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єℓιzαвєтн cσмѕтσcк ♫ ([personal profile] beunbroken) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu2014-05-13 08:02 pm

Voxophone III -- video

[Elizabeth appears on the screen, her bright blue eyes wide and filled with tears. She says nothing, but holds up a sign. It simply reads:

Pavel Chekov Has Gone Home.

It's not even in her normal, flowing handwriting. Instead, it's on tear-stained paper, her letters simple.

Pavel Chekov has gone home. Leaving her here alone. No goodbye, no nothing. No hope of joining him in Space or on the Moon or anything. Nothing at all.

It's the first time she's ever experienced loss. At least, loss of this magnitude.

She shuts off the feed, having no intentions of sitting around to write down platitudes. If you need her, she'll be in her bedroom.]
washitaway: (what are these feelings)

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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-14 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[She didn't have to tell him what happened - she was going to visit her suitor - lover - whatever - and then she came home unexpectedly soon, with tears in her eyes.

It's clear that Chekov is gone from the turtle. Part of Booker has a feeling of deja vu - of knocking on a door and trying to give words of comfort to this girl in another situation, maybe one a little more dire, but less close to her heart.

The difference is, Booker knows what it is to kill a man. He doesn't know what it feels like to be left like this. Not really. There's death, sure, what happened to her mother, but this? This is different.

He brings her tea - it's what they both seem to do when the other is dealing with something hurtful. Make tea.]


Elizabeth?
washitaway: (REALLY skeptical!)

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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-14 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[His 38 years have not prepared him for teen heartbreak, that's for sure.]

You don't have to talk. I thought you might be hungry. There's tea and sandwiches.
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-14 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, that's his cue to at least try the door - finding it unlocked, he steps inside with the tray of food.] I'll just leave this here, then.
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-14 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[He sets it down on the bedside table, then watches her for a moment, wondering if he should stay or go. She just looks so lonely, though, sprawled out on the bed like that, and finally he perches on the edge of the bed to place a soothing hand on her back.]

I'm sorry.
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-14 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
But you did. [She's right that he never cared much for the boy, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that he's gone, and she's hurting because of it. That's what he's sorry for.]

I'm sorry this happened.
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-14 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't his choice. [Booker says that not so much because he believes it - though he does, he knows people vanish here all the time - but because he thinks it's probably what she needs to hear. That the boy she liked so much didn't leave her because he wanted to.]
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-15 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
It's not somethin' most people ever get to say. [That's just life. People come and go for all kinds of reasons. At least Elizabeth knows that Chekov is alive somewhere, and that he didn't leave her of his own free will.]
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-15 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
No, not - not really. You don't expect it, so you don't make plans for it.
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-17 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
I know. I'm sorry. [And he is. He could tell her the truth - that it happens all the time, to everyone, that it's part of living in the world, that people leave for whatever reason. But he's not sure that will be any comfort to her, so he just sort of touches her hair awkwardly in an attempt at being soothing.]
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-20 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
No one could ever forget you. [He says that with all honesty and sincerity.]
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-21 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[It'll never stop being weird, hearing her call him that.]

Sure. If you need anything - just say the word.
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[personal profile] washitaway 2014-05-21 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
'Course I can.