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 Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:52 pm
After a while of scrambling around like a chicken with its head cut off he finally calmed down, seeing that she wasn't going to be waking up any time soon, and he was quite sure she wasn't dead. Yet. He looked over her once more, collected his key from the board and ran off to open up the door to his room, leaving a bloodied boot to keep it open. He came jogging back and saw Cora still out of it and sighed, "Cora Cora Cora...we have to stop meeting like this." With a bit of a shrug he leaned down, and with the best of his ability, wrapped his arms around her torso to, for the most part, drag her off to a bed where she could get some rest.
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:52 pm
*Enter Cora from guest rooms 38*
She took a deep breathe as she entered. There was no one else there. She skimmed the floor of the Brink, and eventually found the tennis ball she had dropped when she had been taken out. Promptly the ball was in her hand once again, and she took a seat at the bar. She began to practice...:::
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:59 pm
Tac blinked in with a towel draped over his head, drying out the last little bits around his horns, basically just polishing them up. He was mumbling to himself as he worked, "Damn things...so hard to get clean. Gotta scrub and scrub and soap and break out the HCL and still nothing. God damn."
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:02 pm
:::When she heard Tac's voice, she finished her toss, being in mid-focus, and turned around when she was ready. She was a bit engrossed in her practice, and as a result she couldn't bring herself to really smile...that and she was nervious about what he thought:::
Hello Tacitus...
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:07 pm
Tac's head perked up from underneath the towel and he looked in Cora's general direction, "Cora? What are you doing in the men's locker room?" He went to pull the towel off his head and it caught on his left horn, ripping it right down the center, "DAMMIT!" He stared at it for a moment before untangling it, or what was left of it. He looked back to Cora and smiled, "Hehehe, for a second I thought I was still back in the GPD. Kinda not possible if you're around. Well...for the most part. Still practicing I see." He nodded towards the tennis ball.
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:12 pm
:::glad to be focusing on something she was comfortable with:::
Yes...I'm improving. Very soon I will be able to delay its descent by two seconds.
:::She almost didn't want to bring it up, but she knew that if she didn't he would eventually, plus she wondered what her letter said. She took it out of her compartment and started to walk towards him:::
I'm sorry for what happened the last time we met. I don't know how long it has been for you, but I only awoke a few hours ago. I was in your room, so I assumed to brought me there after I...lost conciousness. Thank you for caring for me.
Uhm... this letter. I believe it was written by you, but I cannot read ancient english. I do not know what it says. :::Handing it to him:::
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:19 pm
Tac took the note, nodding, "Yeah...I kinda remembered you can't read english like this morning. We'll just forget about the note itself. As for what happened last time, I want you to tell me exactly what happened. If it ever happens again I don't want to be unprepared." He took on eof her hands in his, "Just remember two things, I need the truth, and I need it only because I care about you and want to know if I can help in some way."
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:24 pm
:::the truth...that was easy. And yet, far from it. She was so ashamed...but she didn't want to keep lying:::
My...body... was in danger of harm. I injected myself with pain inhibitors so that I could concentrate on practicing, but eventually it got to be too much, and...as a response I was injected with tranquilizers.
:::She looks up at him::: If it happens again for any reason, I will be alright, my body handles itself well...
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:33 pm
Tac nodded slightly, raising his hand slowly to cup the side of her face, gently caressing her cheek with his thumb, "Cora, you mustn't push yourself too hard. I fully understand that you want to learn to help protect the Brink and everyone in it, but you can't push yourself too hard. If anything permanent happened to you...I...I'd..." He looked away for a moment as his hand fell away from her face, taking a moment before continuing, "Nevermind it. Now Cora...I didn't see you inject yourself with any tranquilizer, or with anything while I was around for that matter. From personal experience I know your tranqs are, ahem, strong, so I doubt it could have been delayed that much. How exactly were you injected? Those cuffs aren't that thick," he smirked, "and I'm quite sure you don't have anything hidden in your uniform."
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:39 pm
:::She looked away::: Well, these cuffs are capable of a whole lot. :::She bit her lip. That wasn't a lie, they really where capable of a lot. She'd never just come out and told someone that she had a cybernetic arm...those that it was revealed to happened to be witness to it when its use was necessart:::
:::She debated it to herself in head over and over:::
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:43 pm
He took ahold of her hand once more, the right one incidentaly, and held it firmly, turning her gaze back to his, "Cora, something is troubling you. What is it?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:45 pm
:::she didn't know what to do, she felt so torn. She couldn't bring herself to look at him:::
please...let go of it...
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:48 pm
Tac blinked in confusion, thinking she meant the subject, "I can't Cora.I can't just drop the subject. If theres something troubling you, I need to know."
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:49 pm
:::still not looking at him:::
I meant the arm...
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:50 pm
Tac blinked and looked down at it, slowly releasing his grip, it had dawned on him, not yet, "Why?"
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