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outer_divide2012-11-20 11:39 pm
pepperspray) wrote in outer_divide2012-11-20 11:39 pm
[Audio: Filtered] Tying Loose Ends: (Friday, Week 19)
[Filtered to Tosh, Lyall and the three Avengers still above ground and breathing:]
I'm a little concerned with how the second stage is hitting me. I don't want to worry people generally, but I know all of you can keep on top of things.
[Pepper honestly sounds more dead level than concerned, voice a colourless murmur and the video kept off.]
Just in case I'm too out of it: if we get samples, or a dose of vaccine. Anything. Let people know to talk to Captain Silene. She has a communicator, she's a contact at the port town. Knows me. She might know where manufacturing facilities are.
[Filtered to Tony:]
I... Tony. I would really like you here right now.
[This, spoken privately, is where the concern has gotten to. Beyond that, there's a thread of naked fear that's been missing from Pepper's previous determined sulking her way through Stage One.]
I'm a little concerned with how the second stage is hitting me. I don't want to worry people generally, but I know all of you can keep on top of things.
[Pepper honestly sounds more dead level than concerned, voice a colourless murmur and the video kept off.]
Just in case I'm too out of it: if we get samples, or a dose of vaccine. Anything. Let people know to talk to Captain Silene. She has a communicator, she's a contact at the port town. Knows me. She might know where manufacturing facilities are.
[Filtered to Tony:]
I... Tony. I would really like you here right now.
[This, spoken privately, is where the concern has gotten to. Beyond that, there's a thread of naked fear that's been missing from Pepper's previous determined sulking her way through Stage One.]
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[Pepper's murmur is a little hazy, as if she's directing a complaint at some intangible spirit of disease.]
Take care of yourself. Silene... knowledge shared is knowledge that won't be lost.
[audio]
I hope - I don't want Ianto to have to deal with losing me again. Though I don't know if he has for the first time, actually.
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I'm not sure how much more conversation I have in me right now, but there's one other thing. Have you heard about Bruce?
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[But there may be no time to share it later, and better her to tell it than other options available.]
Tosh... he didn't make it. The second stage-- Tony and I got a call, but it was limited audience, and we didn't have time to--
I'm sorry.
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No, I- I understand. [She's trying to tell herself that she and Bruce weren't that close, not close enough to warrant something as personal as a deathbed visit. On the other hand, he's probably her closest friend on Verdana.] Thanks for telling me, Pepper.
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[Pepper knows those silences well, and lingers in one for a long moment.]
We were almost too late ourselves. But he's in the pods now, and I already know of one person who came back, healed from this-- and that sounds so empty right now.
Tony-- I'll tell Tony he should come see you. Yes.
[It's not that Pepper's voice is any firmer: she's getting even threadier in point of objective fact. But she does sound a little more sure of herself with the decision reached.]
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[Yep, Tosh can even nerd out while she's crying.]
I know you don't exactly have any choice in the matter, but do try not to die. Even with the possibility of resurrection, it's still stressful for all parties involved.
[What she means is something along the lines of "please don't die, you're my friend". Way to develop feelings in the middle of the black death, Tosh.]
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[The joke, old and familiar, isn't so funny now. Pepper doesn't finish it.]
I think I need to rest. Be OK, all right?
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