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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.
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Re: Spam

[personal profile] takeyouapart 2015-02-17 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)

[Merlin nods, and it makes him feel a little more hopeful for the younger man that he can even say that much. He doesn't think he would have been able to. (He doesn't think he can now.)]

If there's anything you need, all you need to do is contact me. You should have - [He rummages in a pocket for his communicator, and holds it up for him to see.] One of these, to speak to the rest of the ship.

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Re: Spam

[personal profile] takeyouapart 2015-02-17 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)

[Merlin smiles gently.]

I can show you how it works, if you like. I'd never seen anything like it before I arrived here.

broughtwhiskey: (❖ is in the thorn tree)

Spam

[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-17 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head at the "thank you."]

You should go get yourself cleaned up.
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[personal profile] leavetreadmarks 2015-02-18 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Not that I know of. Most everyone just seems to think that's the way it is so that's the way it is.

[This vexes Letty, and she doesn't bother hiding it.]
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[personal profile] surfaceshine 2015-02-18 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well it sure as shit ain't normal.

[Dean says this like he's confirming something, not like he disbelieves it. It's probably nothing. Nothing ever seems to be anything around here, but one of the very few things Dean still is and always has been is a hunter.]

What's the Glade?
lydiascreams: (Excuse you questioning head tilt)

[personal profile] lydiascreams 2015-02-18 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
You don't remember you life before it? How long were you in there?
lydiascreams: (Pause unsure open lost broken)

[personal profile] lydiascreams 2015-02-18 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[A million questions is right. But considering he just got here, he has apparently no memory aside from a week of his life, and that week already gave him a reason to make a deal with the admiral, she'll stick to one question.]

So you don't remember much before this week? There's someone here who might be able to help you.
takeyouapart: (neutral | profile)

Spam - gonna skim this a little because pfft like I know the technical deets

[personal profile] takeyouapart 2015-02-18 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Merlin's explanation is slow, and thorough, and careful - in the way of someone who knows exactly what it's like to be handed a relatively complicated electronic device, having come from somewhere with no greater technology for recording information than quill and paper.]

...people use these to watch for newcomers, I think. There's no announcement that you've arrived beyond any you make for yourself, so - when you're feeling up to it, you ought to.

[God knows he didn't, at first.]
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[personal profile] withtheoldbreed 2015-02-19 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey, that's more considerate than some people can be in this situation. Good for you, Thomas.]

Alright. [Fair enough. Gene's definitely not arguing.] Cabins're this way.

[He points towards the door to below decks, and takes a step or two in that direction, glancing back at Thomas to make sure the new guy's following him.]
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[personal profile] leavetreadmarks 2015-02-19 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
It's not that, I don't think. Not for everyone anyway.

I think it's more that people are saving their energy for other things. It's too big and there's not enough information, you know? So you focus on what you do know, or what you need, and that ain't the answers to the universe.
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[personal profile] surfaceshine 2015-02-19 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Dean tilts his head, intent, and if it seems like he's having particular difficulty making it make sense, well. It doesn't show.

He's not. He knows how to collect all the impossible details and work his way up from there, no matter how impossible those details are.
]

Gonna need more than that.
broughtwhiskey: (❖ it's alpha's and omega's)

Spam

[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-19 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Philip gives Thomas a small nod of acknowledgement and lets him be on his way.]
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[personal profile] lydiascreams 2015-02-19 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Explaining Jean's abilities is definitely not something she's willing to do. Mostly because it's not her secret to tell. But also because it can be overwhelming if he doesn't know about not everyone here being fully human.]

It's complicated. Once you've settled in, I'll tell you more about it. [And that sounds kinda ominous.]

It's nothing bad, though. Just-- some people here can work with different things.
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[personal profile] takeyouapart 2015-02-19 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.]

Not every day. I came here a little over a month ago, and there's been...six, or seven who arrived after me.

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