[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-04-15 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ He feels like there's a purpose in those last words, but maybe even if there wasn't, the boy's face becomes tense and there's a space between when Garrus speaks and Red does, some of that taken up by Red shrugging off his bag from off his shoulders and opening it. ]

We can put the flowers in here. [ But then. ] ...Is it safe for you to move while it's still on you? Is it just the tip that's dangerous?
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[personal profile] papavum 2015-04-15 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
FROM: erin@cdc.org

Details you don't have a right to share but you're sharing details anyway

FROM: erin@cdc.org

I've seen him in action, he doesn't go down that easy. Do you know what did it?

FROM: erin@cdc.org

Because if there's something out there that can do that to him I think I have a right to know about it.

FROM: erin@cdc.org

Does this have something to do with Warriorhead?
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[personal profile] papavum 2015-04-15 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[She's already nesting into her ridiculous pile of blankets, dislodging feathers as she does. Eh. She'll pick them up later.]

I'm okay. I think I'll sleep for a while, see how I am when I wake up.

[Or more accurately, lie here and stare at the ceiling for a while, but rest is rest.]
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[personal profile] papavum 2015-04-15 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
FROM: erin@cdc.org

"Don't make you regret saying as much as you have already."


[That's it. That's all she says back. Erin has never taken well to being stonewalled, not by Garrett, not by anyone.

She's going to ask Mothership directly.]
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[personal profile] papavum 2015-04-15 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[There's no answer, but not because she hasn't seen the return message. She wasn't planning on telling Mothership where she heard the news that Armada's being taken care of, but now she's tempted to out of spite.

Sorry, Garrus, Erin is really bad at friends.]
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[personal profile] lespedeza 2015-04-15 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

I won't because there's no one to crush on!!!


[ Ah... she was supposed to be not replying. ]

FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org

Bye.

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-04-15 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The guy with armour is better than the boy without, but hey. There's still the worry of being crept up on while his sight is elsewhere, foot scraping against the dirt with a quick glance down inbetween keeping his eyes peeled on Garrus. ]

Juggernaut, that's- [ Which thing? ] the weapon?

[ Garrus brought up about weapons before. But quickly he interrupts with an unrelated request, before Garrus can answer: ] By the way, can you watch around my feet?

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-04-15 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's useful information, and Red's reminded of being shown before how to activate the juggernaut in the past when Garrus does so as well, but the conversation leads onto talks of upgrades that he just gives a few slow nods here and there and an awkward- ] Right.

[ He knows there's not much choice to their situation (except damning his planet, pokémon, and himself, that is) and it's a fact he's been struggling through, but to hear all this talk - regardless of usefulness - makes him wish that Charizard would come back soon. It'd be a good way to move on and to talk about the fruits and plants and have Red be able to ignore the subject and how beyond lost it makes him feel.

But Charizard hasn't been gone that long, and reality isn't as easy to ignore as that. He doesn't want to either. Not really. ]


...Whatever I have to learn, I won't leave Charizard's side. [ Out of any topic he can think to touch, that's the first to come. ] Me and my pokémon, we work together -- especially if it's me and Charizard. If he goes anywhere, I go too.

[ It's just a fact, softly spoken, and one that Red doesn't want to break no matter. ]

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-04-16 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ If anything, the conversation they've had now is as much of a reason why Red gestures his head in the direction that Charizard had gone. ]

I want to go this way. If we go too far in Charizard won't see us, and I want to see Charizard too. He won't be much longer.

[ Red doesn't walk without waiting for Garrus to agree, yet he stands and speaks like it's what he's set on. That, or he's just finding it harder for his body to relax. Should Garrus have no problem with this decision and moving away from the trees - and the boy will follow him - the orange creature won't be hard to spot -- he's amidst the open landscape, down on his feet than in the air.

