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Tweak says, ""Shut up Clive""

MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2015-06-08 16:19:00

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:mingle, aidan reilly, aigis, artemis crock, charlotte charles, doctor facilier, euphemia li britannia, harry kim, haruka tenoh, iknik varrick, inara serra, james howlett/logan, kanji tatsumi, kitty pryde (aoa), kitty pryde (evolution), leia organa, lyle dylandy, nathan harris, nico di angelo, pavel chekov (au), piper halliwell, rebecca crane, rose, sam winchester, shallan davar, sougo okita, spencer reid, spike, tieria erde, ton phanan, verity willis, wally west

327 - Flood Event Mingle
[ Perhaps you're a really strong swimmer. Perhaps you've found a canoe to paddle around in, unhooked a door to recreate the ending of Titanic. Perhaps breathing isn't a necessity for you. Perhaps you're already doomed to drown. Whichever your situation, there's one thing for certain.

The rain isn't stopping. ]

((ooc: EVENT POST! Remember that death is, if not permanent, still cause for a punishment! ))

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wraith_7
2015-06-08 11:16 pm UTC (link)

[He backs the table up to the window, trying to figure out how to get it out. He's going to have to go through the window to pull it out, there's no getting around it.]

Okay, listen, I'm going to go out and pull. Help push it through on this side and then follow right behind, okay?

[He climbs out the window, tugging at the table as he balances on the windowsill. The water it lapping at it and any second it's going to start pouring into the apartment. The last thing he wants to do is lose his balance here.]

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pushedback
2015-06-09 07:46 am UTC (link)

Okay... got it. [ She grits her teeth, brows furrowed in concentration as she tries to maneuver the table out the window without actually knocking him off the edge. It's an awkward and tiring process and why aren't they storing inflatable rafts in the kitchen cupboard? From now on, that's what they're doing. Who knows when this will happen again?

So she pushes, struggles to maintain what little traction that she has on the floor, most of her weight pressed against the edge of the table. Soon as they can get this out, they'll be fine. ]

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wraith_7
2015-06-09 12:40 pm UTC (link)

[The front half of the table is out but the back two legs are caught in the window and he feels like he's going to have to twist it somehow or get it at a weird angle to menuver it out. Unfortunately that's when the water starts flooding over the windowsill and pouring in.

He's able to hang onto the table for balance and its stuck so securely that he's not worried about falling. What he is worried about is Chuck.]

Alright, this was a stupid idea! Can you get to one of the other windows? Just get out of there and then I'll have another, better brilliant plan.

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pushedback
2015-06-09 12:46 pm UTC (link)

[ Up until now she hasn't been too worried. They always get out of hairy situations and if she could survive getting trapped in an electric car set to explode on impact, she can survive this. No biggie, really. They get the table out, they float to the surface, wet like drowned rats but still very much alive.

That plan had not involved a stuck table, or an increase in how quickly the water is rising. Her pulse is picking up speed, the flood of water tugging treacherously at her, their belongings floating past like a goddamn obstacle course. Now she's worried. ]

I'll try! Don't worry, I'll be fine- [ Of course, that's the moment when she trips, slips, loses her footing, goes under the surface. It's an awkward and shocking moment of flailing and then nothing. Despite knowing the apartment inside out, it's a lot harder to find your bearings when it's filling up with water. ]

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wraith_7
2015-06-09 01:01 pm UTC (link)

[With all his ridiculous eccentricities it's easy to forget that both Phanan's unusual career paths require being able to keep your head in a crisis. He's watched friends blow up or get shot down and kept it together more often than he likes to think about and he's good at it. This is different, though. This is Chuck and even if he's not quite at panic mode yet he's pretty damn close the second her head vanishes underwater.

At least moments like this are good for adrenaline rushes and he gives the table a furious tug. One of the legs splinters, breaking off awkwardly halfway down and he's able to wrestle it free. It still takes longer than he wants it to for him to pull it out of the way, letting it bob nearby as he wades back into the apartment. Well swims, really, since it's getting deeper and deeper in here.]

Chuck!

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pushedback
2015-06-09 01:09 pm UTC (link)

[ It's a weirdly familiar feeling, this. Of not getting air and still feeling oddly calm, of scolding herself for not taping the cords down better because that's what she's struggling with now, something snagged around her ankle and the water is just deep enough that she can't reach the surface. Stupid, stupid.

She struggles, regardless, unaware that he's gone back in so she can flail for help and be seen. Kicking and tugging, blind from the rushing water and lungs burning with what little breath she managed to draw before going under. It's fine, it's fine, she just needs to get free and then the surface is right there. He's right there. Just get out, that's what he said. Get out and they'll think of something.

It's fine. ]

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wraith_7
2015-06-09 01:20 pm UTC (link)

[He starts his search near where she saw her vanish but with no luck. His hands don't encounter any Chuck-shaped things in the water and it's all moving and swirling around so much she could easily have been pulled off in a different direction. The water itself is rising higher on his chest with every lost second so he takes a breath and dives under, glowing red eye suddenly proving useful in illuminating the gloomy water.

