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Kyle [ Kyle XY ] ([info]not_an_alien) wrote in [info]indarkness_logs,
@ 2010-09-04 20:36:00

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Entry tags:!complete, 2032 09, kyle trager, lizzy miles

RP: Rooftops
Characters: Kyle, Lizzy
Time/Date: Late afternoon, September 4
Location: the roof of one of the shacks
Warnings/Rating: none
Summary: Kyle explores outside; it's too tense inside
Status: Complete



It was tense inside. No one was happy, but there was a mix of emotions underneath that, too. Everyone hoped. Hoped to go home, even as they all knew better. Emotions and logic were warring everywhere, and he didn't like how it felt. How people had tense smiles, how their eyes were too bright, how they were edgy. He couldn't read them like River could, but he didn't need to see into their minds to know that their emotions were all over the place.

It was cruel of their captors, to dangle hope like that. Kyle knew he wasn't going home. He strongly suspected that no one was. They wouldn't let their rats go free. It didn't make sense for them to make a mistake like they said they had, to take so long to notice it, and longer still to mend it. If they were concerned about the safety of the supposed mistaken people, why not relocate them to a safer place, and continue the experiments?

No, Kyle didn't believe. He didn't think anyone here really did. No one here was that stupid, but the all wanted to believe they'd go home. Go home to their loved ones. Kyle didn't know the Tragers very well, but he guessed he'd like to go back home to them. But he'd want to take River, and she couldn't leave her brother.

Maybe he would be allowed to go with her when she went home? He wondered if that was possible, and he thought he might address one of their captors in the network at some point, just to find out. If any of them were even going home, which he doubted.

Making his way outside, Kyle looked around. It was weird without the line, though he wondered how many people had crossed where it had been already, and how many stayed inside where it used to be. Rote muscle memory and patterns the body absorbed probably kept a lot of them inside of it. He had little interest in exploration, though he'd follow River if she wanted to explore. In the course of their observation, his eyes lit on the repaired shack that he knew Mal and Kaylee and some of the others had been working on. It didn't look any worse for wear from the attack, and so he started toward it.

Once he reached the building, he looked around before he grinned a little. It was better outside, and it would be better on the roof. Drawing back a few paces, he took a running start toward the shack. He jumped up and gripped the roof, using the momentum to pull himself up onto the top of it. He spread out his weight over the roof before he rolled up onto his back, grinning triumphantly.

There. This was much nicer. He trusted that River would find him eventually, but if someone else came along before that ... that was all right too.


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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-19 05:33 am UTC (link)
"I don't know," he admitted. It wasn't something he spent too much time dwelling on. It was the fact of his life that he didn't remember, that he hadn't known everything he should have at his assumed age. "It isn't normal. I wasn't normal. But no one could tell me why that was," Kyle explained. "So it's just something that is," he said quietly.

"Yes," he agreed. "River and I have read almost every book here," he said. "Sometimes we have contests to see who can read a book faster," he added thoughtfully. "I think she lets me win sometimes," he confessed with a little smile. Really though, he thought he and River were fairly equally matched as far as their intellect went, and they usually tied, or close enough, on most books.

"I'm stronger than some people. I don't know about everyone though."

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[info]prittyprincess
2010-09-19 10:22 am UTC (link)
She could understand that, and nodded her head, pulling her thumb out of her mouth to tell him, "I'm not normal either," before she shifted her body again because she really wasn't able to sit still for long. "I think it's okay not to be normal," she decided. "It makes us special."

She grinned, and flushed a little at that.

Her eyes widened significantly when Kyle continued. "Every book? But there's like, six million of them," she said, and then she giggled a bit as she realized that Kyle would probably tell her more accurately how many books there were in the library, and she half held up a hand to keep him from it. "Okay, a lot less than six million, but that's a lot. How long did it take you? The whole..." she paused, counting briefly on her fingers. "Three months?" was that how long they'd been here? She was losing track of days now.

