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Tweak says, "Look, ma, no hands!"

helen magnus, m.d. d.t.c.x.b. (lifelines) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-09-08 00:26:00

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damon salvatore, helen magnus, peggy carter, rebekah mikealson, rose

day 235 | action; ota | locked voice;
[ day 235 begins early and ends late. it's obvious to anyone who runs across her that she hasn't slept well. she's kept herself up or something did and now she's got a lot on her mind. she does make an attempt to keep to her normal schedule and can be found at the clinic for a good part of the day. towards mid-afternoon, she gives up that idea, after having found herself lost in thought for the tenth time that hour. she looks for martha to let her know that she's leaving early and not to take her temperature. the last thing she wants is for someone to think she's fallen ill, though she wouldn't blame them if they did.

after that, she wanders the dome. the library, the parks, the beach, and the athletic complex are all fair game for her stops. at the end of the time normally considered early evening, she finally turns to her communicator and sends a private voice communication to rebekah. ]

You wouldn't happen to know where to get a good bottle of wine or two, would you?

[ it's completely another request to talk with her friend, because she really needs to work some things out and if anyone can help her sort out her thoughts, it's rebekah. ]

( ooc: she can be found literally anywhere in the dome or in the morning / early afternoon hours at the clinic! )

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	private easily 2013-09-08 08:13 am UTC (link)
	I'll be there. [It'll be good to get out of the apartment.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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lifelines
2013-09-08 10:56 pm UTC (link)

[ whenever rebekah decides to turn up, helen's curled up on the couch in the common area of her apartment. there's a bottle of wine on the table in front of her and she's already started on her first glass. she also appears to be lost in thought, something that isn't unusual when she's out of things to do. the unusual thing is her being out of things to do. the door, however, is unlocked, so whenever rebekah gets there, she's free to make her way inside. ]

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	Re: action; easily 2013-09-09 06:34 am UTC (link)
	[Rebekah stops to buy some whine herself first -- and eventually she finds a bottle of red that's acceptable. Not great, but acceptable. Rebekah actually can't make her way in when she finally gets there -- she needs an invitation -- so she knows on the door.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lifelines 2013-09-09 09:08 am UTC (link)
	[ ah, yes, things of myth and legend in her world that actually apply here. how many times had nikola barged into her sanctuary without an invitation? too many to count. she isn't entirely sure who's out there, logic dictates that it's rebekah, but she feels if someone's out there, they'll be a welcome distraction, whoever they are. ] Come in. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	easily 2013-09-10 04:14 am UTC (link)
	[And with that invitation she makes her way in, wandering a little until she finally spots Helen. She notices the already open bottle.] It seems you started without me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lifelines 2013-09-10 09:03 am UTC (link)
	[ at least she offers a smile and scoots over to give rebekah a place to sit on the couch with her. ] Only a sip. I haven't gotten that far yet. [ she needed that sip. or so she's telling herself. there's a second glass on the table and helen picks it up to hand to her friend once she's settled. ] I thought we could use more than one tonight. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	easily 2013-09-10 09:44 am UTC (link)
	Good. [She smiles, taking the glass of wine from her friend as she settles in.] Does this mean you have new developments to tell me? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lifelines 2013-09-10 10:40 am UTC (link)
	[ helen takes a sip of her wine and gives a half-hearted shrug. ] More like a lot of confusion and a deep conversation neither of us expected last night. [ y e p she saw him last night. ] He came over for a visit and we happened to hit on an interesting topic. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	easily 2013-09-10 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	Oh? And what was this interesting topic? [Rebekah has an idea, but she wants to hear it from Helen herself.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

lifelines
2013-09-11 12:48 am UTC (link)

[ sadly, it's likely not the topic rebekah is expecting. helen is actually fidgeting with the stem of her wine glass a little as she sips. ]

About someone who was very important to me once, someone I have yet to even tell you about. [ because the topic of ashley is so difficult for her. ] I barely even recall how it came up. I asked him to come visit me and we began to talk.

[ one more tug should pull the full answer out of her. ]

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	easily 2013-09-11 03:42 am UTC (link)
	[Oh. A little disappointing. Oh well, she'll cope.] Are you going to tell me who this person is or continue to speak vaguely? [Probably not the most delicate way to put things but Rebekah is hardly delicate.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

lifelines
2013-09-11 10:35 am UTC (link)

[ oh she'll get to that other topic. eventually. after she turns everything over and explains ashley to rebekah.

obviously whatever this is is a difficult topic for her. she turns her wine glass around and takes a sip before she answers. ]

My daughter. Her name was Ashley. [ "was" meaning she's no longer alive. ] Somehow we got on that topic, of all things. [ she knows how, but that isn't her story to tell, so she's breezing by it. ] So now he knows about her.

