Higher Faster Further More (captainmarvel) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2014-01-22 22:27:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, carol danvers (captain marvel), jessica drew (spider-woman) |
Who: Carol and Jess
What: Jess discovers Carol's lost her memory
When: 1/19
Where: out in the desert
Status: Complete
Rating: PG-13
Carol had picked herself out of her crater and stumbled down a hill. She was disoriented. Confused. There were a myriad of images that passed before her mind but most of them had no context and then…. they were gone.
She looked down at herself. The thing she was wearing was a little silly. But she could feel some power coursing through her. But she didn’t even know her name.
“Okay, this is weird. Yeah.”
There was some kind of pocket. She didn’t know how but she knew she’d created it to be protective, because inside was a phone.
“All right! Okay..lets see..” She started going through her apps, which told her a few things. Her name was Carol. Not a bad name. She liked the sound of it. “Carol. Carol Carol Carol. Okay. I like it.”
There were frequent calls to a woman named Jess as well as several other people. Jess was speed-dial one, too, so she must be important. She dialed and studied the picture associated with the number.
Jess had been busy trying to make plans about the ‘wedding’ that was going to happen soon. She’d found someone to be the witness for them when they went and got hitched. It was going to be quick and not involving a lot of people. She just wanted to get it over with.
When the phone rang, she picked it up. Carol. “Hey babe, what’s up?”
The blonde blinked and looked at the phone again. "Wait, what? Nevermind. Is this Jess?" She sounded confused, and didn't like sounding confused, but pretty much her entire life was a blank slate.
"Do you know me? My ID says I'm Carol. Which is a nice name. But I don't remember anything."
Now Jess was confused. What the heck? “Yeah, this is Jess.. of course it’s Jess, you called me, remember?”
The words that Carol were saying didn’t seem to be registering fully in her head. “You don’t.. oh come on, Carol. That’s not even funny. Ha ha I get it, big joke on me.”
“I’m serious. I just woke up in this...uhm. Crater. Your number was the most dialed.” Carol looked at the smoking crater. “I think I fell out of a plane or something. How come I’m not dead?” She couldn’t connect this woman’s voice to any memories. Not even to her face. She just kept drawing up a blank. But she didn’t want Jess to panic. “I’m okay. Somehow.”
Oh god she was serious. She didn’t remember her at all. “You fell out of a plane? Okay just.. relax.” That sounded logical. Carol did that sort of thing. Had she been in a crash of some kind? Probably. “You’re not dead because it’s really complicated and you’ve got super powers.” Okay so Jessica was really bad at this sort of thing. “You have a healing power. Okay you’re in a crater. So tell me what’s around you, and I’ll see if I can figure out where you are.” Or she’d just have to use GPS.
"Super powers." Carol furrowed her brow and looked at her hands. "That explains this thing I'm wearing. There's some foot hills. I don't seen anything that's a big landmark." She started to walk, trying to climb up the rocks. "What can I do?"
Shutting her eyes for a moment and taking a deep breath, she thought for a minute. “I’m going to track your phone. Or find a person who can. Just hold on.” She fiddled with the phone to find that where’s my phone app or whatever. If not, she’d just call Darcy Lewis. That girl knew where everyone was. A moment or two later, Jess was back on the phone. “Okay, I’m pretty sure I know where you are. Just sit tight and I’ll be right there and we’ll.. figure it out.”
“I’m sorry. It sounds like I’m freaking you out. I really don’t know what happened so I can’t..tell you anything. But I seem to be okay. I’m not hurt.” Carol smiled into the phone. She was starting to freak out, too. She knew what a phone was, she knew what a car was. But she couldn’t associate people, or events. It was frightening.
“I’m just worried. About you. It’s okay. I’ll be there. Just don’t go anywhere. I’m glad you’re not hurt.” Jess figured there had to be something to say, but she didn’t know what the hell it was. Even if Carol said she wasn’t hurt, she wanted to see that for herself. And then try to figure out what happened. “You.. you really don’t know me at all?” she asked as she grabbed her keys and got in the car.
Carol didn't answer right away. She'd switched to speaker phone and was going through the pictures on her phone. Her and Jess, just Jess, and some other people. A plane. A jet. Some kind of high altitude shot of the mountains that she couldn't figure out how it had been taken.
But she didn't remember taking these. She didn't remember doing any of the things in these pictures.
"No. I’m sorry. Are we close?"
Jess didn’t say anything either at first. Her girlfriend.. no her fiancee and nearly wife didn’t know who she was. And what was she supposed to say? Would she just say they were friends? She didn’t know how to answer without freaking Carol out.
“Yeah.. yeah we’re close.”
"You're in a lot of pictures," Carol mused out loud. "I don't even think you've noticed half the ones I've taken." That could mean a lot of things, but she wasn't going to make any assumptions. She still was trying to find any attachment to this woman's face.
Her entire life was gone. "Am I the kind of person to admit being terrified? Because I think I'm terrified."