"Did you and River fight against the reavers?" she asked. "Me and Ches sort of did, but only because we weren't in the safe room and they burst through the door."

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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-19 11:17 am UTC (link)
"Everyone is special," Kyle said gently. "Some are special in more obvious ways though." He didn't think he was special; he was just Kyle. River was special though. She was the obvious sort of special, though not everyone could see the special. They just saw the strange. The different.

"There aren't that many," Kyle amended. "We read much faster than the average person." He also thought they both slept less than average, but he hadn't actually recorded anyone's sleep habits to know this for sure.

"We didn't," he said. "We remained in the safe areas while the fight was going on."

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[info]prittyprincess
2010-09-21 02:50 am UTC (link)
"Well, yeah, but we can be more special than others cause we're not normal," she was deadset on this. She liked being set apart from everyone else. So long as she was different, she had an excuse for why people disliked her, and a reason to make them like her. Make them spend time with her.

It was wrong, but it was comforting to her that she had that safety net. That when things got really bad, at least she would be able to get herself out of the situation. She couldn't fight, but she could get someone else to fight for her.

It was then that the true meaning of 'you are without your powers for the week' started to really sink in, and she swallowed thickly, feeling a shiver running through her, and blinking back nervous tears. She needed to think about something else now.

"Will you fight in the next one?" she asked. "If there is a next one. I mean, everyone thinks there's going to be a next one, and if there is, will you fight in it?"

It made sense, didn't it? If he was stronger than other people were.

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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-21 04:04 am UTC (link)
Kyle wasn't exactly sure how to refute her logic, because he wasn't exactly sure there was logic to that. Everyone was different, and everyone was special in their own way. But he supposed normal was relative, so he thought it best not to try to argue with her.

"I don't know," he said quietly. "If I am capable and if my skills would be useful, I would like to help out, but if I would be a hindrance and not an asset, then I would not want to get in anyone's way. I don't want to be responsible for a tragedy if I can avoid it."

He was also aware that he might not be useful because he lacked experience. He was strong, but without knowledge of how to apply it, he was simply another body.

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[info]prittyprincess
2010-09-21 05:35 am UTC (link)
She was pleased he didn't argue with her, and settled a bit. Not completely, she still wasn't much with the keeping still.

She thought about what he said, and from context she could figure out what he meant by 'hinderance' and 'asset', though she wasn't certain that she had heard those words before. She applied it to herself, and wasn't sure what she could come up with. Her abilities were strong enough to make reavers go away - could she be useful against other bad guys?

"How can you tell if you are a hinder... hinderstance?" she asked, frowning when she was pretty sure that she didn't get the word right.

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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-21 05:56 am UTC (link)
"Hindrance," he repeated. "If people are using skills you don't know how to use, and if they are trying to keep you safe and you are making that complicated or making that their focus and possibly leaving them more open to attacks, that's a hindrance."

He shifted a little as well, bracing his hands behind his hips and leaning back on them slightly. "But if you're being asked to help, or have told them what you can do to be helpful, and they say all right, then you are an asset. But you have to listen to whoever is leading." He didn't imagine the same people would be leading each time, especially if the threats were varied. He thought people would have to play to everyone's strengths, and he wondered if he could learn new skills.

Maybe he would talk to River and see if she wanted to learn things alongside him. Even if she would learn it better, and faster.

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[info]prittyprincess
2010-09-21 11:09 am UTC (link)
She thought about that. That made sense to her. "How can you tell if you're making something complicated?" she asked. It was a genuine question. She knew that sometimes people found her annoying and a nuisance. A 'hinderance' maybe even. But she didn't know how to tell.

She listened as he went on, and nodded her head. So she should tell people what... she should ask this outloud. "So you tell people what you can do, and then they decide if that'll be helpful or not, and then they ask you to help maybe, and then you listen to them and then you're not a hin-der-ance?" she asked, and then she frowned a bit. "What makes... those people the ones who know? Why do they get to decide whether I'll be helpful or not?"

