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Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne (taciturnbeast) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-08-01 15:14:00

Current mood:	calm
Entry tags:	aidan reilly, buffy summers, daniel osbourne, helen magnus, martha jones, rogue, sookie stackhouse

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[Oz is sitting at the beach in Sector One. It’s one of the first times he’s ventured out and about since that class about werewolves and how to kill them. Right now he’s sitting in the sand close to where the surf is coming in, his pants are rolled up so that the water just hits his feet and ankles before receding again. He’s leaning back on his palms, eyes closed, face turned up in spite of the overcast sky. He looks very calm, as always – very peaceful, as always. But also, as per usual, what’s on the outside doesn't always match what’s on the inside with Oz.

He’s enjoying the quiet and his solitude. But he won’t turn away anyone who might come across him.]

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	notrosesshadow 2013-08-01 07:14 pm UTC (link)
	[Martha's out for a walk before work takes her to the clinic. Tea clutched in hand, she's enjoying the calm and the not so freakishly hot weather. As she walks she sees a familiar figure out on the beach. Martha smiles as she walks up.] Good to see you out and about Oz. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-08-01 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	[As always, he scents her before she actually gets close to him. Sorry for the creepy, Martha. He gives her a smile though, an Oz smile that isn't with his lips so much as it is with his eyes.] Hey. It's you. Gladness. [He glances down at the sand next to him and back up.] Wanna join? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notrosesshadow
2013-08-01 07:53 pm UTC (link)

[She nods and carefully takes a seat, taking care to lay her lab coat on her lap and not spill the tea.]

It's funny, I don't actually come out to the beach that much. But oh! I have something for you.

[She reaches into a pocket and pulls out a small parcel wrapped in tissue paper.]

I managed to miss you at that whole weird Christmas thing that happened. But I did get you something.

[She hands him the parcel which contains pewter pentacle attached to a leather string.]

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taciturnbeast
2013-08-01 08:08 pm UTC (link)

[He's been a hermit since Sam's werewolf class, with good reason. But he also feels bad that she had been looking for him and he'd been unavailable. He's surprised that she would think about him enough to get him something and very humbled.] Oh. That's... sweetness.

[He carefully opens the parcel and withdraws the leather string with the pentacle one it. If that didn't remind him of days gone by then he didn't know what would. Willow used to have pentacles all over the place. She used to sketch them in her notebooks. They were used in many of her spells, and the spells of others.

In fact... He holds his arm out for Martha to see one of the many tattoos on the underside of his forearm. There was a pentacle there with symbols in the six corners of the star and one in the middle.] You know me well. Thank you... for the necklace and for thinking of me.

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notrosesshadow
2013-08-01 08:31 pm UTC (link)

[She smiles to see his reaction and studies the tattoo on his arm.]</small>

I remembered what you said about the charms and stuff and figured you'd like some extra protection. I don't know if it will actually do anything. They don't in my world. But maybe from a friend it's more powerful.

[Actually, a lot of thought went into that gift. Because the first one she found was silver and she knew that wouldn't work. She'd looked at a lot of pentacles for you Oz!}

[Her eyes travel up his arm to his eyes again and her face shows some small concern.]

Are you holding up OK?

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	taciturnbeast 2013-08-02 09:19 am UTC (link)
	Luckily, in my world they hold power. It really means a lot to me. [He can tell she put a lot of thought into it. It's a very personalized gift.] I'm... tired. Tired of a lot of things. How are you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-02 09:22 am UTC (link)
	[She rests a hand on his shoulder for a moment as he says it, but he doesn't seem as though he wants to go further into the statement. Then she goes on with her own life.] Christmas was a little difficult. Too many happy people with their happy relationships. Things have been OK since then. I'm working at the clinic with Helen now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-08-02 11:35 am UTC (link)
	[He nods, able to completely understand how watching all of the relationships around her could have been difficult. He'd felt like every friendship he'd made here in the prison might be in question since what felt like a betrayal of trust from Sam.] Oh, Helen. I like her. I think it's good, helping people the way you two do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-02 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	It's why I became a doctor. I broke my arm falling out of a tree when I was eight. And I remember how cool it was that the man in the white coat was able to fix me up and make me feel better again. I wanted to be just like him. Helping people. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

taciturnbeast
2013-08-03 11:12 am UTC (link)

And that's what you do. Me too, back home. I guess... mine's more about proving I'm not the monster inside.

[Although since that werewolf class that Sam held, he feels like maybe he is the monster, that maybe he should be killed. He's not in a very good place right now.]

A different kind of help. But you know, still with the helping. [Reaching up, he slips the necklace over his head so that the pentacle can rest at his throat.]

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notrosesshadow
2013-08-03 11:21 am UTC (link)

[Everything about him looks run down and sad. She can make a guess at what he's thinking, and though it won't be exact, it'll be pretty close. Martha moves a little closer so her shoulder is touching his.]

I don't like to talk about some of the things in my past. But that story you keep hearing about? That apocalypse with all those dead people? It was my fault. 3 billion people dead because of me.

[She's staring at the fake horizon as she says it. Martha hasn't admitted this to... anyone. And while she didn't kill them with her own hands, her actions were the catalyst for every one of those deaths.]

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taciturnbeast
2013-08-03 11:42 am UTC (link)

[While she's staring into the horizon, he looks over to her, trying to gauge whether she could actually kill that many people. But then he knows all too well how one single decision could shape the world. It didn't take weapons of mass destruction or a holocaust. It sometimes just took one decision.

He also gets that she's confiding in him. He's a good person to confide in because he keeps things very close to the chest.] How was it your fault?

