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Running Ragged
Topic Started: Oct 27 2014, 07:48 PM (632 Views)
Rynfyre
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Timestamp: The following footage takes place four (4) days prior to Operation: Titans' Fall.

VIDEO FOOTAGE IS CONFIDENTIAL--LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE OR HIGHER REQUIRED. Observing this material while lacking proper clearance will result in punishment in accordance with Code 4 Section 2.3.

Buffering...


Marcus Damon Foraza was standing over a mahogany table, thumbing through documents and the contents of manilla folders marked "CONFIDENTIAL--LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE OR HIGHER." His laptop was sitting within reach, the fan humming almost noiselessly. The shuffle of papers sounded obscenely loud in comparison.

It was plans for the upcoming mission. The one he'd practically built from the ground-up--with a little help from some other people. But he'd been the one hugely instrumental in planning and bringing about.

But frankly, despite the mission being only a few days away, his head was hardly in any of this. The plans, the counter-plans, the maps, the projected maps. He could barely even concentrate on the Titan bio printouts tonight.

Marcus collapsed into one of the desk chairs. He cradled his head as he stared, unseeing, at all the paperwork on the table.

He was... tired. Weird feeling.

Well, he was justified in feeling stretched thin. He'd been running missions like a madman lately. Anything to get off-base. Anything to try to clear his head. Anything to stay busy, to stay sane. Trying to...

Trying to what?

Marcus finally released a heavy sigh, rubbing his fingers through his hair.

He clutched a paper from the table and crumpled it with one swift clench.
Edited by Rynfyre, Mar 7 2015, 11:09 PM.

"I'm going to Earth, Vetar. I have to help. I believe... it is my destiny.

My only regret is... I will miss you."


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Aurora was feeling hurt. More hurt than she'd ever really allowed herself to feel before. She didn't know what was going on- she couldn't focus on the plans she'd made, the 'distraction' she'd been working on for months now to try and keep those Titans busy. Originally it'd been no problem but as the days turned to weeks, then weeks to a month and beyond, she found it harder to focus on work, and easier to sit and be angry.

Which translated from her hurt.

She was lost, because of that. She'd never felt so lost before in her life, and she didn't know what to do about it. Even Shy didn't know what to do to fix it- was scared to try for how often Aurora merely sat and brooded darkly in her room. Even Shy wouldn't dare go near her when she was like that.

And eventually it'd come to this.

One night where it was worse than usual, and she'd decided to go wandering aimlessly to see if she could find what she was looking for.

But instead, she found herself at...

Oblivion's door?

"Blivvy..." She whispers, just staring at it, before she realized that this was what she sought. This place. Or rather, the person within.

Three steps saw her right at it, and three short knocks happened before she realized what was going on.

She didn't even know what she was going to say. Would she even speak? Or would she leave before he opened the door?

Maybe she'd just wait, stare at him, then run off.

...

Nah. That'd be weird. And that's the last thing you want him to think of you, Argent.
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He heard the timid knocks. But even as she'd approached, he'd stiffened up. He could feel a current of swirling emotions coming closer. He didn't need the connection he'd developed with her mind to tell him who it was at the door. He knew.

But he still sat, hunched over his workspace, staring at the table.

And another feeling was already replacing the utter exhaustion and frustration he was feeling. One he hadn't been as familiar with lately. One he'd hoped he'd finally left behind.

Panic.


Marcus felt a couple cool drips of sweat trickle down the back of his neck.

Aurora.

What was he supposed to do? Let her in? Ignore her? Hope she just walked away and never came back?

He didn't want a confrontation. He knew she'd have to be pissed at him. But his pride wasn't going to let him just sit here and cower in his room.

Marcus rose to his feet with a grunt, wobbling slightly. Needed more sleep. And food. Food was sort of important, he guessed.

He shuffled to the door and slapped the button for the two-way microphone on the security pad outside his dorm room door. "Yeah?" he asked into the intercom, hating how his voice cracked. He sounded like a drunk.

He cleared his throat and added, "Who is it?"

Buy himself a little time, here. Time to get his act together. Or act on.
Edited by Rynfyre, Oct 27 2014, 08:03 PM.

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My only regret is... I will miss you."


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She didn't know what to do. Just the sound of his voice almost made her flinch- her, agent Argent, fearless and well known for her ability to instill fear in others, generally through arduous and copious amounts of torture.

She hadn't heard him in so long. Relief and panic both flooded her body entirely, in that moment.

