the whole time, and he knows that now, knows it with a cold certainty like he would the weight of a knife in his hand; he is a vicious, brutal, desperate man, barely a man anymore but still close enough to count, but he'd thought he was managing that as best as anyone could expect him to. He'd thought the sharpest, most jagged edges of him were, generally, aimed in the right direction.

He tortured a human girl. He failed to find the Admiral. He failed to break this place apart. He failed.

These are all things he knows when he comes groggily out of the stupor from Kara's laser, and they do not encourage him to come any further into consciousness than that, so he doesn't. The physical pain is negligible. The knowledge that for how much he deserves to burn, how much he deserves to never forget a single moment of the ways he's been too weak and too slow and too stupid to make the differences he's supposed to make, he still wants nothing more than to end is what keeps him from bothering. Someone is moving him, wiping at his skin, poking at his arm, setting his nose; someone who stays nearby but Dean doesn't care. When the hands go away, he stays where they put him, and he does not bother opening his eyes, or speaking, or answering. He does not bother.

And he does not bother when he hears a new voice - or maybe he doesn't hear it at all. It does not matter. They'll hurt him or they'll try to save him and everything in between and there's nothing he can do for any of it except wait for it to happen.
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[personal profile] punched_hitler 2015-06-29 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Steve is the master of doing things people don't expect him to do?]

Fine. I mean, normal. Just the old normal, is all. I was nearly twenty-five when I got the serum. [So the old normal is pretty familiar.]

So I'm not gonna keel over and die. And if you need someone to relieve you in Zero for a while... [He smiles, wryly.] Betcha Dean'll get a kick out of it.
surfaceshine: (Pensive)

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[personal profile] surfaceshine 2015-06-29 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[There is usually a wariness to Dean that speaks to the life he's lead, to how he expects to be attacked at any moment, expects any element or any person in his surroundings to become a threat and to be prepared to deal with that. He sleeps with his boots on. He's always wearing his jacket no matter the weather. Even too drunk to string a sentence together he tracks the movement of the people around him and reacts to them.

Stiles steps up to the bed and there is none of that in Dean now. He's breathing, shallow and slow through his mouth, and upon further inspection his eyes aren't completely closed but neither could they be called open. He either doesn't realize Stiles is there, or does not care.

It's a little of both. He doesn't react to his name and does not acknowledge the question. Whatever happens will happen. Dean intends to let it. There is not a single scrap of energy left in him to bother answering.
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tucky: (I stayed in the tanning booth)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-06-29 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sees the bag, and quickly draws the wrong conclusion.]

Are you leaving? The Barge?
punched_hitler: [tfa] ([pre-serum] quietly sure)

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[personal profile] punched_hitler 2015-06-29 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, it's probably a wonder the entire Barge didn't hear Bucky lecturing. At the top of his lungs. But honestly, it's almost the closest Bucky's been to his "normal" self since he came back. Steve hates that this has him so pissed off, but he still feels like it was the right thing to do.]

Nah. Four years - if you discount the nap. [You know, the sixty-seven-year one. Still - he lets out a breath.] Probably won't take me as long to figure out where the doorknobs and light switches are supposed to be, this time. [So yeah, that's him admitting it hasn't been bump-free, but he's fine. He's managing.]

Yeah - yeah, I have an inhaler. I'm good. I think the Admiral put a couple in the infirmary, but sometimes it's hard to tell if he's serious, so... I guess I might need to take you up on that sometime.

[But seriously, pal, he's worried about you.] Okay. Please do, or I'm gonna have to come down and check on you and undermine your authority and I'm sure it'll embarrass you in front of your girlfriend. [He's kidding, but he really wants to make sure you're taking care of yourself, because God knows Steve wouldn't be.]

This isn't your fault. [He glances down.] And I really don't envy you, but you've got my support. For whatever that's worth. [Dean is (literally, ha) sort of an inmate from hell, and Stiles is doing his best, and this is not a reflection on that.]
imfollowinghim: (To dream in black and white.)

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[personal profile] imfollowinghim 2015-06-30 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
is anyone giving you a hard time?

[Bucky doesn't have much of an opinion about Dean, but Stiles is still definitely someone he cares for.]
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[personal profile] tucky 2015-06-30 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

That's great. I really think that's great.

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