Eighth Unused Utility Belt | Text, Video, Action Spam

[hellofist]

[Private text to Bruce Wayne]
[It takes her ten minutes and a lot of staring because what she gets out doesn't look right, but in the end, Cass sends the message anyway. He'll get it a few minutes after midnight.]

Marry Krismiss
Love, Cass

[She doesn't expect him to say anything back, but she can't let her first Christmas pass without saying something to him.]


[Video]
[When the video turns itself on, instead of an excited Merry Christmas!, the barge gets a shot of Cass sitting in bed in a blank cabin. She's in her pajamas still, hasn't gotten far, and her eyes are red and she's still crying.]

Merlin's gone. [Her voice is surprisingly even, despite speaking through her tears.] Went to bed and... he was here... Now his room is...

[She doesn't really know what to do, to say, but she knows she has to tell people that Merlin has disappeared, gone home. She's not thinking it might seem strange to most people on the Barge that she'd be sleeping in Merlin's bed at all, not right now. With a swipe at her eyes to try to dry them that completely fails, she tries to continue.]

Don't know... if he'll come back. But, he's...

[She doesn't finish. Instead, her hand covers up the camera and there's a few muffled sobs before the feed cuts off entirely.]

[Spam]
[For anyone who wants to go looking for her, Cass is still in Merlin's bedroom, still in his bed, curled up under the blankets. It's not fair that her first Christmas be like this, that she doesn't even have the familiarity of Merlin's room to comfort her. She'll get up eventually, but it will only be to drag some of her things back to the empty room. She has to save it for when he comes back, can't let anyone else move in. If that happens, she really has lost him.]

Comments

Re: [video]

[routemistress]

I've got a timeship, lovey. My lovely red bus. She can drive anywhere the spacetime vortex touches - and what it doesn't touch isn't worth seeing, believe you me - and she's ram-raided the fourth wall before now and survived. The Barge don't like us popping in an' out of 'er dimensional shielding, mind, so I won't do it lightly - she might not let us back on board, see? But I can do it, and if I 'ave to I will.

[She doesn't want to at all; Iris loved the Barge from the moment she set foot on it, and now she has an inmate things just got way more fun around here. But she means what she says.]

'Ow long was 'e gone before, pet, d'you know?

[video]

[hellofist]

[Cass considers that, but then shakes her head. If it was just her that would be one thing, but she won't ruin Iris' life just to find Merlin again.]

Would be better... to wait. [She shakes her head, because she doesn't know. This is the first time Merlin's left while she's known him.] Don't know.

Re: [video]

[routemistress]

Aye, it would, 'cause I'm sure 'e'll be back on 'is own, love. Much better to let 'im come to you.

[Because Iris has always been so good at not chasing after her men.]

The offer stands though, poppet. Just in case 'e gets stuck on the way and needs rescuin'.

Re: [video]

[hellofist]

How would... we know? If he got stuck?

[Can people get stuck? Now she has to worry about that, too.]