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overjoyed_logs2017-03-15 11:36 pm
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[open] Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Who: Hanna King and you
Where: Westerley underbelly
When: W8D1
Summary: Hanna's terrible life
Restrictions/Warnings: Hanna's terrible life including experimentation, violence, and so on
[Level 5.
That's where she needs to go.
Level 5, the ultimate clearance, the ultimate tool in her arsenal. It's the means to her bloody end. She has to get there, somehow, in some way. She doesn't care how.
It'll be just another way to find the answers she needs.
Hanna skips out on the standard training protocols. That shit's cake. She's here again, in a cage, knuckles cut, spitting strings of blood. When was the last time she'd pushed herself this hard? Who knows. Who cares.
Too many punches to the head and the face have her reeling, speaking slurred, seeing things, too many things, all kinds of things. The bruise on her temple is growing and throbbing. It's only by force that she leaves the enclosed arena, to sit on the sidelines closer to the audience with a beer in her hand. The cold bottle is pressed to the wound. Maybe you've been watching, and maybe you're close enough to see a thing or two firsthand.
She struggles, too, to walk out of the arena, towards empty back exits. She can feel her consciousness slipping. Where is she again? Is what she seeing real anymore?]
Where: Westerley underbelly
When: W8D1
Summary: Hanna's terrible life
Restrictions/Warnings: Hanna's terrible life including experimentation, violence, and so on
[Level 5.
That's where she needs to go.
Level 5, the ultimate clearance, the ultimate tool in her arsenal. It's the means to her bloody end. She has to get there, somehow, in some way. She doesn't care how.
It'll be just another way to find the answers she needs.
Hanna skips out on the standard training protocols. That shit's cake. She's here again, in a cage, knuckles cut, spitting strings of blood. When was the last time she'd pushed herself this hard? Who knows. Who cares.
Too many punches to the head and the face have her reeling, speaking slurred, seeing things, too many things, all kinds of things. The bruise on her temple is growing and throbbing. It's only by force that she leaves the enclosed arena, to sit on the sidelines closer to the audience with a beer in her hand. The cold bottle is pressed to the wound. Maybe you've been watching, and maybe you're close enough to see a thing or two firsthand.
She struggles, too, to walk out of the arena, towards empty back exits. She can feel her consciousness slipping. Where is she again? Is what she seeing real anymore?]
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It's not sympathy that has him leaving his seat, either, just as the woman stumbling her way out begins to walk. It's simply convenience, someone he plans to avoid, until she's slipping into his line of vision. ]
Oop. [ He grabs her by the forearm. ] Don't die now.
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[The answer, slurred as comes out of her mouth, is automatic. On the best of days, she feels half-alive. It's all a farce that she continues as she is right now.
Hanna sniffles, blinks hard trying to keep herself upright in the stranger's arms.
The soft, loose sweater she wears now threatens to fall off her shoulders, revealing only a part of tattoos spreading on the backs of her arms.]
You smell too nice to be here. [Green eyes slowly, finally focus on the... not so stranger.] The fuck you want here?
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Is that a compliment? [ Obviously not. ] I was dragged in to watch, but it got boring pretty quick.
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Blue shifts the world, from the shit hole dump in Westerley, to another shit hole dump: sterile, white labs.
Two Company men, standing side to side, with heavy armor and heavier guns aren't so far off from her.
They've come for her.]
So you came to this instead.
[Ten years younger. Back when she had just one tattoo, a solid black spade on her left wrist. Back when fear and anger had no direction.
Her hair is still a mess, that's never changed. The electric blue tips, though, are fading out. It won't be much longer until it gets cut off, anyway.]
You don't look like them.
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He's seen members of the company before, but not armed and appearing as if they were prepared to kill. That's different. Not unwelcome, but different. ]
It's better not to judge a book by its cover.
[ But that's not important. ]
Are you going to deal with this yourself, or do you want my help?
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She laughs bitterly at the word.
Help.
They'd said they would help her between the tests and the mods. They'd said they wouldn't do anything too bad.
Liars, all of them. So cruel and bitter, so young and desperate to be seen as anything but this.]
I'm going to run.
[And so she does, without warning, scrambling despite the loose white pants that threaten to take her down. The IV insertion pains her wrist, but she doesn't bother. If she tried to take it out again, it would be worse this time.
The Company men start to run wordlessly towards her. Hanna doesn't think she's going to make it, but she has to try.]
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And she does.
Crowley, in a mix of disbelief and surprise, raises a brow when she scrambles and makes a mess of things in her own escape. He wants to advice her that running and pulling an IV out would hurt like hell but she's already too far ahead, dashing away as the Company follows her.
Qreshi instincts tell him not to get involved. This woman is familiar, however, and because of that Crowley also feels inclined to step between--or behind, in this scenario. The Nine aren't meant to kill with their own hands, they bought the right people for that, but when his hand reaches out to grab one of the men by their arm the last thing he's thinking about are consequences.
It's an action done wordlessly, twisting it and hearing an audible pop before the limb is torn off. It's not a clean job, strands of muscle still connecting to his shoulder as the arm drops to the floor and the man screams in pain. Now Crowley wasn't essentially going to do all that, but it happens none-the-less. ]
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Prometheus is moving and she has aid! I need back up!
