R37 - error, post hijacked

[with_my_teacup]

Look, I don't wanna alarm anyone, but we got some real unsavory characters on the network all of a sudden.

[Riddick toggles over to another feed, where someone is calling in from outside. A middle aged man, with gray threading through his hair, yellow eyes, and a face like he makes a professional career out of dismantling brick walls with it.]



Hello, all you mothers' sons! I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me.

[The stranger grins, which is even uglier than him not grinning, but it's a friendly kind of ugly-- some barge veterans will recognize Brachi Stildyne, though a few years older than last seen.]

[Back to Riddick]
...so yeah, I'ma just go to work.

[Spam, Kitchen and surrounding areas]
[And he does go to work, not expecting any voices on the network he much wants to hear-- he's been away for days, still feeling that unnatural fatigue but not so much it's keeping him in bed anymore. He just drifts in as if he wasn't gone, an hour early, looks at what's on the menu and starts work.]

[OOC: Specify spam, vidya, or Stildyne- responses from Stildyne will come from umgekehrt. Warning, character in icons is uglier than he appears.]

Comments

[with_my_teacup]

I know. Maybe I'll try straight talk instead of bullshit this time.

You'll be fine. You'll take care of the kid, keep her from getting to thinking my lifestyle looks like a good idea. I'll take care of myself.

I trust you. You're stronger than I gave you credit for, when I left you in the dark. You set me straight then. You'll keep shit together this time too.

[His jaw clenches. It wasn't like he was falling down on the job earlier, but nothing's going to stop him now.]

stop making me want to bring back Fry full time

[woulddieforthem]

You'd get a better response.

[She laughed, a bitter bark but there was a little humor left in it.]

Strong, right. More like I didn't have a choice, when your back is against the wall at least it gives you something good to push off from.

NEVER /enables forever

[with_my_teacup]

I respected that about you. You didn't fold. You fought. Like there was an animal in you.

stop I am weak willed

[woulddieforthem]

People were depending on me. I did what I had to do to keep us alive; as many of us as I could.

doooo itttttt

[with_my_teacup]

[The corner of his mouth pulls up in a humorless smirk.]

You coulda done a lot less. You weren't short on role models there.

u r evul

[woulddieforthem]

Yeah, and you could'a killed us all and taken off in the skiff yourself. We never know what we're going to do until we get pushed to it.

grr 8| raaar

[with_my_teacup]

Ain't that the truth.

I don't exactly have an ETA. Turning the clock back kinda depends on human factors. I can't tell you when it'll go down. Then again... you probably won't remember.

meanie head

[woulddieforthem]

I don't exactly have expectations because something is starting to make sense.

[And it isn't the happiest thought.]

I didn't make it out, did I?

:3

[with_my_teacup]

[He sucks in a breath through his nose, lips pulled tight.]

You shouldn'ta come back for me.

You said you'd die for them. Not me.

so here's one for your feels

[woulddieforthem]

Wrong.

You were one of us, I was not going to leave you behind.

[And at least now she could look up with a grin, and shake her head.]

Got you out, got them out. No regrets.

damnit -_-

[with_my_teacup]

Wasn't. Worth it. Not me.

srry, not srry

[woulddieforthem]

Guess it's a good thing it wasn't your call then.

Look at you now, it was worth it. You were worth it.

[with_my_teacup]

I'm going to change it. It doesn't go like this. You're getting off that planet if you ever set foot on it in the first place.

[woulddieforthem]

Keep talking like that and a woman would start to think you care.

[Don't worry, she's joking, she knows better.]

[with_my_teacup]

Shit, my reputation is in the trash. I'm hurt.

[woulddieforthem]

If anyone asks I will tell them how utterly terrified for my life I was.

You can be pretty damned intimidating when you want to be, we were just lucky you decided to work with us.

[with_my_teacup]

Tell'm you kicked my ass.

[woulddieforthem]

Like they'd believe me?

[with_my_teacup]

Put your shoulders back, lift your chin, swell your chest, people believe a whole lot.

[woulddieforthem]

It probably doesn't hurt that in your case your sort of godlike in build. But I'll keep that in mind.

[with_my_teacup]

I'm already gonna do this; puffing me up ain't necessary. [The smile he gives her is probably more honest than she's ever seen from him. Strike probably. It is.]

[woulddieforthem]

I wasn't, it's kinda hard to miss.

[She laughed, honestly laughed. Hell she hadn't made it and a convicted killer was about to rearrange time to make things right. What wasn't there to laugh about?]

But you deserve to know how much this means, even if no one knows about it after.

[with_my_teacup]

Then even if you don't remember, you need to understand this.

I was about to lift off that planet to prove a point to myself. Everyone who survived survived because you were stronger than me.

[woulddieforthem]

I needed you, I couldn't do it on my own. I didn't know until we were there in that moment. Not for sure anyway, until you held a blade to my throat I didn't know I would do whatever it took.

I wish I'd had to chance to actually get to know you, Riddick.I've never even used your first name.

[with_my_teacup]

Nobody ever did. Wouldn't've known what to make of it.