And that was the childish rebellion instinct kicking in.

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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-21 02:24 pm UTC (link)
"Some people have had more experience in certain situations, and it makes them better choices to give advice," Kyle explained. "When we were attacked, people who knew about reavers were consulted for advice before any plans were put into place." Not that he'd been part of that, of course, but he'd heard about it, and had of course been among those hiding in the safe room.

He did nod to her explanation of the situation though; it was close enough. "No one's obligated to listen to anyone else," he continued. "This isn't a dictatorship, and we don't have any laws. But it's best if people listen to the people who know what they're talking about."

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[info]prittyprincess
2010-09-21 04:59 pm UTC (link)
It made sense to her, she supposed, and it suddenly struck her that in the past few months that she'd been here, she'd recieved more parenting than she had in her entire life. She got the difference between right and wrong now, understood how to behave in social situations. She might not quite understand that that was wjat she was doing, but she at least understood how to. How to behave in a group setting. She grinned, and nearly laughed at that, suddenly wondering if there was more to this experiement than just torturing people at random. Maybe they were all here to learn something.

Maybe the people who would be going home would be the people who hadn't learned anything, couldn't learn anything, or weren't going to learn anything here. Or not be able to teach anyone anything. She thought, though, that there were probably nicer ways of learning these lessons, and she scoffed a bit.

"Maybe we should have laws," she remarked thoughtfully. "Encourage more... order, or something. I mean, Tyler and Lily and Jaime are already pretty much in charge, but what if someone comes along and tries to take that away but they don't know what they're doing? We should be able to punish them, right?"

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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-21 05:16 pm UTC (link)
Kyle's brow furrowed slightly. He'd read any number of books on various law systems from monarchies to democracies, and each was flawed in various ways. He and River could likely come up with some ideal, Utopian set of laws, but he wasn't sure they had a right or place to do so.

"I don't know," he finally admitted. "I guess that's up to them, and how they'd want to handle a coup if it happened." He smiled a little, but he didn't really think it was quite like that.

They were 'in charge', yes, but they weren't enforcing any rules, exactly. They were just sort of organizing things. Like a committee more than anything else.

"Maybe they already have some plans in place in case something like that happens," he suggested. Or maybe they weren't worried about it happening, which he supposed was equally likely, given their personalities.

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[info]prittyprincess
2010-09-21 05:39 pm UTC (link)
"A coup?" she asked before she stopped to think about the word in terms of context. "You mean like..." her brow furrowed - there was a word for this. Saul had used it sometimes. "A... mute-any? Is that what that means?"

She listened as Kyle mentioned that maybe they had some system in place to protect against a situation like that, and she thought about it. That made... sense. Tyler wouldn't let anyone get the drop on him, she didn't think. He was too smart for that. So they had to have a secret... thing in place, in case anyone bad tried to seize power, and... they'd... what? Step aside if it was someone good? She frowned a bit at that, not liking the idea of someone that wasn't Tyler being in charge, but... it hadn't happened, so she didn't need to worry, right?

Nodding to that, she said confidently, "Maybe," which meant 'definitely' in this context, before she sat up and started looking around widely again. "How do we get down?" she asked Kyle, less fearful now of the idea of getting down as she would have been when they started to get up. She trusted him to get her down safely, even if it didn't feel safe at the time.

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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-21 06:47 pm UTC (link)
"A mutiny," he agreed with a nod. It was close enough, at any rate, and he smiled softly to Lizzy. "Something like that. A coup is more when one person or group takes over power, usually by force. A mutiny is when people rebel against their leaders, usually related to ships." He smiled. "Or spaceships."

He grinned to her. "When you're ready to get down, I'll jump down first and catch you," he said to her. "Sort of the same way we got up." He thought, too, he could set her down from the roof, but that would still be a little bit of a drop for her ... so the option where he caught her was the better, safer one.

