[ Oh, look, it's Jason. His body language is a mix of anger and suppressed fear, and his hair's sticking up in a mess of sweaty almost-curls, like he's been running his hands through it compulsively. ]
Please tell me you're still here. I can't reach Steph or Tim. And you know it's bad when I try to talk to the replacement.
[If she had her choice, this would be a video in return. She'd rather hide the way she looks similarly frazzled, the lost look in her eyes, but it doesn't seem right when Jason started this by being open and honest with her. The least she can do is honor that.]
Still here. I don't think... that they are.
[She sounds hollow, which is fitting. That's about how she feels at the moment.]
[ He'd like to think he has no fucks to give about Tim, but really, for all that he hated the guy, he could trust him. Robins don't come in the untrustworthy variety, himself excepted. And now his list of reliable people is down by two.
And Steph... God. Steph. Baby bird. He's...
He's going to stop thinking about this now, and focus on someone who's, to all appearances, even less okay with this than he is. ]
You need to be alone right now, or do you want some company?
[She answers right away and her tone should be enough to tell Jason that being alone is the last thing Cassandra wants right now. She seems to realize she's said it too fast, though, and she rubs at the back of her neck. She should be hiding how upset she is better than that.]
I was always alone, before Stephanie. I don't... want that back, now.
Want me to come to the Three Twins, or would you rather visit the Paisley?
[ He saw that quick lapse of control, true, but he's decided the best way to deal with it is to just go on like it didn't happen. This isn't the time to poke at things other people don't want him to see. ]
I'll go there. Should only take me... a couple minutes.
[She needs the time to find her center and moving will help. After closing the connection with Jason she leaves her ship right away, more interested in the possibility that his company will... she doesn't know. Something. She wants to believe that being with Jason will do something to make the emptiness left by Stephanie and Tim disappearing hurt a little less.
When she gets to the Paisley she realizes quickly she isn't actually sure where she's going, though. Hopefully he'll be keeping a look out for her.]
[ He's there waiting when her shuttle comes in, leaning against the wall in the classic bad-boy pose... though a pose is all it is. There's tension in his posture that would be invisible to most people, but it's there all the same. When he sees her he straightens up. He doesn't have Cass's gift for reading people's movements, but there's a grace in the way she moves that makes him think all the rumors he heard are nothing but the unvarnished truth. ]
Hey. Do you want something to drink? Something to eat? ...Something to hit?
I'd offer something to smoke, but you don't seem like the lung-polluting type.
[She means smoking, but doesn't think to clarify that part. And while she knows drinking to mask pain is something unhealthy, something Bruce would be unimpressed by, she also thinks that this is one case where it might be acceptable.
But she also knows it would be pointless, because losing control and not having to think for a few hours won't bring Stephanie or Tim back. She runs a hand through her hair, on edge and uncomfortable, before she looks at Jason again. What she wants is either someone to hold her or someone to hit her and she isn't sure Jason is the first type.]
And he smiles a little when she chooses hitting, though it's far from a happy smile. He's been trying not to be too rough on their new punching bag... And someone to fight who can hold their own is always a good thing in his book.
And hey, "hit things until you feel better" is a tried and tested Bat family coping strategy. ]
Hitting is absolutely doable. There's enough room in the cargo hold... though barely, if you feel like getting acrobatic.
[ And with that, he heads off in the direction of the cargo hold, waving for her to follow him. Under other circumstances, he'd be politer, would take more time to make small talk and get to know her... but he's pissed at the world right now, pissed at Atroma for just taking the people he could trust away. ]
Preferred ground rules?
[ He'll play by Bruce's rules if she prefers: bruises but no blood, no broken bones. Or he'll play rougher, if she wants to make someone bleed. It's her call. ]
[She doesn't want polite, though. She wants exactly what he's providing and that in itself is being polite to Cassandra. As she follows him she pulls her sweater off, wadding it up with no care for wrinkles as she watches his back. This is going to be rough and mean, she can tell just from his body language, and she can't help feeling even more connected to him than she already did based on just Bruce's body language when he'd speak of Jason.
