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Tweak says, "fear not the bunny"

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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