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Remy LeBeau ([info]ace_of_clubs) wrote in [info]vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-06-10 23:23:00

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Entry tags:!complete, day 10, location: museum, remy lebeau, shannon rutherford

Who: Shannon and Remy
What: Gambit eventually makes his way back to the museum.
Where: The museum
When: 1826 - Day 10
Rating: PG13 - Just in case
Status: Complete

Gambit had left the museum just an hour and a half ago, having backed off when Sam had shown up to watch over Shannon. But the Cajun had stared a while at the Post Office, before walking around to look at the carnage of the town, then he'd stood and stared at the felled clock tower for a while. Eventually, he'd left it and had headed back to the museum, for the items he'd been planning to get in the first place. Sam had, for all intents and purposes, chased him off that first time. So he had never got the chance to explore the museum. He was going to go looking for the Doctor's jacket, the Doctor's journal, and a few of those paintings. Definitely a few of those paintings. Then he was going to get the Hell out of this place.

However, when he approached the museum, he was surprised to find that Shannon was still there, and with Jack Harkness, no less! Jack, though, after an easy greeting, had left to do things that needed to be done, and Gambit was once again left babysitting the injured girl. The aftershocks were still shaking the ground every now and then, so going inside wasn't a wise idea on anyone's part, so he avoided the steps leading up to the museum and came back over to Shannon to stand in front of her, hands pushed down onto the pockets of his jacket. He'd wear that thing the rest of his life. Really.

"You still look tire', Chere. How your side feelin'?" His smile was easy, as it always was, and he tilted his head to the side, hair falling into his face.


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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-10 10:55 pm UTC (link)
If ever Shannon felt like a burden, it was today. First with Sam having to take the splinters out of her side and then now there seemed to be a rotating schedule of passersby, mainly Sam, Jack, and Gambit, who were taking turns standing watch and keeping her awake. This was getting a little ridiculous and beyond emotionally exhausting. Never mind that every aftershock served not only to knock her around a little but scare the everlivin' out of her. One would think a California girl would be used to earthquakes, but nothing ever really made a person used to that sort of thing.

Gambit was up, so it seemed, and Jack headed off to do whatever probably heroic thing he had to do, leaving the man with the red eyes in charge again. Shannon felt like a child.

"I'm exhausted. I just want to sleep..." she admitted, frowning. "I don't even know how long I have to stay awake. I'm not doing this all night, no way," she complained. She paused and took in his easy smile. "It's been better, but I'm hangin' in," she answered his question.

A small smile tugged at the corners of her lips, then. "Couldn't get enough of me and had to come back for more?" she joked, rolling her eyes. "I must be terribly exciting, sitting here like a useless lump bitching about being tired."

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-10 11:08 pm UTC (link)
"Oh, wit' a concuss'n? I say.. no more 'den seven'y two hours, Chere." He was pulling her leg, the smile said as much. "Only a few more to go, non?" But after he was satisfied she'd got the joke, he shrugged his good shoulder up and pulled his hands out of his pockets, but remained standing instead of sitting. He was starting to ache all over. The adrenaline had worn off and Gambit was starting to hurt in places he hadn't before. "I t'ink mi'nigh' be long enough, you can sleep 'den." Promised as he crossed his arms over his chest, eyes lowering to her side to inspect the covered wound, looking for any sign that she was bleeding out through it. But it looked alright. She was probably clotting up just fine.

"Non, I come here to get into 'de museum, but here you are, still. I tol' you to go to 'de gym, didn' I? Sam don' lis'en so well, hm? Kid need a spankin'." Kid. He called everyone a kid, despite their age. It probably wasn't what he meant. It was probably a bad translation, on his part. A word he thought meant something else.

"But now here I get stuck wit' you? Mal spectacle." Complained with a smile. He really didn't mind that much. "An' besi'e, I tell you, Chere, I ain' here for 'de exci'ement. I'm here for 'de view." Even as he said that, red eyes were dropping to her legs in a meaningful way, before they came back up to her face. "You fin' somet'in' new to bi'ch 'bou', 'dough, non? Maybe 'de tremors? 'De lack of food in 'dis place?" Poor Gambit! He was on his second day here and had yet to actually go inside the convenience store and raid it for food. He'd passed by it on his way into town, but that had been the last time he'd been there. It hadn't even dawned on him that there was good in there. Needless to say, he was a very hungry Cajun.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-10 11:26 pm UTC (link)
"Seventy-two hours?! Are you fucking kidding me?!" she gasped, eyes wide. ...and then proceeded to feel stupid when he asked his next question and the smile on his face registered in her mind and let her in on the joke. "That's so not funny," she said, although her gentle huff of embarrassed laughter (accompanied by the wince from the twinge of pain) betrayed the words. She looked up at him with hope in her eyes when he suggested midnight would be a good time for her to finally fall asleep. "If I can make it that long," she murmured.

"I'll be fine," she insisted. "It's not that bad; there's probably worse," she added. The fact that she didn't think she probably merited the sort of attention that some other people probably did went unsaid. The thing was, Shannon knew there were only two doctors now with Martha missing. Someone had to bite the bullet and suck it up while they took care of the people more seriously injured. ...assuming the doctors themselves were still in one piece, that was... "Sam's brother's out there somewhere," she defended Sam's reasoning for not having dragged her to the gym against her will. That was the last thing she wanted to be doing; fucking walking around.

Rolling her eyes playfully, Shannon yawned and rested her head back on the building. "Yeah, poor you, getting stuck with me," she teased. When he spoke again, she straightened her head and looked back up at him, not missing the way his eyes moved to her legs. Shannon raised her eyebrows at him.

"There's plenty of food, but it's all at the gas station," she sighed. "Actually, I have a few granola bars and a bottle of water if you wanted to hazard going into the museum, first door on the left down the hallway. There's a backpack in there somewhere, just barely pulled out of what's left of the ceiling..." she offered. "You can have one, if you want; I wouldn't hate to eat if you wanted to play fetch," she said hopefully, giving him a doe-eyed expression and innocent smile.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-10 11:40 pm UTC (link)
He smiled wider when she finally realized that he'd been joshing her, then shook his head and came a step closer, walking much better on that ankle now, despite the deep bruising. His boot had been the only thing to save him from breaking that delicate set of bones. "You can make it 'dat lon', Chere. We gon' make sure you do. An' you righ', 'dey people in 'dere, some of 'dem are worse. Boy run over by deer, guy wit' a leg missin' -- E'war', his leg missin'." Clarrified. "Two guys been crush' by 'de ceilin' in 'de Thea're. Oui, 'dey doin' bad, bu' you ain' no ray of sunshine, nei'ter, Chere."