And there she is, further back in the living room. He swims over, struggling against the current and finally grabbing her hand, trying to pull her to the surface. It doesn't work and it takes him too long to spot the cord stuck on her ankle. In fact everything feels like it's taking too long. His own lungs are burning and he has to surface for a quick gasp of air before diving back down, tugging at the cord and fighting with the tangles frantically.]

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pushedback
2015-06-09 01:25 pm UTC (link)

[ The red light of his eye brings a welcome haze to the murky waters and she does close her fingers around his wrist when he grabs for her. So close, so very close and then he's gone and she can't hold it any longer. She releases the air in her lungs, drawing a breath that's only water, that makes her cough and draw another until her visions blurring and eventually fading.

By the time he comes back down under, there's little fight left in her. Hardly any. ]

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wraith_7
2015-06-09 01:35 pm UTC (link)

[He's out of time and he knows it, in the way he can see her choke and gasp for air when he glances briefly up from his fight with the cord. At least he's still got enough presence of mind to use every trick in the book he knows to keep his hands from shaking. Finally he rips it free, scratching her ankle as he does and pulling them up to the surface.

It's a surface that is now just a few inches from their ceiling. Great. He pulls her head up above the water along with his but there's no way to pump the water out of her lungs, no time to see if she's able to cough and clear them herself. He risks a few seconds of air then has to take another deep breath and dive for the window, pulling her under again with him.

As long as there's still that last bit of space left the water is going to be pouring in. He doesn't have time to wait for the pressure to equalize but that means the current is stronger and it's almost impossible to make any headway. His own lungs are burning by this point and he can't tell what sort of state Chuck is in at all. He can panic once they're out, but until then he doesn't dare let himself.]

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pushedback
2015-06-09 01:44 pm UTC (link)

[ She can still feel him tug and pull, even if it's hazy. Feels the brief change in temperature as he pulls her head above the surface, the pressure against her ears when they go down under again. She wants to say something, that he needs to be careful or that she can totally swim on her own or that he needs to make sure Gadget doesn't jump in because she's not sure the fat little pup ever did learn how to doggy paddle. There's a lot but it's so far away and she can feel herself slipping, like plastic sealing her mouth and nose, like an ice box cutting into her legs.

It's more comfortable, this time. Less lonely. No lonely tourist Charlotte Charles because he's here and although she knows she's dying she can't be all that sad because he's here. Like that time not long ago when she woke up in a coffin and Ned was going to kiss her and that was that. It's fine. Like falling asleep, like drifting off.

Needless to say, she won't be waking up whenever he does get them out. Not for a good long while, not until morning. ]

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wraith_7
2015-06-09 02:04 pm UTC (link)

[And get them out he finally does, grabbing onto the edge of the window and pulling them through. He hauls them up onto the roof, which is solid and dry for at least a few more moments. He has to take a minute to catch his breath, coughing and dragging air into his exhausted lungs before tilting her head back and trying to get her to breathe. He doesn't know how long he spends alternating between blowing into her lungs and pumping on her chest. Long enough to feel a rib crack, to ignore it and keep going. Long enough that his own head is swimming and the adrenaline to start to wear off leaving him sore and exhausted and out of breath as the water keeps inching up towards them. Long enough that, as a doctor, he knows better. Knows it's not working and it's not going to and he needs to stop while he's still got the strength to get them out of here.

The table is, miraculously, still floating nearby and he thinks he can even see the bright yellow umbrella covering Mittens and Gadget bobbing over near where the spa should be. He dives back into the water and paddles over to it, grabbing one of the remaining table legs and hauling it back to the roof.

She looks smaller like this, without the constant outpouring of energy and excitement that makes Chuck Chuck. He drapes them both over the table as best he can, holding onto her tight since she can't hold on for herself. And then that's it, they're afloat and he has nothing left to do, no goal to focus on, no cord or window or table on the to-do list, nothing to keep it all from hitting him.

He's never felt like this, not waking up in that hospital bed and seeing his new face for the first time, not aiming a blaster at his chest or even lying on the roof here in the grip of that pearl. It's as though everything hurts so much he can't even process it or properly feel it. It just is, every part of his being consumed by it until there's nothing else left of him. His entire existence is floating on this table feeling her get colder and stiffer in his arms. And beyond it all is a fact, the knowledge that Ianto came back and maybe she might too, unless that only applies to murders or people who have only died once or any other number of variables. It's not even hope, just a solid, distant thing that is, that might apply to them, maybe. Or maybe this is it. The fact that he's checking out if she doesn't come back is another one of those facts, too. It's easier to just let them sit there, not to focus on them. Right now it's just him and the rising water and Chuck's body and nothing else in the whole world.]

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