.057 - lol actual back :c

[captain_jtkirk]

[Kirk could honestly say that he'd never returned in the middle of a breach or flood or whatever before. So that was weird. And it was even weirder to not realize he was back until after it all ended, and he was in his quarters, feeling like someone had punched his heart out and then hit him in the head with a hammer at the same time. He knew it wasn't Enterprise. He couldn't hear the hum of her engines and that always gave it away.

He was back on the Barge. And he couldn't say that he fully remembered why.

Jim forced himself to his feet, fighting against the wave of nausea and dizziness that came with it and left his room, wandering for a bit before he found himself in front of Dick's door. Not Bones because he'd worry and yell and it'd be weird with Shego and well. Here he was.

He reached up and knocked lightly, not even sure if Dick was there.]



[Video--several hours post flood and chat with Dick]

I'm back.

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[batmanschmatman]

Fortunately, Dick was home and wasn't asleep or anything - surprise surprise - and after the breach had ended, had just decided to flop down on his couch and try reading for a while. So, at the knock on the door, he tossed aside the book he'd been thumbing through and got up to answer the door, wondering if it was Tim or someone wanting to talk about the breach. It had been a fairly lowkey one, all things considered - although he probably needed to double check his inmate wasn't running around with his security blanket for real now, because he wasn't quite sure how he could get him away from the mask now if he wanted to - but that could wait for right now.

He opened the door and just stared for a moment, because this really wasn't who he'd been expecting to see. And he was pretty sure it wasn't a flood, and while he might have been caught off guard and thus kind of on pause at the moment, he knew for a fact Jim wouldn't be back unless something bad had happened.

So while it was good to see him, it definitely wasn't good under these circumstances.

"Hey."

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

"Hey." Jim gave him a small smile and a shrug. "Can I come in?"

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[batmanschmatman]

"Yeah, of course," he said, stepping out of the way and slowly starting to feel the surprise burn off to be replaced by a lot more holy shit you had better not have died.

"Are you okay?"

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

He might've died a little bit. Jim didn't say anything until he was in the room and sitting down. Oh yeah, sitting down was nice. "Yeah, I'm just... you know."

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[batmanschmatman]

Dick sat down next to him, kind of dreading asking the question because he was really tired of people he cared about dying or having something awful happen to them when he apparently couldn't have done anything about it, but pretty much knowing he had to. "What happened?"

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[truth_is_cold]

Welcome back.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

...

Thank you.

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[truth_is_cold]

You seem uncertain.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I just-- wasn't expecting to be back so soon.

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[truth_is_cold]

You're not an inmate, are you? [Please still have a bathroom. Don't be an inmate, Kirk.]

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[with_discipline]

I see you've made up your mind. [Why are you back what happened. :|]

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess that I did.

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

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[Well, by the time she gets from the CES (how had she wound up in the CES) down to Kirk's cabin he's gone, but that's fine, she's not going to go hunting him down. Instead she just lets herself in and drafts a calculatedly neutral network post while waiting angrily on his couch. :|]

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

[Spam]

Well just that's going to scare the shit out of him when he gets back and if he jumps a little when he sees her on his couch, then so be it.

"... miss me?"

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

No banter. She just glares at him.

"Why are you back?"

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

"I said that I might come back didn't I?"

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

"Irrelevantly, yes, you did. Why. Are. You. Back?"

[imaythrowuponyou]

So McCoy kind of had a feeling Jim was back after that whole weird breach thing, so after the initial shock of being back had worn off, and he really sat down and thought about what had happened, he'd immediately left his room to try and find Kirk.

But honestly? He really didn't want to find him. There was only one reason why Jim would be back, and while he did really miss him, he didn't want him to be here. He shouldn't have to deal with something McCoy hadn't even really had a chance to fix yet, and no one should be stuck here against their will, without needing to be redeemed just because the Admiral had a bad sense of humor.

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

Jim was back. And maybe avoiding him and his room a little bit. So the best way to do that... was to wander around the hallways, Aristotle trailing behind. Fucking Barge. And fucking Bones being right about him dying.

[imaythrowuponyou]

Which meant it was really only a matter of time before they crossed paths, because the Barge wasn't really that big.

Still. When McCoy finally caught up to him, he stopped, staring, because if he'd learned one thing about the Barge, it was that it loved dicking people over. If this was just some stupid flood where for some reason, Dick had swapped places with Jim for a few days, he was going to throttle the Admiral.

"Jim?"

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

Jim stopped walking immediately, staring at the ground and Aristotle for a moment before looking up at Bones. A second later, all he had to offer was a shrug, as though to say, I'm back, don't rub it in and don't ask me why.

[batmanschmatman]

[Continued from the original comment thread.]

Dick let out a noise that was somewhere between a snort of laughter and a pained grunt, because he hated this. Sitting around and not being able to do anything to help was just fucking awful. "That doesn't mean I have to like it."

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

It was awful. Try being stuck here. It's amazingly awful. "Well, I'm not a huge fan either."

[batmanschmatman]

"Do you want me to get McCoy?"

Which was really him asking are you death tolling without actually saying it.

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

What part of, we aren't talking about anything bad don't you get sir.

"No, I'll find him."