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Ianto Jones (readystopwatch) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-07-04 10:41:00

Entry tags:

bro strider, dirk strider, ianto jones, jack harkness, kitty pryde (aoa), martha jones, penelope garcia, raven darkholme, rose, sam winchester, shining armor, spencer reid

Day 226 l Christmas Party Mingle
[Ianto has, predictably, gone a bit overboard for the Christmas party he and Jack are throwing. The entire apartment has been decorated; there's a tree with gold and silver ornaments and twinkling lights, garlands draped over doorways, candles in every window and festive nicknacks scattered about. It looks like something out of a magazine, and may make visitors a little afraid to actually touch anything. There's also a lot of mistletoe around (one of the side effects of living with Captain Jack Harkness) so it's probably a good idea to keep one eye on the ceiling at all times.

Of course he's made plenty of coffee and some appetizers, so he hopes people really do respond to the invitation Jack sent out, otherwise there are going to be a hell of a lot of leftovers.]

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	tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	I was just...going to say I get it. [Which really needs more explanation because the normal person can't get something like that. It's just too big. He barely gets it and he is in the situation. But instead of explaining more just now he follows suit, taking a drink.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 04:18 pm UTC (link)
	[She looks up a little defensively.] Don't patronize me Sam. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	[He takes a deep breath, and sets his drink down before looking at her.] ...I have to get back home. And I have to get back so I can stop the one I started. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	[Whatever Martha was expecting to hear from Sam, that was not it. She stares at him open mouthed for a second and then laughs. It was a mirthless laugh. More of disbelief and confusion.] Out of all the people... I mean... Bloody hell! [She downs her glass and turns back to him.] I'm sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	I know. [It is definitely worthy of the unfunny laughing and the drink draining. He doesn't go quite that far but he does drink deeply of it.] I thought you knew somehow before. I thought you were taunting me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	I don't read minds. I'm just human. [She's still wrapping her head around the fact that both of them were or are involved in apocalypses in their own worlds. It's so... strange.] I don't taunt. Not about that... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	I know. I just...didn't think I'd be running into anyone else who started an apocalypse. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	[Martha nodded.] I can't decide if they think it's a massive joke or if they think it'll help us in our rehabilitation. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	[He's a bit slow to respond.] Do you think you need it? Rehabilitation I mean. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notrosesshadow
2013-08-25 05:06 pm UTC (link)

[She's not sure how to answer that. Martha plays were her glass as she works through an answer.]

I don't know. I never really discussed what happened with other people before. It's not exactly something you bring up in normal conversation. And I knew all the right answers to say when the UNIT doctors asked me questions...

[She holds her head in her hands then.]

But they don't get it. They can't understand it. Not UNIT. Not my family. Not my friends. And besides. They needed me to be strong when it was over.

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tallerthanthou
2013-08-25 05:11 pm UTC (link)

[It's hard—impossible—not to think of Dean and his reaction to it all. As close as they were he couldn't understand how Sam was feeling and Sam didn't do much to make it easier. Keeping it inside. Staying strong. He knows that drill.

He puts down his now-empty glass and motions to the bartender bots for another round.]

It's hard enough to understand when it's happening to you. Someone else understanding... It's not something you expect.

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	notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 05:16 pm UTC (link)
	Right. Because how many other people do you meet who are responsible for... for... [Martha can't quite bring herself to say the fact that so many people had died.] And in my world? When it was all over? Time reversed itself. Everyone forgot except those at the epicenter. As though that would somehow absolve me of everything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	[Bring about the end of the world as they know it? Yeah, good sentence not to finish.] It was still in the beginning phases in my world. Lucifer still needed one more thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	And you need to make sure he doesn't get it? I hope you do stop him. I pretty much handed everything over to the Master. I thought I was being helpful. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	Actually... I think to stop him I have to give him exactly what he wants. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 05:30 pm UTC (link)
	Oh... [She doesn't know what to say to that. Instead, Martha slowly reaches across the table to grab his hand. There's not much else she can do. Up by the stage, the song has changed and the same person from before is now singing "O Holy Night" a quarter step flat.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	[He looks at her hand when they connect and then up at her. He doesn't try to push a smile, but his expression is a soft one.] It's just...complicated. [And he has a feeling she'll understand that.] I thought I was stopping it when I was starting it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Funny... we just finished watching an episode of Supernatural... notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	And instead, everything you did played right into the plot. [It's a statement rather than a question.] It's hard to stop a rolling boulder in motion. [Hers involved crazy time travel that she still didn't fully understand.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hehe tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly. [His involved sleeping with a hot, manipulative demon chick and drinking blood. Um...maybe it best not to bring these points up.] This is...weird. [The understanding and connecting.] And trust me, coming from me that's saying a lot. [He actually smiles.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 08:36 pm UTC (link)
	A bit yeah. The weird part. [The bot comes by with their second two drinks and Martha drops his hand, feeling like she was getting caught in the hallways doing something she shouldn't.] Thank you... for not... running. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2013-08-25 08:41 pm UTC (link)
	[The touch was nice and any awkwardness he might have or should have felt over it was nowhere to be found until she pulls hers away.] There's nowhere to really run from this kind of thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-25 08:46 pm UTC (link)
	No? Maybe not among you and me. Others though... [She falls silent thinking about the last person she should have told.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2013-08-26 09:40 am UTC (link)
	It's not exactly something I bring up with people either. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notrosesshadow
2013-08-26 10:12 am UTC (link)

[She takes a sip of her drink, slower this time, now that she's not learning that she and Sam share a similar background.]

No, it does seem a decent way to get carted off to the loony bin. And I can't exactly help other people from there.

Sometimes though... sometimes I wish I could. You know, just to explain why... why I am constantly hiding something. Why I wake up screaming.

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tallerthanthou
2013-08-27 11:48 pm UTC (link)

We could probably say a lot of things that would have us institutionalized. [Aliens. Time capers. Shakespeare encounters. Demons. Ghosts. Vampires. Underwater prisons. No shortage here.]

It's a lot to keep quiet. [A lot to hold inside. He doesn't wake up screaming...much. But nightmares? They are a regular companion. That was true even before the apocalypse. So, he gives her a sympathetic, understanding look.]