The Cajun rolled his eyes upwards when she defended Sam, but eventually brought them back down to her. "You defen'in' him? You shoul'n' hafta. Don' worry. He be back, I'm sure." And he'd see Gambit off.. again. "Poor me." The red-head reflected with that same easy grin. He was coming another step closer, and might have sat down, but then she was mentioning that she wanted him to go into the museum. He'd jump at that opportunity, because he wanted to get in there and grab the Doctor's coat, and his journal, and a few select things (like those paintings) from his make-shift bedroom. He liked those paintings. And he'd be taking them when he left this place, as soon as he got back to the Post Office...

"Sure, Chere, I get 'dem. You jus' wai' here, non?" By this time, everyone was safely out of the abandoned museum, and the Cajun was circling around and hopping up those steps, before slipping in the already open door.

It wasn't for another fifteen minutes that Shannon would hear anything at all.. and it wasn't a good noise. The shifting of the concrete inside, then a loud sound of it impacting with the ground, and a bit more of a collapse, in a small aftershock that couldn't have had worse timing. However, when dust began billowing out of the partially open door, the coated red-head was coming out with it, coughing and waving his empty (bad) hand to clear away the dust. Once down the stairs, he let out a breath and flashed her a winning smile. He was covered in dust, but.. alive. And none the worse for it. He had two rolled up paintings under his arm (the third, unfortunately, had been ruined), and the Doctor's coat wrapped around them, the journal safely tucked inside. And that backpack draped at his elbow, with the collected items inside it.

They were all dropped not far from her feet and the Cajun stretched some before sitting down across from her in the grass, wiping some of the dust away from his face and out of his hair. "Your effec's, Princesse."

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-10 11:55 pm UTC (link)
"I heard about Edward," Shannon replied, furrowing her brow in confusion again. "But he said he was fine...I don't get it," she admitted sheepishly. Her eyes widened slightly when he went on to say that two guys had been crushed by the theater's ceiling. "Jesus..." she breathed. "Yeah, I know, but I'm better off than that," she pointed out, suddenly feeling all that much more lucky and thanking - unbelievable... - the powers that be for sparing she and Sam that sort of fate.

Shannon tensed and frowned when Gambit went on about how she shouldn't have to defend Sam. Yes, she did. He couldn't very well sit around with her when his brother and friend were missing and she didn't expect him to. She felt every need to defend his actions, especially when he'd helped her after the original earthquake hit. "I know he'll be back," she told herself more than Gambit...because she had to believe that he would, even when she'd abandoned him before without so much as a word. She'd deserve it, she felt, if he didn't come back, but that didn't mean she'd like it.

"I'm not goin' anywhere," she assured him. "Be careful!" she called after him when he disappeared into the building. While he was gone, another tremor of an aftershock hit and with a cry of pain, Shannon scrambled away from the building on all fours, dropping down onto the dead grass outside and covering her head with her hands.

Nothing hit her and when the tremor ended, she relaxed slightly, uncurling her body again and waiting a moment before opening her mouth to call out to Gambit to make sure he was all right. He appeared in the doorway coughing and waving away the dust as it settled before she could do so and relief washed over her. She'd have felt horrible if something had happened to him while he was in there getting her bag. Admittedly, though, when she saw it slung around his arm, she was happy to see it. Having the remaining inhalers at her side again would be a huge weight off her shoulders.

As he sat down, dropping the bag and a coat down beside her, Shannon sat back up again. "Is that the Doctor's?" she asked, thinking it looked a lot either like his or like Jack's. Without it on someone, she couldn't rightly tell. "And thank you," she said gratefully, already pawing through her bag.

Shannon pulled out her water bottle, surprised that it was still in tact rather than broken and having leaked all over her clothes, and set it down in the grass between the two of them. Next, she pulled out a granola bar, opened it, and snapped it in two, offering Gambit one of the halves. "Bon appétit," she joked.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 12:09 am UTC (link)
"Oui, 'de Doct'r's. He'll wan' it back la'er." He knew he would. So the Cajun had fetched it. "But I get to keep one of 'de pain'in's." Because, well.. he'd pulled them out, damnit! So one was his. If they could find some place stable to live again. "An' you welcome, Chere." He shifted back and very carefully pulled his left leg around to bend it at the knee, sitting in a half-indian style, while he drew the other knee up and wrapped his good arm around it to keep him sitting properly.

When she offered the food, Gambit let a small moan escape the back of his throat and a partially gloved hand moved out to take it. The gloves, now, were worn. They weren't torn up yet, but they were made out of stronger stuff than that, made to withstand a small explosion, as long as he could pull his hand away within the first few seconds, and not be directly next to the object. He slowly took a bite and chewed, savoring the taste before giving her a quick wink. "'De bes' t'in' I ever taste', Chere." Only because he was very hungry. And once the half of a bar was gone, he was turning, and carefully laying on his back in a smooth motion, alongside her, so his head ended up just a foot off her knee. "Jus' saw 'de Doct'r, he's doin' okay. Luna, 'de blon'e, an' 'de boy 'dat t'ink I'm a demon, 'dey bot' in 'de gym now, she got a burn' han', he was 'de poor sap got trample' by 'de deer. Bangge' up pretty good. Watanakimaki," Yes, he knew that wasn't his name, but he couldn't remember anything but the first part of it, "He look like he gonna live, too. An' 'de boy 'de Doct'r pull out. An' E'war'. One guy die'.. I talk to him once, on 'de journal. Nice guy." He didn't even know his name. Somehow, that felt wrong.

"But 'dere wasn' much panic goin' on when I lef' 'de gym, so I t'ink 'dey mos'ly got it un'er cont'rl." Or so he thought. After that last after shock? He could be very wrong. Something else could have collapsed.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 12:24 am UTC (link)
Nodding, Shannon took a bite of her half of the granola bar, chewing as she listened to his response. "Yeah, probably," she agreed upon Gambit's assessment that the Doctor would want the coat back. He hadn't seemed as attached to his coat as Jack was to his, but she'd want her things back if she wasn't wearing them already. It was just sort of a small comfort in a scary, fucked up place to have one's own possessions.

