Holograms 5 & 6

[realitymods]

[The hologram snaps on when Mu asks what Oliver was wondering about Saga and stops on Mu's slip-up over his own telepathy.]

[Almost half a day later, on comes the Doctor and Braxiatel about sins of the past and hopes for the futures.]

Comments

[onehundredbeers]

[I couldn't resist. I was sitting here, thinking if I should do it, and then went you know what I'm going to rain on Oliver's angry parade.

As you may or may not know, Nathan has been making it a game to ...run over the holograms with his flying horse. He missed one set because he was off the plane eating dinner or something but this time, oh, this time he won't miss.

On his black horse (mid-air, this thing flies, man!), still in his armor, and still with his eyes pure glowing red, he charges at the holograms. By god he will stomp them oh my god that's not entirely a hologram.]

Holy shit!

[Nathan pulls up on the reins to keep his horse from, you know, trying to stomp on Oliver. He loops back so he can blab.]

Oh dear sweet lord. I almost caved your fucking head in.

[oliverplus]

[Oliver was too busy watching the hologram to notice Nathan's approach, particularly as horses in mid-air are not as noisy as normal horses. when Nathan shouts, Oliver just barely has time to turn around, eyes wide, and see himself miss being trampled by a hair. he is gaping when Nathan comes back around. between seeing those red eyes and the near-death experience, he can only work his mouth for the moment without any actual words coming out]

[onehundredbeers]

[Nathan slides out of the saddle. Horse is still way mid-air so he lands with a massive metallic crash. He's keeping those glowing eyes forever just because they look cool.]

Jesus christ. You okay?

[He steps over to Oliver to make sure he's alright. Fuck he's just looking like some sort of fish. DID HE HIT HIM there's no blood...]

[oliverplus]

[Oliver jumps a little at the crash, staring at Nathan. after a moment, he manages to stammer] I'm--I'm okay. But what...what happened to your... Nathan?

[onehundredbeers]

Huh?

[Okay good he's okay. But now he just stares cluelessly.]

[oliverplus]

[Oliver stares back at those glowing eyes] Your--your eyes!

[onehundredbeers]

Oh! Yeah. I did that on purpose. [He grins widely.] Irving gets these random moments where he's so fucking drunk he thinks mine are glowing, and I went, hey, what the fuck, I'll make it happen. It looks fucking badass.

[He says all this as if it's perfectly normal.]

[oliverplus]

[confused] He...what?

Uh...okay... [he's still really not sure what to say to all this] ...having fun?

[onehundredbeers]

Totally! New suit of armor, fucking flying horse, whatever the fuck else I want. Pretty fucking awesome.

[oliverplus]

Well...that's good. [he doesn't sound entirely convinced] But you might want to fly a bit higher up.

[onehundredbeers]

I, uh. Was trying to stomp on the hologram's heads. It's fun.

[oliverplus]

...oh. [really, Nathan?] [jokingly:] Then just make sure you actually charge a hologram next time, all right?

[Nathan might notice that, in response to Oliver's worry, his horse is now flying about a foot higher up than he was a second ago]

[onehundredbeers]

[He laughs a bit.]

Hey, I fucking noticed in time, alright? I pulled him up! You've still got a head.

[oliverplus]

[snorts] Yeah, noticed that, thanks!

[Oliver is smiling, but the horse is still up there]

[onehundredbeers]

[Nathan loves his horse and will let it fly all it wants.]

I was totally aiming to put my 'stomp on Oliver's hologram's head count' up to two, but fuck, guess it's staying at one.

[oliverplus]

[blinks] So...you're just stomping on the holograms? You're not watching them? [he may sound a bit hopeful]