http://emorangerblack.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] emorangerblack.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] srwug_alpha_rp2012-05-20 07:35 pm

This is the beginning

[A small object suddenly emerges from behind the horizon and blazes through the sky, followed by a comet-like trail. It crashes aboard the White Chalice's deck, revealing itself to be... a pair of humans clad in armor. The armor being Black Cloud and the Great Pretender, to be precise.]

I promised... to return...

1.
[Reactions for witnessing the crash come here. Devon and Laura's armors disappear almost immediately, and they lie down on the deck without strength to even get up. Exhausted, wounded and even somewhat singed they may look... but they are definitely alive and conscious.]

2.

[Some time later, once someone mercifully dragged Devon along to the medical bay - she'll be busy lying in bed and recuperating from the recent hell she went through. Still, the bandaged Shifter is good enough for visits.]

3.

[Same as #2, but for Laura. Just as Devon, she is worn out and injured, but the medical staff predicts she will make a full recovery soon enough. Although she has an eyepatch on.]

4.

[Locked to Cheng, and happening BEFORE prompt #2.

The Shifter still had some unfinished business before she could collapse. Mustering what little remains of her strength, she stumbled in a zombie-like gait to wherever her husband was at the time.

And once she makes it there, she just stands in the doorway. And stares.]
emorangerpink: (Default)

[personal profile] emorangerpink 2012-05-20 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Couldn't break a promise to someone who believed in me like that.

Eye got scraped up. Lid cut. It'll heal.
mecha_eihwaz: (EVE: tranquility)

[personal profile] mecha_eihwaz 2012-05-20 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad it's nothing serious, then. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to you, Laura...

[Lily gives her something - it's a plush Space Needle. Yes, a stuffed building.]

Here. While you were away, we visited a festival in one city... You couldn't be there, but I wanted to at least give you something from back then. I have one of those, too.
emorangerpink: (blush)

[personal profile] emorangerpink 2012-05-20 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Laura blinks away tears as she swallows the lump in her throat.]

You really...

Lily... thank you. You...

You were one of the reasons I was able to come back.
mecha_eihwaz: (EVE: glad)

1/2

[personal profile] mecha_eihwaz 2012-05-20 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I... I'm happy I could play my part, Laura. If you were gone... I don't want to even hear about it.

[She'll just sit there for a while, holding her.]
mecha_eihwaz: (EVE: not symbolic)

2/2

[personal profile] mecha_eihwaz 2012-05-20 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Laura... Just what happened with you and Devon after you disappeared into the Earth?
emorangerpink: (windswept)

[personal profile] emorangerpink 2012-05-20 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Laura's more at peace than Lily's probably ever seen her - she simply relaxes into her arms, content to let the time pass unmarked until Lily speaks.]

It... it's hard to explain. I don't really have the words for it.

The SEs existed on another plane, the one we Shift to. When we merged with the one that attacked us... it was like that plane was natural to us. With the crystal, we didn't tire, or hunger, or thirst... we could keep going so long as we could keep control. All the way down, where Shifting had never been able to take us before. To the... the machinery that made SEs, or the nest that spawned them, I don't know which. We destroyed it all. Didn't just seal them in, smashed the whole thing apart so there can't be any more.

It all blurred together... I couldn't tell how time was passing, where my mind ended and Devon's began...
mecha_eihwaz: (EVE: I didn't ask for this)

[personal profile] mecha_eihwaz 2012-05-20 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow... That must have been both an amazing and terrifying experience...

But how did you return back to normal?
emorangerpink: (ummm)

[personal profile] emorangerpink 2012-05-20 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure. I think we chose it... or it might have been because we broke down the system that kept us merged. The SE we bonded to, bonded through, started to come apart. We held on tight to ourselves, and... thought of home.

I'm still me... I don't think I left anything behind, or... kept anything... else. But it was... quite a ride.
mecha_eihwaz: (EVE: not symbolic)

[personal profile] mecha_eihwaz 2012-05-21 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
If you somehow left anything behind, I'm sure there could be a way to regain that... With time, if nothing else.

But I don't think anything about you changed. I don't have a third eye that lets me see people's auras or anything like that... But you feel the same as before. You're still the same Laura I know.
emorangerpink: (smiling)

[personal profile] emorangerpink 2012-05-21 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
That's good enough for me. If anyone should know... And there's no Laura I'd rather be, after all.

[She briefly cups Lily's cheek, giving her a smile, before her hand falls again.]

I guess we'll see if Nenep recognizes me, for the real test.
mecha_eihwaz: (EVE: glad)

[personal profile] mecha_eihwaz 2012-05-21 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
I took good care of him while you were away! I can bring him to you if you want, so you can sleep better.
emorangerpink: (smiling)

[personal profile] emorangerpink 2012-05-21 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
If he'll have me. A week with you, he might not want to come back.
mecha_eihwaz: (EVE: tranquility)

[personal profile] mecha_eihwaz 2012-05-21 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm sure he will, Laura! Who wouldn't want to go back to sleeping with you?
emorangerpink: (blush)

[personal profile] emorangerpink 2012-05-21 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[That aura of peace from earlier? Gone now, as Laura's twitch of surprise twinges something in her lower back and her whole body tenses up in pain. Well, at least it provides an alternative explanation for how red she's turned.]

Y-yeah... ummm... who indeed?

[Cough.]
mecha_eihwaz: (EVE: huh?)

[personal profile] mecha_eihwaz 2012-05-21 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh...! Umm...

[Yeah, Lily suddenly realizes what she just said.]

Uh, I didn't... I mean... Err... I, I will go get Nenep now, okay?
emorangerpink: (downcast)

[personal profile] emorangerpink 2012-05-21 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Y-yes - errr...

[Laura can't even cover her face or draw up the sheets to hide behind. Her expression is a sight to behold.]

I, I know what you meant...
mecha_eihwaz: (EVE: huh?)

[personal profile] mecha_eihwaz 2012-05-21 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
W, Well... Off I go, then! It will just take a moment, so don't go anywhere!

[And she storms out, face red from embarassment.]
emorangerpink: (blush)

[personal profile] emorangerpink 2012-05-21 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not like Laura could go anywhere. And of course, the Earth isn't going to obligingly open up and swallow her whole again. She does her best to help it do so, though.]