Shannon grinned and hummed a giggle at the response to her having shared her food with him. "Yeah, everything tastes like a gourmet meal when you haven't had shit to eat, non?" she asked with a wink. It was, she figured, probably the only reason she could still stomach SlimFast bars and fruit, by now, between this place and the Island.

Taking a drink of the water, Shannon listened to Gambit tick off names and injuries. Dean had to be the one trampled by deer, because Gambit had said Luna was with him. Her stomach turned with worry for him, but she hoped that Sam would find him. If he didn't, at least Shannon could say where he was and what sort of shape he was in, which was a plus.

"Watanuki?" she offered as a correction. Her heart sank again at the vague assessment. And then her stomach clenched and her eyes widened when he said someone died. "Who?" she asked reflexively before she could stop herself. She hated herself for what she was about to ask next, because it was horrible, she thought, to put one person above the rest. "Was he an Asian kid? About seventeen years old...?" she asked, already chewing her bottom lip and feeling her eyes fill with tears at the very idea that Domeki might have been the one who died.

Gambit's remark about the gym went ignored, for the time being.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 12:36 am UTC (link)
In response to her question about the food, Gambit only cracked a grin and lifted his eyebrows. She was right. He could have eaten slugs and would have been pleased. No. Really. He had before. You ate just about anything when you were starving. Granola was definitely the best he'd had in this sort of situation. But when she corrected the name, he nodded in agreement. That was it. But who had died? "Don' know his name. But non, not Asian. Had a bear'. Dark hair. Maybe t'ir'y? Only got to see a glimpse, didn' stick 'roun' lon'. 'Dey wan' me to be helpful. Take care of people. I did my par'." With that statement, he was closing his eyes, relaxing there in the dusty grass for the first time all day.

"Where you gon' sleep tonigh', Chere?" A question he'd begun asking people whenever he ran into them. He hadn't checked the state of all of the buildings yet, but he wasn't sure many of them would be very livable. Not so soon afterwards, anyway. But the Cajun was nothing if not resourceful, and he'd be able to make himself a home anywhere in this place. He could sleep anywhere. It came with experience. Surely Shannon would know about that.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 12:51 am UTC (link)
Mentally, Shannon went through the list of people she'd met in person and tried to think of anyone that fit the description. Immediately half of the people she'd met were crossed off the list because they were either female or younger than their thirties. Anders flashed into her mind, but she wasn't sure his scruff counted as a beard and hoped it didn't. He was the only one she'd met in person that even came close to the description and it didn't fit well enough to cause her panic.

She relaxed again, satisfied that it wasn't Domeki and that it was probably not Anders. They were still out there somewhere and she had to tell herself that they were okay, because she couldn't think about other possibilities right now. There were people in the journals she hadn't met but had heard of or talked to. Andy, Sam's friend, was one of them. Bob, L, Jean...she knew that Jean was all right, though. There might've been more, but she was too happy that it wasn't Domeki to consider it too much further.

"I never met anyone with that description," she said quietly if only to fill the void of sound between them when he stopped talking. She looked down at him, jealousy flickering in her eyes at the way he laid there with his eyes closed. If she did the same, she'd pass out, she knew it. She was completely drained. "I don't know, wherever," she answered. "Probably right here," she admitted. "Nothing's worse than the other places I've been sleeping lately," she decided aloud.

She had been sleeping on a hard wooden floor in the freezing cold with only Sam to keep her warm, in the caves on a bed made of chunks of airline seats balanced on rocks; in a lean-to fashioned from a tarp and planks of wood...hell, she'd slept in the rain out on the sand, curled up against her bony big brother. Yeah, the prickly dead grass out here was nothing by comparison. In fact, she thought, it might actually feel more comfortable than everything else she'd endured in the past two months or so. "What about you?" she asked after a short pause.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 01:02 am UTC (link)
"Me nei'ter.. an' now we never will." Well, that was a depressing though, but he'd had to say it. Whoever it was that had died wouldn't be coming back. They'd never get a chance to meet him. Sure, they'd find out his name, hear about what he was like, but they'd never meet him. Never get to talk to him. Gambit was used to it, though, and death didn't really phase him. The Cajun took in a deep breath through his nose and opened his eyes when she asked where he'd be sleeping that night.. and with a curling smile, the Cajun answered easily.

"A warm, fluffy be', Chere. Wit' down pillows.. an' a warm body besi'e me. Silk shee's." Or, so he was hoping. If that tunnel led out of here? He'd be seeking those items out with a vengeance and settling in for a good nights sleep. He deserved one, after playing boy hero all day. This was definitely not his calling and he didn't enjoy it one bit. Even babysitting Sharron was bordering on too goody for him. But she was gorgeous, so he was willing to suffer for the cause. Speaking of which, he turned his head so he could look at her from where he was laying near her knee. "Hey, Chere?" He questioned her, and once he had her attention, was continuing. "Wha' you know 'bou' Cap'in Jack Harkness? He seem pretty nice, non?" It was an innocent question. Right?

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 01:20 am UTC (link)
The statement hit Shannon like a slap in the face. It was true and she knew it, but it still hurt to hear it put so bluntly. What if she had met them, so to speak? What if she had talked to him in the journals and just hadn't had the chance to meet up in person with everything that had been going on lately. Secretly, she hoped whoever he was, she'd never heard his name excluding the role calls. Whoever he was, she hoped she'd never talked to him or that if she did, she didn't like him.

Whoever he was...she hoped someone had the balls and stomach to lay him to rest the way everyone on the Island had done for Boone. His grave was crude and he'd been wrapped in tarp rather than in a smart suit; his face had still been bloody, even though she'd tried to get the worst of it before she'd broken down completely, but he'd been buried. He would hopefully rest in peace on the Island...and Shannon hoped whoever Gambit was talking about would find his own peace in final rest, even in this shitty place.

And suddenly, Shannon was angry. Why the fuck would this place let someone die if they were all supposed to be lab rats? What good is a dead lab rat? she'd constantly pointed out. It was the one thing she had been able to cling to and Gambit had shattered her last ray of hope just by telling her that someone else had met their demise. Even if she tried to justify that perhaps the person had already undergone an experiment and they weren't needed anymore, there was no hope in that.

