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

Entry tags:

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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kitty_has_claws
2016-12-18 11:30 pm UTC (link)

[It's not as if she ever has one without the other. Sometimes it's just easier for her to engage with the physical and let the emotional take over by surprise. Maybe not the best way of doing things.] Nothing bacon and waffles can't improve, right? [She keeps sliding her way right out of bed. She doesn't really want to be doing that, but she doesn't want to get back to his moment again either and she's sure they will left to their devices.]

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	candothat 2017-01-07 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	[He watches her go with an expression that's far more forlorn than the current situation merits. It's just breakfast. It's not like Kitty is actually going anywhere or that staying in bed was going to result in some kind of shared epiphany.] I would offer to help with breakfast, but I still haven't learned to cook. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2017-01-07 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	[She does her best to look like it's not hard to be away from him right now because that would be silly and dramatic and it's just breakfast and moving the day along.] You know it's kind of an essential survival skill, right? What are they teaching you in space school? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-07 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	[He doesn't want the day to move along! That involves getting up and dealing with existing and none of that is fun.] It isn't essential. I made it through all of space school on sandwiches and the generosity of friends who could cook. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2017-01-07 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	What if you were alone with someone who couldn't cook? Like a bot comes around and catches you and someone else in a force field with a stove and food and you have to stay there until you've made a meal? [It should sound like a silly, impossible scenario and yet she can see it pretty clearly happening here.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-07 08:24 pm UTC (link)
	Then I would die, unfortunately. [He's laying the drama on thick now. See, he's fine.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2017-01-07 08:25 pm UTC (link)
	This got dark. [She reaches a hand out to him.] Come on. We're avoiding that timeline. I'll teach you to make a thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-07 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	[He takes her hand with a heavy sigh. Getting out of bed is inevitable, apparently.] How can I argue against such a beautiful and persuasive teacher? [This is fine. In spite of what happened, they're back in this comfortable bantering place and he can't complain about that.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2017-01-07 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	[Does it help that she'll reward him with a kiss once he's on his feet?] And I'll be there too. [There was a time there in bed where it felt like they'd never get here and while the effects of everything that's happened are still weighing on her this doesn't feel forced.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-14 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	[That almost makes getting up worthwhile.] Someday I'll give you a compliment that you will accept. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2017-01-14 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	[He might see a little acceptance seep in as her cheeks redden.] Someday. [She takes his hand to lead him into the kitchen. And that's the story of how they got their day on!] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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