"You know who it is." She called, struggling to sound strong, to sound tough like she normally did, but it was all she could do to speak up at all. Her voice cracked in a few places, and she sounded... Well, wrong. It wasn't her. It was... It was as though someone else was speaking for her, almost.

"Let me in." She adds in afterthought, still sounding as she did before but, try as she might to make this sound like a demand, all she can do is make it sound like a feeble request. Please, Marcus.

Please let me in.
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Marcus rested his forehead against the door and heaved another deep sigh.

Well, I've been getting yelled at by strong women all my life.

Might as well add one more to the list.


He jabbed the "Open door" button with his index finger. There was the familiar click of the security lock, then the door swished open, effortlessly.

Too bad nothing in a human's existence was effortless.

Marcus leaned against the doorframe, letting his frustration and nerves chill into his comfortable devil-may-care attitude.

"Oh. It's you." He forced a sarcastic smile.

Yeah, that's it. That's the old spark.

He shrugged. "Here to yell at me, I take it? Well, lemme have it. I've got paperwork to get back to."

"I'm going to Earth, Vetar. I have to help. I believe... it is my destiny.

My only regret is... I will miss you."


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His attitude caught with her.

The hell is his problem?

Like this was nothing?

Like it didn't matter at all?

How dare he.

She glared at him, eyes a little bit watery- uncontrollably so, much as she hated it.

"Do I sound like I'm here to yell- look like I'm here to yell?" She questions snappily, still quiet- still feeling as though it's someone else speaking, and not herself. Gods, she sounds horrid.

After that, she calmed a bit, stilling herself and her mind to try and think of what to say- of how to phrase what she wanted to say.

"What is your problem, Marcus?" She asks, still glaring half-heartedly at him.

She didn't know why she tried, why she bothered to keep trying to glare at him. All this had her so off her game it was ridiculous. Insane, and ridiculous, and unfair, all at the same time.
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Yep. Here it comes.

"Yeah, actually, it does sound like that. What's my problem with what? Why have I been avoiding you, you mean? Why do I seem so on-again, off-again? Is that what you came here to ask?"

It was honestly just a guess. Her emotions were like alphabet soup right now, even with his sharp insight into her inner workings now. Then again, maybe he wasn't getting a clear reading because he was still getting used to the enhanced sensitivity to her thoughts and emotions.

"Maybe it's because I'm just another Brotherhood idiot you were stupid enough to fall for."

Bomb dropped. Cue explosion in three... two...

"I'm going to Earth, Vetar. I have to help. I believe... it is my destiny.

My only regret is... I will miss you."


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She just stared at him.

Just another brotherhood idiot she was stupid enough to fall for?

"I am not stupid." She states, straightening a bit.

"Nor are you, Marcus." She adds, softening a little.

Something's wrong. She knows it.

"What's wrong, Marcus? Seriously. You've... You've never behaved like this before." So why, all of a sudden, was he acting like this now?

Now, of all times, when he knew that it would throw them both off their game right before one of the most- if not the most- important missions they were going to participate in?

Maybe she should take it back. He is kinda stupid sometimes, doing stuff like that.
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He wasn't stupid?

That was unexpected.

He wasn't totally sure how to respond to that one. They clearly were both off their game. But while he'd seen Aurora at her worst like this, Aurora had never seen him like this. But then, he'd never quite felt like this before. His advantage was totally lost. And he'd sort of forgotten how to play the game on an even playing field. Or maybe he'd never known.

"Nothing's wrong!" he snarled, pulling away from the door to turn his back on her. He stumped back over to the table, knowing he was just letting her waltz into his room, but not caring. He didn't care about anything at this point. Not Aurora. Not his overbearing, controlling mother.

He stared at the crap on the table and knocked the folders and maps and printouts off in one ferocious swipe.

Not anything. He didn't care about anything.
Edited by Rynfyre, Oct 27 2014, 08:49 PM.

"I'm going to Earth, Vetar. I have to help. I believe... it is my destiny.

My only regret is... I will miss you."


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Aurora frowned a bit, watching after him.

"Oh, yeah, sure, because you behave like this all the bloody time, Marcus..." She muttered, giving a soft sigh as she stepped inside after him- careful to shut the door behind herself. She barely spared the room a glance, too much of her focused on Marcus to care for it.

"I know that's not true." She says quietly to him, lifting a hand to rest it on his shoulder, lightly.

"Something's the matter. What is it?" All these gentle tones, it really was like she was a whole other person. She barely believed it herself.
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