And Garrus might just see him pull a chunk of something out the ground and drop it into his basket. ]

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-04-17 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ The relief in seeing Charizard is better than what he'd imagine, and Red stops walking once he catches sight of him; however, a small pang of guilt drops in his stomach at Garrus's words. There had been a reason for delaying an answer on the subject that time, but he knows he's been like a rock through the subject that it doesn't make a difference. ]

I wasn't ignoring you. [ Being difficult, true, but not ignoring. ] I just... I'm finding it hard to talk about.

[ He knows it isn't a good reason, and he doesn't want it to be an excuse. It's an opportunity for him to do more than think about it to himself and to Charizard, but then one thing or another unsettles him. It's hard to just discuss, to question about this and that like he did with people back in Kanto. That was all about pokémon, not-- killing.

Red continues to keep an eye on Charizard's distant figure, not facing away from Garrus for any other reason than to watch his pokémon, and he stands with a lack of an intention to move. ]


Can I ask you though... what did you do before you came here? Did you do anything like this? [ ... ] Did you ever hold a weapon before?
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2015-04-17 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ She wants to contradict him. Point out that she's never had a relationship work out, usually because she ruined them.

But somehow it doesn't feel right to do so. He's trying to believe that there are people for whom this crazy thing works. Tearing it down right now for the sake of argument just ... makes her feel kind of gross.

So she doesn't. She shrugs, awkward and teenage, and lets it go. ]


Yeah, well. I hope I'm getting it right.

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-04-17 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's not a surprise. It was already there in the way Garrus spoke before he confirmed it, and the position of a police officer fits with what Red imagined. His story is big and would be a source to awe in places and plenty of questions everywhere, but here -- here wasn't the time.

A long moment sits after Garrus finishes before Red speaks. ]


When you're a soldier in a war, there's going to be casualties. People get killed.... and pokémon too. [ ... ] I met a man once when I was on a journey back home to help a professor. He was a gym leader, a person who took on challenges and gave people who defeated him a badge of proof. He said he was a lieutenant in a war, and he and his pokémon fought be each other's side and kept each other safe. Half of everyone in his gym was a soldier once.

I didn't really think about it back then. When he said he fought in a war and his pokémon had been there with him, I just thought... of how strong of a bond they must have, and how tough they must be.

[ Not: What was it like to be in a war? Did they ever lose anyone? How did you cope? ]

I keep thinking about him now. What he had to do. How did he fight? What was it like for him and his pokémon? I wish I could talk to him now. [ He faces Garrus, and his voice grows with his words. ] I don't know weapons, I don't know about armour -- I know pokémon. I know how to take care of them. What should I do? What did he tell his pokémon?

[ He stops himself, looking away. A hand raises to brush through his hair, deliberately blocking his face with the way his arm bends and lingers after the hand grows still. Did he have to say anything to his pokémon? Why they were seeing the things they saw now? ]

We went up against those neraki... we fought the flying creatures. He took them down because they wouldn't stay down. I don't know if any survived.

[ Red breathes, sucking in the air through his nose, and his eyes close for a time with the tip of his head. ]

We have to do it because there's no other choice. We love where we come from too much. [ Wherever his words were meant to lead him, the reason for originally asking Garrus about his history with killing is already lost from his mind. Somewhere, it was meant to help. Achieve something. ]

I don't intend to have him fight alone. He won't carry all the weight.

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-04-17 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's no sudden clarity to Red. There's no less fear or doubt, no certain relief from speaking out his thoughts that had been going over his head since the illuminated night before. Garrus sounds more sure than he feels in that moment, but he doesn't want to confess to that; not when the otherworldly-man is trying to give his support (and has been trying for the majority of their trip out).

He's still plenty scared, about what he won't be able to do when it matters.

So Red just nods, silently, and gaze goes back out in the direction Charizard had been - and the pokémon was in flight, heading their way. ]


Can we just collect the food for now? Sorry... but I can't pick flowers and talk about something like this at the same time. It's too... strange.