[Prometheus... the name jars her enough from the shock of seeing all that everywhere and it's so much and it's what they want of her and it's just ---]
Hanna!
[Her eyes fixate angrily on the other man. Waves of heat start to come off her, uncontrollable, shimmering in the air all around her.]
My name is Hanna!
[No fire, none of that, but still, she holds out her left arm, squalling in a fit of rage. The air becomes nauseously hot. The aim, through all of the anger and sadness, is the other man's face, to melt it, to be the thing they want her to be, and then to run away forever.
They'll know not to mess with her, and to leave her alone.]
You want me! Come get me!
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It's probably not a good time to stop and question what he's heard, not when he has a man bleeding out at his feet and the other taking aim at his skull. But for some reason or another he doesn't feel particularly scared for his life—or perhaps he doesn't seem so based off his features, because for some strange reason he feels absolutely livid.
In fact, on the inside, Crowley is feeling a number of emotions he can't describe; rage, hatred, sadness. ]
Hanna.
[ Because apparently that's her name. ]
Just kill him.
[ Because it's gone downhill enough, they're basically at the bottom of the pit, there's no reason to hesitate. ]
Or I will.
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Her hand doesn't come down.
But she stops.
She could kill him. She should kill him.
It's what they want of her. What they want to make of her. She couldn't be what her parents wanted her to be, so they left her to whatever could make use of her.
Discarded, abandoned, declared useless.]
I can't. I don't...
[She falters. No. She couldn't give in.
Finally, her green eyes focus on him as she lowers her arm. The fight's left her. She wants to escape.]
Get me out of here. Please.
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Whether or not this was the work of her own power was up to debate, considering he's never seen it at work, so he moves his shoulders in a half-shrug.
So long as he doesn't get hurt then... whatever. And he supposes that any more pain directed towards her would put him in a little sour mood; so when he approaches his hand doesn't lift with a single intention of causing malice, palm exposed for her. ]
And where should I take you? [ It's a question that deserves answering, considering he's lost as well. ] Where is home to you, Hanna?
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Home.]
I don't have a home.
[The sterile white, the blue aura, starts to shift and fade into the darkness of the arena. It's brief, warping in and out, the same way Hanna is coming in and out of consciousness.
Sixteen, twenty-nine, sixteen again, and she's suddenly spitting blood from her mouth. One too many hits to the mouth and face. It's not much, thankfully.]
Just get me out, please. Anywhere but here. Or Leith. [She can't even beg to go home, not like she used to as a child when she was tired and fussy and bratty.]
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[ He sighs, moving closer as he reaches out and grabs her by the shoulder somewhere in the midst of her changing between ages. There's a hint of sympathy—not bitterness or rage, and it mixes with loneliness and Crowley can't say that this feeling is at all unfamiliar... but it still feels distant, like he hasn't felt this way in years.
(He hasn't.) ]
Then you'll come with me. You'll live a new life.
Is that what you want?
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She could melt his face together if it came to it, and then keep running and running until she couldn't run anymore.]
Yes.
[Is it sad that she's so desperate? Probably.]
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It's a rare occasion, if ever, for him to feel an ounce of sympathy towards anyone. But the emotions that he can't quite describe are genuine. He can tell because he's not forcing them, they're real, and he reaches down to tug at her hand. ]
Alright.
[ ... This is so weird. But you kind of gotta take responsibility of someone after you killed a man in order to keep them from getting harmed. ]
I'll take care of you. [ What he feels isn't possessiveness but the desire to protect. ] I swear on it.
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Is she still dreaming? Remembering? Is any of this a hallucination, or is it real?
She searches him, the man with the two-toned hair that she knows she's seen before, but she's too damn addled to put it together.]
How?
[Her voice is thin and small, so unlike her usual demeanor. None of this could be remotely real. All of this is just some sad form of desperation.
She tells herself this, because this is what's become of her.]
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... Well I don't know I just tore a man's arm off.
[ So that's how, if you want to put in the physical sense. However he realizes that she's possibly meaning more than that and to be honest... he doesn't know how to answer her. ]
I guess we'll just have to find out.
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... Such a gentleman.
[Dimly, she realizes this the most she's felt in... months or even years, beyond pure rage and incredible sadness, and the never ending need to protect what little she has.]
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I try. [ Not really. ] But leave the passing out for when it doesn't require me carrying you, alright?
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She manages a grin, despite literally everything.] You weirdo.
[Whether it's her slipping consciousness, or whatever else she's not in the state of mind to address, she finds herself...
She can't even make herself admit it. The young, naive girl that had been Hanna Talbot hadn't been buried far enough, hadn't been killed well enough to call herself dead.
And so the grin starts to falter, her eyes start to flicker.] Well I have to go pass out somewhere else besides here. So if you'll excuse me...
[And clearly she's not going very far as she quite nearly loses her balance. Nice.]
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She's gonna die without his help, he presumes, so his assistance comes with a heavy sigh as he again breaks the distance between them and promptly scoops her up into his arms. ]
You're a real mess, I guess I just have to carry you now.
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[She'd fight the carry if she had more strength in her, but she's fresh out of literally everything.]
Just get me out of here, buff man.
[Translation: she doesn't give a damn to where he takes her. She just wants to sleep.]