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Abigail Hobbs ([personal profile] versusnurture) wrote2013-10-11 04:26 pm

fifth ♢ private + voice + spam

private/voice } ben

[She contacts her warden as soon as Hannibal makes his announcement. Last night, when she checked in, she was distant; this morning she seemed more confident. This afternoon, she's shaky, uncertain, every bone in her body trembling, it feels like.]

Ben. I lost time. [This is an excuse, she knows.]

He made me dinner, Ben.

public } voice

[She cuts the feed on, then off. On/off, on/off, in strange but rhythmic patterns like Morse code.]

[She's fishing. Questions, accusations will come - she remembers that much from last time, with her real father, with Garret Hobbs, the Shrike. She wants them now. She doesn't want to wait.]


public } spam

[She doesn't change her routine, not even slightly. Which is not to say she's not afraid: she's terrified. There's no Freddie Lounds here to publicly doctor this story, to minimize her shame. Even if there was, she honestly isn't sure she'd want that anymore.]

[So she walks the halls and accepts what comes, goes to the art room, goes to lunch, visits Ben on his shift. Sometimes she goes to the CES and forgets where she is and how time passes. Hours and hours go by as she sits under a tree with her knees pulled up to her chest.]

[This is the only vulnerability she shows, and it is accidental.]


private } zane

I know what he wants from me so I can ask him for information if that's what you want.

[It's about the Emperor, of course; she no longer has the privilege, in her own mind, of contacting Zane for any reason other than business.]
halftheman: (Sadness)

[private]

[personal profile] halftheman 2013-10-11 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Where are you? Are you somewhere safe?
forgetyourusedtobe: the road not taken//robert frost (v] still frames)

private

[personal profile] forgetyourusedtobe 2013-10-11 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
He's the one, isn't he?
halftheman: (Head In Hands)

[private]

[personal profile] halftheman 2013-10-11 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He feels stupid enough now; Two-Face berates him over the slip, but Harvey reminds him of the point, that Abigail needs-- something. Someone. ]

[ So do they. ]


Can I come to you?
themissingpiece: (Default)

Spam CES

[personal profile] themissingpiece 2013-10-11 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Arkin went completely quiet over the network when the news hit. No public messages, not talking to other people, not even private messages. And he didn't talk to Hannibal at all.

Memories of heavily armed men accusing him of leading them into a trap, trying to kill them, run through his head.

He finds her in CES and is careful about making enough noise he doesn't startle her. He cautiously approaches then crouches down next to her.
]

Hey.
soliterraneous: (Default)

[personal profile] soliterraneous 2013-10-11 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Is there a purpose to what Abigail is doing, opening and closing the connection with soft clicks?

Aeryn knows the girl is Ben's inmate, so of course she's curious.

Which means imitating her on off on off connection.
]
halftheman: (Remembering The Burn)

[private]

[personal profile] halftheman 2013-10-11 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Room #?

[ He's never been. He let her in, the first time. Now he asks for her to trust him in her space. ]
halftheman: (Calm)

[private]

[personal profile] halftheman 2013-10-11 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Crackers are doable. Fruit? Whole fruit, identifiable. No compote crap.

[ He understands. ]
fridgetothefire: (ponder)

[private, voice]

[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-10-11 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Neither a question nor an accusation, not just now.]

People aren't going to blame you.
myironeyes: (Default)

CES

[personal profile] myironeyes 2013-10-11 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[He didn't come looking for her, but he finds her. He tends to carry at least a few snacks all the time, and after a few moments of consideration, he drifts nearby, and wordlessly offers her a plum.]
halftheman: (Default)

[private]

[personal profile] halftheman 2013-10-11 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Crackers it is.

[ It takes a few minutes. He brings two boxes; saltine in one, graham in the other. Salty and sweet. Two is a good number. He knocks. Polite. ]
themissingpiece: (Default)

[personal profile] themissingpiece 2013-10-11 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head, he's not really sure. He doesn't wear a watch anymore for reasons.] Getting into the evening, I think.
fridgetothefire: (wary schemer)

[private, voice]

[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-10-11 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a very...direct culture, here. He did it, he claimed it, he'll be the target. You aren't his warden, it's on him.

And the community is small. Everybody's connected to someone who killed someone.

[It's a statement about how people will react, mostly; whether Abigail carries some part of the blame in truth or not doesn't really factor into it. She could have told his secrets. But then, so could Ben. It's one of the social rules that makes the barge minimally habitable, the assumption that people will keep secrets, that inmates' crimes will come out in their own times and their own ways.]
myironeyes: (Default)

[personal profile] myironeyes 2013-10-11 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[He waits, has no discernable expression in response to her reactions. When she seems to have settled, he just asks,]

Am I imposing?

[A less personal question than do you want to be alone, the vulnerability required to answer either way, for all that she has put herself in a public place.]

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