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Dani Reese (Life) ([info]iampowerless) wrote in [info]colligo_threads,
@ 2010-12-29 21:38:00

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Entry tags:charlie crews, dani reese

Who: Crews and Reese
What: Being stuck, taking care of wounds
Where: The library, or somewhere near the library
When: when the first show up
Warnings: Language I'd imagine.



This whole thing was a mess. They were somewhere new. From an orange grove, having gotten rid of Roman, to this place. A library where they'd been almost tossed out. Except for the fact that there was all of those things outside. She didn't know what they were, but they were all over, they were killing people and no amount of shooting seemed to help. So they were there, trying to hide, or figure out what to do. Of course Reese was more focused on those things outside than her own well-being. Roman had roughed her up. Not just roughed her up, and she was more worse for wear than she had let on.

But she was tough, and had ignored the fact that she was in a lot of pain. There was a limp, not that she'd been walking a bunch. She was almost glad that she didn't have to deal with Tidwell right now. Plus there was something odd going on between her and Crews. Not just that he'd killed Roman. It was more than that.

Finally wandering away from the door where she had been checking out what was outside, she hadn't noticed how much she was bleeding. There had to be something to get cleaned up with around here anyway, right? "Okay, let's get this over with," she told him when she saw him. Right. This was going to be ... weird.


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[info]crewsthrulife
2010-12-30 02:53 am UTC (link)
While she'd been assessing things outside the window, he'd been looking for supplies. He'd found a towel, neatly folded and presumably clean. He didn't want to risk infection by using a dirty towel, but he still wanted to soak it in hot water before he used it on her. With the towel over his shoulder, he put a hand out to her. He wasn't accustomed to offering comfort, but Reese had a way of nudging him past his comfort zones.

"Bathroom's probably the ideal place to set up." Having access to clean water appealed to him. He had no idea how badly Dani had been hurt, either physically or mentally. He had to keep his focus on the physical, for now. He needed to get her cleaned up, first. He'd try to prompt her to deal with the rest of it after.

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[info]iampowerless
2010-12-30 02:58 am UTC (link)
Over and over, under her breath she kept going on about how crazy this place was, and that she'd been kidnapped. She'd been about to smack that Harry guy for his smart remarks, or she would have if he was around and not talking to her on her PDA. She still wasn't sure she wanted to do this, but she supposed they had no choice. They couldn't go anywhere, and she was uncomfortable. She wasn't used to him offering comfort anymore than she was familiar with accepting it. Still, she took his hand, trying not to make a face.

"Yeah, guess you're right." She didn't know where anything else was in this stupid place. She shut up though and headed with him to the bathroom. She would have said she could do this on her own, but a lot of it was on her back. Of course that meant taking off her shirt. "You sure about this?"

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[info]crewsthrulife
2010-12-30 03:21 am UTC (link)
Charlie nodded. "Yeah, Reese." He could see now where the blood was starting to show through her shirt. That probably wasn't a good sign. But if anyone knew how to tend to open wounds like that, it'd be Charlie. He had a lot of practical experience.

"Come on." He wiggled his hand in a 'come hither' motion referring to her taking her shirt off. At the same time, he turned on the tap with his other hand, and dropped the towel into the sink. He'd run the water until it steamed.

"Wounds like that get infected real quick." He knew that fact all too well. He had scars, dating back to his years in prison. When the ones employed to monitor were the ones inflicting the wounds, medical attention wasn't readily available.

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[info]iampowerless
2010-12-30 03:29 am UTC (link)
With a small sigh, Reese slid her shirt up and off as slow as she could because it hurt. There were cuts, and bruises and scratches on her back, and her torso and everywhere else. A bit like she'd been whipped but perhaps with something metal. She didn't really want to look at them. As a reminder.

Her lip was split open too of course and her face was covered in bruises but those were okay. She could take care of those later. Finally with her shirt off, she nodded and let him get on with it. She didn't doubt that he knew what he was talking about.

It was just him actually fixing her up that she felt odd about. But oddly comfortable too, and she didn't know where that had come from.

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[info]crewsthrulife
2010-12-30 04:04 am UTC (link)
Charlie didn't want to think about the origin of the marks he saw on Reese. He needed a moment, just a few seconds, to clench his fists and teeth. he forced himself to breathe through it. He'd killed Roman, and effectively set Roman's men free. If any of them were responsible for the beating, they'd done so at Roman's orders, and Charlie couldn't hold them to it. He'd seen how scared they were, how uncertain when Roman was dead and unable to bark orders at them.

"It's going to sting." Not as badly as if he'd had alcohol to cleanse the wounds properly, but he wasn't going to pretend he wasn't going to cause her pain. It would be temporary, and minimal, and he'd work as quickly as he could. "Scream if you need to. Just try not to hit me." He said the last with a little smile, hoping to break the tension between them.