Well at least that made sense. “Probably, I don’t usually notice my picture being taken.” Jess could be a bit oblivious about that sort of thing. She was driving, staying on the phone with Carol as they talked. She didn’t want her to freak out.
“Sometimes you are. But I think being terrified is probably the right thing to do. Just.. I mean I know you’re scared. I’m not really good at this, but I’m sure we’ll figure out what happened and then figure out how to fix you.”
"...I think I can fly." Carol was studying the crater, and a gouge in the ground leading up to it. "Maybe I crashed."
She had powers. She lifted off the ground and felt this giddiness sweep through her. It felt so good that she let out a whoop as she spun around in the air. "Oh my god!"
She was suddenly a lot less scared. She landed again and spoke excitedly. "I like that. I like that don't I? I'm pretty sure I like that. You have to fly with me."
Oh oops. Maybe she should have warned Carol about that. Too late now. “Yeah you can fly. Um.. do you see bits of a plane? Because you can fly a plane.” She really hoped she wasn’t going to get pulled over.
By that tone of voice, she figured that Carol had figured out some of her powers. “Yeah you like that a lot. So.. you were flying.. I think I know what happened. Just um.. be careful. Don’t try any powers around people. If you see people. That would be bad.”
"I hide it?" That made her feel a little sad, but she stood there and bounced on her heels instead of flying around more. "I don't see any wreckage."
She thought about the plane in her photos. She supposed it had to be important to her, and she could pretend a little for Jess' sake. "I'm grateful for that."
“Um.. no. I mean.. it’s complicated. I just mean right now, you should probably not try.. to.. kill anyone. Because you can do more than just fly. And we don’t want anyone to get hurt, right?” Jess hoped that she didn’t sound like an idiot.
Okay so she wasn’t in the plane. That meant that she’d gone flying and then.. that thing in her head burst. At least that’s what she figured. “You were sick, well there was something in your brain and I think it must have.. burst and .. now you.. don’t know who I am.”
Carol furrowed her brow and exclaimed, "I feel great, though! My head doesn't hurt." She could feel her enthusiasm waning. Whoever Jess was, she didn't want to hear her hurting. And there was hurt in the woman's voice that Carol didn't know how to deal with.
God, she hoped there was some recognition when she saw her.
“That’s.. that’s probably a good thing. Your body usually heals itself as soon as you’re hurt, so I guess.. maybe it healed.. itself?” Jess wouldn’t really know unless she did some tests, and that was probably going to have to wait. She wasn’t exactly a doctor. “I’m almost there. Maybe you should uh.. wave your arms or fly up a bit so I can figure out exactly where you are.”
“Got it!” Carol floated up and started to wave her free arm. “Do you see me?”
A bolt of light shot from her hand. She stared at it. “...did you see that?”
“Oh yep. Yep I see that. I definitely see that.” Jess hm’d a bit. “Okay I’m going to hang up. See you in two seconds.” She hung up the phone and drove over to where her girlfriend was.
She pulled up and turned off the car. “Hey. Um.. can I.. make sure you’re okay?”
Carol landed, walking towards the car and running a hand through her hair. Her stomach felt like butterflies had taken over as she waited to see this person who was….
Really hot.
“Hi..wow. Uhm. Sure. Sure you can do whatever you want.” Carol searched her mind. But while she now had a face for the name she still didn’t know anything to tell her who she was.
She wondered if she was just a little gay though, because it felt like her body knew this woman.
This was so weird. It felt like Carol and she knew that it was. Some little part of her wondered if she’d get her memory back. Not that Jess knew anything about Kree physiology. She wasn’t even sure where the hell to go with her. Who to ask for help.
Her eyebrows raised a bit and then went over to Carol. It didn’t seem like she was hurt. That was good. Okay. “Do you remember anything at all? Did you remember your name? Your childhood? Anything at all?”
"I didn't remember my name until I looked at the stuff on my phone," Carol replied. "I don't... no. I can't think of anything. I was looking through my pictures and nothing was sticking. I feel like I should know you but I'll be damned if I can figure out why or how."
Damn. The whole thing was gone. The whole entire thing. Jess really wanted to say something snarky about how Carol should have just listened to her, but couldn’t bring herself too. Instead she muttered ‘damn’ under her breath and stuck her hands in her pockets.
“Okay so.. this is all going to sound crazy. But pretty much everyone where we live.. all seem to have these dreams. Very vivid dreams. About another life. A life where we’re both superheroes. I’m Spider-Woman and you’re Captain Marvel. And for a while they were just dreams, but then slowly it started.. bleeding over. We started getting the powers that we had in the dreams. You fly. And do that blast thing. And there’s a bunch of other stuff. Because dream you had this kind of alien physiology that was.. kind of fused with you. It’s a long story, and you told me a couple of times but I’m not exactly one for sticking with details so.. I’m rambling. Anyway.. we’re kind of like superheroes now.”
Carol put her hand on Jess's shoulder and squeezed lightly. It all sounded insane, expect she could fly and she could shoot beams and she crawled out of a crater.