Shannon herself had undergone one, waking up naked with Anders a few mornings ago when she'd fallen asleep with Sam. Sam had undergone an experiment the second day here. If the clones were an experiment, then Jack, Ianto, Dean, and the Doctor all had been part of one, as well. Domeki had been part of an experiment. Locke. Cheryl. George. Anders. Bob. Sam's friend Andy. Doctor Lexie. The missing Martha Jones. Everyone she'd ever talked to; everyone she'd come to care about. The only exception to the rule was Jay, but he could've been cloned and she hadn't known about it. Did that mean every last one of them was expendable now?

Expired.

Shannon closed her eyes and tried to focus on Gambit's voice coming back into her ears. It was the only thing that kept her from breaking down again. Or from throwing up. ...or both.

"Yeah, well, if you find something like that, you let me know," she said dully. "I'll sleep with you, for sure," she added not even registering the fact that it could be taken as anything other than actually sleeping.

Her eyes opened and she looked back at him when he questioned her directly, face drawn down with a mixture of exhaustion and raw emotion. "Not much," she admitted. "He's awesome, I adore him. I know that he'll flirt with just about anything that moves and I know that he saved my life. That's good enough for me," she replied, omitting everything else that she knew about the man. It wasn't her place to go spouting off things about time travel, space travel, or secret above-the-government organizations. She didn't know what of what he'd said was in confidence and couldn't remember which things were mentioned under private filters on the journals or in person versus out in the open in the books for all the community to see and she wasn't going to guess.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 09:45 am UTC (link)
"I let you know, Chere." He lied smoothly, eyes closing again as he breathed in deeply. This was nice. Laying down. His shoulder was protesting but it felt good everywhere else. And his coat made for a nice barrier against the itchy grass. Like heaven.

"But you don' know 'dat much, non? 'Dis Insi'er, L'Initié, he say he talk wit' all you. He say you all be frien's. Say he walk among us. 'De people we don' know, 'dey coul' be him." Now, Gambit was beginning a very careful, very precise game.. and if he didn't work it just right, it was going to backfire against him. After his talk with the Insider, he'd decided that he believed him. He'd decided that he believed that they walked among the people here. And he was turning it into a game to find out which person it was. If it turned them all against one another in the end, well.. that couldn't be helped. As long as he found out who it was. And Shannon, honestly, wasn't on his list. The Insider had mentioned her name, which took her completely off his 'List of People it Could Be'. No one mentioned their own name.

However, it didn't mean he trusted her any more than he had before, which was very little. He was willing to divulge information, because it was stuff that he already assumed that The Insider, and the people who ran this place, knew. There had been that strange moment of bonding, where he'd actually cared about making Shannon feel better, but.. Well. She wasn't like him. She wasn't one of his own. He didn't have any people. Not out there and certainly not in here. Gambit was alone and he liked it that way. Alone inside a box full of people.

"Maybe we be more careful, 'bout 'de people we talk to, non? Jus' remember t'in's 'dey say, t'in's 'bout 'dem." He turned his head to look at her then, red eyes opening to focus on brown. "Be smar'."

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 11:47 am UTC (link)
"Good luck with that," Shannon replied dryly. No way in hell was Gambit going to find what he was looking for if a bed with silk sheets was what he was seeking out. He'd do better to get comfortable right where he was, she thought but didn't say.

Her eyes narrowed at Gambit as he went on. "I know more about Jack than I'm telling," she snapped; it was true but she hadn't intended on saying as much until he'd all but prompted her to. "And the Insider's fucking full of shit," she added bitterly. It sounded to Shannon like Gambit was trying to insinuate that Jack could be the Insider. No. The Insider wouldn't have saved her life just to put her back in peril; what was the fun in that? She could've died or been hurt far worse than she was and then what? Then how would he tease her if she couldn't write back to him? How would he peep on her when she was doing private things with others or alone only to taunt her about it later if she was dead? And Jack? No. The Doctor trusted Jack and Shannon trusted the Doctor, so, by extension, she held Jack in a very high regard.

"Yeah thanks for the advice," she said with sarcasm saturating the words as she looked awy from him. If her side didn't still ache, she'd move all together. Who the hell did he think he was, anyway, coming around and eyeing her the way he had been; kissing her without asking if he could and now insulting her friends? Fuck this guy, she thought, and wished that Sam would hurry up and come home. ...well, come back, since the home she'd built with him was completely destroyed.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 12:22 pm UTC (link)
"Calm down, 'Chere. You know more 'bou' him 'den you say, I believe you. Ain' mean to upse' you now, you all bang up an' injur', don' wan' get you all rial' up. Was jus' askin'. 'Das all. C'est bien." He was still watching her, though she'd looked away from him. "Maybe one 'de o'ters, non? Anyone you t'ink migh' be doin' 'dis?" Well, that had failed.. for the most part. But he'd gotten his point across, it really could be anyone. Even the Doctor -- though Gambit was going back and forth on whether it could be the Doctor or not. Everyone else, aside from Shannon, was fair game.

"Don' get mad." He moved a hand over then to pat at her knee, more as a way to gain her attention than to comfort, or try to be fresh. In fact, it was the farthest from being fresh that Gambit could manage. Low enough on her leg that it wasn't intrusive, and it wasn't a slide, or a grip. It was just a pat, once, then twice, before he removed his hand all together. "Jus' tryin' do figure 'dis ou', non? 'Das why I ask. You know 'dese people better 'den me. Was lookin' for your help, not t'turn you 'gains' anyone. D'accord?"

That said, he was lifting his hand again and tucking it behind his head in the grass, leaving his bad arm down at his side, hand resting on his tanktop-covered abdomen. It was nice, not wearing that tanktop.. it had been a little warm. But no way was he taking off his coat again. Not after the Doctor nearly lost his.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 12:46 pm UTC (link)
"I don't think it's anyone here," she concluded, frustrated with him. "The only people in here that haven't had to endure experiments are either missing," she said and then looked back at him darkly. "Or new." She cocked her eyebrows once at him, mouth drawn into a thin line. Like you, the look said. And then she looked away again. Two could play at this game. If he was going to insinuate that one of her friends might be behind all of this, then she could insinuate that he was. He was awfully carefree and easygoing, all things considered, which was suspicious enough.

Her brow furrowed again when he touched her knee, patting it. She looked back at him. How could she not be mad? "There's no figuring it out," she replied. "You'll learn. Everybody comes in here thinking that they can figure shit out and get us out of here and nobody can," she countered. "I know some of these people. But I'm careful about the company I choose to keep," she finished. She was fairly certain that the connotation was clear - she hadn't chosen to keep Gambit's company. She wasn't sure whether or not she would have, but the point stood that she hadn't. Again, letting him know that he was suspicious.

