.041 - video

[captain_jtkirk]

[Filtered to all of his friends. If you think you're on it, you are. Kirk has low standards of friendship. Also, assume that you can't read each other's response. /fancy filter magic, yess]

I'm going back to Enterprise. Tonight... sometime.

I--they need me. And.. I don't know how long it's going to be. A while. Maybe a long while.

I'm coming back. I promise.

[And that's enough of an awkward video for now. The feed dies and the rest is probably written.]

Comments

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

[FIVE MINUTES OF SILENCE, THEN:]

Have fun.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

If you really don't want me to go, I won't, Shego.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Why would I tell you to have fun if I didn't want you to leave?

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

Because the main language you speak is sarcasm.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

...

Kirk, if you're at the point of making a general announcement, you've already done all the serious 'go vs. stay' thinking. I'd much rather you just do it than spend the next however many months obsessing over whether you should have gone.

[Private]

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Again, cherub?

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

[Bah he still feels guilty though :c] I really am coming back.

[Private]

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I'm in high demand, I guess.

[Private]

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

And they cannot wait for you to graduate a second Inmate?

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

You're planning on really coming back. Anything else is pretty much up to the Admiral.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

The old bat can go screw himself. I'm coming back whether he likes it or not.

[Private]

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I am still the Captain.

[Private]

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

And time is a rather silly thing here.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess that's settled then. Kick Montgomery in the shin for me.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

It's rather silly everywhere, if you ask me. What with time travelers and all.

[Private]

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

My point, dumpling: do they need you, or do you need them?

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

You bet. Want me to punch Bones too?

[Private]

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I haven't decided. Both, probably.

[Private]

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you're being honest.

Perhaps I shall be walking properly again by the time you return.

[Private]

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

Want me to bring you back a space cane?

[truth_is_cold]

[He is a cynic and pretty much of the opinion that everybody leaving is going forever, or won't remember him when they come back, or will return at the worst time possible.

Thankfully he's some other captain's robot CO. So he'll just say this.] Good luck.

[Private]

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

By then I shall hopefully no longer require a cane of any kind.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

I was betting on you punching him anyway. Don't do it just on my account.

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

[But he feels like you're his robot sometimes :c] Thanks. I hope I won't need it.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I was going to put my big boy pants on and not hit any of my senior staff, if I could help it. Unless there's requests.