"So you're my side-kick?" She grinned when she said that, as though she were joking. It seemed like something she'd say, she thought.
"Wait, I'm an alien? And you're a spider?"
Thankfully that was still there, or else she would have no explanation for how Carol fell out of the sky and didn’t die. None what so ever. “Um.. no, we’re on the same team. It’s called the Avengers. It’s with a bunch of other people. We save the world a lot.”
She smiled, glad that Carol was taking this all right. “Sort of yeah. I mean you’re human, it’s hard to explain. There was something about you working for some military thing, and that put you in touch with the aliens? They’re called Kree. I don’t think they actually exist here but whatever. I think you got blasted with some kind of technological thing and wham you got powers. In my dreams I was sick and my dad thought it was a good idea to give me spider DNA.” She shrugged a little.
Carol nodded her head, filing away that information. It wasn't helping. She didn't know a Kree from E.T. but she figured they were little green men or something and that was enough. "...sounds like you got the short end of the stick."
She hoped Jess kept talking. She really liked her! “So we kick butt together. I like that. Like super best friends or something?”
Jess couldn’t help but laugh. “Yeah actually, you have no idea how right you are. But I’m fine with it.” Honestly she was. Well except for the whole short end being that her girlfriend didn’t remember her anymore.
“Just like that. Super best friends. Uh.. we live together too.” She honestly didn’t know how much to pile up on her all at once. “Um.. you were in the Air Force. Like I said, you fly planes. And you’re amazing.”
“Glad to know I have a place,” Carol replied. She rubbed her own shoulder as Jess all but gushed. “I like flying. I don’t remember it but I know I like it. Like I don’t remember you, but I know you’re supposed to be important.”
That was good that she had some kind of inkling. Jess knew she had to tell her. There was only one bed at home. “You think flying is the best thing in the world. I can fly too, just not nearly as well. You can go.. really high. But um.. yeah, I’m important. We’re..” time to bite the bullet. “We’re supposed to get married. We’re supposed to get married.”
Carol nodded along a bit. The sky called to her like some primordial need, but her mind screeched to a halt when Jess told her their relationship. She blinked at the woman, her mouth forming a small ‘o’ shape as she absorbed that information. She couldn’t remember that? Why couldn’t she remember that! “Why can’t I remember that? I should be able to remember that!” Her voice cracked on the last two words.
“I don’t know. I think it’s because you flew..” Jess didn’t know how else to put it. “They told you not to because of the thing in your head, but.. you did it anyway. And now you can’t remember anything.”
“Oh.” Her shoulders sagged and she raked both her hands through her hair. “That’s...bad isn’t it. I’m some kind of selfish bitch.”
Jess shook her head quickly. “No, you’re not selfish. You love flying more than anything and anyone in this world, including me. And the thought of not being able to.. it was too much. I get why you did it. I think you didn’t think anything like this would happen. You don’t really listen to anyone.” She said it fondly though and smiled.
Carol let out a sigh and started to put her arms around Jess, then hesitated like she wasn’t sure if it was okay to hug her or not. “I think I see why I love you.”
Oh. That was a surprise. Jess blinked but then put her arms around her in return. It was okay to hug her. “Well to be fair, it’s hard not to love me.”
A grin tugged at Carol’s face and she squeezed Jess. “We’re just a little full of ourselves, aren’t we.”
It didn’t trigger any memories, but the scent of Jess’s hair did reassure her somewhat.
She laughed and nodded her head, squeezing Carol in return. “Yeah, yeah we are.” It was a wonder she was being so.. calm about all of this. She didn’t know if she’d be the same way.
Carol looked at her...fiance. That was a word with a lot of loaded meaning and she could only fathom half of what it meant. “I’m sorry. This is going to be hard for both of us.”
Jess nodded a little, “I know. I’ll be here though. I’m not going anywhere.” Not when Carol needed her. And Carol had been so good to her when she had been sick. “Do you want to go home? If it’s uncomfortable, I can stay at a hotel. Otherwise, I’ll sleep on the couch for.. a while.”
“Lets go home,” Carol decided. “And I’ll sleep on the couch. I’m the one putting you out, remember?” She swallowed, understanding suddenly that they shared a bed which meant they did things in that bed which was okay except she felt embarrassed.
“Well.. if you’re sure. We could swap back and forth. Doesn’t matter to me.” Jess lead the way back to the car, figuring that maybe it would be better than flying. At least she knew the way back home. Carol apparently didn’t.
Carol felt numb. She couldn’t even have her life flash before her eyes, because it was a blank. This gorgeous woman was hurting and she didn’t know how to comfort her, or if she even should. “Yeah...we’ll figure it out.”
Getting into the car, she really had no idea how to feel about this. She was upset and sad, and part of her was angry. She didn’t want to take that out on Carol though. But Jess didn’t really know what to do. So she kept quiet and drove her home. Maybe they could figure it out. But if Carol never got her memories back… where did that leave them?