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 Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:04 pm
An unusually high laugh escaped Gaius, who glanced between Victor's face to his limbs and the tail. "Ahaha... yeah..." How could he act that casual with that body?
Still trying to avoid the topic of their last encounter, Gaius motioned at the TV screen. "You, uh, like James Bond? I always enjoyed the movies before I came here. Good simple action and gadgets and stuff..."
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:18 pm
Victor frowned at the high laughter that came from Gaius, looking towards the Horse-man, watching him, and then back to the TV screen.
"They're alright moviesss, only one or two I really do like, Dr. No and Goldeneye. I like Myssstery moviessss more" Victor's chest arms figited, licking his tongue along the inside of his orginal mouth. He rather not allow things to get into an uncomfortible silence where Gaius might be compelled to leave out of discomfort by his presence.
"How've you been ssssincsse the other night?"
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:28 pm
Gaius winced. He'd hoped the topic wouldn't come up, but it was unavoidable, really.
"I'm... alright. Work at the site has gone well... except for a couple, er, misshaps... er, bumps... obstacle thingies. And, well, talking with Zach..."
He ran a hand back over his neck and sighed through his nose. Unavoidable.
"Listen, Victor..." he spoke in a steadier voice, though he avoided looking at the guy's slitted eyes. "I'm... sorry about what happened... it's just, well..." He waved a hand at Victor's appearance helplessly. How was he supposed to deal with that?
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:01 pm
Victor nodded at that quietly, he was curious what was going on with the theater, but that wasn't what Victor really wanted to talk about right now. He watched Gaius wave his hand towards him and the lizardman turned his head away for a moment, to the TV screen.
"Itssss alright Gaiusss." Victor paused, it wasn't exactly alright, Gaius had screamed, and then ran out the door, in the most vulnerable moment of his life, Gaius had ran out. The lizardman's upper mouth twitched before he spoke again. "It hurt me alot that you did that, but I undersssstand why it happened, you got sssscared, it sssstill botherssss me, all thisss" Victor said as he used his foreleg to motion to himself.
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:20 pm
"It's just... damn..." Gaius shook his head feebly. "I don't know. I don't know how to handle it. It's... like... nrr...." He made an odd sound in his throat and looked away. He didn't want to say it, but the limbs, the features, they reminded him of that night, months ago, when his still-human feet had passed amongst the gruesome forest of failed corpses.
"W-Was your serum... supposed to do that? I mean, if the labs were actually trying to do something like that to you... damn, they're worse than I would have thought."
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:40 pm
Victor shook his head quietly "I don't know if it issss sssupposssst to be like thisss or not, I haven't called them to assssk, not ssssure I want to know, becausssse i'f i'm not done changing, it could get worsssse" Victor looked towards Gaius after saying that, studying him, the odd sound he made and what he said... had he seen something like this before? Victor shook his head at the thought, it didn't seem like anyone he talked to so far had seen anything he reminded them of.
"Gaiussss, you don't have to worry about handling it, not like I will have too...and if it doessss get worssse, I'll need friendsss to help me get though it, at leassst afterwardsss."
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:50 pm
Gaius shook his head, staring back to Victor, or more accurately, staring at his features. "But how can you handle it? I mean, look at you! Look at what the labs have done to you... you're not just going to accept that, are you?"
He sat back against the couch, sighing. "I... I don't know, Vic. This is all too much... I mean, how many changes have you had? If the next one is worse..." He trailed off, stopping him short of asking the man just how much humanity he'd have left.
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:07 pm
"I handle it...by focussssing on Living, Gaiussss, on living. I don't like whatssss being done to me but I have to accept that it hassss been done to me and in all probability, They're not going to change me or anyone elsssse back." Victor shifted his body, his tail falling to the side off the couch as he tried pulling himself up to better look at Gaius.
"I already did look at mysssself, and I broke the mirror with my sssshoe" Victor said, crossing his forearms as he looked back at the TV. "I've changed two timesss...."