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notrosesshadow
2013-08-03 12:02 pm UTC (link)

[She laughs bitterly.] I thought I was helping. I was wrong. There was this man at the end of the Universe. A professor. Real nice you know? Old and bumbling. Sweet. And he had this watch. But it wasn't a watch. It was a chameleon arch thing that held his alien conscious. It sounds mad. I wouldn't have believed it if it weren't for the fact I'd seen the thing work before. And so I showed the watch to him. I thought he'd want to know. I thought my friend would want to know he wasn't the last of his species. So I showed the professor the watch.

His alien conscious was a monster. He went back in time and through the use of some sort of mild hypnosis, managed to get himself elected Prime Minister. I was going to vote for him. Then he kidnapped my family.

[Martha finally looks back at Oz, sees him studying her, and steadies her voice. It's just a story. Like all the rest.]

We tried to stop him before the election results came in. But he captured us. We were pretty well beaten. His first act as PM was to kill the president of the United States. Then he decided to kill one tenth of the world population. I escaped and, when he wasn't busy enslaving the human population, he was busy killing everyone who helped me.

Japan was the worst. A whole country gone because of what I did.

Tom... the first time I met him, he ran in front of me to keep the Master from killing me. And I didn't even flinch.

I saved the world and we reversed time so it never happened.

[She looks confused as she says it.] But I remember it all. Every person I held who died. Every person who did what they could to help me on my way. Every person who stood between me and certain death. All because I showed a man a watch.

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taciturnbeast
2013-08-03 01:49 pm UTC (link)

[He listens, trying to envision everything she's telling him. Strangely, with the things he's witnessed and been a part of throughout his life, her story doesn't seem so far-fetched or unbelievable. It just sounds like life, like something horrible that came from one choice.

Her own guilt over what happened weighs heavily in the air between them. And Oz can understand it all too well. She may not have committed many of those acts herself. But she feels that it was all her fault because it stemmed from a decision she made. He gets that.]

It isn't often there's a do-over. And even less often that a do-over happens and someone remembers what no longer occurred. It explains the weight on your shoulders that I didn't understand before.

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	notrosesshadow 2013-08-03 02:00 pm UTC (link)
	I give Atlas his meal breaks. [The joke falls flat though as the sentiment rings true. The whole weight was made heavier by her failed engagement with Tom.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

taciturnbeast
2013-08-03 02:20 pm UTC (link)

Does your Atlas need any friends?

[Dry humor answered with dry humor. He'd like his Atlas to go on a meal break with her Atlas. That would be nice. He doesn't tell her that none of it was her fault, that she couldn't have helped it. She's probably heard all of that before. Just like he's heard that what the wolf does is out of his own control many times before. None of those platitudes make it any easier. Sometimes it's just nice for someone to know and not judge one way or the other, just be a friend about it all. And that's what he does here with Martha.]

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	notrosesshadow 2013-08-03 02:33 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe that's why we're always holding up our respective worlds. They met and decided we were idiots to give them a break so they skipped out on us. I started helping people because of a broken arm. Now it's to pay a debt. And because I don't know how to help myself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-08-03 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	Usually when I can't help myself, my friends step in. Then there's that vice versa thing. And you have me in the vice versa. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notrosesshadow 2013-08-03 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	[Her smile is quiet when it comes. In fact, her head barely turns to look at him. But there's a lift of the corner of her mouth. Her hand reaches out to take his.] It means a lot. Thank you. And if you need me in your own vice versa... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

taciturnbeast
2013-08-03 07:28 pm UTC (link)

[His eyes smile again when she holds his hand. Oz wears his emotions in his eyes when he shows them. He holds her hand in return. And after a moment, he whispers some words very quietly.]

I'm a little bit scared. [It's an admission he wouldn't normally make, but a statement of fact nonetheless. He's very much shaken up. And just when he thinks he's not, it comes back.]

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	notrosesshadow 2013-08-03 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	[Her hand squeezes his ever so slightly at his words.] Of people finding out? [It's the only thing she can really think he would be afraid of. And she was at the class Sam taught about werewolves.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

taciturnbeast
2013-08-06 01:22 pm UTC (link)

Oh I'm gonna be more careful of people finding out. [ Sam's class had burned him big time in the trusting people here department. ]

But back home, the world was big enough to find a place to live peacefully, big enough to run if things got bad. [ And they had gotten bad a few times. ] Here... there's nowhere to run if things get bad. I have no pack. My only choice is to fight back and I don't... the wolf will kill. And I don't wanna hurt anyone.

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	notrosesshadow 2013-08-06 11:51 pm UTC (link)
	[Martha doesn't have a solution to that. In fact, she's not so sure she would do anything other than run away if he were to turn. As much as she's come to think of Oz as a friend, she can't help but be a little afraid of him.] And there's no way to counter it when things get bad? [Probably a stupid question. She was the brunt of one of those things gone bad...] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

taciturnbeast
2013-08-08 09:49 am UTC (link)

[ Oz shakes his head. He's back to thinking it might be best if the things Sam taught actually happened. As much as he despised the kill first ask questions later mentality, he was trapped in here with people who were food to the wolf. Of course they saw him as a threat. Of course they were scared. ]

Buffy has a tranquilizer gun and a tranq that we requested from the wardens.

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	notrosesshadow 2013-08-08 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	[Martha remembers Buffy from one of Sam's classes. The woman had seemed capable of plenty last Martha had seen.] And how much time do you have between awareness of things going bad and... the wolf? Or does that change? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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