someone took lilja. (lilja) wrote in invol_rpg, @ 2013-01-03 16:47:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! log, ! plot: kidnapping, lilja agnarsdottir, tanja roze |
Who: Tanja Roze and Lilja Agnarsdottir
What: Two Europeans walk into a break room
When: 30 December
Where: Somewhere in Europe
Status/Warning: ...it's Lilja and Tanja.
Lilja sighed at the computer she was sitting in front of again. She wished that this was James Bond and she was Q and could do cool stuff like hack into random bank records and see if anything weird was going on but without a name or a culprit and the fact that this was reality and not a James Bond movie meant that she was stuck looking at the same images over and over again and coming up with wild theories that so far hadn’t proven to be true. If she was Daisy this would be easier - or at least had Daisy’s power set instead of her own. She could make the computer work but she couldn’t just make things happen.
She stood up to stretch - she needed a break just fifteen minutes. Her eyes were aching and her legs were in desperate need of stretching. She made her way to the coffee area and poured herself another cup and grabbed one of the snacks they had out - she hoped that the coffee was the kind that Neve had made.
Tanja had been throwing herself into helping duties; making beds and coffee, checking up on her friends and trying to assist wherever possible. She lacked any particular skills for the more technical jobs, and was unlikely to be considered an asset for the field ops, and so had been helping enthusiastically. Perhaps a little too enthusiastically, as she’d sometimes replaced people’s coffee before it had even had a chance to cool down. She had just finished a new set when she saw Lilja close by, and she gave her a nervous smile.
“Hello,” she greeted Lilja, only just managing to keep her endless questions about the operation at bay. Had they found anyone yet? Were they going to be okay? Tanja hid her worries under a faltering level of control and purpose. She was there to help, and she would keep on helping as much as she could.
“Hello,” Lilja said before she took a sip - definitely Neve’s coffee, it was wonderful. She didn’t know the younger girl that well except that she had replace her coffee many times, sometimes even before she had finished. She opened the wrapper of her snack and shoved part of it in her mouth. “How are you?” she said her mouth full of whatever this was. It wasn’t bad.
Tanja nodded slowly, although it wasn’t much of a response. “Oh, I’m okay. You?” she asked her, eyeing the snacks for a moment before reaching out to take one for herself. She looked around herself nervously, before looking at Lilja once again. “I’m Tanja,” she told her. “You’re doing computer things, right?” she asked her.
Lilja swallowed hard so that she could talk without spewing food everywhere. “I’m okay,” she said. “I’m doing computer things - it’s my power.” She didn’t always know how to explain her power except that she knew exactly how to work computers and the programs inside them. She could even do some hacking - all things that the IVF needed right now. “I’m Lilja by the way.” She wondered what the other girl’s power was - nothing the IVF wanted to use right now she guessed but she wasn’t sure. “Thanks for all the coffee.”
Tanja nodded again, curious to learn more. “Neve showed me how to make the best sort,” she told Lilja. “I like computers, but I’m not very good with them,” she said, sounding almost apologetic for that fact. “One time I broke my laptop. Well, twice,” she grimaced at the memory. “And my phone a few times, because I kept forgetting that I had electricity in me. So I didn’t think it would be a good idea to try here, you know?”
Ah there we were. “No maybe not,” Lilja said, giving her a smile. “I think people really appreciate the coffee though.” She didn’t want the other girl to feel bad - Lilja felt useless most of the time even now a little bit but that was mostly because they hadn’t found anything yet. “It’s really good.” That was nice right? That would make someone feel useless. “And if I hadn’t had the coffee I might have fallen asleep in my chair.”
“Good,” Tanja replied, a little heartened by Lilja’s words. “I mean, everything’s bad so nothing’s good. But it’s what we’ve got,” she frowned, her face falling even as she thought of it. So much had happened over the last few days, and Tanja was still unsure of how to process it all. How would they go on from here?
Tanja dropped her voice to ask Lilja a further question. “Have you found anything?” she asked, finally blurting out the question she’d held back so far in their conversation.
Everything was bad - Tanja couldn’t have said anything more accurate - there was nothing good happening right now and Lilja hoped that it didn’t continue on this route but she had a terrible feeling that everyone they were looking for was already dead. She hoped not but there was a nagging feeling in the back of her head.
She looked at Tanja. “We haven’t found anything,” she said softly. She wished that she was wrong. “No leads.”
Tanja suppressed any need to protest that fact, and accepted it quietly. Marine, the person who’d helped her and convinced her to tell people about her powers, was still out there somewhere. Being unable to hear any positive news about the rescue of a girl that she idolised was a blow, but she tried not to let it show.
“Okay,” she told Lilja. “But soon, I hope.”
Lilja nodded her head. “I hope so too,” she bit her fingernail nervously. Eventually they had to find something, even if it was dead bodies. “But I bet we will - we’re Evolved right? Combined means that there isn’t much that can stop us.” She was sounding more upbeat than she felt.
Tanja’s agreement was a little more half-hearted than she’d tried to make it, a matter of habit now instead of a display of blind faith. It was difficult to keep being positive when nothing had happened, but Tanja would keep that up as long as she possibly could.
“We are,” she told Lilja, and even smiled a little.
Lilja forced another smile – she could fake this enough. She took another sip of coffee. “See you in a bit, I should get back to work,” she told the younger girl before grabbing another snack and headed to her work station.