versusnurture: (➵ don't put your life in)
Abigail Hobbs ([personal profile] versusnurture) wrote2015-01-06 06:17 pm

twenty-five ♢ spam & voice

How many people here actually hunt? Or fish? Self-sustaining outdoorsy things.

Next time we come to a port that's not - life or death, people being forced to kill each other, whatever. We should organize a hunting party.

private } mira

[As out of nowhere:]

I would want my new self to have her own becoming. So I would give her a weapon, and no memories at all.

spam } philip

[She isn't stupid. She realizes when she's being ignored, and not only does she dislike it, she finds it childish. If Philip wanted her to leave him alone and had a good reason for it - if he gave her the reason, she might accept it. But this, running away and hiding, it's behavior fit for a little boy, not an adult. It's the kind of thing the kid who threw snowballs at her might do, the kind of thing that the man she met ought to be better than.]

[So she sits down across from him at lunch after her shift is over and fixes him with a Look.]


Stop avoiding me.

spam } scott

[She tiptoes up on him on deck, sneaking up to put her hands over his eyes. She knows he can hear her coming, smell her, too, but they'll both just pretend he can't.]

Guess who?

spam } open

[When she's not tracking down crazy zombie killers, Abigail can be found all over the Barge. Much of her time is spent in the kitchens, where she works on the lunch shift with Ben and occasionally fills in other shifts as necessary. Most of her socializing in the dining hall is spent around the lunch shift, too, when she carefully and methodically checks in with the people she has begun to dub hers.]

[Later, she finds herself drawn inexplicably towards the art room. It's the first time in a while that she's gone near it; she used to be very anti-art therapy, but now . . . she doesn't know. It reminds her of Hannibal, and that calms her and makes her anxious all at once. She hovers outside the door for a while, not sure whether to stay or go.]

[Finally, she can be found in her room. The door is open, and music is playing from the inside. It's a waltz. She isn't dancing; just sitting on her bed, waiting. Nobody seems to be coming.]
tucky: (you tried to sell me for a blanket?)

[room spam]

[personal profile] tucky 2015-01-07 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Tiffany lives one floor down from Abigail, but sometimes she wanders the halls of other floors aimlessly, looking for something to do.

She was definitely not expecting to hear music coming from one of the rooms.

At first, she just walks past the open door-- it's not like it's any of her business. But then she gets curious and doubles back, walking past it again and deliberately looking in this time. Finally, she starts slowly walking backwards, stopping when she's in front of the open door for a third time.]


Hey.

You got a radio in there?
broughtwhiskey: (❖ reaching down)

[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-01-07 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks up from his food when she sits in front of him. For a moment, he returns her near-chastising look with a bland expression. At first, it would not be any different than if he had simply looked up before she sat down. But after a few seconds of holding her gaze, there's a building tension in his shoulders. There's an anxiety behind it, but it's masked with agitation.]

[Philip stops just short of tossing his fork down on his plate. He looks away from her, pushing the plate aside as he leans back a little in his seat. When he returns his gaze to her, the anger she saw before just beneath the surface is plain to see and pinpointed on her like a magnifying glass on an ant.]

[He has been avoiding her. It's been for her sake nearly as much as for his own. He doesn't appreciate her ghosting his steps the way she has been off-and-on these past few weeks. He also doesn't appreciate the look he's receiving from her now or that she's even here trying to confront him about it instead of leaving him in peace. He'd felt a similar anger when Lilly convinced him to stay, but there? There had been enough of a connection, enough of him that cared, that could soften that anger and convince himself that things could turn out differently.]

[There's none of that here and now.]


What do you want?
tucky: (I have no idea why I'm being mean to you)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-01-07 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
From the 1970s?

... Who was it from?

[A warden, she figures. She's pretty sure wardens are the ones you get the goods from here.]
tucky: (I just have to wet myself first)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-01-07 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[She shrugs.]

It plays nice. But, you know, I'd rather have a radio.

Or an iPod.

You think if I asked a warden I could get an iPod?
tucky: (what they lack in experience)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-01-07 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Who's she?

[Though she does know Anya, if not by name. She and Cassel gave her cookies and other dessert stuff and it was A++.]
tucky: (I want to decide who lives and who dies)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-01-07 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
How do I find her on, you know...

[She holds up her phone, wiggling it.]

Just look for her name?
exnihilo: (Default)

private

[personal profile] exnihilo 2015-01-07 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Not even a name.

[It's wistful, but it's not a question. She's seen enough of Abigail, in the months they've lived beside each other without touching, to know she is precise; and the cadence of the belated answer is utterly deliberate, deliberated. Her old self didn't have a weapon to leave her; she can only hope the name she was given was faithfully delivered.]
broughtwhiskey: (❖ are dyin')

[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-01-07 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Philip scoffs, turning his face aside for a moment. He folds his hands on the table, interlacing his fingers and tips his head to one side.]

I don't suppose it ever occurred to you that you're reading too much into it.

[He's condescending because she's digging a little too close to a possible truth. It's easier for him to write it off.]

It can't possibly be that I find you... [He pauses for a moment, pursing his lips and looking at the center of the table as though he needs to actually think of the word.] ...irritating? Because if you want the truth, you are.
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voice

[personal profile] themissingpiece 2015-01-07 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Do I gotta answer?
leavetreadmarks: (Lost Over the Shoulder)

[ Dining Hall Spam ]

[personal profile] leavetreadmarks 2015-01-07 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Letty still isn't quite sure about this whole "free food and medicine" thing. Yeah, sure, room and board and a laundromat is slightly strange too but she can get over that because the things in her cabin are actually hers, or belong to people she considers and who consider her family. She doesn't have to pay for those.

It's still weird.

But she's hungry and the food she's tried so far here has been... unexpectedly good. Which is why she swings in at the tail end of the lunch shift, hair pulled back somewhat sloppily and several layers of shirts under the hoodie she's wrapped herself up in to get from her cabin to here.

She was sure she'd be late; she's still getting used to the time schedule as well as the weather here. Barge-lag? Anyway.
]

Hey, sorry. Am I too late?
Edited 2015-01-07 03:05 (UTC)
tucky: (that's not a name)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-01-07 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I gotta ask-- why'd you leave the door to your room open? You want anyone to just be able to look in?
broughtwhiskey: (❖ the shuffle of angel's feet)

[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-01-07 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks smug. He immediately hates how smug she looks as she leans back, declaring herself some kind of victor. As though somehow the snare has managed to tighten. With that comes a small surge of energy and he taps the table noiselessly with a pinky. Abruptly he stops and smiles back at her, just as coolly and perhaps a little more viciously.]

You're not a little girl.
tucky: (in the old days of about ten minutes ago)

[personal profile] tucky 2015-01-07 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Then why don't you hang out in the cafeteria?

I'm just saying, I got a door for the first time in a long time. No way I'd leave it open.

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