Shannon's eyes fluttered closed and she shook her head, finally laying down beside him. If he was going to babysit, then let him do his job, because otherwise, she was going to sleep. She was tired and emotionally drained. And the grass felt itchy, but soft. Sleep...sleep was good.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 01:11 pm UTC (link)
When she insinuated that he was the Insider, his eyebrows went up. But he didn't contradict her, and he didn't speak up to try to defend himself. However, when she laid down next to him, he let out a breath and sat up slowly, twisting where he sat to be able to face her. "You t'ink I'm him, Chere? D'accord." That was fine with him. "But you still can' sleep. You gotta sit up." He was scooting closer, reaching out to push some of her hair out of her face. "Sit up. Avancer. I help." He was bending then and sliding his good arm around the upper part of her back to start lifting. "You wan' sleep an' not wake up? Don' sleep like such a good i'ea to me. But you ain' wan' me here, I go get you someone you like more, non?"

Once he had her sitting up, though, he was removing his arm and letting it settle back into his lap. "But you gotta go wit' me. Can' leave you 'lone, if you gon' lay down an' try to sleep." She was right, though. He was suspicious. The only person that would have any reason *not* to suspect him would be the Doctor, but that was because the Doctor and Gambit, well.. they had a sort of understanding.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 01:48 pm UTC (link)
In spite of the mood Gambit had put her in, a lazy, contented smile spread over her lips when he pushed some of her hair out of her face. "Maybe you're him," she murmured sleepily. "I'm tired. Five minutes," she pleaded, letting him pull her up into a sitting position again. Her head dropped down on his shoulder even as he let go of her again and she nuzzled against his neck. "Seriously, just five minutes..."

He suggested finding someone she liked more to keep an eye out for her and that made her feel a bit badly, but before she could respond to it, he was saying she'd have to go with him if he did and the very last thing Shannon felt like doing was moving. "Je ne veux pas me déplacer..." she yawned.

"What time is it?" she ventured sleepily. "Almost midnight?" She knew there was no way that it was nearly midnight, but she almost hoped he'd lie to her about it. "Why do you think Jack is the Insider...?"

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 01:59 pm UTC (link)
"Nooo." It was rare he used the English version of the word, but it worked better this way, so he could stretch out the vowel. "In five minu'e, Chere, you be dea', an' if we ever gon' fin' out which one of us is 'de better fuck, you gon' hafta live. I ain' partial to necrophelia, est-il compris? 'De body get too col', an t'in's swish 'dat ain' suppos' to." But he was smiling as he said it, and when she came to slump against him like that, he lifted his good hand and rest it on the back of her hair.

"I know, Chere. So you gon' hafta put up wit' me, awful as 'dat is. But at leas' I'm pretty to look at, non?" He smiled again and lifted red eyes skyward, as if to check the time. No. Midnight was a long time off. "Non, no where near. But you doin' okay. I tell you, I make sure you stay 'wake. One way or 'de o'ter." He promised in a joking tone -- but when she asked about Jack, he thread his fingers through her hair absently to comb it once or twice, before letting his hand slip down and rest at the small of her back, a few inches from her wound. But he did it very carefully, so as not to injure.

"I don'. I'm jus' tyrin' to puzzle it out. I know people showin' up here all 'de time an 'dey always comin' up wit' somet'in'. But I'm different. Mieux, souvenez-vous? I figure somet'in' out. I fin' somet'in'. We ain' gon' be stuck here forever." The Cajun let his eyes close briefly then, before opening them again. "Ain' sleepin', are you?"

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 02:17 pm UTC (link)
"Five minutes ne me tuera pas," she yawned again, relaxing against him as he threaded his fingers through her hair. "I'm the better fuck," she insisted weakly. "Vous vous êtes dit que je suis meilleur," she pointed out.

Her voice was small and tired as her eyelids fluttered, eyelashes batting against his skin as she tried to force her eyes open. "You won't be able to puzzle it out," she told him. "Il a conçu pour nous confondre. Surely someone mieux; la rue intelligente like yourself can see that," she yawned. "Je suis éveillé. Sort of..."

Her eyes closed again even as she tried to force herself to sit up again, failing, and she sighed. "Nous sommes des rats de laboratoires. Nous ne sommes rien plus que les jouets. L'Initié vous permettez de pense que vous a calculé des choses hors, mais il reste. Il veut que vous ayez cru que vous peut le morceau ensemble l'énigme, parce que si vous croyez que vous avez la réponse, vous êtes assez égaré pour lui retirer le tapis de sous vous encore. C'est absurde pour le combattre et c'est une perte de temps pour avoir l'espoir. Tous mourrons ici. Ce n'est qu'une question de temps. Le jeu sur, Gambit. Ceci est le commencement de la fin." That was when the tears started to come again and Shannon was too tired to fight them, so she simply let them fall.

[Translation: We are lab rats. We are nothing more than toys. The Insider will let you think you've figured things out, but he lies. He wants you to believe you can piece together the puzzle, because if you believe you have the answer, you're distracted enough for him to pull the rug out from under you again. It's pointless to fight it and it's a waste of time to have hope. We're all going to die here. It's only a matter of time. Game over, Gambit. This is the beginning of the end.]

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 02:31 pm UTC (link)
Gambit sat quietly as she spoke, and even once she finished, he only sat there, not uttering a word in return. Almost a full minute would pass before he spoke up again. "Remy. Remy LeBeau." It seemed random, but it wasn't. Not really. She'd recognize the first name from being on that list of people, surely. It wasn't a normal name. French. It was, of course, the Cajun's name. Surely even her sleep-depraved mind could work that one out for her, and Gambit would wait silently until it did.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 02:36 pm UTC (link)
Slowly, Shannon looked up at him, eyelids at half-mast and eyelashes wet with tears she was too tired to bother hiding. "I like that better," she whispered, giving him a ghost of a smile. Something told her that if he had told anyone else his real name, it wouldn't be many others.