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[info]iampowerless
2010-12-30 04:29 am UTC (link)
Reese didn't really want to think about where she got all of these marks either. Though Roman only had her for a few days, the truth was that he took her to get to Crews. And these were because of him in a way. Not just because of him, but because of her father, and her own attitude towards Roman. Not that she blamed Charlie, not at all. Whatever they did to her, she didn't want to think about.

Plus she was in her bra. Around her partner. Yeah, that was very odd. She gave a sharp gasp as he started to cleanse the wound. "Jesus fucking christ." she muttered, shutting her eyes. Right, she wasn't going to hit him, but she might have started to cry. The wounds were everywhere. Quickly she wiped the tears away though before hopefully, he had a chance to see.

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[info]crewsthrulife
2010-12-30 05:47 am UTC (link)
He would have had her take the bra off, if he thought she'd go for it. He wasn't interested in seeing her naked, at least not at the moment. He was completely focused on cleaning up her wounds. But he knew she'd argue, and then she might not let him clean her up at all, so he didn't push.

When she yelled out, he dropped his hand, to grasp hers. He could work with one hand, let her hold on to the other. He knew how comforting the touch could be.

"It's not so bad," he murmured. It was bad, she'd taken a lot of ill placed hits. But once he started getting the blood cleaned up, it wasn't as bad as it had seemed at first.

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[info]iampowerless
2010-12-30 06:06 am UTC (link)
Yeah, that would have been a bit much. She would have looked at him like he had two heads if he had wanted her to take off her bra. Though honestly, she would never ever think he'd want to see her naked. So there was that.

She wasn't expecting his hand to grasp hers. Reese glanced back over at him, and then squeezed onto his hand. It was admitting weakness, but honestly, weren't they past all that now? "Guess not, it just stings." That coupled with it actually happening, well, it was bad enough.

Her hand stayed clasped in his, her fingers brushing against his, rubbing them a bit. Maybe that was a way she used to get comfort from someone else.

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[info]crewsthrulife
2010-12-31 01:55 am UTC (link)
"I'll be as quick as I can." He wished he had something to bandage the cuts. Cleaning them would have to do, for now. He had been lucky to find the towel, he didn't expect to find anything else useful.

"I had a conversation with a woman on the message board." He told her about talking to Claire, about the Toclaphane Invasion. He was't concerned so much with what he was saying, but hoped the fact he was talking would distract Reese from what he was doing.

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[info]iampowerless
2010-12-31 04:14 am UTC (link)
Dani wished that he had something to clean the cuts too. And a large drink, or just something to dull all the pain. And the confusion. If ever there was a time to fall off the wagon, now would be it. But she just sat there and let him do what he needed to do.

She listened to what these things supposedly were, and the fact that they were supposedly stuck there. "I wonder what it wants with us, of all people. I'm nothing special, except that I keep getting kidnapped." She made a face, but it was helping to distract. "Which apartment did you get? Did they say on the PDA?"

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[info]crewsthrulife
2010-12-31 08:30 pm UTC (link)
Charlie could argue that she was, in fact, someone special, but he knew she didn't want to hear it, and he wasn't entirely sure he could put it into words, so he said nothing about it. He let the comment slide, but he filed it away. Reese had low self esteem, he knew that.

"I didn't look. Should I look?" His hands were busy, at the moment. He didn't want to stop what he was doing to check on a room number. Whatever it was, it would wait.

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[info]iampowerless
2010-12-31 09:50 pm UTC (link)
Glad that he didn't make a comment about it either way (she was almost scared that he'd agree with her), she didn't say much either. She was just trying to keep herself occupied and not thinking. But him not talking wasn't helping.

"Um, probably. I mean eventually." She didn't want him to stop just so he could look at his stupid PDA. They could figure that out. Of course he hadn't looked, he wasn't like her, impatient. She shrugged a little. "Why do you think we're here?"

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-02 11:38 pm UTC (link)
"No idea, Reese," Charlie replied. "Like you said, we're not anybody special." Except that she was special to him, but that was a whole other issue. Roman was dead, so he didn't do it, and Charlie wasn't going to bring the bastard's name up again.

"Maybe someone's dreaming." He shrugged, but his hands didn't falter in his work. "Though it feels a little too real. And a little too surreal at the same time. You know what it feels like? Like the first time I picked an orange off one of my trees and ate it. That same kind of 'I can't believe this is happening' feeling."

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-03 12:07 am UTC (link)
"So you think we're in a dream? Maybe we're dead and this is purgatory." Reese didn't know either, except that she wanted to guess. Because this whole just random kidnapping thing sounded like magic and she didn't believe in that sort of thing. If Roman hadn't been dead, she would have automatically blamed him. "I don't remember dying though." She imagine it would have hurt.

