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closed ♔ fallen saints and fallen stars

WHO || Myri & Spike [closed]
WHAT || Myri share her discovery with Spike
WHERE || London, England
WHEN || mid-april, after dis
HOW || Actionspam

[Myri asks Spike to come with her, and they check out a car, which she lets him drive, directing him to take them towards London. As they ride, she studies him in the darkness, before finally saying:] I... meant to ask as well, how you were feeling. I heard people talking about what happened.

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I knew there was something there!

[He considers.] Des never seems happy. But apparently they were all but undressing each other on the dance floor at the club in New York.

And.... Finnick? [not at all a subtle change of topic.]

He's all right. Misses you, of course.

[Actually, Spike hasn't spent much time with Finnick. But he doubts saying "He's probably still drinking all the time, the lout" will help anything, and he's sure what he's saying is true.] He was giving out swimming lessons a bit ago.

Oh, that's... [itt sort of hits her all at once just how well this doppelgänger could mimic her. She can't blame any of them for being fooled. The way it had lured her with Finnick's form had been perfect- too good to be true, really.]

I'm glad everyone seems to be settling in. [And she really is. She doesn't want any of them to experience discomfort or know that anything is wrong at all, really. She doesn't want any of them endangered. Having Spike here makes that more complicated since she DOES want to see him saved.]

Edited 2014-05-08 15:01 (UTC)

Well, it won't last. Wanker's got to slip up sooner or later. And when he does, they'll find us.

And if that's exactly what they're hoping for? Did you suspect at all when they captured you while wearing my face? What if they want to pick us off, one by one to bring us here.

Myri... Myri, love, you can't... don't fret too much about the what-if's. Besides, sounds like they're more interested in information than bodies. [Which is... great... when people trust Spike and Myri both so much. For once, he's grateful that the team keeps so many secrets from each other.]

[She tries to take a few calming breaths, holding onto his words and the fact that he's here which is so hard for her to think of as a good thing, but it does help. She feels terrible for feeling relieved to have him trapped with her.]

How long? How long have I been here, Spike?

[The days run together. They don't let her sleep much and what sleep she gets is fitful. It's felt like eternity, truly.]

[He looks over at her and swallows, expression filled with pain.]

When did they take you?

At the airport. I never made the flight.

[As if that is somehow important. She's pretty traumatized over here.]

Finnick- they knew I couldn't say no. It looked him him and he said... [She shakes her head, trying not to think of that day, how the doppleganger had said everything she ever dreamed the real Finnick might have, but it had all been a trick and a lie while the real one let her go.]

They told me what I needed to hear.

Oh. [His voice softens. He has all sorts of things he'd like to say to Finnick right now if he could have. Namely, that it bloody well should have been Finnick there. She might blame herself, but if he's going to unreasonably place blame on someone other than the bad guys, for him? It'll be Finnick. Bloody bastard should have been there, saying the right things himself.]

It's April, now.

A month, then. [It felt longer. She's not sure whether she's happy that it's only been that long.]

Elena and Vi- did I miss... Have they been promoted?

[Would the doppleganger promote her squire in her place? The thought makes Myri a little sick t her stomach.]

Not yet. I mean, we've all been assuming, but it hasn't... they haven't had the ceremony.

[She nods, visibly relieved to have not missed a milestone like that. AND SINCE MYRI DOESN'T KNOW OF ANY OTHER MILESTONES... she lets that drop.]

And Buffy? How is she?

Edited (that moment when i forget what's real and what's dopple) 2014-05-09 03:40 (UTC)

Buffy's... great. [He sure doesn't sound like he believes that. Buffy's probably not doing all too well, but it's not like the two of them have spent as much time together lately.] Looks like she and Rafael are gonna make pointy eared babies after all.

[Yeah he definitely sounds even more unhappy about this than being kidnapped.]

Edited 2014-05-09 03:47 (UTC)

They're..? [Wow a lot happened in a month.]

I'm sorry, Spike.

[He shrugs, looking away.] No, don't be. It's what she wants. And I do want her to be happy. She's got precious little else to be happy about lately. [He just doesn't know if Rafael will ever get her there.]

I know you want her to be happy. But I want you to be happy too. I'm not sorry that she and Rafael might have found something. That's wonderful, if they've really managed it. But I'm sorry because i know it hurts you. I know how much you care about her.

[ the truck wrenches to a halt, and the guy on the back of the truck throws the canvas open to allow several other guards to come in, each grabbing one of them by an arm to drag outside.

the facility is in the center of a thick woods, surrounded by a high chain-link fence, barbed at the top. various guards patrol the area, and they're dragged towards the entrance of the stark building, which myri has only seen once from the outside before. ]

[Spike looks around with interest (spot 29), mostly to see if he can find anything that'll help him when he finds a way to escape.]

[ the facility looks pretty damn secure, unfortunately. the trees around them are tall, pretty old, and he'd see at one point about twenty feet from the corner of the roof, one tree bends a bit over the fencing. an impressive leap MIGHT be able to make it but there'd be that whole... getting to the roof thing in the first place. ]

[Myri stays quiet and keeps her head down. She's not going to be able to outrun the guards or climb any fences. She's only ever been good at staying out of sight.]

[Well, Spike will just have to carry her.

He'll figure out getting to the roof when he can. For now... he lets himself be dragged. Not that he's got anything resembling a choice.]

[ They're led down to cells, and Spike would get his first glimpse at the other 'residents' here. He'd hear more than he sees: moans and crying and manic babbling in all kinds of languages. Shadow creatures of all types languish in cells, beaten, bloody, pale, skinny, or just twitching as the result of who knows what kind of horrible treatment.

They're separated here, taken away from each other - Myri back to her cell, Spike to his own. It's actually days before they see each other again. Dimitris has plenty of individual torments lined up for both of them. He still seeks to study Myri's empathic ability, and he has a particular interest in testing the limits of Spike's chip. Which... is going progressively more haywire by the day. Sometimes he'll be in pain for hours at a time, a mind-frying experience that leaves him forgetting what it felt like not to be.

Rarely, he'll bring one of them to observe the other being 'studied', as if as a reminder, which he's only happy to spell out: try anything, and the other suffers.

Time ceases to mean anything to either of them. Days, weeks, months? Who can say how long they've been here now, but one thing seems clear: there's no wait out. ]

[The moment they separate her from Spike, it's like the last of her strength is drained from her. In the time thereafter, Myri stops trying to keep track of the hours, doesn't bother trying to remember how many days it's been. The pain is unbearable. They learn just what hurts the most, how to make her body and soul both scream with need to heal. It's the prolonged exposure that does the worst. She fights against it with strength her body doesn't truly have, throws herself against whatever restraints they put her in. She wants to help these people, these poor prisoners that are being hurt because of her.

None of it compares to when they bring her in to see Spike. He's not living, can't be healed, so her powers don't call to him as they do to other creatures. The pain here has nothing to do with an empathic gift and everything to do with her heart breaking that she's somehow played a part in this, that it was a doppleganger wearing her skin that trapped him here. She cries until her body isn't sure how to do that anymore, leaving her quiet on the floor of her cell for any amount of time that they'll leave her there. She imagines she will die here, and that maybe if does, somehow they'll let Spike go, then. Above everything else, one thought remains.

It's hopeless.]

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