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:19 pm
"Twice..." Gaius repeated. That meant he still had two more... If such a drastic change could overtake Victor after only two, what more did he have in store? Two mouths, would he even be able to speak? To move? How could a body handle that kind of warping?
"I'm sure they have to have something for times when this happens..." Gaius suggested. "I mean, something to take it back? Some way to fix it? That's what all the experimenting they do is for, right? If not, then... what good are they?"
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:36 pm
Victor nodded at the suggestion, looking back at Gaius "Itsss ssssomething I'll have to assssk, but do you know if they have done anything to fixss anyone elsssse'sss change? ssssome of thisss they might be able to fixsss with sssurgery..." Victor shook his head, it wasn't a thought he liked to entertain, what could the labs possibly do now to make this any 'better' or take it back?
"Hassss anything like thissss happened before?" It was a nagging question that was on his mind and he had to ask.
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:02 pm
"It's, er, well..." Gaius fidgeted, trying to shift his feet only to find Vixen resting on them. No wonder they felt so warm and heavy... "Er, you see..." He ran a hand back over his neck. "Truthfully... I... haven't seen any kind of 'fix'... I don't know, I'm probably not the one to talk to..."
He chewed on his lip, looking away from Victor. "It... I don't know if anything like this has happened to subjects here... but, on Halloween, there was this area of the path to the graveyard... all the trees were hung with twisted, disfigured... animals. They were clearly failed experiments. It was... horrible." Gaius gave an involuntary shudder. "I... I don't know if you're like them... but..." he trailed off.
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:39 pm
Victor looked away from Gaius after the mention of the failed experiments, the implication was there, that he was like them, the twisted and disfigured creatures Gaius spoke of. The lizardman shook his head, it was something he didn't want to consider, to think of, but Jordan, he had mentioned complications and was scared that he was developing them and might die as a result. Was that Victor's fate? was he some twisted abomination because someone in the labs had made a -mistake- ? The seed of doubt had been planted, and was taking root in his mind. It was frightening to think of, if the result of his changes so far were because someone didn't mix something right, or shook the test tube too long or mixed too much reagent into the serum....
"I'm not like them....if they were assss bad asssss you ssssaid, I wouldn't be here now" Victor said flatly, but couldn't even convice himself....was he a failed experiment? doomed to die from complications from what the labs were giving them?
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:45 pm
"O-of course not..." Gaius faultered, though he didn't sound confident at all. "I'm sure... somehow... you'll be fine..."
The movie had lost all appeal to Gaius. How could he enjoy it sitting there, talking with Victor about failed experiments of all things?
"Even... even if you change, at least you're still human... in mind and soul, at least," he offered.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:06 am
Victor nodded at what Gaius said, it was true, he would still be human in mind and soul, unless with the next change he let himself decend into darkness and let go of rational thought. It was a sobering and frightening thought, that while his body was warped and twisted, and might become something worse, more monsterous, that he might loose his mind in the process.
"I'll be alright Gaiussss, asss long asss I have friendssss, and people I can trusssst closssse to me, sssso if thingssss do go bad, I don't do anything...to myssself, and get help if needed." Victor was very serious of that point, the other thing that really did scare him, was the thoughts of self-destruction that had entered his mind, and left just as quickly. If his door wasn't open... and Zach had stopped by, would he had tried to just end things? would the labs have stopped him?
"I want you to be one of thossse people Gaiusss, a friend I can trussst"
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:39 pm
Gaius shifted uncomfortably. It was a lot to be asked. How could he offer support to something like Victor? How could he ask such a thing? Hadn't he seen how he'd run out before?
Part of him berated himself. How could he be so selective in who he supported? He wasn't like Zach, after all. If he was going to help one islander, he was going to help everyone. Would he be like this if it was Marshall sitting there on the couch across from him? Or what about Liamh?
Clenching his hands together in his lap, Gaius took a long breathe before nodding, slowly. "A-Alright... I'll do my best. You'll have to forgive my nerves, though... It's not easy. Not at all."
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