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[info]prittyprincess
2010-09-22 02:06 am UTC (link)
She didn't understand the difference, but she nodded her head because clearly there was one, and Kyle understood it. Was it just called a coup on land and a mutiny when you were on a ship? Was that all? She didn't understand why there had to be like, 400 terms for everything. Why couldn't everyone just call it one thing and be done with it? That would make things so much easier. And if they could call it something that was a short word, that'd be even better.

She was a bit more nervous now that she knew she was going to have to jump down and trust him to catch her, but she thought that was okay, and she nodded her head. "I think I'm ready to get down," she decided. She kind of half moved to stand up, before she wobbled a bit and changed her mind, deciding to stay sitting for now until she received more instructions.

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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-22 02:21 am UTC (link)
Kyle nodded and shifted to slide down off the roof, landing in a crouch before he stood up. Turning to face the building, he held up his hands for Lizzy. "I'll catch you," he promised her.

"If you scoot closer to the edge and swing your legs over, then lean forward, it'll be easier," he instructed. Easier than her jumping from a stand on top of the roof at any rate.

He watched her carefully, adjusting himself to catch her when she decided to jump.

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[info]prittyprincess
2010-09-22 06:00 am UTC (link)
She watched as Kyle jumped off the roof, and frowned deeper. It looked like quite a fall. She didn't think that she'd like it any better if he held her off the edge of it and dropped her though, so... she really wasn't sure what to do. She was a bit uneasy though.

Still, she responded to instruction. Scooting her way over to the edge carefully, she slipped her legs off so that they were dangling from the roof, and then kind of leaned forward. Not enough to fall off, but still enough to have said that she listened to the instructions.

She understood what the next step was, but she was a bit too scared to do it. Still, she swallowed thickly, closed her eyes briefly to work up the courage and then opened them, pushing off from the roof with her hands as she slipped forward off of it.

She did try to make it so that if Kyle didn't catch her, she'd at least land on her feet, but she wasn't certain how successful she was with that.

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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-22 06:11 am UTC (link)
Kyle moved to catch her easily, lowering his arms with her momentum so the descent was more natural and less jarring. Once she had her feet on the ground, he released her and smiled softly to her. "That wasn't so bad, was it?" he asked gently, genuinely curious. He'd never jumped and been caught, but he liked to think if someone had caught him like that, he would have been okay and not startled.

Straightening up, he glanced around. "Were you going to go back inside, or did you want to stay out here?" He was probably going to head in; he wanted to see how River was, and if she needed him. If not, maybe he'd play around on the computer until she did need him.

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[info]prittyprincess
2010-09-22 10:23 am UTC (link)
She made a soft shrieking noise when she fell further than she'd been expecting, but then she felt Kyle's arms around her and felt herself settling onto the ground. She swallowed thickly, still a little bit nervous, but nodded her head. "It was okay," she said. "You didn't drop me!" she added brightly, before she shifted her weight and checked the bottom of her shoes for no real reason.

"I haven't decided," she admitted to Kyle. "Probably going back inside, but... I don't know yet. Maybe not right now. I might explore a bit more first." She glanced up at the shack, and back up at Kyle and said, "Thanks for... helping me get up there. You can jump really high."

Because apparently restating the obvious was key when you were bidding farewell to someone.

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[info]not_an_alien
2010-09-22 02:18 pm UTC (link)
Kyle chuckled softly. "Be careful if you explore," he said quietly, though he would have said the same thing to anyone he was parting ways with in dangerous territory.

He studied her for a moment, but he wasn't her father, and he assumed she'd been maneuvering this world on her own for the time she'd been here, so he shouldn't worry about leaving her to her own devices.

So he raised a hand in a wave to her before he turned away to begin his trek back to the hotel to see if he could find his River.

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