Re: Log: Seven/Liam
His attention wasn't on the words that Seven said, nor the offering of the bottle of Gatorade procured from a jacket pocket. He took the bottle without thinking, sat it on the desk, but his attention was on the five letters stamped in black ink on that crisp, white sheet of paper.
Sloan.
Individually, the letters didn't mean a lot. Five letters of the alphabet, some that even made up parts of his own name. But together, the name meant something. One hand uncurled from where it had hidden in a pocket, reaching out to pluck the sheet of paper from the typewriter, the roller protesting at the forced removal. He brought the sheet close, as though daring it to be telling him some sort of lie, his other hand tracing over the five letters with the tip of his index finger.
Sloan.
Slowly, oh so slowly, Liam looked back towards Seven, to where he spoke at the floor. The gears were turning, shifting and moving, trying to fit together in the place where this name made sense. He knew it, knew what it meant, who it was, it's meaning on the tip of his tongue, teasing and tormenting.
"Slo-" Liam's jaw clamped shut on the word, hard enough that the sound of them clacking together was audible, nearly down upon his own tongue. Just as the pieces had fit together, as who it was slotted right into place, a spike of pain, white hot and pulsing, rushed through his head. He stumbled back, both hands at his face once more, and every ounce of colour had drained away.
Three stumbled steps before he sat down hard on the hardwood floor, unable to do anything but cope with the pain, the agony, the name bouncing around in his head as he whined. Bent knees and he was leaning forward towards them, shoulders hunched, wings pressing against his shirt, straining and pressing for release. He let out a shout, of agony, of pain, of something he couldn't name, and then the shirt was torn off and white wings unfurled, snow-white and pristine. They stretched for only a moment before they suddenly contracted, around him, a protective cocoon that blocked out the world.