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Tweak says, "I cant eat your ghost chups"

Spike (chipswiththat) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-01-11 14:30:00

Entry tags:

ianto jones, jack harkness, kitty pryde (aoa), malcolm reynolds, rebecca crane, sam winchester, spike

358 - voice + action
[ It's surprisingly early, for him. Vampire habits and all that, this transmission should happen later in the afternoon but it doesn't. He also sounds surprisingly drunk for it being this early in the day — effort was taken to reach this level of inebriety. It's clear in the tone of his voice, the stubborn lack of video, the briefness of the message. ]

Rose is gone. She was a good person even if you wankers didn't appreciate it.

[ And off goes the feed. He'll make his way to the graveyard with as many bottles of whiskey as he can possibly carry. Gotta start early in the day if you want to drink yourself to oblivion. Anyone coming across him can expect to find a fumbling mess of a man and more than one smashed bottle. ]

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	readystopwatch 2016-01-12 10:02 pm UTC (link)
	I can just sit here if talking doesn't help. I know it's not always useful at times like this. [He doesn't think Spike will appreciate a return of the hug he got when Jack vanished but he does do a little shoulder bump. Sort of a hug substitute.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-12 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	[ Anyone else and he would've seriously doubted the sincerity of their intentions (hi, Kitty!) but Ianto is another deal entirely. They have history and he knows what that shoulder bump means. ] Listen... this isn't the first time. I'm my own man, I can take care of myself. [ He raises the bottle, sloshing the whiskey around. ] Just let me have this, okay? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2016-01-12 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	I know. I'm not going to try and tell you everything will be fine or that you'll feel better over time. I just don't want to leave you alone to be miserable. And I don't want you to stake yourself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-12 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	...I won't. [ For you, buddy. ] Believe me, I've tried. It can't be done. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2016-01-12 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	What do you mean you tired? Today? [Surely not in an incident involving a Hawaiian shirt at home.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-12 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	[ Or exactly that. ] No... later. Back home. Couple of weeks from when I was taken, or something like that. [ More things he'd never say if he wasn't drunk. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2016-01-12 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	Taken? [Ianto doesn't actually know this part of Spike's story. He read about the chip when the Defense Force was getting ready to go after him but he doesn't connect the dots on it relating to what he's talking about here.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-12 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	Before I came here. [ He clarifies, fumbles over his pockets in search for a cigarette. ] Some shady government agency caught me... chipped me. I escaped and then I woke up here. While back, I got a glimpse of the future. It's not pretty. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2016-01-12 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	What's in store for you besides dying? [He remembers Spike from that day in the future. It was the first encounter they had that didn't leave him wanting to punch the vampire in the face.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-12 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	Nothing I'm looking forward to. [ Hey, a cigarette. It's bent but what the hell, any port in a storm. ] You know they chipped me, right? They tell you that at the defence force? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2016-01-12 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	Oddly enough it did come up while looking into why you attacked me. [Dry Ianto humor without any real resentment. Sorry he can't help you with the light.] It shocked you when you tried to bite people, right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

chipswiththat
2016-01-12 11:11 pm UTC (link)

Fried my brain like a chip. Hurt like hell. [ Shocked is an understatement. Also he's got this he has a lighter maybe he can get this cigarette going without setting himself on fire go team.]

I got it out pretty quick here and in the meantime, there was a steady supply of butcher blood. No such luck at home. They bagged me, tagged me and then I escaped.

With that chip in my skull, I couldn't hunt. Couldn't feed. For years.

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	readystopwatch 2016-01-12 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	[Oh for God's sake give him that here he'll do it don't burn your fingers off. There. Enjoy your cigarette.] I'm surprised you didn't go mad. Seems like the sort of thing a demon wouldn't be able to take. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-12 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	[ You are the best housewife. The best. ] Who says I didn't? [ A pointed look. ] Vampires don't die if they don't eat. They just... disappear. Walking, living skeletons. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2016-01-12 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	[He knows it.] So what happened to you instead? Couldn't you survive on animal blood? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-12 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	...Slayer took pity on me. Chained me up like a dog, found a way to make use of me. [ He draws a deep inhale. ] It's all pretty blurry. I haven't lived this yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2016-01-12 11:35 pm UTC (link)
	I suppose we're both better off for having been brought here, then. [Like he said, second chances.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

chipswiththat
2016-01-13 11:47 am UTC (link)

Speak for yourself. [ He can perfectly understand how some people prefer this to whatever shit they have going on here, but he can't. Never did. ]

We're powerless here... can't do shit to change what's happening to us. Back home I'd- I'd dig up some ancient ritual, sacrifice a virgin, go straight to hell to get her back if I had to.

Here, I can drink and listen to you.

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	readystopwatch 2016-01-13 12:46 pm UTC (link)
	[He gets it, he really does, but,] Do those things actually work? Back home every time we've tried to bring someone back from the dead it's had consequences. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-13 12:50 pm UTC (link)
	It works. You tap into the right kind of magic, nothing is impossible. [ Not recommended, but it works. ] Hell, I punched a demon in the face to get my immortal soul back. Bringing someone back from the dead... is that so weird? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2016-01-13 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	Not weird. And I understand. I went to extreme lengths to try and bring Lisa back. It's hard not to try and find some sort of hope that things can go back to the way they were. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-13 01:00 pm UTC (link)
	Lisa? [ He's in no state to remember if they've talked about Lisa before. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	readystopwatch 2016-01-13 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	My girlfriend. [He pauses to give Spike time to make whatever comment he wants about that, then he'll elaborate.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-01-13 02:04 pm UTC (link)
	Right. [ Should he know that? Maybe. Anyway, he knows people can be two things. He's not nearly as bigoted as he makes himself out to be. ] What happened to her? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

readystopwatch
2016-01-13 02:48 pm UTC (link)

[He doesn't think this topic has come up with Spike. He told Kitty about it, but generally it's not something he talks about. In this case he doesn't mind sharing though.]

She was partially converted to a Cyberman. They're humanity upgraded, in these metal bodies with all emotions removed. They just convert more people - I suppose they're rather like vampires. Her conversion process wasn't competed though so it was still her, mostly and I thought I could save her. Turns out I was wrong. She killed a lot of people before Torchwood stopped her.