She hm'd a bit, "Can't say I know that feeling, but it doesn't feel like being on drugs. I feel sober. Really sober." Too sober. So that wasn't it. It wasn't like the two of them had gone on a bender. "I thought if anyone would have lots of random weird ideas, it would be you."

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-03 02:02 am UTC (link)
"Doesn't really feel like a dream either." Charlie shrugged. He turned to the sink, to wash the towel out. The water ran pinkish for a moment. Charlie tried not to think about the blood.

"I have all kinds of theories. but most of them sound like something from the comic books I used to read when I was a kid." He wrung the towel out, and shifted back to her. "Almost done."

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-03 02:42 am UTC (link)
Her whole body ached, all the way down to her toes. And she'd lost a bit of blood. Was there anything to wrap up the wounds in? Probably not, she didn't know. "No, I wish that it was. But this is too painful to be a dream." If it was, she would have woken up by now from the pain that she was in. And sadly she couldn't take anything for it.

"So like supernatural, magical stuff? I didn't think you believed in any of that." But then what else could it be? Reese just didn't know. "Good, because I feel like I might puke." Were they already infected? She didn't know, she just felt awful.

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-04 01:00 am UTC (link)
"We're in a bathroom. You need to puke, puke." Charlie had done all he could do, to clean the wounds anyway. He tossed the towel in the sink and stepped back.

"I think you'll be all right. Better, if we could wrap you up in a bandage, but I was lucky to find this towel." He didn't like the idea of letting the wounds go untreated. At least they were clean.

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-04 02:24 am UTC (link)
Perhaps she might, her stomach was churning. But she didn't want to puke in front of him. He'd seen her at her worse, no need to see her like this too. Slowly she hopped off the sink and sighed.

"Guess we can't do anything until we get to our new place. Which.. we should probably do. We can't stay in here forever. Those suits of armor.. are going to come back and kick us out." That was for sure. Those things were mean. For being inanimate objects.

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-08 04:56 pm UTC (link)
"For now, we're staying right here." Not necessarily in the bathroom, but Charlie wasn't going to rush out in to the streets. After all he'd been through, he had a serious appreciation for life, and he wasn't looking to get himself killed just for walking outside.

He moved toward the door of the bathroom. "I'll just...I'll give you some privacy." There was no way out, other than the one door. He wasn't worried she'd try to slip out from under him. Why would she want to evade him, anyway? He frowned at himself for even thinking it.

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-09 01:18 am UTC (link)
Dani didn't really want to go out there and face those things either. Not after everything she'd just been through. A lot of her just seriously wanted to hide under the bed or something. Not that there was a bed in here. She just nodded her head a bit. "Yeah, okay."

Once he had left the bathroom, she sat back down on the side of the sink and let out a breath. It took her a couple of moments to calm down. Finally though she managed to slip her shirt back on and make herself look halfway presentable. Finally she slipped out of the bathroom and looked around. "This place is beyond weird. Do we even know where we're supposed to go from here?" It wasn't like there was a map,, was there?

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-09 04:36 pm UTC (link)
Charlie shook his head. He looked over his shoulder and put a hand out to her, to give her something to hold on to. SHe looked so...not weak. Dani Reese never looked weak, but she was pale, and she wasn't walking ver fast, and it broke something in Charlie to see how Roman had beat her down, how the bastard could get to her even now, in this stange place.

"No clue. But we're not going anywhere right now." He wanted to hold her, just hold her in his arms until the world stopped pressing down on them. He'd been with women since he'd gotten out of prison, but he knew they were only attracted to his money, and he'd only been using them to get back in the swing of things. 12 years was a long time to be sitting on the side lines.

And it hadn't taken long to realise Dani was the one. She was just too stubborn to see it herself.

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-09 09:36 pm UTC (link)
Reaching out, she took a hold of his hand and let herself hold onto it as she wandered over. It wasn't the physical stuff that got to her, even if she looked like crap. Mostly it had to do with the fact that he'd killed her father, and the things he'd said to her. Then he'd nearly killed Crews. The whole thing was just a little much, not to mention they were stuck in this place. Kidnapped. Again.

"Well this.. sucks. What are we going to do when we need food?" She had to ask the question. It was just that she felt claustrophobic. Because she'd been locked to a chair for days, and now she was stuck here. But she was glad that Charlie was there. She didn't know if she could handle all of this without him there beside her.

"I'm glad you're okay, for the record. If I didn't say it before. I thought he was going to kill you." And she really didn't want that to happen. Not for her. Or for anyone really.

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-10 06:30 pm UTC (link)
"I thought he was going to kill me too. And when I killed him, I thought his men were going to kill me." But he trained them, so they wouldn't do anything unless he said to do it." He'd taken a huge risk, killing Roman like he did, right there in the car before they'd even gotten out of the grove. And if he had it to do over again, he'd do it, every time.