[ and she's getting around to explaining why she doesn't seem so happy to be talking about her child, a strange thing for a mother. ]

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	easily 2013-09-11 05:59 pm UTC (link)
	[Rebekah knows those sorts of was. Henrik was her brother. So was Finn. And Kol.] I didn't know you had a daughter. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

lifelines
2013-09-11 06:50 pm UTC (link)

[ and for the first time, helen glances over to rebekah to meet her friend's gaze with a sorrowful one of her own. ]

If you believed yourself responsible for the death of one of the most important people in your life, would you walk around talking about them for all to hear?

[ it's both rhetorical and serious. but it also helps explain why she has attachment and abandonment issues. ]

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	easily 2013-09-11 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	No, I suppose not. I don't tend to talk about the deaths at all. [Finn's death -- and then Kol's. If she had not been so insistent about the cure, so determined, perhaps Kol would still be alive. She remembers how cruel his ghost had been, as if she had never cared about her brother at all.] What happened to her? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

lifelines
2013-09-11 07:56 pm UTC (link)

[ the million-dollar question that's so difficult to answer. helen takes a sip of her wine and leans her head back against the back of the couch. her talk with jean-luc brought up memories she'd been trying her hardest to keep buried. and now she's revisiting that discussion with the person who's become something of her best friend here. ]

It's a long story. Suffice it to say she was kidnapped by an organization known as the Cabal. They took her, genetically altered her, and then mindcontrolled her. As far as I'm aware, they used her newly reconstructed genetic sequence and the Abnormalities they unlocked and coded into her as the blueprint for five others. We called them Super-Abnormals for the abilities they displayed.

[ she's speaking in a very clinical tone, as that's far easier than the half-sobbing mess she'd been last night with jean-luc. ]

Their goal was the destruction of everything I had built, the Sanctuary Network itself. And I believe I was to be their crown jewel. My death would mean the Cabal had won.

[ but that hadn't happened, as her presence here in the dome would suggest. ]

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	easily 2013-09-11 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	And let me guess, they assigned her to try to kill you? [Children killing their parents, it's biblical in it's way. Of course, Rebekah's brother did kill their mother...and their father too but they were the ones to make them monsters in the first place and it's all very complicated honestly.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

lifelines
2013-09-11 08:50 pm UTC (link)

Got it in one. At the last second, we got her back. She was herself long enough to stop someone else from trying to harm me... And then she killed both herself and the other Super-Abnormal.

[ she likes to think ashley did it because there was no other alternative, no way to be sure the cabal would never be able to retake control over her, and helen's only consolation over the whole thing is that ashley's death was of her own doing. those last moments of her life were her own and no one else's. ]

Just prior to that explanation, I had... [ ohgod how does she even begin to explain that? she can feel her cheeks reddening slightly. ] I had hugged him and we were holding each other during the entire time I explained about Ashley.

[ if her cheeks are anything to go by, there's more to that than she's saying. ]

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	easily 2013-09-11 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	[Rebekah listens carefully, hearing the pain in the other woman's voice. It's an impulse, one that's still a little foreign to her, that causes her to reach out to squeeze Helen's hand.] At least he was able to support you while you told the story to him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lifelines 2013-09-12 12:34 pm UTC (link)
	[ foreign impulse or not, it's appreciated and helen offers a small smile in gratitude as she returns the squeeze. ] It wasn't originally intended as such and it certainly brought me face-to-face with how I feel towards him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	easily 2013-09-13 02:24 am UTC (link)
	Did you tell him? [How she feels, that is.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lifelines 2013-09-13 02:02 pm UTC (link)
	Not exactly, but if kissing him didn't tell him, I don't know what will. [ yeah uh... she kissed him last night. y e p ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	easily 2013-09-13 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	[Rebekah grins at that.] You kissed him? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lifelines 2013-09-13 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	[ helen just purses her lips for a moment and nods before taking a long sip of her drink. ] And judging by the way he responded, I'd say he didn't entirely mind. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	easily 2013-09-14 02:23 am UTC (link)
	[Rebekah grins proudly at that.] Well done. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)