Bottom of the 20th Inning
May. 7th, 2010 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freakinblurWake up, sleepy head! You can't spend the whole day in bed.
[Scout's eyes fluttered open. The first thing he did was take in a sharp breath, deeply, in and out. It was the first time in 3 days he could breathe without immense pain. He savored it.
He sat up. There was a different drone wife in the house now. She was opening the curtains to show another beautiful spring day in Mayfield. The drone of Ema had been replaced. He saw a wedding photo of them on the nightstand next to him. It had changed, too. He turned it over.
He sat there for a moment, slowly rubbing his forehead, trying to think straight. He noticed the burn on his arm was gone as well.]
What's wrong, honey? You look like you've had a bad dream.
....yeah. Guess I did.
Well it's over now, so relax. I'll go start on breakfast.
[Off she traipsed to the kitchen. Scout still sat in the empty bedroom.
He's died before. He's died countless times in his service for BLU, resurrected and shipped back out into the battle field without even a thought. All in a day's work. He's even died in Mayfield, back on his feet good as new the next day.
Why did THIS time bother him?]
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[Call to all non-drones.]
... has anyone else come back? The people in Westport? Shit...
The Milkman. He was there. He was there, and he was fine, that bastard.
[Scout's eyes fluttered open. The first thing he did was take in a sharp breath, deeply, in and out. It was the first time in 3 days he could breathe without immense pain. He savored it.
He sat up. There was a different drone wife in the house now. She was opening the curtains to show another beautiful spring day in Mayfield. The drone of Ema had been replaced. He saw a wedding photo of them on the nightstand next to him. It had changed, too. He turned it over.
He sat there for a moment, slowly rubbing his forehead, trying to think straight. He noticed the burn on his arm was gone as well.]
What's wrong, honey? You look like you've had a bad dream.
....yeah. Guess I did.
Well it's over now, so relax. I'll go start on breakfast.
[Off she traipsed to the kitchen. Scout still sat in the empty bedroom.
He's died before. He's died countless times in his service for BLU, resurrected and shipped back out into the battle field without even a thought. All in a day's work. He's even died in Mayfield, back on his feet good as new the next day.
Why did THIS time bother him?]
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[Call to all non-drones.]
... has anyone else come back? The people in Westport? Shit...
The Milkman. He was there. He was there, and he was fine, that bastard.
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Date: 2010-05-07 05:40 pm (UTC)...I can't relax, Scout. Not when we have to get everyone back.
...I thought one of you might've been stuck there, and never come back.
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Date: 2010-05-07 05:55 pm (UTC)He pats Massimo on the shoulder, a little awkwardly.]
... Well I'm here, ain't I? Has anyone else come back?
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Date: 2010-05-07 06:00 pm (UTC)...I'm sorry.
[[But he nods.]]
Yeah, a few. A guy named Den, RED's Spy, Nic Reynolds, and some other people, I think.
Things are... not that great here, but probably better than Westport. We're trying to contact some of you, but we can't find a way. Grady's lying, we keep getting static-filled radio broadcasts, and a graveyard appeared. You were one of the dead people.
[[Scout might be able to understand why Massimo was so worried now.]]
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Date: 2010-05-07 06:33 pm (UTC)[He thinks on the names. Scout hasn't seen many people while over in Westport.] "Den"? Denmark? I'll stop over at his place later. Do ya know Kay or Lorna? Have ya seen either of 'em?
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Date: 2010-05-07 06:36 pm (UTC)I... dug up Engineer's grave. The bones were too long and thin to have been his.
And I think it might've been Denmark, maybe. But I don't know Kay or Lorna.
[[Siiiiiigh.]]
Sorry.
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Date: 2010-05-07 06:46 pm (UTC)...crap. I just fuckin' fell over an' died over there. I can't imagine what else people 'r puttin' up with.
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Date: 2010-05-07 07:11 pm (UTC)[[but hearing how scout died does not make him feel any better]]
...I heard that some of Den's flesh got burned off before he died. Nic drank poisoned milk.
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Date: 2010-05-07 07:22 pm (UTC)...yeah, I got burned too. There was these guys in hazmat suits, I grabbed one. He musta been coated in somethin' cuz it burned me bad. I shot 'im, an' he just deflated inta nothing, but not before lettin' loose a cloud 'a gas. The whiff I got 'a that's what got me in the end. The stuff was coatin' the town. By the end I just couldn't breathe anymore.
[He's silent a moment. Not a fun thing to reflect on.]
Shit, what about tha Major Gen'ral? She gotta whiff 'a that stuff too. Is she back yet? Or Engie? Shit, I was lookin' for 'im, we were gonna meet up at the road leadin' in when it disappeared, so I never found him.
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Date: 2010-05-07 08:03 pm (UTC)[[what]]
Major General Olivier? She was one of the first people to broadcast. She and another man, I don't know who he was.
[[WHY WOULD YOU MENTION ENGINEER.]]
...No sign of Engineer. Just those bones and clothes I dug up. I think the bones are too small, though. O-or too big.
[[Massimo doesn't sound sure.]]
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Date: 2010-05-07 08:44 pm (UTC)[[Massimo recalls how scared Lucas and Flora sounded, and shivers.]]
How many kids?
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Date: 2010-05-08 01:56 am (UTC)Sho Minamimoto, for example, tried to attack the town while everyone's defenses were down. Grady droned him.
[[It's only been a few days, but Scout might be able to notice that Massimo's matured a great deal from the whole situation.]]
We've also got more people. And though you might've died beforehand, you now know what to avoid.
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Date: 2010-05-08 02:25 am (UTC)[[SUDDEN IDEA]]
...Is it literally gas?
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Date: 2010-05-08 03:12 am (UTC)From what I saw, they're probably going to be hard to find.
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Date: 2010-05-08 03:43 am (UTC)[[massimo is hinting something]]
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