allgotrabies | IC CONTACT

From:

((Picking up from here!))

Annie isn't wrong: Jesse is different tonight. Something about what Harry had said to him after they were paired -- maybe he's waiting for you to feel qualified to help -- has been lingering like a cold. He doubts he can actually help Harry, but he knows there are a few inmates on board that he can, and suddenly he feels like an asshole not doing what he can for them.

It gets complicated with Annie, but... what he knows is that hurting her isn't helping her the way he'd thought it would. Trying to make her let him go had been about safety, but now he knows she needs more than a buffer between herself and his baggage, and he can't give her anything more if he keeps pushing her away again and again. He doesn't want to anymore. He's done.

And if he recognizes the room, the bed -- if he thinks back to that night -- he doesn't let it scare him. On the other hand, not knowing exactly what she asked him here for means not knowing exactly what to do, so he hovers near the doorway and watches her for a cue. "Why are you staying at Elizabeth's place?" he asks.

From:

garbagepilot

All things considered, the fact that it's not until the afternoon after she gets out of zero that Rey goes to see Annie is probably terribly inappropriate and more than a little cruel. After everything she'd done, after Annie had found her, Rey knows she should have done more.

But she did what her soul had needed her to instead. She went after Kylo Ren and she got her item back herself, fought him to a standstill even when he was as powerful as he was and taken back at least a part of her pride, her freedom, by taking back what was hers in the first place.

And then she had gone to Tommy, but now she's back in her own room, safe on the Falcon, and she reaches out over her comm because trying Annie's room hadn't gotten her far.

I got out last night and I'd like to see you now. I have lunch made if you'll come to my cabin. According to Tommy, you know the code now. Just come in when you have time.

From:

callmefives

The Admiral has paired us for this month, could we get together to talk about it? [Asking doesn't come natural when he's technically in a position of authority, but he's trying to remember Pietro's advice. Also... he's met Annie. He'd liked Annie. So a request it is. And an open mind, as far as he can manage.]

From:

guiltocent

[Stan is starting to feel like he's getting the hang of this whole weird system. Sort of. Or, at least, he figures that if he doesn't have the hang of it it, someone will probably notice eventually so might as well act like he does to put that off as long as possible. No reason to start changing habits at his time of life.]

Hey, this is Annie, right? The name's Stan.

How'd ya feel about poker?

From:

perdix

Jesse has long since learned that after two years of slowly turning into pure fucking evil, Walter White has become very, very careful; but having been right by his side for most of that time, he knows him now better than almost anyone. It doesn't matter that Walt doesn't use the network, doesn't leave a note or any other purposeful indicators behind. He leaves just enough incidental little signs here and there that when Jesse wakes up and has to figure out who was here in his stead, it doesn't take long at all.

The only thing that keeps him from turning up at Elizabeth's cabin immediately is that he has to fight off the urge to be sick, first.

But once that's done, Annie's is his next stop, and he's already running over all of the nightmare scenarios in his head; most of them involve her corpse. He pounds furiously at Elizabeth's door. "Annie!" he shouts. "Annie!"

From:

allgotrabies

Annie finds him, and she probably looks ridiculous with headphones on and little else besides a bikini top and surfer shorts. But her days are spent between the peace of the infirmary and the freedom of the Enclosure, so it doesn't make sense to wear normal clothes.

"Hey!" Her voice is a little too loud, to compensate for the thrum of noise in her ears even through the protection, but she greets him like they're old friends and not new acquaintances.

From:

athingwithfeathers

Do you want to go surfing?

['Are you okay' has always struck Hope as a stupid question and this seems like the easiest way to ask if Annie wants to talk about Jesse's disappearance without having to...use words.]

From:

hollow_king

Come to my room.

[He still wouldn't admit to most that he knows how the texting function works, let alone that he occasionally thinks of all the ways it would've been useful in his life. It's also useful that a large percentage of the barge appear to be able to read.]

From:

credere

[Following two varyingly traumatic conversations with Alec and Quentin:]

Can we just...forget the thing we talked about?

Please.

I'm sorry, it was a stupid idea.

