028 [Text/Audio/Action for Violet City]
Apr. 19th, 2012 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soggypastry[Text; Filtered to all PGC members]
There was a casualty to the bombing yesterday. A boy named Danny Fenton was mailed a bomb, and Cobra Commander has threatened to take us out for getting in his way. He doesn't know the Corps exists, but be on your guard regardless. Don't handle anything suspicious and avoid traveling alone at all costs until we can deal with him and whoever else he may be working with. Avoid mentioning us in public, as well. We'll need every advantage we can get for as long as we have it.
[Audio; Filtered to: Leon, Hope, Serah, and Ven.]
We should leave the city before something else can happen. Are you ready to get moving?
[Action for Violet City Inn, Room 221]
[Anyone who seeks Lightning out today will find her in her room at the Inn, flitting between a pad of paper on the desk and the bag she's packing. The paper is covered with notes that are easy to read and the bag is smartly packed, so it's a sharp contrast to Lightning who looks a bit...frazzled in comparison to her normal self. Someone seems just a bit out of her element for some reason.]
There was a casualty to the bombing yesterday. A boy named Danny Fenton was mailed a bomb, and Cobra Commander has threatened to take us out for getting in his way. He doesn't know the Corps exists, but be on your guard regardless. Don't handle anything suspicious and avoid traveling alone at all costs until we can deal with him and whoever else he may be working with. Avoid mentioning us in public, as well. We'll need every advantage we can get for as long as we have it.
[Audio; Filtered to: Leon, Hope, Serah, and Ven.]
We should leave the city before something else can happen. Are you ready to get moving?
[Action for Violet City Inn, Room 221]
[Anyone who seeks Lightning out today will find her in her room at the Inn, flitting between a pad of paper on the desk and the bag she's packing. The paper is covered with notes that are easy to read and the bag is smartly packed, so it's a sharp contrast to Lightning who looks a bit...frazzled in comparison to her normal self. Someone seems just a bit out of her element for some reason.]
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Date: 2012-04-19 07:58 am (UTC)You all right?
[Well, of course, she isn't all right, considering--but hey, it's his job to ask. Light's solid; she doesn't buckle under this sort of pressure.]
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Date: 2012-04-19 08:12 am (UTC)Yeah. I just...I thought we'd have more time before this kind of thing started happening.
[This kind of thing being civilian casualties. She was prepared to get hurt herself handling this, but someone not involved? Not used to that.]
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Date: 2012-04-20 06:36 am (UTC)[His hand settles on her shoulder, drawing her closer. She can bend against him.]
You want to head back to the house? [With the weather getting warmer, Olivine must be quite nice. A good place to recoup. On the other hand, he thinks, Olivine isn't as central, but that's nothing Skarmory and Snow can't fix.]
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Date: 2012-04-20 07:21 am (UTC)[Still, a year and seven months would soften anyone up, really. The adjustment back to combat and watching her back will happen, and soon, but for now...for now she'll just stand at his side, taking a little strength from his warmth. She's just...so lucky to have him with her. So lucky.]
That's the idea. I know it's no safer than anywhere else, but it's better than moving from hotel to hotel until we get this guy. We could all use a little stability right now.
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Date: 2012-04-28 03:15 pm (UTC)He knows there's something deeper at stake here, though--and his hand squeezes gently.]
Don't start doubting yourself now. You can handle this.
[By 'you', he means 'we', and there's an unspoken 'I'm here to help' lurking beneath his words that he's confident she can hear.]
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Date: 2012-04-29 04:56 am (UTC)I know. It's not like there's much choice otherwise, anyway. Ven can't handle leading this many people on his own.
[Hell, Lightning can't lead 30 people on her own. But she's not alone and she knows it. She knows that he's with her, and she heard those unspoken words, so although she doesn't smile, she does squeeze his hand in return. Where would she be without him.]
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Date: 2012-04-29 01:25 pm (UTC)You're the most effective leader this place has.
[His hands move down to her waist, turning her so that she's facing him, his eyes dark.] Promise me you won't forget it.
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Date: 2012-04-30 07:42 am (UTC)And staring into his eyes because that was an unexpected move even though she felt it and moved with him, leaning her forehead against his in the moment it takes to respond. Most effective leader here? For six or fewer people, sure, but thirty? She's not so sure about that one. But she is a soldier, so...]
I promise. I don't know what good my skills will do, but I won't forget that.
[She doesn't believe the others when they say things will be okay because it's never that easy, but if there's no one trying to make them okay, of course things won't turn out alright. So she's going to try That's the least she can do.]
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Date: 2012-05-06 03:22 pm (UTC)He kisses her, gently, against the corner of her mouth.]
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Date: 2012-05-07 10:24 am (UTC)And it's not comfort that she needs so much as reassurance that she's doing the right thing. That doing this isn't going to come around and bite them in the ass any more than it already has. But she won't ask for that because she knows his answer already. She knows he supports her and that's enough and he has to know but she doesn't know how to say it, so she settles for the next best thing, still held in his arms.]
Thank you.