So, she looked down again and finally pushed herself to sit up on her own. "Shannon Rutherford," she admitted without looking back at him. No one knew her real last name. Everyone thought it was Carlyle. She'd taken on Boone's last name to protect herself, but there was no point in trying, now. The only people she didn't want to know it were the people running the show...and they probably already knew.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 02:46 pm UTC (link)
"Nice to meet you." He smiled and reached out to touch at her chin and guide her to look at him again. Only once she was facing him did he lower that gloved hand back into his lap. "But don' tell anyone else, d'accord? 'Tween you an' me. I ain' tol' no one else." And with that statement, he was shrugging off his coat and shifting to pull it out from under him, then toss it aside over the Doctor's wrapped one.

"Ain' we ain' gon' die here. Je suis trop joli pour mourir ici. And so are you." He allowed his face to curl up into a smile then and he pulled his other leg in, to finish the half-indian-style he'd been sitting in, helping make him a bit more stable. "You see. I get you ou'." And the instant he'd said it, he regretted it. He wasn't going to get her out. He was going to leave her here to rot, with the others, he was going to go back, go through those tunnels, and be gone. Or, that was the plan, at least. But regardless.

"So you know Luna, oui? You know her boyfrien' Dean?" He assumed boyfriend, of course.. even if it wasn't true. And he'd be calling Sam Shannon's boyfriend, even though it wasn't true. Maybe he had that translation a little backwards, as well, and meant it in a platonic way. There was a good chance of it.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 02:54 pm UTC (link)
"Likewise," she answered quietly, looking into his eyes and deciding that he was telling the truth. "I won't tell if you won't. I've been giving out my first name, but lying about the last," she admitted.

Sniffling, Shannon dropped her head forward slightly and let out a huff of humorless laughter. "Thanks, I think," she replied, looking back up at him. The smile faded away almost as quickly as it had come when he said he was going to get her out. "I've heard that before and I'm still here," she said with a cock of her eyebrows and the beginnings of a frown. "I'll believe it when I see it."

With a sigh, Shannon shrugged. "Yeah, I know who Luna is. And Dean, that's Sam's brother," she said. It didn't surprise her that Dean and Luna had finally hooked up. Only a matter of time, she thought, before the little bitch hooked someone with her big blue eyes and innocent charm. It probably helped that she was tiny and petite with endless cascades of blonde hair. Shannon didn't stand a chance. Not, really, that she cared anymore, but she had.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 03:13 pm UTC (link)
"You were doin' better 'den me." He reminded her with a smile, eyebrows lifting up. And when she announced that she'd believe it when she saw it, Gambit shook his head, red hair swinging into his face once again-- he was starting to get scruffy, and he was beginning to wish for a razor. Maybe if he asked Logan real nicely.... No. Bad idea. "'Den when I do it, I expec' a kiss." The Cajun broke into a wide grin and leaned back once more, a graceful motion that helped stretch his back before he leaned forward again.

"Wha' you know 'bou' him, Chere?" But this time, his voice held a different tone. He wasn't fishing, like he had been with Jack. But he was definitely curious. Clearly, he wanted to know more about Dean, and probably his brother, if Shannon was willing to tell him.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 03:24 pm UTC (link)
She had a feeling, based on the grin and the tone of his voice, that Gambit was kidding. Still... "If you can get take me home, Remy...I'll give you more than a kiss," she said in all seriousness.

When he asked, Shannon furrowed her brow slightly. "About Dean?" she asked. Then, she shrugged. "Probably less than I know about Jack. He's fiercly loyal, though, unless it's all an act, because he was so angry with me and he still came when I needed him," she replied. And he's a great fuck, a great kisser, and has a nice ass, but I'm pretty sure that's not what you're looking for, she thought to herself.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 03:31 pm UTC (link)
"I take you up on 'dat la'er, Chere." He promised smoothly, before brushing a bit of his own hair back. It was hot out here. What he wouldn't give for some sort of rubber band to hold it back.. He didn't care cut it. He loved it. But he had considered it...

"Dean, oui. He call me uh Demon, threa'en to kill me, you know, 'de usual." Well, not really. When people saw his eyes, they usually screamed 'Mutant', not 'Demon', which was what had him curious. "You maybe got any i'ea why he screamin' 'Demon' at me, Chere?" He was curious, to say the least. The Cajun, like the Doctor, got himself in trouble more often thanks to his curiosity.. and also like the Doctor, thankfully, the red-head had nine lives and was usually able to haul himself out of the trouble he'd created. But this time, he hadn't even done anything. He'd been helping the guy. He assumed it had something to do with his religion, or some such. Really.. religion was the bane of the Earth. And that thought had him smirking some, but he shook his head and dismissed it. "'De blon', Luna, she was calm, 'dough." So whatever the 'demon' comment was about, Luna didn't share his beliefs.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 04:17 pm UTC (link)
"If you can take me home," Shannon reminded him, giving him an easy smile much like the ones he'd been giving her. She yawned again and put her hands behind her on the grass, leaning her weight back on them. "Je veux m'endormir, le condamner de Dieu il!" she whined.

She looked back at Remy then and raised an eyebrow. "Dean?" she asked again. "He doesn't really strike me as the religious type, hon," she said doubtfully, "so I don't know..." And he didn't, really. Nothing about Dean suggested he'd be the type to scream 'demon' at someone, even if they had red eyes. She wasn't going to call Gambit a liar...but she was kind of thinking it. It didn't sound like the Dean she knew at all. Then again, it was almost scary how little Shannon knew about the people with whom she spent her time and entrusted her life.

"Yeah, I bet she was calm, she probably had no idea what was going on," Shannon replied, rolling her eyes and letting her head fall back as she closed her eyes again. "Why can't it be midnight?" she sighed, opening her eyes and looking up at the sky. "My side feels better..." she offered. "Not a lot, but some."

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 04:44 pm UTC (link)
"Dean." He agreed simply. And when she declared that he wasn't the religious type. Gambit wasn't sure that he believed that. Why else would someone call him a demon in such a passionate way? Unless that got the kid off, and he doubted that. Those certainly hadn't been yells of pleasure. And, you know, with the fact that he'd told him he'd kill him. Gambit had never gone to school, never been formally taught, but he was pretty sure when someone called you a demon, then said 'fuck you', and told you they were going to kill you, that it generally had something to do with religion. Then again.. he'd been wrong before. And this whole place was very strange. He wouldn't be surprised if Dean turned out to be some sort of.. angel, or something. This place was insane.

