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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.]
[Audio]
[Pepper's tone is light but threadbare, as she reaches for humour and confidence enough to fake it for Lyall's sake.]
Finally getting you to call me Pepper, and finding a way home so we can have lunch in Manhattan.
[Audio]
[He's joking. Sort of. Mostly. It is, however, unlikely she's going to manage getting her given name just yet.]
Even if you do not, Miss Potts, there is still the option of the pods. Chime came back... you have every chance that he does.
[Audio]
[Pepper's fading out badly, and her breathing is getting sharper and faster.]
Keep hoping. For all of us.
[It takes another minute before the connection is dropped, but aside from the continued fight to breathe there's no further word from Pepper.]
[Audio]
[And he listens to her breathing for a minute until she disconnects. For a moment, he strongly considers contacting Stark right then... not to mention stopping by her apartment. Though what the latter would do... he really doesn't know.
For now, he just puts the phone down and gets back to his rounds.]