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Abigail Hobbs ([personal profile] versusnurture) wrote2014-05-14 12:08 am

fifteen ♢ spam

spam } barge, day 1

[Abigail is different. Noticeably so - but not, precisely, abnormally.]

[She does not realize this. She isn't trying to fit in. She is too sharp, too vicious, too angry to make any kind of effort at concealment. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, she doesn't look out of place.]

[She looks like a girl who has snapped. She looks like a girl who is graduating.]

[Fury simmers in her eyes; she keeps her eyes forward until someone speaks to her, and then she snaps and snarls like a trapped dog. For the most part, she stays with Ben or in public areas, where people mill around, where she can get decently lost in the crowd - but back her into a corner when she's alone and she's likely to lash out with any weapons she has to hand.]


spam } port, remainder

[The planet is arid. Abigail has been set free. Curiously, this doesn't make her feel any better. She doesn't feel free - she feels like she's been released into a trap.]

[The smart thing to do would be to ally herself with the people in the city, and for a while she tries. She can be found among them for the first day on the ground, but she's still too anxious to stay for long, so she ventures out into the fringes, where she can count the number of people around her.]


spam } port, for ceres

[She's been here for two days. Nothing's changed. She isn't suspected as an outsider by the people down here, but then again this is an interminable place; she can't escape here because there's nowhere to escape to, and she's still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Ben can't be far away, no matter what he said, not this version of him. He believes too strongly.]

[When she ventures into the center of the city again, for lack of anything more concrete to do, it isn't long before she runs across someone she knows. Her fear response is immediate and noticeable, her pupils dilating, breath quickening, muscles tensing. Anger follows quickly, paranoia right on its heels.]


Did he send you?

spam } port, for ben

[It's worse this time than when Hannibal killed her. It was a gentle death, this time, but in its own way terrible. It was not intimate. And now . . .]

[Now everything hurts. Despite herself, despite what she knows and where she is, she cries out for Ben. Quickly enough she stifles her cries, but hidden in an alley in the center of the city, she can't imagine she'll avoid his attention for long.]

[Not that it matters. She hurts too much to move.]



( ooc; abigail is unaffected for the desperate to deliver plot! her mirror barge backstory is here. )
warisart: (Determined)

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[personal profile] warisart 2014-05-22 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[It is true and it isn't; he tried. He tried in many ways, and he protected her from many of the other wardens. His devotion protects them both.

He was helping her. But her faith was not strong enough.

She's upright, and Ben takes two more steps forward. She'll fall again soon. He will catch her.
]

All I've ever done was try to help you. Your doubt does not allow you to take advantage of it.

This won't stand.
forgetyourusedtobe: the road not taken//robert frost (h] in a yellow wood)

[personal profile] forgetyourusedtobe 2014-05-22 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
Okay...

[Elena doesn't really know how to respond to that. As far as she's concerned, they've always stuck through everything together. And now...]

[She nods a little.]


Vesper's gone. So I guess I don't have a warden anymore. Is Ben...?
heavenlymisandrist: (You cannot lie)

[personal profile] heavenlymisandrist 2014-05-22 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She looks away, to the side and up, as though she can see the stars through the barge's hull. Hey, maybe she can. ]

Life is pain. To hurt is to be alive.
walkingmeltdown: (now let me show you☠)

[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-05-22 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course not. This isn't the place you come to make friends, smart-mouthed little girl. It's the place you come to either prove a point or learn a lesson. Unless you're one of the game-players...and I, as you may have noticed, don't have the time or patience for games.

[His eyes narrow as he sneers. He raised one hand, switching from a fist to a half-formed claw. He's more than ready to go for her throat.]

You, on the other hand, seem to be trying to play one right now.
semifreakingnormal: (to the world you thought you lived in)

[personal profile] semifreakingnormal 2014-05-24 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Maybe he'll tell her, back home. He has a bad habit of giving second chances to everyone. And third and fourth.]

You're kinda fascinating. I mean, in a kind plain, mousy way. You're more interesting when you're not mousy.
walkingmeltdown: (that is not the way i get down☠)

[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-05-24 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh really? Is that the line you want to follow?

[He glares at her venomously, gaze burning, waiting for an answer. It's the kind of set-up where there might not be a right one.

The other wardens have already gotten irritated with him, told him he can't go around burning everyone to death with the deathtoll still malfunctioning. But he can still take his aggravations out a little on the nearest piece of meat - all he needs is a good excuse.
]
myironeyes: (Default)

[spam, day 1]

[personal profile] myironeyes 2014-05-24 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[It is, of course, not concealed to him, bright blue in his ironsight. He pauses when he sees her, inclines his head in a nod.]

Will it suffice?
semifreakingnormal: (there's no second guessing)

[personal profile] semifreakingnormal 2014-05-24 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Something like a growl rumbles through his throat, and he smiles.]

Wow, look at you, being feisty. C'mon Abigail, don't be like.
starofdarkness: (you find out in the garden)

[personal profile] starofdarkness 2014-05-24 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She turns back to the girl, curious and still sad. ]

Do you truly wish that? To end your life, and all its possibilities?
heavenlymisandrist: (you're paralyzed)

[personal profile] heavenlymisandrist 2014-05-27 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
If death is your wish, I can grant it.

[ You know. With your permission. ]
starofdarkness: (I really wanted that thing)

[personal profile] starofdarkness 2014-05-27 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
May you find peace.

[ All it takes is a thought. She burns almost too fast to produce any heat at all.

All that's left is ash and bone. ]
secretasshole: (he can be so very cruel)

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[personal profile] secretasshole 2014-05-27 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
There should be potable drinking water half a mile to the west.

[Unless his equipment is completely malfunctioning which. Honestly wouldn't surprise him much.]
myironeyes: (Default)

[spam, day 1]

[personal profile] myironeyes 2014-05-27 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You seem ready to fight.

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