"We won't be here long." Charlie gave her hand a firm squeeze. "I'll get us out of here." He would take care of Reese, whatever he had to do. He would die, before he'd let anything happen to her now.

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-10 09:25 pm UTC (link)
It was a huge risk, not that she had to tell him that. The fact that Roman's guys didn't kill him was just as amazing as the fact that Roman hadn't gotten to him first. But there was the fact. Charlie had killed someone. Not that Dani had never. And Roman had deserved it. "Are you okay though? I mean about .. everything." She felt like she should at least ask.

Reese definitely hoped that they would be able to get out of here, but she just didn't know. She squeezed his hand in return, never really letting go. Or maybe she didn't realize she was still holding onto it. "How long should we sit here and hope it all goes away?" Or worse, what if they got in?

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-11 05:27 pm UTC (link)
"I don't know." Charlie put his back to a wall and sighed. "I can maybe ask someone on the message board." He hated having to ask for help, not being able to take care of Reese himself. But she needed medical attention. She needed more than water on those wounds.

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-11 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Reese didn't like it anymore than he did. "Maybe that's best. Or at least ask if there's somewhere safe? Somehow to get around them? Anything really. We need to know. I can ask, if you'd rather." She wasn't thinking about medical attention, she just wanted to get the fuck out of here. This place was giving her the creeps.

"Give me your phone, I want to see something."

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-12 03:44 pm UTC (link)
"Why do you want my phone?" Even as he asked the question, Charlie held out the device. He didn't think she'd throw it down and destroy it, but he had no idea why she wanted it. Sometimes, he just couldn't figure out her motivations.

"There's got to be something we can do. But I don't want to get you killed when I just got you back." His voice dropped low, as if he were revealing a secret.

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-12 09:04 pm UTC (link)
Dani reached over, making a face and grabbed the phone. "I just want to see it." No she didn't want to destroy it. She just wanted to look. To see if it was now like hers. Whether it said anything at all. Maybe someone had left him a message and not her. It was possible. Doubtful, but possible.

As she looked through the phone, she finally glanced over at him. "You're not going to lose me, Crews. I swear I'm not going to do anything foolish. I don't want to get you killed either. Those things are going to get in here though and we need a plan. Like when we were in the earthquake, we need a plan."

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-13 12:41 am UTC (link)
"The plan is," Charlie started, then fell short. He didn't have a plan. He liked jumping head first into a situation without a plan. More spontaneous, that way. But this situation required a plan, if he as going to keep Dani safe.

"The plan is...to make a plan." He nodded triumphantly. "That is indeed the plan." He laughed a little, more nervous than amused. He had no idea where to even start.

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-13 01:08 am UTC (link)
Okay maybe she shouldn't have told him to come up with a plan. He wasn't the best at plans. So she was going to have to do it. Finally she was able to tell where the hell they were, compared to everyone else. She flicked through the messages and turned to him. "Okay, so. Everyone is getting to the clinic. Which isn't too far. And I think that might be our best bet."

Because she was hurt, and they had to get out of here. Except how to get from here to there. "Should I just see if someone out there can help? Maybe they have something to kill those things. Or a way for us to get over there." She paused for a moment, looking over something else and then handed back her phone. "Also? We're living together. I'm gonna ask for help. Just sit tight."

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-13 01:24 am UTC (link)
He didn't know what 'we're living together' had to do with anything, but he just nodded and let Dani take charge. She was good at that, where he failed. If they were working a case and he didn't know what to do, he'd walk away, go stand in the sun or at least somewhere quiet so he could think. Thinking to him meant thinking of nothing, but it was all the same in the end. He usually figured something out in those quiet moments.

"This is me, sitting tight," he said with a slightly boyish smile. He could be deceptively simple sometimes.

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-13 01:43 am UTC (link)
She had figured that she might as well look and see which place he was supposed to be staying. It just so happened that his number matched her number. She wandered around, typing into the phone and looking to see whether this place had a back door or something. What were the place's weak points, things like that. Those things kept whizzing by. So she barred windows and doors where she found them.

Finally she came back, and sat down beside him again. "Hopefully someone is on their way. I blocked up what I could, but I don't know how long that's going to hold. We just have to hope someone comes and leads us to safety."

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-14 04:03 pm UTC (link)
"I'm sure they will," Charlie nodded. He didn't come this far, to this place wherever or whatever it was, just to die. No. He and Reese were together. They had a room assignment they hadn't even seen. They both got away from Roman. He wouldn't accept death now. "We just have to be patient."

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[info]iampowerless
2011-01-14 09:58 pm UTC (link)
[ooc: wanna end this there? seems like a good place to :D]

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[info]crewsthrulife
2011-01-14 09:59 pm UTC (link)
[OOC: Works for me! ♥]

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