It's a little unfair, the attachment she feels. It's one-sided and unbalanced, but if they're both Bats that makes them family. She wants to have the right to him the same way she had the right to Tim, or Dick, or Barbara. But unlike them, Jason will understand her better. He already does if he's asking about ground rules.]
Nothing broken. Nothing that will... keep us from our duties. [If there's another attack on the fleet she wants to be in the right shape to defend the handful of people left here she cares about.] Everything else is fine. You won't hurt me.
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7/6/15 22:03 (UTC)Please tell me you're still here. I can't reach Steph or Tim. And you know it's bad when I try to talk to the replacement.
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8/6/15 06:46 (UTC)Still here. I don't think... that they are.
[She sounds hollow, which is fitting. That's about how she feels at the moment.]
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8/6/15 13:11 (UTC)[ He'd like to think he has no fucks to give about Tim, but really, for all that he hated the guy, he could trust him. Robins don't come in the untrustworthy variety, himself excepted. And now his list of reliable people is down by two.
And Steph... God. Steph. Baby bird. He's...
He's going to stop thinking about this now, and focus on someone who's, to all appearances, even less okay with this than he is. ]
You need to be alone right now, or do you want some company?
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10/6/15 05:02 (UTC)[She answers right away and her tone should be enough to tell Jason that being alone is the last thing Cassandra wants right now. She seems to realize she's said it too fast, though, and she rubs at the back of her neck. She should be hiding how upset she is better than that.]
I was always alone, before Stephanie. I don't... want that back, now.
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10/6/15 05:22 (UTC)[ He saw that quick lapse of control, true, but he's decided the best way to deal with it is to just go on like it didn't happen. This isn't the time to poke at things other people don't want him to see. ]
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10/6/15 05:42 (UTC)[She needs the time to find her center and moving will help. After closing the connection with Jason she leaves her ship right away, more interested in the possibility that his company will... she doesn't know. Something. She wants to believe that being with Jason will do something to make the emptiness left by Stephanie and Tim disappearing hurt a little less.
When she gets to the Paisley she realizes quickly she isn't actually sure where she's going, though. Hopefully he'll be keeping a look out for her.]
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12/6/15 03:26 (UTC)Hey. Do you want something to drink? Something to eat? ...Something to hit?
I'd offer something to smoke, but you don't seem like the lung-polluting type.
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13/6/15 00:14 (UTC)[She means smoking, but doesn't think to clarify that part. And while she knows drinking to mask pain is something unhealthy, something Bruce would be unimpressed by, she also thinks that this is one case where it might be acceptable.
But she also knows it would be pointless, because losing control and not having to think for a few hours won't bring Stephanie or Tim back. She runs a hand through her hair, on edge and uncomfortable, before she looks at Jason again. What she wants is either someone to hold her or someone to hit her and she isn't sure Jason is the first type.]
Can start with hitting. Go from there.
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15/6/15 07:14 (UTC)And he smiles a little when she chooses hitting, though it's far from a happy smile. He's been trying not to be too rough on their new punching bag... And someone to fight who can hold their own is always a good thing in his book.
And hey, "hit things until you feel better" is a tried and tested Bat family coping strategy. ]
Hitting is absolutely doable. There's enough room in the cargo hold... though barely, if you feel like getting acrobatic.
[ And with that, he heads off in the direction of the cargo hold, waving for her to follow him. Under other circumstances, he'd be politer, would take more time to make small talk and get to know her... but he's pissed at the world right now, pissed at Atroma for just taking the people he could trust away. ]
Preferred ground rules?
[ He'll play by Bruce's rules if she prefers: bruises but no blood, no broken bones. Or he'll play rougher, if she wants to make someone bleed. It's her call. ]
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20/6/15 19:45 (UTC)It's a little unfair, the attachment she feels. It's one-sided and unbalanced, but if they're both Bats that makes them family. She wants to have the right to him the same way she had the right to Tim, or Dick, or Barbara. But unlike them, Jason will understand her better. He already does if he's asking about ground rules.]
Nothing broken. Nothing that will... keep us from our duties. [If there's another attack on the fleet she wants to be in the right shape to defend the handful of people left here she cares about.] Everything else is fine. You won't hurt me.
[Even though she wants him to.]