From:

athingwithfeathers

Hi Annie. [Hope is bright and cheerful, not always her mood after a breach but this one hadn't been bad. In some ways, she's glad of the break of it. But she is calling for business, of a sort.]

Let's have a birthday party now. [A few days later than last year but parties don't have to come on birthdays and they're both here and alive and that would be enough to celebrate all on its own.]

From:

magician_king

Fuck, I'm such an asshole.

I'm really sorry. I was worried, and I freaked out in the worst possible, loudest way.

From:

credere

Hello.

...I need some help.

Please.

It's not like - the other thing.

From:

hollow_king

Horseriver has an uncanny, to use the technical term, awareness of Annie's location, whenever she's out of a shielded cabin. He'd never use the word, but it's comforting, in a way, to always be able to check on her, pulling the unconscious awareness to the front of his mind. The connection stretches both ways, of course, though since he spends much of his time sitting in the garden, in a common room or sometimes picking up food, it's not exactly hard to know where he'll be, with or without magic.

The emotions he shares are also generally predictable, though that's due to care on his part. He generally keeps the darkness of his despair from leaking out and, when she's not with him, mostly keeps the rest muted too. A conscious look might show a drifting sadness or a specific focus or low level annoyance or, rarely, a flash of amusement, but he politely avoids too much feedback unless she's there, when he'll share feelings as well as company and conversation.

For all he's aware of her location, he usually doesn't do anything with the information. He's not the sort of man who goes looking for someone else, they come to him. Occasionally because of a summons, but that doesn't count. So it's mildly odd that he wonders her way, when he feels her, for all that it's not out of his path.

"Lady Wolf," he gives her a courteous nod and a smile that isn't free from edged irony or bitterness, but those emotions aren't aimed at her. It's the sort of greeting reserved for a very short list of people.

From:

revpirenewlin

(soon after this this nonsense).

Hi, I don't believe we've met before. Steve Newlin, a friend of Godric's. So! Tie-dye. What's your plan? Whatever it is, I am 100% down.

From:

negative_man

🆘

🌊🐂💩

From:

smashandgrab

I hear you like manicures. Come over tonight for the hot tub and then we can do each other's nails?

From:

tucky

if you still want infirmary lessons, i still want to teach you

From:

dog_eat_dog

So what was your plan if I put a bullet in that kid's head, you fucking moron?

From:

loveisall

Some time after his conversation with Sweeney, Godric wakes early and takes his shower before calling out for Annie, hearing her moving around the cabin.

"Don't go out," he calls to her as he dries off her hair. "Stay in with me tonight?"

From:

brutallyefficient

[ From this thread!]
The difference may be that androids don't have a choice whether they do what they designed to do. They either do it or they're destroyed and replaced.

If it was discovered that I refused to do the job I was designed to do, I would be destroyed, disassembled, and each biocomponent of mine would be examined to look for errors to explain why I failed.

From:

hauntedcalamari

[His heart's not quite in it, but that's not his temp's fault. And while Ben is really bad at following dramas as they unfold on the network, he has a vague sense she might benefit from some cheerful normalcy. That's what he's gonna do.]

Hey, you get me this month, apparently. Thoughts, objections, thrown objects?

From:

cultural_pressures

[Quill could find Annie in person, but for this, she choses to leave a message.] Have you thought of your answer, yet?

From:

loveisall

Once Godric feels like he can actually sit up on his own, he pulls himself off of the couch and into Annie's room. Her pile of blankets.

Without saying a word, he crawls inside of them, snuggling up against her.

"I have changed my mind. I would never like to be human," he says softly against her shoulder.

From:

goingtobeunwell

[Crozier doesn't know how to leave messages over the network, but once he gets wind that Annie didn't survive he goes to Godric's cabin and slips a note under the door.]

Annie,

I've been led to believe you're in this cabin, and my apologies to Godric if not.

I wish I'd been able to help you. I'm so sorry you're suffering now.

As soon as you're feeling better I'll take you back out to sea.

Crozier

[And at the bottom of the letter he's drawn a girl on a surfboard. It is not that good.]

From:

goingtobeunwell

Annie.

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31