nightcrawler (bamfed) wrote in beyond_evo, @ 2020-07-09 09:33:00 |
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Entry tags: | !plot: mojoworld, nightcrawler, silver |
Plot Thread: Nightcrawler and Silver
There were few things more agonizing than being forced to wait while people you cared about were in danger. Kurt was patient but he’d never been very good with stillness. He was always moving, always in action, accustomed to being on the frontline. In the pits however, he and his fellow captives had no choice but to wait on edge as each of them systematically had their turn in the arena, never knowing who was up next or who would be coming back. All Kurt could do in the meantime was pray they’d be able to hold out until an opportunity for escape presented itself.
They’d been lucky for the first couple of days it seemed but last night that luck had finally run out and Aaron had been killed. A student. Forced to sacrifice his life for the entertainment of others. The already heavy mood that had settled over the group of them had taken on an edge of hopelessness in the wake of such a loss. It was immoral and senseless and Kurt hated more than anything that there'd been no way for any of them to stop it. It was getting more and more difficult for him to justify the good they were able to do at the school when too often this was the cost. Every day they spent trapped here meant that more lives would be on the line.
When he’d first learned of the nature of this situation they’d been thrust into, Kurt had already inwardly made amends with the fact that he would sacrifice his own life before he took any of his teammates’. He was as prepared as one could be for such a thing, but that of course would be the last resort. Alani and Jubilee had both come back alive (thank God in heaven) and so it was a possibility that he and Jimon could as well.
As they were brought out before the thunderous roar of the bloodthirsty crowd, standing face to face in the center of the arena, Kurt met Jimon’s gaze. "We just have to give them a good show, ja?" he told her as calmly and as confidently as he could. If nothing else, he knew well how to perform to an audience, even when his heart was not in it. He hoped that showmanship would be enough to get them both out of this relatively unscathed.
He had not yet gotten the chance to get to know Jimon terribly well since her arrival to the school (thanks mostly to his jam packed schedule) and in this moment he was regretting that. But he’d seen her abilities in action in training and he trusted her just as he trusted the rest of his teammates. “Whatever happens it will be alright.”