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maddest[A few hours after this, Break's PCD is jostled on.
It's a video feed, yes, but all that's visible is the inside of Break's pocket. From the sounds of things, he's still in the streets, propped against a building, wheezing for breath. A few coughs, and he spits blood onto his white coat sleeve, sinks to the ground with a groan.
Not a good day.]
It's a video feed, yes, but all that's visible is the inside of Break's pocket. From the sounds of things, he's still in the streets, propped against a building, wheezing for breath. A few coughs, and he spits blood onto his white coat sleeve, sinks to the ground with a groan.
Not a good day.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:07 pm (UTC)Al?
[Blind as a bat, really.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:15 pm (UTC)Yeah.
[Al shifts with a smile, and reaches out a hand, to help him to his feet.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:18 pm (UTC)Show me this vehicle.
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:22 pm (UTC)Right here.
[Al steps to the side a bit. It's a small test, just to see...]
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:29 pm (UTC)[offline]
Date: 2010-10-18 07:31 pm (UTC)Can you see it?
[Al's voice is gentle, not patronizing, but gentle.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:34 pm (UTC)[He smiles, all cheerful ambiguity.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:38 pm (UTC)Yeah... [Al shifts, walking over to the Zoomer WHICH IS OVER HERE BREAK, and picks up the warm jacket, coming over to nudge it around his shoulders so he can get into it properly.]
Here, we'll be moving fast, so it'll be cold.
[And fluff goes the blanket, too, over the shoulders.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:41 pm (UTC)Everyone gets to a certain point in their life, Al, where they realize that everyone has secrets. Once you've faced that ambiguity, hating people like Yuca Collabell gets a little harder.
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:46 pm (UTC)[Which is his way of telling Break that he won't spill the beans on him. Still, he does really want to give him a hug. Al has Break straddle the machine, and mounts it in front of him -- the best way will be to press up against his back, put his cane across Al's middle and hold onto that.]
... I never hated him. I don't think I could.
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:48 pm (UTC)I did, but it doesn't seem to matter so much- not in the long run.
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:56 pm (UTC)He hurt you. He betrayed you, more than he did me. It's natural to feel that pain.
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Date: 2010-10-18 07:57 pm (UTC)[He says, not quite loud enough over the roar of the bike. It's very disorienting, being off the ground like this. His grip gets tighter.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 08:02 pm (UTC)Even so, you went back and helped him, got close to him again.
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Date: 2010-10-18 08:06 pm (UTC)[But he's a little too astonished by all this to talk much now. They can get into it when they're on the ground again, for now, he'll just focus on hanging on.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 08:13 pm (UTC)Al spends the ride thinking, allowing himself to grasp the situation at hand, to organize how he feels about it, take it back out of the box where he'd tucked away the feelings he didn't want to deal with. Yuca... Al sighs a bit.
He starts slowing down with plenty of time to spare, lowering the bike slowly into the clinic's yard. They finally set down with a very tiny thump, and Al shifts off, automatically lifting a hand to steady Break if he were to fall, as he'd do to anyone else.
Finally... he decides that Break would want to know.]
You know... he did ask me to check on you. I would have come in any case, but... he wanted to make sure you were okay.
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Date: 2010-10-18 08:52 pm (UTC)[Yes, Break fights incredibly dirty. And ruthlessly. And well.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 09:54 pm (UTC)He seemed able to breathe well enough, and his nose didn't look terribly crooked... and he didn't seem to be seeing double or getting nauseous.
... you really held your own, there.
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Date: 2010-10-18 10:00 pm (UTC)[He dismisses idly, trying to work out where he is exactly.]
Although he did give me a bit of a run for my money.
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Date: 2010-10-18 10:08 pm (UTC)You do, huh?
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Date: 2010-10-18 10:13 pm (UTC)[If you can get past the sing songing tone, Al, he's telling the truth.]
Is this the clinic after all?
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Date: 2010-10-18 10:19 pm (UTC)Yes. If we can find Ms. Unohana, she'll be able to give you a look-over and make sure everything's where it's supposed to be.
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Date: 2010-10-18 10:20 pm (UTC)[offline]
Date: 2010-10-18 10:22 pm (UTC)[Small tug as they turn the corner.]
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Date: 2010-10-18 10:23 pm (UTC)Do you think it might be all right to trust him a little?
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