"Now now, be nice, Chere. You can' make fun of people less for'una'e 'den you. You gotta un'erstan' 'dat not everyone can be as smar' as you, oui? An' 'de more you wish for mi'nigh', 'de longer it gonna take. Wa'ch Gumbo never finish. Maybe you try to t'ink of somet'in' side sleep?" He was looking up at the sky as she did, though, and lifted his eyebrows some. "'Das a good sign. You need t'go to 'de gym, Chere. Get a real doct'r to take a look at 'dat. I don' t'ink a shirt wrap 'roun' it is gon' be good 'nough." Red eyes lowered away from the sky then to lock onto her face, the easy smile returning.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 04:57 pm UTC (link)
Shannon shrugged slightly, wincing a little at the way the muscles in her shoulders complained in response to the movement. "I don't know. I mean, like I said, I don't really know much about Dean. I just...wouldn't have guessed he was the type, I suppose," she replied. Sam didn't seem the type...but then, she knew very little about Sam, as well, and suddenly that kind of bothered her. She wanted to know more about everyone and wanted them to know things about her. Nothing that would make her look bad, of course, but... Something so that if she was ever found dead in the rubble or in the woods or God only knew where else, people would be able to say that they knew her. Maybe someone could say that they loved her. Probably someone could say that they cared that she was gone.

"She's not less fortunate than me," Shannon replied, shaking her head. "She's playing the game better than I am. That's all. She plays dumb and the men eat it up. I used to do it, I'm just better than that now. I don't need to pretend I'm a moron for guys to find me attractive. She probably wouldn't, either, if she thought about it for half a second, but her head's too far in the damn clouds," she added.

Shannon looked up again and met Gambit's eyes. "When Sam comes back, maybe," she said with a shrug. "Or tomorrow. I'm too tired, Remy. I don't ever want to have to move again, right now, but maybe tomorrow. It'll hold until then, I'm sure," she said. Although, if Sam came back and insisted she go to the gym - and assured her that the doctors there didn't already have their hands full - then she would probably go.

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 06:07 pm UTC (link)
"I like 'de game you playin' now, Chere." Gambit assured her with that same easy smile, before he lifted a hand to push back through his hair, arm muscle tensing as he did. It hurt. His whole body was stiff, and sitting still certainly wasn't helping in the least. "'De whole.. Sexy, confiden' one. 'De one where you play har' to get. I like a chall'nge." Of course, it was very hard to tell if he was being serious, or if he was kidding, thanks to the smile on his face. It neither confirmed nor denied a joke.. just was very assuring that he was enjoying himself, sitting here with her like this. She was good company. He wouldn't, however, stay forever. He had things to do.. Post Offices to stare at for hours on end. You know. He was a very busy Cajun.

"You more for'una'e 'den she is, Chere. You prettier, non? Better personal'ty. Funny." There it was. Funny. He'd been insisting that she was funny since earlier in the day. He liked her sense of humor, liked that she bantered back and forth with him and didn't take it all too seriously. Some of it was serious, of course, he was definitely interested.. but she knew that, and still didn't take any of his joking or advances too seriously. It was fun. It was attractive. And so was she.

"You jus' make sure you go. You don', an' you die, I gonna kick your ass, vous comprenez?" Of course, the red-head was grinning away, and lowered his eyes to watch as he plucked some grass off of the ground and held it between his fingertips. "Where you from origin'ly, Shan?" Shannon was too long to say for the lazy Cajun. Sorry.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 07:32 pm UTC (link)
I'm not playing a game with you, Shannon thought. "I'm just trying to survive, but you know? I don't think I'm alive at all..." she replied. It might've sounded a little random to him without the thought she had before it being vocalized. She was too tired to care. "You know what I think?" she asked, looking over at him and laughing humorlessly, a wince passing over her features again at the movement. "I think I died in the plane crash. I think the Island and this place? They're Hell. Because I was never a good person and now I'm being punished. None of this is real, but it feels like it because I lead a life that wasn't worthy. That's what I think, Remy," she said.

"Alors, je ne joue pas un jeu avec vous. Je suis ni sexy ni confiant. Il y a non 'dur à obtenir'. Merde, les gens pourraient vous dire ici je suis assez fichu facile si vous jouez votre droite de cartes; vous arrivez avoir juste le mauvais moment." With that, Shannon gave him an almost apologetic look. "Vous êtes très bon regarder. Et très lisse. Il y a deux jours. ..I aurait été du mastic dans vos mains."

Again, Shannon blushed slightly and shook her head. "Non. Elle est meilleure. Je suis seulement moi. But thank you," she replied. "I'm glad you think so. It's really nice to know someone does," she said sincerely.

She laughed a little and hissed in pain when she did. "You're gonna kick my ass after I die? That's mad skills right there, Remy," she pointed out, winking. Her brow furrowed at the nickname. She found she almost preferred "Chere" to the name that Boone had exclusive rights to using, but she said nothing. "Los Angeles. 2004. How about you? Clearly you're from Louisiana, but were you from there originally? And, you know, when?" she asked.

[Translation: So, I'm not playing a game with you. I'm neither sexy nor confident. There's no 'hard to get.' Shit, people here could tell you I'm pretty damn easy if you play your cards right; you just happen to have bad timing.]

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 07:47 pm UTC (link)
She'd find that he wouldn't use that name much.. 'Shan' had been a direct result to their little name exchange. He wanted to let her know that he knew her name.. even though he would probably never use it again. So she had nothing to worry about. "You ain' dea', Chere, an 'dis ain' Hell. You know how I know? 'Cause it ain' filled up wit' my ex's." As he said that, he broke out into a grin and lifted his eyebrows, nudging at her lightly with his elbow, before dropping it again. "C'est bizarre. Je ne crois pas que j'aie un simple excepté ce qui n'a pas essayé de me tuer*." He flashed her a grin seconds later. "You wan' hop on 'de ban'wagon?" A joke, of course.. the whole thing sounded like a joke, in fact. But he was quite serious about the first part. Very serious.

"An' you sexy, Chere. You confi'en'. Maybe you t'ink not, but you wrong." He knew sexy women when he saw them, and she was definitely a looker. She was right up his alley. His wife, after all, was a blonde. The thought made him actually scrunch his nose up. If all blondes acted like her, maybe he should rethink this. But then he was drawn back into the present again and smiled at her, shaking his head a bit. "You my kinda girl, Chere." However, he would leave it there, and wouldn't make mention of it again, unless she brought it up.

