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Thomas ([personal profile] wegotarunner) wrote2015-02-09 11:47 am

Day One, Greenie.

[Open Spam]

[Thomas arrives on the deck of the ship with a look of weariness not only on his features, but one that's settled into his shoulders. Chuck's carving is still clutched tightly in his hand. There's still blood on his clothes. On his hands. His face is streaked with dirt and sweat and blood from a cut above his eye and another on his cheek.

So this is the Barge.

He looks up at the sky with wide eyes, momentarily distracted by the sight and forgetting the events of the last few hours. But only momentarily. He blinks himself out of his dazed stupor and rubs a hand over his face. It takes him a moment to get his bearings. The first thing he needs to do is find his room, and take a long, hot shower. Change his clothes. Get something to eat. It's been hours since he last ate anything and his stomach isn't happy about it.

And then he's going to explore the Barge, find out where everything is. Figure out what to do from there. He's sure there's a lot to learn about this place, about the people he's now sharing space with. He's not completely thrilled about having to meet a whole slew of new people. People who won't know him, who will probably treat him like an outsider. Like he's not to be trusted.

Truthfully, he's still not sure should be. He remembers Newt's words. That who he used to be doesn't matter, it's who he is now that counts. And he can't save them if he focuses on things he can't do anything about. He has to stay focused.

For Newt. For Minho. For Teresa. For Alby. Ben. Even for Gally.

But most of all, for Chuck.]


[Video]

[Thomas appears on screen looking better than he had only an hour ago for those who ran into him on the way from the deck to his room. He's cleaned up, all the blood and sweat and dirt gone from his skin. The cut above his eye and the one on his cheek are still there but they look a little less angry now. He also looks a little hesitant, like he's not sure about this.]

Someone said I should introduce myself.

I'm Thomas.
lydiascreams: (Blank neutral)

[personal profile] lydiascreams 2015-02-10 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Lydia shakes her head slightly, pursing her lips together. She's not gonna lie to him but now that he's actually there, she's pretty sure he's not actually the Nogitsune.]

No, I don't. But whoever they are, they aren't here. And you're safe.
lydiascreams: (mock questioning thoughtful neutral)

[personal profile] lydiascreams 2015-02-10 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Not a lot. I've met you briefly.

[She takes a deep breath. He looks freaked out, but not extremely freaked out.]

Do you know where you are?
tucky: (the bridge to the future is out)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-02-10 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Hi.

You're a kid, right? Another kid warden?
withtheoldbreed: (blood on the sun)

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[personal profile] withtheoldbreed 2015-02-10 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Sometimes, Gene kind of wonders if it would be better to ditch his combat uniform, go back to wearing civilian clothes, wander around in public without his KA-BAR and his father's .45 on his hip, pack up the Unit 3 he'd asked the Admiral for and everything else into his closet and just move on. Start acting like the person he was before he got it in his head to enlist no matter who told him not to, who warned him what that would really mean.

But then he spots the guy who looks a lot like Stiles - Gene doesn't know him personally or anything, but he knows Isaac and Scott, considers them friends, and the ship's small enough that you start recognizing faces pretty quickly - covered in blood and staring up at the stars over and around the deck the same way he had when he'd first got here, and Sledge isn't sorry he's still got the corpsman's kit on him.

(There're probably plenty of reasons why he shouldn't be sorry he's got the knife or the pistol, either.)

Sledge walks towards him quickly, already reaching into one of the pouches of his Unit 3 for a bandage.]


You hit? [It's a lot of blood. 8v]
tucky: (does anyone mind if I start drinking)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-02-10 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Shit. That's crazy. What if you get an adult inmate?
lydiascreams: (Looking up watching neutral)

[personal profile] lydiascreams 2015-02-10 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Are you a Warden?

[Because he knows where he is, and he seems comfortable with it, so she's not entirely sure.]
lydiascreams: (Questioning stare talking)

[personal profile] lydiascreams 2015-02-10 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[As a show of trust, she takes a step forward but doesn't touch him this time.]

Are you hurt?
withtheoldbreed: (a torch to the enemy)

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[personal profile] withtheoldbreed 2015-02-10 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Gene's expression is more sympathetic than anything else when he hears that. He'd been covered in another person's - other people's - blood for over a month before he'd got here, and there's nothing quite like it. It makes your skin crawl.

He (sort of reluctantly, because it's still hard to just sit back and do nothing, just like it's always been) lowers his hand from his kit and takes a breath, wondering how much this guy's heard already.]


You an inmate or a warden? [He's asking mostly because it'll influence where he tells you you can get a shower.]
tucky: (what's he going to do)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-02-10 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I don't know. My warden's my age, I think.
lydiascreams: (neutral stare thoughtful open)

[personal profile] lydiascreams 2015-02-10 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
I can help you find your cabin, or get you a change of clothes, if you need. [Obviously Stiles' clothes would fit him, if necessary.

That and she just wants to help somehow because even though he's obviously not Stiles, he still looks a lot more like him than the Nogitsune did when it had his body.]
tucky: (I have had five donuts today)

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[personal profile] tucky 2015-02-10 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Twenty-three.
withtheoldbreed: (inferno)

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[personal profile] withtheoldbreed 2015-02-10 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[All stuff Gene's been through before, and there's still nothing even close to judgment in his face or expression as he regards the other guy. It's something like resigned concern, mostly, because he knows there's not much he can do or say that's going to really help make this any easier, but-]

You should have a shower or a bathtub in your cabin. [Or both, or maybe neither, if he comes from somewhere that doesn't have those.

Based on his clothes, he'd guess he does have one.]
Change of clothes, too. It'll help.

[Not much, but it'll help. He's speaking from experience.]

I'm sorry.
lydiascreams: (mock smile upset neutral sigh open)

[personal profile] lydiascreams 2015-02-10 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know much about you.

[And although she doesn't wanna give him everything she knows right away, she figures the best way of gaining his trust is by being honest.]

There was a glitch on the Barge's network a few days ago. We spoke very briefly but people who aren't on the barge tend not to remembed these things.
leavetreadmarks: (Black Side Glance)

[personal profile] leavetreadmarks 2015-02-10 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's always a pretty good place to start, yeah.

I'm Letty. Fairly new here myself, so I won't judge you for thinking something's insane yet.

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