Forty-Sixth Theory [Voice/Action]

Jun 07, 2011 19:32

((Action part backdated to the wee hours of this morning ( Read more... )

c: daisy, c: frederic, too sick to think straight, coming home, c: mulder, c: kay

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] semper_cogitans June 7 2011, 23:49:46 UTC
(OOC: Figuring that, by now, Robert would have known what happened with Helios... Of course, when he leaves this message, he didn't, but he does by the time Don answers it.)

[Robert spent the last week being terrified that his friends - and his lover - weren't going to come back alive. And so the very first thing he does is leave a single, distressed little message for Don.

Of course, the other Hamatos are free to pick it up as well, if they want.]

D-Don...

...

Are you... [Healthy? Sane? Safe?] alright?

...

I-I... I missed you...

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] semper_cogitans June 9 2011, 00:44:51 UTC
[Gods. That barely even begins to describe it, but the true nuance is deep and painful.]

... Y-Yes. Yes, a v-very close friend...

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A-And h-he is s-such a... w-wonderful person...

H-He... d-died p-protecting his f-friends...

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] honorthecode June 9 2011, 01:22:38 UTC
....

I'm sorry.

Dying while protecting friends is an honorable way to die.

[Now he feels a little guilty telling you stay away from their house, but he has his reasons.

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] semper_cogitans June 9 2011, 01:38:52 UTC
[It's okay, Robert probably wants to hide under a rock right now anyway.]

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A-At... at least it is... n-not permanent... ... th-though, it is hard to b-believe...

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] honorthecode June 9 2011, 01:56:45 UTC
Yes, there's at least that.

[Even if they'll come back with something wrong with them.]

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] semper_cogitans June 9 2011, 02:28:38 UTC
[There is that, too, and it makes Robert worry, but for now he's clinging to the fact that Helios will be back.]

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... G-Gods, I wish I c-could have done something...

... b-but I am always so... i-ineffectual.

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] honorthecode June 9 2011, 03:22:58 UTC
I know the feeling. I hated listening to the reports, and being stuck here. If I had my way, I would've been out there helping.

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] semper_cogitans June 9 2011, 03:42:59 UTC
W-Well, I would have been e-even more useless on the battlefield... [Robert's voice audibly shudders.]

B-but...

... I-I... s-simply having the option...

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] honorthecode June 9 2011, 05:45:25 UTC
For people claiming to be military, they don't act like it. Even the military know that non combatants don't belong on the battlefield. Or wounded soldiers. Like this last draft, I heard something about a blind guy being sent out there.

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] semper_cogitans June 9 2011, 06:24:47 UTC
Y-You may be referring to Giles... he was b-blinded by the Malnosso, a-actually, as d-disgusting as that is. S-Sending out someone to fight whom they blinded themselves...

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H-He is Helios' friend... a-and the one who told me what h-happened to him. I-informed the whole village, actually...

[Robert slowly exhales.]

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] honorthecode June 9 2011, 19:13:27 UTC
Oh, I see.

Yeah, I heard of the death from him.

Is he a friend of yours too?

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] semper_cogitans June 9 2011, 21:37:23 UTC
Y-yes, he is... [Robert has a lot of interrelated friends, actually. The intellectuals tend to gravitate towards each other, it seems...]

... And he is... v-very close to Helios.

[There's still a tiny ghost of jealousy in those words.

Robert still worries, sometimes, that he isn't a good friend for Helios - not when Giles is there, doing everything he can't or won't.]

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] honorthecode June 10 2011, 06:27:54 UTC
[Leo notes the jealousy.]

Friends always appreciate any help given.

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] semper_cogitans June 10 2011, 06:50:52 UTC
Th-that... that is what I have been t-told, yes. [Though it's evident that some part of him still has trouble believing it.]

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I am sure that Giles and Mr. Ch-Chopin will do everything they can for Helios, but... I s-still want to be there when he returns...

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Re: [Voice | Filtered 100%] honorthecode June 11 2011, 05:02:40 UTC
[Well, he didn't have many at home, and still doesn't have many here. But Casey, April and others always seemed appreciative.]

Check with them and see if you can be there. Don't be afraid to speak up. If you don't, people will think you're not interested.

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[Voice | Filtered 100%] semper_cogitans June 11 2011, 05:50:10 UTC
I, I... I s-suppose. B-But, I do not wish to be a bother...

[Robert is clingy and pathetic with the friends he does have. It's inevitable that he'd get all self-critiquing over it, though.]

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