"Kick your ass, oui. I kick 'de asses o'dea' people 'fore, don' t'ink I can' do it. 'Dere some weir' people ou' 'dere. I run into some freaks." So said the man with red eyes.. which were, in fact, turning onto her at that moment, as if daring her to say something about his eyes making him a freak. His eyebrows went up slowly. Well...? How brave was the little Princess feeling?



[Translations: *It's funny. I don't think I have a single ex who hasn't tried to kill me.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Smirking, Shannon nudged him back. "Yeah, mine either, come to think of it," she agreed. "That's a good point." She was actually kind of glad that Remy was trying to contradict her rather than pondering the possibility. That simple act somehow made her feel better. Her eyebrows arched dangerously high as he professed that all of his exes had tried to kill him and she wrinkled her nose, grinning in response when he asked if she wanted to hop on the bandwagon. "The trying to kill you bandwagon or the ex bandwagon?" she joked back. "Or both?"

With a shrug, Shannon looked away from him for a moment before turning her eyes back to him in time to catch and return his smile. "Oh yeah?" she asked. "You like the useless, injured types, then?" she teased. Shannon didn't actually expect an answer.

"Oh, believe me, I know," she agreed. Back in the real world, Shannon might not have thought twice about calling Gambit a freak. Now, she'd met a lot of people she'd never have given the time of day. Now, she'd met people who traveled through time and space. Who could die a thousand deaths and live to see another day. Who had claws hidden beneath their skin and came from being not-quite-crygenically frozen. Stoners and heroes and doctors; different times, different places, different professions. And most of them, she'd come to care about. So now, she would think twice before considering someone a freak. Thus, she said nothing of his comment. "We're all freaks," she said with a shrug. "So...I'm sure you have."

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 08:37 pm UTC (link)
"'Paren'ly, you can' have one wit'ou' 'de o'ter, Chere. You gon' have to do bot' if you wan' one." The Cajun, it seemed, was always smiling. Always up beat. Even in this place. And she'd find that it wasn't going to change, over time. He'd always be like this, no matter how long they were here. He had his reasons for being that way, and it wasn't all a front. Some of it might have been.. but Gambit was genuinely enjoying this. It was sort of pathetic, in a way, that he enjoyed something like this. A bit strange, too, really.

"Oui. You all freaks." He agreed with a laugh. "I'm 'de only normal one here." Wasn't that the farthest thing from the truth? But still, it seemed like a good place for a little jab at Shannon, and for a laugh. He joked because it was an ice breaker, a tension reliever, and because.. well.. it was just who he was. The Cajun was a happy man. What made it odd, was that he didn't have any reason to be happy.

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 09:23 pm UTC (link)
"Well," Shannon began slowly, tipping her head just slightly to the side as if she were pondering on the subject. "I can't be an ex if I wasn't ever a girlfriend. So, I'd have to be a girlfriend first. And then I'd be all 'buy me this,' 'bring me that,' 'do these jeans make me look fat?' and it just wouldn't be any fun for you at all," she concluded, looking back at him and grinning.

Giving him a mock look of scandal, Shannon raised a hand to her chest overdramatically, much the way he had earlier in the day while spinning fantastic tales. "We're all freaks?" she asked, pretending to be incredulous. "Well, you're here now, so join the fuckin' club, buddy," she joked. "Nobody here is normal, so hop on the crazy train and hang on tight."

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 09:51 pm UTC (link)
"You are righ'." Gambit concluded, nodding as she came to her point, his lips pursed as he tried to look very analytical. Yes, Watson, you had a point. But then he was flashing her another easy Cajun smile, and leaning back some on his hands, letting out a slow breath in the process.

"Maybe you righ'. Well, I guess if I'm on 'de crazy train alrea'y, can' hur' to enjoy 'de ri'e, non?" That drew up a short laugh from the red-head again and he wave Shannon a wink before closing his eyes. It felt nice to just sit around. He'd had a very hectic day. Then again.. everyone had. But he swore that no one had a more hectic day than he did. It had been insane.

Then, out of the blue: "Wha' you favori'e color, Chere?" It had dawned on him, the same as it had dawned on her, that he didn't actually know anything about these people. He might as well find out something while he was sitting around doing nothing, right? "You favori'e animal? Got hobbies? You do anyt'in' 'sides dance?"

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[info]ballerinadreams
2009-06-11 10:15 pm UTC (link)
Talking to Remy wasn't difficult, by any means. He was good natured, Shannon thought, and well-meaning. At least when it came to babysitting, so to speak. But, Shannon was tired and the sun had just finished setting when Sam's silhouette appeared in the barely-there moonlight.

Shannon looked over Gambit's shoulder and nodded toward the approaching figure. "I guess you're off duty, now," she said with a small smile. "Thanks for keeping me company." She meant it. The sincerity in her voice, she hoped, was a clear communication of that. "And for keeping me awake. Alive," she added softly.

Leaning closer to Remy, she whispered, "Cet a été amusant, mon nouvel ami. Je l'apprécie. Quoi que vous dites au contraire, vous avez été héros aujourd'hui. Les gens apprécieront l'effort. Rester sûr et promettre vous reviendra me voir encore bientôt, s'il vous plaît?" She pulled away from him again and gave him a small smile.


[Translation: It's been fun, my new friend. I appreciate it. Whatever you say to the contrary, you've been a hero today. People will appreciate the effort. Stay safe and promise you'll come back to see me again soon, please?]

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[info]ace_of_clubs
2009-06-11 10:22 pm UTC (link)
Gambit saw Sam about the same time that Shannon did, and was sitting upright with a slow groan. He wanted to go sleep.. but he wasn't going to. He was going to go to that tunnel, head down those steps, and be gone. Yep. That was the plan. And when she leaned over to whisper that in his ear, he let out a slow breath. Why'd she have to go and say that? She was making this harder than it had to be. For him, anyway.

"You wron'." He assured her with a smile, but was standing up. "I come see you, Chere." Liar, liar. Pants on fire. "I promise." Remy was going to hell, if for no other reason than the fact that he broke almost every promise he made. And he knew it. "An' you make sure 'de Doct'r get 'dat coa', an' 'dat book, an' 'dose pic'ures, non? You make sure." He pointed at her as he said it, but was smiling anyway.

"Sleep well, Chere." He gave her a light bow, glanced to where Sam was coming closer, and he turned and headed off into the darkness. Back to his Post Office.

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