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Tyler Simms (baby_boy) wrote in indarkness_logs,
@ 2010-08-22 00:59:00

Entry tags:

!complete, 2032 08, lizzy miles, tyler simms

RP: Not ready for this
Characters: Tyler, Lizzy
Time/Date: Night, August 21
Location: the pool
Warnings/Rating: None?
Summary: Tyler contemplates and tries to deal
Status: complete

Tyler knew he should have gone down to help with the clean-up. He knew he should have done more. Stepped up somehow. He was just ... very deeply in shock just then. He hadn't witnessed a death, no, but he'd moved a body. He'd moved Susan. Susan's body. She'd been naked, and bloody, and torn up, and she hardly looked like Susan, but she was - had been - Susan.

He'd put her in one of the rooms so she didn't get any more messed up (though he supposed the reavers weren't interested in someone already dead), and he'd gone on to try to help people fight.

All he could think about though, was Susan. Dead Susan, who'd watched movies with him, who he'd taught how to play video games. Susan who was so serious but occasionally sprang a surprise joke on them. Susan ... who was dead now. She'd never exactly been part of their 'command trio' or whatever it was, but they'd hung out a lot.

And now she was gone.

It was so crazy to think about. That people could be brought here and killed. He wondered if their captors were going to unleash anything else like the reavers any time soon. If people would be sent home before that. If anyone could be guaranteed any sort of safety. He really didn't think there were any guarantees here.

Perched on the diving board, shoes dangling above the water, Tyler stared up toward the night sky - or whatever passed for it. It wasn't real; they'd figured out that much earlier, when Lily had been convinced she was going to be a werewolf. The moon didn't have a pattern here, and Tyler wondered if that was part of the experiment or if they just did that for fun.

Then he wondered if there was a difference.

Leaning back, he laid down on the diving board and knew he should go inside, go to bed, but right now ... he just wanted to forget. To feel what passed for a night breeze, tot watch what passed for stars, and to pretend he was home.

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prittyprincess
2010-08-24 06:48 am UTC (link)

Anyone who said that she had been looking for Tyler was telling lies.

She was just concerned, that was all, that no one had had any bright ideas on where to find him. There was nothing more to it than that. Concerned that he had gotten into a bad spot with the reavers, and none of his friends seemed to care as much as she did why he hadn't come back yet, to join the rest of them in the cleaning up festivities.

She wasn't the slightest bit interested in cleaning up, herself, so she'd gone exploring. She'd left Ches with Ari because the girl had looked like she could use the company, and Lizzy didn't think she'd want to come out and look for Tyler, even though the reavers were supposed to be gone. But she was about to go back and see if she could find them because really, this was getting ridiculous. She'd checked everywhere in the hotel and she still couldn't find him.

Well. Everywhere but the roof. But the roof had... the pool. And she was... a little bit frightened of the pool, ever since the spider incident.

But if Tyler was up there, and injured... or even if he was up there and not injured... she had to know.

So she slipped into the elevator, and hit the right button, and waited, shivering slightly as the elevator took her up the floors before coming to a stop at the top, where she peeked out. She didn't spot him at first, and that was going to be enough for her, before she caught a glimpse of movement on the diving board. She swallowed thickly, but she recognized his silhouette, and she slipped off the elevator and moved towards the pool. At least he didn't look torn up or anything.

"Hey," she said, when she got close enough (but still a reasonable distance from the pool). "The reavers are gone," she said. In case he didn't know.

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baby_boy
2010-08-24 09:08 am UTC (link)

Tyler had heard someone come out onto the roof, and he'd heard little footsteps leading closer to him, but he didn't sit up. When he heard the voice, and the words, he did manage a slight smile before he turned his head to gaze toward her.

"I heard," he said before he sat up slowly, peering down at the water in the pool before he looked over to her. "How're you doing?" he called softly over to her before he pulled his feet up onto the board and pushed up to stand. He walked along the board until he could jump down onto the deck surrounding the pool. Moving around closer to her, he pulled out a chair, dropping himself down into it before he gestured for her to do the same.

He wasn't ready to go in, and he figured Lizzy would chat up here a bit - why else would she have initiated the conversation if she didn't want to talk to him?