Hey.. [ so this isn't awkward right? what's better than this, dudes being dudes, talking about dying-slash-maybe-murdering, missing boyfriends ] so yeah. Murderous rampage, right? That was where we were?
[nope not awkward at all just another day in space]
Yeah, I think so. It was that or you were about to share your famous trifle recipe. Can't quite remember, so let's just go with the murderous rampage to be safe.
What's trifle? [ stay on topic buddy ] No it's just- you know how people turn up at different times here and it's really really weird? If he's just...a little earlier than me, there might be...rampage issues. But we fixed it before, we can do it again.
[ the absolute poster child for reassurance, right? ]
[What's trifle, oh my god, deprived soul, and Sirius makes a noise of quiet pain, but manages to move on. Trifles will be revisited once rampage issues have been sorted.]
Right, that's-- not so uncommon here, actually. [Speaking from experience, and he prods experimentally at his left canine tooth, which still feels a little wonky even nearly a year after That Time Remus Showed Up Again and Nearly Beat His Face Off.] Worrying, but not uncommon. What did you do to fix it before?
He can survive it, we're pretty sure. [ she kind of got dragged away before full recovery could be made, but things had been incredibly optimistic, so that's enough to sound sure right? right. ] It's a drug, so once it's out of your system the whole...murder vibes are gone. Staying alive during the detox isn't...easy, but we did it once before.
If he ends up here and I get to him soon enough, it'll be fine. I swear.
['Staying alive' not 'keeping him alive'. There's a bit of a difference between the two, and Sirius--foolhardy, willing to risk life and limb for his friends, regardless of what murderous state they might be in at the time (hullo, Remus "Moony" Lupin)--Sirius gets that. Full stop. It never occurs to him to question whatever risk is entailed during the detox. It's got an end point, that's better than some get.]
All right, keep your hair on. We're not going to shove him out of an airlock. [More bracing than gruff.] He can't be here now, or else we'd have heard about it already. Word gets around quickly. So we'll plan for if and when he comes aboard. That's easier than trying to work backwards.
[So don't worry too much, in other words, even if it's probably something that ought to be worried about.]
We'll have to have some way that we can spot him. SEC, I mean. And I'll have to tell Tyke. She's head of SEC. She'll see to it that we can help your mate out, and get him to a place where he can wait it out. And then it really will be fine.
You float people here? [ w h o o p s sore point. ] If he still has anything in his system he'd be strong, but not unmanageable. Me and my brother handled him okay, it wouldn't be impossible to get him secured somewhere.
[ she sighs slightly, because while it's good planning ahead and all, the idea of going through that detox again is stressful as hell. they've already got enough going on with half the people from the ark being here from radically different timelines. more of that would just be...
very tiring, basically, so she's kind of hoping he doesn't show up. ]
Listen...thanks, for this. Like I really do appreciate it, you could have been a huge dick about this.
['Float' immediately makes him think of good old wingardium leviosa, but from context clues (tone, the fact that she's not a witch, the fact that she asked that straight after he mentioned shoving her boyfriend out of the airlock, which, all right, was perhaps not the most sensitive, but Sirius can be kind of a prick, well-known fact, that)--well, he can put two and two together easily enough.]
Turn of phrase. Anyways, as long as we know what we're looking for, and if you managed to sort him before--we'll sort him again.
[Because, look: if regular muggles were able to overpower this boyfriend, then Sirius could probably manage it alone, and that's only got about 10% of a boast to it. 90% fact.
Her gruff word of thanks gets him to grin, even if it goes by unseen. He likes Octavia already.]
And you're welcome. I'd say 'just doing my job, miss' but it sort of goes beyond my job, so you might still end up owing me one. But obviously I'm good and merciful, so you don't have to worry too much about that.
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Hey.. [ so this isn't awkward right? what's better than this, dudes being dudes, talking about dying-slash-maybe-murdering, missing boyfriends ] so yeah. Murderous rampage, right? That was where we were?
[ yes o that is exactly where you were ]
yw happy xmas or happy bday whichever is closer
Yeah, I think so. It was that or you were about to share your famous trifle recipe. Can't quite remember, so let's just go with the murderous rampage to be safe.
Generally murderous or specifically?
meppy birthmas 2 me
[ the absolute poster child for reassurance, right? ]
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Right, that's-- not so uncommon here, actually. [Speaking from experience, and he prods experimentally at his left canine tooth, which still feels a little wonky even nearly a year after That Time Remus Showed Up Again and Nearly Beat His Face Off.] Worrying, but not uncommon. What did you do to fix it before?
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If he ends up here and I get to him soon enough, it'll be fine. I swear.
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All right, keep your hair on. We're not going to shove him out of an airlock. [More bracing than gruff.] He can't be here now, or else we'd have heard about it already. Word gets around quickly. So we'll plan for if and when he comes aboard. That's easier than trying to work backwards.
[So don't worry too much, in other words, even if it's probably something that ought to be worried about.]
We'll have to have some way that we can spot him. SEC, I mean. And I'll have to tell Tyke. She's head of SEC. She'll see to it that we can help your mate out, and get him to a place where he can wait it out. And then it really will be fine.
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[ she sighs slightly, because while it's good planning ahead and all, the idea of going through that detox again is stressful as hell. they've already got enough going on with half the people from the ark being here from radically different timelines. more of that would just be...
very tiring, basically, so she's kind of hoping he doesn't show up. ]
Listen...thanks, for this. Like I really do appreciate it, you could have been a huge dick about this.
[ gratitude 101 with octavia blake ]
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['Float' immediately makes him think of good old wingardium leviosa, but from context clues (tone, the fact that she's not a witch, the fact that she asked that straight after he mentioned shoving her boyfriend out of the airlock, which, all right, was perhaps not the most sensitive, but Sirius can be kind of a prick, well-known fact, that)--well, he can put two and two together easily enough.]
Turn of phrase. Anyways, as long as we know what we're looking for, and if you managed to sort him before--we'll sort him again.
[Because, look: if regular muggles were able to overpower this boyfriend, then Sirius could probably manage it alone, and that's only got about 10% of a boast to it. 90% fact.
Her gruff word of thanks gets him to grin, even if it goes by unseen. He likes Octavia already.]
And you're welcome. I'd say 'just doing my job, miss' but it sort of goes beyond my job, so you might still end up owing me one. But obviously I'm good and merciful, so you don't have to worry too much about that.