beingdifferent: (i never said that)
Esther Coleman ([personal profile] beingdifferent) wrote2013-07-25 10:14 am

First little lie ♰ Keep me breathing as the water rises up again

[The first image the camera captures is a pair of large brown eyes, blinking sleepily before widening. They dart back and forth as their owner pulls the communicator back, showing a small pale face framed by dark curls, mouth curled into a frown. Zoom back a little more and the starry expanse from the deck is visible in the background.

The girl in the foreground bites at her bottom lip, licks it, looks around again before frowning at the communicator. She pulls it up closer, staring at the screen, and speaks one word with a distinct note of fear in her voice.
]

...Mommy?
lastrat: (and days are dark)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-07-25 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh Christ no. ABORT BOND. ABORT.]

I'm James. And what's your mother's name?
lastrat: (keeping me from harm)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-07-25 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope he's going back to cold and cruel assassin asap.]

I'm afraid not. The only way for you to leave is to graduate. [Ugh he doesn't know how to talk to kids, wtf is he supposed to even.]

Are you hurt?
lastrat: (another bill from a killer)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-07-25 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well he's being gentler than he would with an adult. Which already feels fucking strange to him. It's just something one's voice does, apparently, when met with children.

But small words are really not an option, he can only go so far.]


What happened?
lastrat: (where worlds collide)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-07-25 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well that's a topic he doesn't reeeaaally want to get into. Awkward.]

There's an infirmary. A-- [the fuck do they even call it as kids--] Nurse's office. [Right? Right?????] If it starts to hurt.
lastrat: (a thousand miles and poles apart)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-07-25 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It's on level two. There are stairs on either end of the hall. Lifts, too.
lastrat: (I'll take care of you)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-07-25 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right.

If someone bothers you, say something on the network. [He'd like to think that there aren't any child beaters around, but given Cassel's recent attack, he doesn't fucking trust anyone. B(] Someone will come to help.
lastrat: (I'll die another day)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-07-25 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
This network. [He needs to never be James Dad again.] You're welcome, Esther. When you're assigned, your warden will have more answers.

[like wtf a child from a seemingly modern society is doing here.
lastrat: (everything's the same)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-07-25 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It could take months. The Admiral will make an announcement. [He usually avoids all this introductory shit but hnnnng when all you've got is like. Chris and fucking Sabertooth and another baby SOMEBODY HAS TO DO IT.]

Until then, you're stuck here with the rest of us.
lastrat: (I'm gonna avoid the cliche)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-07-26 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid it's something of a waiting game.
lastrat: (hear my heart burst again)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-08-03 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes months. [Hnnn he is telling a little girl - who is probably guilty of something awful, he reminds himself - to just. sit tight in a prison. He doesn't like it.]

Have you seen the rest of the ship yet?
lastrat: (hundred thousand changes)

[personal profile] lastrat 2013-08-04 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He frowns a little, scratches his jaw. He down's know how to deal with kids, he barely knows how to deal with teens.] I'm afraid you can't, Esther. That's part of how the Barge works.

[But he nods at that, because Chris may be absurd and ridiculous, but Bond thinks he's all right. Not exactly someone he'd have protecting - well, anyone, but it's good enough.]

Chris will show you everything. I'm in cabin 609, if you need me.