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Vas Captio Mods (vas_captio_mod) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-07-10 22:16:00

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!complete, day 15, elliot reid, experiment, nymphadora tonks

Experiment Thread: Tonks and Elliott
Who: Tonks and Elliot
What: Being good guinea pigs
Where: Undisclosed location
When: 8AM, day 15
Rating: PG-14

Day 15 finds Elliott and Tonks dropped into is much larger than the space they are actually confined to. Both characters wake up in a 5x5 plexiglass cube that cannot be broken. There are vents in the walls that are clearly shown to connect to pumps. Outside of the cube the quite dead form of Sid Jenkins is visible. He appears to have suffocated.

Additional information for this experiment to be provided as the thread progresses.

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polymorphic
2009-07-11 05:22 pm UTC (link)

No no..this was not how it was supposed to be. Tonks hadn't ever really had a strong dislike for small places, but that was because she had never been in one that didn't have an out. Didn't have an escape. Training told her always to have an escape route. She kicked one point of the wall again, in sheer frustration, and looked back to Elliot. It had always been difficult to keep emotions off of the Auror's face. And right now she was worried.

Very worried.

"Tonks, by the way." Trying to give this horrible situation a semblance of normalcy. But that didn't last long. Before she had even finished her introduction, the sound of the pumps and the vibration caught her attention. Gas. Fuck. "Cover your mouth and nose!" She did so with the collar of flimsy t-shirt. But that wouldn't work, of course.

Already, she felt sick and started coughing, her body trying to find a way to expel the gas.

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frickonastick
2009-07-11 06:46 pm UTC (link)

Elliot's hands dropped to her side and her eyes traveled back over to Sid's body on the ground. She'd never asked him how old he was, but he'd just been a kid. Sixteen? Seventeen? Eighteen at the most. She was crying freely now for Sid and for herself. Earthquakes she could handle. Earthquakes were or could be a natural occurrence, but this...

Someone had murdered him. A kid. It was just like Andy said. People died here. She glanced over at Tonks, taking in a shuddering breath. "Elliot," she breathed.

The glass began to vibrate as the pumps came to life and her eyes grew wide and panicked. She pulled off her jacket and covered her mouth and nose as instructed. "What is it?" She yelled even though it was muffled by the fabric, glancing up at the vents. Her eyes began to burn and she blinked. She pulled her jacket back and pointed upwards. "There's a button up there!" She said, sucking in a mouthful of air in the process and feeling it burn her throat. She coughed, squeezing her eyes shut as she tried to get a breath.

"Giant Doctor!" She said her voice panicked as she snapped her eyes open and reached out for the other woman, grabbing her arm. "Get on my shoulders. Maybe you can reach it!"

Elliot squatted down and held her hands out behind her, momentarily dropping her jacket. She'd need both hands to make sure Tonks was balanced. She'd done this often enough with JD to know. She coughed again, trying to press her nose against the inside of her shoulder. "Don't worry, I have ridiculously strong thighs. Just don't mind the camel butt," she said, trying to suppress another cough.

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polymorphic
2009-07-11 07:06 pm UTC (link)

A button? What kind of shitty thing is that? Tonks thought about it. She could morph into someone taller..but the button would still be ridiculously out of reach. There was only so far her abilities went. But as she was puzzling this out, in midst of coughing and burning eyes, the other woman..Doc Elliot..grabbed her arm.

"Giant Doc--Oh!" Elliot was crouching, so she quickly moved to hop up on her shoulders. "If I weigh a ton, blame the junk food cravings I had yesterday." Coughing and wheezing, she was still trying to keep a little bit of humour. "Camel butt?" What in the world?

No time for that though! Once the women performed Giant Doctor, Tonks was reaching out to hit the button. At first it was a no-go. She had to shake her head a few times because it was getting more and more difficult to breathe. Just a little more..stretching out her arm and stretching on Elliot's shoulders, she stared at her fingers. Grow just a little bit!

That was when she hit the button. The pumps stopped, thank Merlin. "Tallest Auror in the World." Muttered.

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frickonastick
2009-07-12 05:19 am UTC (link)

"I'll explain later," Elliot choked out when Tonks asked about the camel butt. It wasn't her fault she had a freakish vertebrae that stuck out when she bent over. It was completely natural.

She straightened up, gripping Tonk's legs with her hands to steady her. She could feel the other woman stretching upwards, feeling her own throat constricting under the gas. She could feel nausea building in her stomach as the smoky heaviness descended on them and then suddenly then pumps stopped.

The sudden silence allowed her to hear Tonk's muttering. "Doctor," she corrected, before leaning forward in order to slip Tonks off. She jumped as the pumps started moving again. "Oh God," she said, covering her nose and mouth again, but when she looked upwards she could see the gas being sucked out of the room. She gave a shiver of relief. "See any more buttons?" She asked looking around the room. Maybe one for a way out?

Her eyes swept over Sid's body and she turned her back guiltily on it. "We've got to get out of here."

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polymorphic
2009-07-12 06:26 am UTC (link)

The gas started rolling back, being sucked out like some sort of crazy vacuum cleaner got a hold of it. She was still coughing, trying to expel all of the crap from her lungs. Ruffling up her hair and taking a deeper breath, Tonks closed her eyes in gratefulness. That felt good.

She was looking around then, searching for another button. "That one was kinda hidden yeah? Feel around for one." She started doing just that, running her hand over the side of the glass that she was on. And stopped when she was looking at Sid.

"Who would do such a thing?" Asked quietly, very sobered by the sight.

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frickonastick
2009-07-12 05:46 pm UTC (link)

Elliot obeyed without a word, frantically searching her side of the glass for an invisible button. Was this some kind of game? Was she really some lab rat being stuck in a cage and studied for behavior? This just didn't happen. It couldn't be happening.

"I don't know," Elliot said, stilling at Tonk's question. She turned around and looked at Sid, her brow furrowing. "He had a British accent." That in itself was all she really knew about Sid. Their brief conversation had been so centered around the treatment of his ankle that she hadn't learned anything else about him. She'd been so tired at the time that she hadn't even really tried. And now he was dead and she had no idea of who he was or who would miss him outside of this place. He probably had a mother. A father.

Elliot let out a shaky breath before she got back to work frantically feeling the walls for a second button. "I'm not going to die here. I can't. This place isn't real. Right?" She said to herself.

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polymorphic
2009-07-12 10:28 pm UTC (link)

Tonks listened, still staring at Sid's body while Elliot spoke. "Poor bloke." She took a moment for the fallen, but was quickly returning to looking for a button. Fingertips slid over every inch of the glass that she could reach, and she was soon crouching so she could feel along the bottom.

She turned around quick-like when Elliot spoke to her self, so quick that she lost her footing and fell on her ass. It wasn't a far fall or anything, but just enough to briefly startle her. "No." Said fiercely. "We're not gonna die in here. Not here an' not for a while."

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