12 ❄ ( VIDEO )

[wintershepherd]

[ Jack has gone back and forth between Keeliai and Tu Vishan several times, each more insistent than before, before returning to his suite to relay this message. He sticks to video because he's a little weary (mentally more than physically) and most of the people he knew needed to hear this news, he knew could see and hear him or the petite, jewel-toned faerie securely perched on his shoulder in the soft folds of his sweater's hood. The feed begins as he's still talking to her and it catches the last of his words and her soft chirping. ]

--et them know, Baby Tooth, just a minute.

[ Then he addresses the screen properly, keeping his voice level and steady. ]

I know everything's been a little crazy lately with... you know, that message--

--but I wanted to let people know, Finnick Odair has gone home. I've looked all over and neither I nor the Wind can't find him anywhere on Tu Vishan or in Sinbrilee. I'm sure he... would have said goodbye, if he'd been able. But I didn't want people to just be looking for him and not realize.

[ a beat and then, unable to think of anything more appropriate to add: ]

Sorry.

[ private to Traci & Korra ]

I'd like to keep the fishing business open, even if it'll have to move to a building not attached to his suite but... I think he'd have liked that, and I don't want you two to be out of jobs. I'll understand if you'd prefer not to, though. I know I've... never really been around it much for supposedly being half the ownership.

Comments

[video]

[cantbewalled]

[He couldn't care less about whoever disappeared, but he's curious about the little thing on Jack's shoulder.]

What the--You have an overgrown rainbow mosquito sitting on you. Don't they only have those in Africa?

Re: [video]

[wintershepherd]

[ Wow you should be happy you don't speak faerie right now because you are getting cussed out where even Jack looks a little surprised. ]

Gilbert. This is Baby Tooth and she is a tooth faerie. Don't be rude.

video

[backwordscompatible]

[You know what the smart thing to do would be? To just pretend it had never happened and hope that he does the same and then things can keep on going like they were.]

[Except that really wasn't the smart thing to do at all. Not with everything else that had been happening to her lately. Jack was her best friend, and they had genuinely been through worse. A little Talk over a certain Dream of his couldn't hurt, right?]

Umm...hey.

[Now if only she could remember how to words.]

Re: video

[wintershepherd]

[ he sounds more resigned than awkward ]

Hi Zatanna.

[zerotoawesome]

Great... It seems like more and more people are disappearing lately.

[wintershepherd]

Yeah... it's become more often lately, hasn't it...

[Private to Jack]

[the_other_eight]

[She didn't really know Finnick, at all. She knows he was someone who was from Peeta's world, but that's about it. She also knows that Jack's upset, which is really all that matters.]

Is there anything you need?

Re: [Private]

[wintershepherd]

Hey Pepper... I think we're okay.

[everylittlegirl]

Are you sure he's gone? I just saw him a few days ago.

[wintershepherd]

I wouldn't let people know like this if I wasn't sure. The Wind can search in ways people can't... when it stops being able to find people...

video; private

[urbanmagic]

[Oh no, boss.]

Hey, don't sweat it. You've had your fair share of things to handle the past few months. [Besides, she'd probably still do it because she actually enjoyed it, hanging out and working with Korra and Finnick.] You okay?

Re: video; private

[wintershepherd]

[ Those stupid arches showed me my absolute highest and lowest and emotionally I feel like a wet, wrung-out rag. Also one of my friends from home showed up and I'm worried something will happen to her and it will be my fault. ]

Yeah, I'm all right.

[ Baby Tooth is giving him the most unimpressed look right now. ]

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[storm_warning]

Another one bites the dust.

[That bitterness in her voice is could probably use a little more bitterness in it. Really. Honest.]

Just great.

[It's all she says before she cuts the connection. It's nothing against you, Jack. The fact that you're letting everyone know is great? This, however, is the straw that breaks the camel's back. Ororo is done with this week, completely and utterly DONE. Khan, Malicant, and now her sort-of boyfriend; does turtle hell want to do anything else to her? Because MIGHT AS WELL.]

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[alphatar]

[Distantly, as if the fishing business is the farthest thing from her mind, Korra answered:]

Yeah, I’d like to keep it going too.

[She was looking down and frown that was pushing the edges of her lips downward had become a feeling she started to hate.]

He lied to me Jack. [She said abruptly, trying to sound angry instead of hurt.]

Finnick lied. He promised me he wasn’t going to leave after Katniss.

Re: Video; 100% Starkryption

[wintershepherd]

Korra...

It's, I'm sure he... did mean to. You know people can't... control when they leave. Any more than they can when they arrive.

video;

[iguanasolution]

[Frank had been worried about Jack since he saw him in Death, he figures this is as good as any moment to ask.]

Hey Jack, are you doing alright? Is that a friend you lost?

Re: video;

[wintershepherd]

Hey Frank. I'm... okay.

He's a friend, yeah.

[ not in past tense ]

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[grigio]

So that's what you look like. I love the hair.

[This is about a half hour after his original post. She wanted to give him some time to himself because that's what people did, right? Plus her real motive, other than making sure Jack is okay, is to find employment but first thing's first. Julie is concerned and even with the smile on her face, it shows.]

Re: video:

[wintershepherd]

[ The comment actually gets a half-laugh from him and he instinctively runs a hand through his hair. ]

Yeah, this is me. Surprise?

actionish but the comment isn't actually here:

[victoria_stay]

[At some point during the day, Victoria will have found someone to run something to Jack for her since she doesn't want to leave her place. Not with Malicant being a dick. Nope.

Anyway. That something is a childs drawing. It's clearly of her and Jack and a half-toppled jenga tower. There are no words on the picture. Not even initials but the intention and meaning are probably clear.

She cares about Jack. She's sad he's hurting and wants him to feel better. So she made him a thing.]

omg /lays dead from cute

[wintershepherd]

[ Jack received the drawing and, immediately recognizing both the artist and the intention behind it, sat down for a while near the doorway, holding the paper like it was plated in gold. ]

[video]

[alpha_squad_leader]

I'm sorry, Jack. Things are kind of sucking for all of us lately, aren't they?

Re: [video]

[wintershepherd]

Seems like it, yeah. I wonder if... it's something we should be looking into. I don't know.

[supremefaith]

Well...that would be good news right, if he really has gone home...? I guess it stinks to lose a friend, but if they are in a place where they're okay then...

(sorry for the delay in tagging back! also Kino!!!)

[wintershepherd]

It is good news, yeah. It's just that it tends to happen really suddenly so... you don't get a chance to say goodbye. Kind of gives a whole new meaning to "live every day", you know?