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Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) (kitty_has_claws) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2014-07-10 19:44:00

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bonnie bennett, data, deanna troi, ianto jones, jack harkness, kitty pryde (aoa), kitty pryde (evolution), martha jones, nico di angelo, piper halliwell, rebecca crane, tieria erde, zatanna zatara

[Day 279] Video — Closed to Defense Force + Bonnie and Anya
[Baseball practice and the beach party are over or at least over for Kitty. The final pieces have fallen into place and they are as ready as they're ever going to be for this. No reason to drag it out.]

Who's ready to stuff a soul back inside a vampire?

Here's the plan. Listen up and you might want to rewind and replay it a couple of times. I'll make sure to speak with plenty of inflection to keep it interesting. We're going to have two primary locations.

The first is headquarters. Piper, Zatanna, Anya, and Bonnie are going to be preforming the spell. Kitty—the other one—is going to be there ready to phase them while they work just in case. We've also got a perimeter alarm I set up awhile back and some magic security fields, but I want some combat personnel on hand too. Sam, I'm volunteering you. We need you close to Rebecca in case we need to pick your brain about any last minute vampire knowledge. Tieria, it wouldn't hurt if you were there for advisory reasons yourself. Rebecca is going to be our main dispatch coordinator for this operation. Communication is key, right? Don't forget it. We're a team. We talk. It's a thing.

Now this is the part where some of you other combat kids who don't get a direct assignment step up and let me know you want headquarters protection duty. There is a chance we're not just dealing with Spike on this. Rose and Tyki both seem reluctant to let us have our way with him, and they are no joke. Rose is a vampire—strong, fast, fangs. You get the picture. Tyki can choose what he touches. It's a little like my phasing where he can be intangible but he has a lot more wiggle room when it comes to reaching inside someone and pulling things out. He's pretty close to indestructible and he has a blood-thirsty butterfly army. Which is actually true, not just a test to see if you're still listening. We don't know that there will be an attack but we want to be ready if there is. Also, no talking about the plan outside of this filter.

[Deep breath. She should have brought a bottle of water for this.]

The second important location is going to be the library. While this is happening we want to keep an eye on Spike. We've already got a special squad assigned to him and we'll need you to be there to keep him in line tomorrow night at fake-sundown. So that's me, Jack, Data, M'gann, and Wally. Jack is going to be taking point while we secure the area. Ianto is going to be running interference with anyone not involved who thought it was a good night to pick up a book.

That takes care of the mission, but everyone not volunteering to protect the headquarters needs to spread out through the rest of the sectors. We're just asking for trouble if we keep all of our efforts centralized, but you'll also be on call if something goes south on this spell. [It won't be needed to subdue Spike. She's confident her team can handle that, but if the spell has unexpected consequences or effects or someone else just decides it's a good night to make some trouble then they need to be ready.]

So, that's the plan. I feel like I need a lozenge. Who has questions? If I don't answer you Jack will.

(OOC: Plotting post/timeline of events. Everyone on the force should already know about this plan and has probably helped out in some way! Feel free to ask OOC questions over there if you feel a little behind! Jack may be jumping in!

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readystopwatch
2014-07-11 02:00 pm UTC (link)

No need to worry about me. I'm not the hero type. [A more genuine smile because that part is very true. He prefers staying out of the action whenever possible. If he does jump into the fray it's only every as a last resort and even then it's done very reluctantly and with a great deal of sarcasm.]

I know it's asking the impossible with him. I just don't like it when he has to come back and I'm not there. [And that comment right there says everything about their relationship; sweet and weird and ultimately doomed thanks to immortality and he isn't bothered by any of those descriptors one bit.]

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	kitty_has_claws 2014-07-12 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	[She's not sure how much she believes that true part, but she nods and then she changes their filter to be even more private rather than filtered to the force at large.] ...What is it like? When he comes back. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

readystopwatch
2014-07-12 09:08 pm UTC (link)

[He notices the filter change but doesn't comment on it. If she's leading a mission where Jack might die she has every right to know what to expect and how to deal with it.]

He says it's like crawling back over broken glass, but I can't really speak to how it is for him. If he does die while you're doing this you'll hear him gasp when he comes back. He's always a bit disoriented for a moment. [All reasons why he tries to hold him if he can.] How long he's gone depends on the way he's killed. I've never asked if coming back hurts more for certain injuries but I imagine it does.

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kitty_has_claws
2014-07-14 12:07 am UTC (link)

[It doesn't give her a lot to work with. She'd wanted to know how long it would be most of all, but she supposes it doesn't matter too much. He'll do what he'll do.

She'll just do her best to keep him alive for it. She tries to put the pain out of her mind. She was trained by Logan after all. That was a man who knew about fighting through pain. It's just easier to ignore your own than someone else's. At least it is for her.]

Then hopefully everything goes gently. [It's something she can hope for at least even if she doesn't expect it.]

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readystopwatch
2014-07-17 05:01 pm UTC (link)

[Jack's the real expert on it, obviously, but aside form Gwen he doubts there's anyone else he's let learn as much about what it's like when he dies.] Sorry, I wish I could be more helpful. If Spike just rips his throat out or something it should only take a few minutes until he's back. I'm not sure how long you might have to wait if he actually drinks all this blood.

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	kitty_has_claws 2014-07-18 04:39 pm UTC (link)
	He won't get a chance like that. [The drinking all his blood chance. She wishes she could say it applies to both, but...] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2014-07-18 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	I appreciate it. He's not particularly good at looking after his own well being. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2014-07-20 06:00 pm UTC (link)
	Not exactly shocked to hear that, but he's not on his own. He's got all of us now. [She wants this to be true. She hopes it is. The team is largely untested when it comes to the big stuff. The hard stuff.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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