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[sistershoggoth]

CHARACTERS: Alnair Brood, Asuka, Murphy, Bellamy.
WHERE: The Station
WHEN: DAY(S) :041/042
SUMMARY: Annie organizing other people's lives for them because that's the only way she can deal with her own.
WARNINGS: Will update as necessary.

Comments

[deployed]

( I wouldn't let anything happen to Murphy. )

[ being fussy about this is unnecessary, and yet. ]

( Who are the others? )

[sistershoggoth]

( Annabeth and Lucina, so far. )

[ She might also have emotions about Asuka that have not fully developed into 'let me harass you into training so I can do everything in my power not to puke from anxiety over your safety every moment you're not in my sight.' Annie has some anxiousness about losing people, especially kids she sees as her responsibility. ]

( Maybe I'll find a few more I like as we go. )

[deployed]

( Do you need help with all of them, or is Murphy the only one you need an extra set of hands for? )

[sistershoggoth]

( Shocker, he and Noct are the ones moaning about it the most. Don't they know NOBODY likes running laps? )

[deployed]

( Noctis? )

[ Unexpected. ]

( I'd have thought he'd be interested too. )

[sistershoggoth]

( Noct is like. Not a morning person. Of any variety. He also doesn't like coffee, so uh, of course he's not a morning person, but that sounds like a personal problem of his and he can get up and run with the rest of us anyway? )

[deployed]

( It's hard to dodge training when we're all looped into each other's heads. This'll be easier than assembling cadets. )

[ There's a flicker of memory: Harper and Monroe's smiling faces in a cluster of trainees, Lincoln extending a hand down to Bellamy. It's all fragile. It fades away quickly. ]

[sistershoggoth]

( Man, when I was a fuckin' school girl, there was no dodging training. You got your fuckin' ass kicked if you didn't show up where you were supposed to. )

[ Punishments at the Academy were to be avoided, rather than tested. Only a few of the very troublesome ones were repeat offenders. ]

( Didn't know you were a cadet though. That how you got so handsome? )

[ She's teasing. Bellamy is.... too sweet to be her type. God bless. ]

[deployed]

( Handsomeness wasn't part of the training. )

[ And he hadn't finished the guard program, but that's not the point. ]

( We'll both have better luck with Murphy if we give him some time. He's...irritated now. )

[ Or just being a stubborn ass. ]

[sistershoggoth]

( He's your boyfriend, I guess you're the expert. )

[deployed]

( That's not what we are. But I know him. He'll come around if we give him a little time to think about it. )

[ bellamy suspects he made murphy double down on his denial by getting involved, but he also knows murphy's not an idiot, so maybe a day or two and he'll begrudgingly agree to train. ]

[sistershoggoth]

( Nothing to think about, how many times you gotta get attacked by aliens before you start thinking about evening the odds? )

[ She's not actually arguing, she is, at this point, just complaining. It's one of her better skills. ]

[deployed]

( That's not really Murphy's style. )

[sistershoggoth]

( Logical preparation? No shit. )

[ What Bellamy may be noticing by now is that a certain chick here is also prone to getting stubborn and irritated from time to time....... ]

[deployed]

( No. Fighting. That's not usually what Murphy does. )

[ Aside from a few notable exceptions, but most of the time there had been more capable people to head up the front lines. ]

[sistershoggoth]

( That's fine, I got fighters. It's not about fighting. )

[ Poor Bellamy playing translator. ]

[deployed]

( Then it's about...? )

[sistershoggoth]

( Jesus. Not everything's about beating people up, sometimes you gotta run for your fucking life for hours at a time, or shit you have to run through a fuckin' urban environment with all the shit in the way. You get ready for that shit. Wanna do free run? Nyx and I can both show you. Wanna do stealthing? Can show you that shit too. More importantly, we're twice as effective next time some unexpected shit crops up if we actually know each other's skills. )

[deployed]

( I understand. )

[ This will still be a hard sell for Murphy. ]

( And he will too. Just not for a few days. )

[sistershoggoth]

( Fine! Shit. I got Noct to beat up first anyway. )

[deployed]

( Have fun. )

[sistershoggoth]

( Don't worry about that, I've been waiting for this for a week. )

[deployed]

( Well, don't tire yourself out. I'll find you tomorrow and we'll see where Murphy stands. )