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Pavel Chekov (candothat) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-12-05 21:11:00

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aidan reilly, jack harkness, jim kirk, john constatine, kitty pryde (aoa), pavel chekov (au)

Day 405 [closed action | open action]
[action | closed to Kitty]

[As it happens, waking up three years older than you were when you went to sleep is mildly disorienting. Waking up in bed next to someone who wasn't present in any of those three years compounds the effect. Chekov--newly twenty-four and, as far as he can remember, fresh from yet another near-death experience--sits up with a start. This is definitely not his room at Yorktown Starbase. This is...

MarinaNova. He's in bed with Kitty. He has been here for one-hundred twelve days.

Chekov lowers his head to his hands and groans. There are two different yesterdays in his mind, both equally vivid and real, and it's way too early to deal with that.]

[action | open]

[Chekov, three years older than he was yesterday and considerably more dazed than usual, does a circuit of the dome. Everything has a not-quite-rightness to it that he can't put his finger on and he feels oddly out of place. He isn't, of course. He was here yesterday, and he remembers that yesterday like it was... yesterday, which it was. But he also remembers a yesterday where he was a universe away and waiting for the Enterprise to be rebuilt. In that universe, he was on year three of a five-year mission.

He's looking for Kirk, specifically. It would be easiest to call him up, but Chekov would much rather talk in person.]

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	candothat 2017-01-17 12:10 am UTC (link)
	[There is nothing adorable about anything related to him, he is An Adult™ thank you.] The... [Well, he was thinking about the prison, but now that Kirk mentions it.] Both--why we are here most immediately. I think I'll never understand the why of many things that happen at home. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	universal_charm 2017-01-17 12:22 am UTC (link)
	_{[ What, you can't be adorable and be an adult? Celebrities have built entire careers off that! ]} I can't answer the first, but I can try and help with the second. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

candothat
2017-01-17 12:50 am UTC (link)

[He hasn't been an adult quite long enough to appreciate the value in retaining some adorableness. He'll learn.]

Maybe not today. [Finding the why behind actions can be a dark process when those actions are destructive. Chekov is good with why when it comes to strategy and tactics (it's necessary--a good tactician needs to understand an opponent's goals and methods), but what ultimately drives people like Nero and Khan and Marcus and Krall and makes them capable of the actions they take... that's something that escapes him.] Today has been... eventful, and there are many things that I need to think about.

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universal_charm
2017-01-17 01:09 am UTC (link)

_{[ Kirk understood the whys. He knew them, because he shared more in common with those men than he liked to admit. He could have become those men, if not for those like Bones, Spock, Chekov, Scotty, and Uhura at his side.

He did not agree with their actions, of course. He never would, and he condemned the paths they had taken. But to remain a good man, he needed to acknowledge, at least to himself, that he could have easily walked their darker paths. That one day he still might, if he wasn't careful. ]}

It would certainly seem so. Come on, let's go get a drink.

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candothat
2017-01-17 01:19 am UTC (link)

[That would be a heavy conversation, but definitely one worth having someday (supplemented by alcohol, possibly). Two of the people Chekov was closest to in the previous prison were far from good; he's familiar with the darker paths that people walk even if no amount of exposure makes any of it make sense. If he had a better understanding, maybe he would have kept safer friends.

But Kirk? He can't imagine his captain being anything but good.]

What kind of drink are you proposing?

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	universal_charm 2017-01-17 01:25 am UTC (link)
	_{[ It's scary, realizing some of the things you are willing to do. He tries his best though, to be good, and he owes no small part of that success to those who surround him. ]} Depends on you. I don't mind walking you home, if you want something hard, or we can grab some sports drinks and go spar together. Exercise always helps clear my head, personally. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

candothat
2017-01-17 09:26 pm UTC (link)

[Yes, well. Kirk wouldn't want to discourage Chekov's hero-worship (still intact even if that hero-worship is occasionally accompanied by frustration with Kirk's antics and tendency to throw himself in harm's way) by being bad, would he?]

I can drink without needing to be escorted home. [His heart really isn't into the scoffing. Sparring, though...] I would like the second option. For some reason, no one takes me seriously when I attempt to defend myself.

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	universal_charm 2017-01-17 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	_{[ He actually might. Hero-worship makes him a bit uncomfortable, actually. He doesn't really consider himself a hero, he's just someone trying to do the right thing and correct his own mistakes. ]} Right, sparring it is. We can go work on the sand - softer ground, and we'll have to work harder. _{[ He clapped his shoulder. ]} I won't be going easy on you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

candothat
2017-01-18 12:20 am UTC (link)

[Kirk just needs to give it time--time here, preferably, where he's more of a friend than a leader. Chekov still adheres a little too rigidly to roles and titles; anyone he's mentioned Kirk to here probably thinks that his first name is "Captain."]

Don't go easy, please. I'm stronger than you may think. [He did haul Kirk's (and Scotty's!) ass over a railing that one time.]

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	universal_charm 2017-01-18 12:47 am UTC (link)
	_{[ Well, if the things you've said our true, they have quite a long time to get through that. All the time in the world, really. ]} Heh, believe me, I know. Your baby Russian face is just a diversion. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-18 01:32 am UTC (link)
	[Instead of being offended by this accusation of having a baby face, he looks a bit wistful.] I don't look so young anymore. [Physical appearances are the kind of thing a guy notices when he was three years younger yesterday.] Think of all of the things that no one will let me get away with anymore. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	universal_charm 2017-01-18 01:45 am UTC (link)
	What did we let you get away with before? _{[ He chuckles as he starts them walking, making for the beach as he had promised. ]} (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-18 02:50 pm UTC (link)
	If I tell you, I will never get away with anything. [His smile says he's joking, but no one should underestimate Chekov's willingness to feign wide-eyed innocence when it is tactically advantageous.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	universal_charm 2017-01-24 01:35 am UTC (link)
	You know that's not true, Chekov. You'd just find someone new to get away with. Like keeping some truly excellent whiskey in your locker. _{[ Oops, maybe he shouldn't have let that one out of the bag. Ah well, already done. ]} (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-24 01:54 am UTC (link)
	[He stops in his tracks and fixes Kirk with a look that is equal parts surprise and betrayal.] You took it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	universal_charm 2017-01-25 02:21 am UTC (link)
	_{[ Oops. ]} I did not. Bones did, but I might have partaken of it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-25 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	And to think that I trusted both of you unequivocally. [His overly dramatic, put-upon expression only lasts a moment before it's replaced by a smile.] I had assumed that it was Mr. Scott. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	universal_charm 2017-01-30 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	It was used as a pre-birthday celebration drink, if that makes you feel any better. _{[ Before things went to shit. ]} (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-02-05 04:10 am UTC (link)
	Since I was never going to have the opportunity to drink it [since everything went down with the ship and all] I can be glad that it was appreciated. Pretend that it was a gift. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	universal_charm 2017-02-06 04:11 am UTC (link)
	_{[ Oh right. Oops. At least it had gone to good use. ]} Heh, I will, and thank you. Your taste in whiskey is quite excellent. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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