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WASHINGTON. ([personal profile] protocol) wrote2021-10-16 12:49 pm
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ownperson: (pb; purple side glance talking)

[personal profile] ownperson 2021-10-23 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)

Hey, shout loud enough and I'll probably hear you. But a ping works. And I can keep an eye out, easy.

[ She's still got all her soldier's instincts. Knows how to have her guard up, keep a look out for signs of trouble.

She's absolutely not going to dig into any shit she heard during that week, it's on the blurrier side of things from that time anyway and she's just... not gonna touch it. ]

Guess it's all a matter of fuckin' damage control, huh.

ownperson: (pb; purple arms crossed)

[personal profile] ownperson 2021-10-25 12:55 am (UTC)(link)

'Probably', huh. [ dry, she snorts ] Unless I get in his way or some shit, I'm guessing. Eh, doesn't matter, point is he's a problem for you, so like...

[ She shrugs, decides to leave that open ended, hopes the implication carries itself. A problem for him's a problem for her, now. And it's at least 50% because the problem would be blowing up right across the hall, but the other 50% is well, she does actually care. Gross, right? ]

Least they only stick a few months at a time, I guess.

ownperson: (pb; purple frown talking)

[personal profile] ownperson 2021-10-25 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)

[ It's easier for her than even she expected, the history with that other Washington helping remind her they can get on. No, he's not the same Wash, things could go any way from here, but she still thinks it's possible. They're just on different squares of the board right now. Which she's trying to keep in mind. ]

...riiight, weird fucked up death bullshit. Yeah, no, that sounds like a total fucking mess. Fingers fucking crossed he does have that much sense. This system's bullshit but if it might be a bit of a shield then...

[ Shrug. You gotta take what you can get in a bad situation. Perhaps luckily for Wash, she's really not the prying kind. She can see the note of tension in him, but she's not inclined to ask, press on what the fuck happened or what's really bothering him about this. There's clearly something else to this, but all things considered she doubts she'll be any help in any capacity besides back-up if it goes south again. ]

ownperson: (pb; purple giving look)

[personal profile] ownperson 2021-10-27 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)

[ She nods; she has no doubt Wash can figure out a way to handle this, one way or another. ]

Besides a new appreciation for what my brother has had to put up with from me and those weird dreams exposing my old bullshit to York before I could? Nah.

[ It’s been a hell of a time, sure, but it’s not like the mess Wash has been left to clean up. ]

No contracts, fake me was too hung up on some ex herself I guess. So it’s just the vague memories of people I’ve never met before. No real weird shit.

ownperson: (pb; purple side glance annoyed talking)

[personal profile] ownperson 2021-11-01 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)

He saw the whole… North. Thing. Y’know. I uh— well, I kinda made the mistake of not telling him about that whole thing when I got here? Didn’t want to get off on the wrong foot but…

[ Yeah that didn’t pay off. The dreams showed him for her. Not even for the first time, if for the first time with this York. ]

Had to explain what the fuck I was thinking. Sounds worse and stupider every time I explain it. Ugh.

[ She pulls a face, disgust directed at herself. It was not fun explaining to the guy who is kinda messed up without his AI that she wanted to let North’s AI get taken so she could have her brother back. And that’s not even getting into the rest of how it sucked. ]

Think he saw something bad of yours, or just something— personal?

ownperson: (pb; purple frown talking)

[personal profile] ownperson 2021-11-01 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)

[ The sympathy straddles a line between surprising and not, because as usual, the multiverse is fucking weird and can go fuck itself. Sharing memories happened on the rig, too, and that Wash... well he saw the same memory, and she saw a couple things in turn. The aftermath of her shooting him. An old memory where she had his back early in the Project, back when she was a team player. Reminders to be better.

But she didn't expect any sympathy from him now. But she'll certainly take it. ]

Yeah he uh— he did. He's a good guy.

[ It takes her a second to connect the pieces Wash lays down, but when she does she hisses with sympathy of her own. Of course. When he says it it's almost as obvious a choice for this place as the North thing is. ]

Fuuuuck.

ownperson: (pb; purple side glance talking)

[personal profile] ownperson 2021-11-01 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)

Knowing him, he’ll come try talk to you about it. Brace yourself for weirdly condescending sympathy. He’ll mean well, but he’s… well, he’s him.

[ Not that he’s as goddamned patronising with other people as he is her, but it’s still a legitimate warning. North’s… North. She loves him, but he’s a fucking pain sometimes. ]

We had a couple people turn up in like, our shared memories? Lina, for one. It was… well it was sure a fucking night, huh?

[ She’s absolutely choosing not to think too hard about the fact North and her apparently had a shared damn dreamscape for parts of that night. Too close to weird twin telepathy bullshit she’s just refusing to acknowledge. ]

ownperson: (pb; purple eye roll)

[personal profile] ownperson 2021-11-01 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)

Can’t let anyone go into that one blind. Shout if you need rescuing from him, too. Or you can always distract him by saying something about me. Either works.

[ That’s mostly a joke. Mostly. It’s definitely probably easy to distract him with the right comment about her, but. ]

Both of ours. Hazard of spending thirty fuckin’ years of our lives barely apart, basically all of our memories overlap. Guess whatever caused the dreams decided to— combine shit for simplicity or some shit, I don’t know.

[ She rolls her eyes. Luckily it didn’t make her relive his death with him, that’d have bothered her in a whole different way. ]

Edited (clarity) 2021-11-01 14:58 (UTC)
ownperson: (pb; purple side glance talking)

[personal profile] ownperson 2021-11-04 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)

[ She honestly wonders if the only thing that saved her from reliving it with him is that York apparently didn’t interact with the dream he saw at all, just watched. Too stunned to even say anything. It was Carolina and Temple commenting on what they were watching that drew her and North back into reality. ]

Yeah, you should be. I mean, coulda been worse, but— super fucking weird, do not recommend.