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etrayalogs2024-05-28 11:41 pm
seenitall) wrote in etrayalogs2024-05-28 11:41 pm
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when you're in the half-light, it is not you I see (closed)
WHO: Alex Rider, Tim Drake, Kyra at some point
WHEN: Not too long after the mingle/exiting the labyrinth
WHERE: Point Blanc
WHAT: Alex has a flashback.
NOTES\WARNINGS: PTSD, violence, tbd
This isn't really Point Blanc, but he feels it all the same when he walks through the doors. Terror. Isolation. The realization that he might die in the middle of a frozen wasteland, all because he wanted to know what happened to his uncle (all because the Department wouldn't keep their hands off him, all because his uncle raised him not to leave well enough alone). It's an excellent facsimile of the place, even if it's fake underneath it all (rubber needles in the infirmary, prop guns in storage - he checks). He finds himself reaching for what Dr. Lambert taught him in their sessions, controlling his breathing and staying grounded in the moment. Of course, the moment is Alex and Kyra, alone in Point Blanc, and there were so many other, more dangerous moments like that.
They don't intend to split up, exactly. They're not far from each other, but Kyra's looking at the computers to see if there's anything useful in them or if they're just fake, and Alex thinks he's heard something. It's probably nothing. It's probably nothing. (Breathe in, two, three, four. Hold. Out, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.) He has to check, though, because it might not be nothing, because this is a place where horrible things have happened (not the place, this is a copy, he has to keep remembering that this Point Blanc is fake). So he separates from her, just to make sure.
It's not nothing.
He doesn't see who it is, not really, just registers (barely) that it's not Kyra, Laura, or James. It's not someone he knows, it's not one of the people he's here to protect. This is a place where horrible things have happened, so he does what he was trained to do: he attacks, brutal and efficient.
WHEN: Not too long after the mingle/exiting the labyrinth
WHERE: Point Blanc
WHAT: Alex has a flashback.
NOTES\WARNINGS: PTSD, violence, tbd
This isn't really Point Blanc, but he feels it all the same when he walks through the doors. Terror. Isolation. The realization that he might die in the middle of a frozen wasteland, all because he wanted to know what happened to his uncle (all because the Department wouldn't keep their hands off him, all because his uncle raised him not to leave well enough alone). It's an excellent facsimile of the place, even if it's fake underneath it all (rubber needles in the infirmary, prop guns in storage - he checks). He finds himself reaching for what Dr. Lambert taught him in their sessions, controlling his breathing and staying grounded in the moment. Of course, the moment is Alex and Kyra, alone in Point Blanc, and there were so many other, more dangerous moments like that.
They don't intend to split up, exactly. They're not far from each other, but Kyra's looking at the computers to see if there's anything useful in them or if they're just fake, and Alex thinks he's heard something. It's probably nothing. It's probably nothing. (Breathe in, two, three, four. Hold. Out, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.) He has to check, though, because it might not be nothing, because this is a place where horrible things have happened (not the place, this is a copy, he has to keep remembering that this Point Blanc is fake). So he separates from her, just to make sure.
It's not nothing.
He doesn't see who it is, not really, just registers (barely) that it's not Kyra, Laura, or James. It's not someone he knows, it's not one of the people he's here to protect. This is a place where horrible things have happened, so he does what he was trained to do: he attacks, brutal and efficient.
no subject
(What, locking them in their rooms wasn't enough?)
"I'm going to let go of you," he says evenly, as if he's just going to put on a pair of shoes or get the kid a soda. "But before you go - can you tell me anything else about the basement?"
Because he can't leave that statement uninvestigated. His injuries are - manageable. He's only going to snoop, and, if the cells are real and occupied, he can call for backup before taking any action. As a show of good faith, he lets go Alex and takes a step back.
no subject
It may not be the most helpful pieces of information, but Alex's brain is still on the scrambled side. He holds himself loosely and at a wary distance from Red Robin now, but there's still something in his stance like he's ready to be attacked.
"I don't - know what the point was of recreating it here."