open ♔ valentine's day

[romanticidal]

♬ Careless Whisper - George Michael

WHO || Anyone and their special someone [Closed]
WHAT || Various Valentine's Day activities
WHERE ||Anywhere
WHEN || Feb 14th, 2016
HOW || Actionspam or Prose

[ It's Valentine's Day! ( aka Singles Awareness Day )  Assume that all missions that are posted already are going out after this. ♥ ]

Comments

[watcherjunior]

Gar. Jeanne. [ Dawn is very much making this face. ] You don't need to apologize. For, like, anything. I'm just happy that you're here, you're okay. [ She hesitates a moment before continuing. ] If anything, I'm sorry for not being here.

[rationalizes]

I know you may feel that way, but I'm certain I can't share the sentiment. We were lucky that there weren't more casualties than there were.

[watcherjunior]

[ She nods. ] I just felt so... helpless. Useless. [ Her face drops. ] When that video of Saran--of that asshole popped up and then I couldn't get through to anyone... I couldn't think about anything else until I heard from someone here.

[rationalizes]

That's what he wanted: to leave us feeling that way. He hoped it would break us.

[watcherjunior]

He can keep hoping. It's gonna amount to a fat lot of nothing. Except, y'know, serious justice coming his way.

[rationalizes]

He has to know we'll retaliate.

[watcherjunior]

Of course, he'd be stupid not to. [ And that gets the wheels spinning. ] ...you don't think he'd be laying a trap, do you. I mean, he can't always be expecting us, right?

[rationalizes]

We're banking a lot on the fact that he isn't. But we're prepared, just in case, for the worst.

I can't imagine that Dumage would be walking us into a trap willingly, and she truly seems concerned about her sister, but it's possible that they know that, and they're using it to draw us in.

[watcherjunior]

[ Dawn wants to trust Dumage, she really does. It's just that... well her expression shows that she probably doesn't. (Bluff 13) ] Willingly is probably, like, the keyword there. But... We gotta trust our own people.

Still. Big big guns and all the stealth for that shindig, right?

[rationalizes]

We're sending quite a bit more people than we hopefully need for the operation. Better safe than sorry.

[watcherjunior]

I think we've had enough "sorry" to last for, mmmm, maybe years. And then some.

[rationalizes]

We have, but we've very rarely attempted to go up against any of them directly yet. I can't imagine that things won't get a great deal ... more difficult when we do.

[watcherjunior]

I doubt any of us are going to shy away from the fight, for better or worse. You're right, though. Things are probably gonna get worse before they become any better.

[rationalizes]

Did you hear... about Finnick?

[watcherjunior]

[ Somehow she's heard about the mission to Slovechnia, but not about her fellow knight. ] I--what about Finnick?

[rationalizes]

He's... not well. At the Grammy's last year, we ran afoul of the Mind Master. She --

She damaged his mind. In a way no one has been able to repair.

[watcherjunior]

What? [ Disbelief is the only reasonable response. ]

Does he--does he remember anything?

[rationalizes]

Yes, but... he's convinced that he never left the world he came from. That all of this has been a ... a hallucination of some sort. That he's still trapped in the place he was before this and none of us are real.

[watcherjunior]

Oh my god. I can't--what Myri must be going through.

[rationalizes]

It hasn't been easy. With the baby...

[watcherjunior]

That's a nightmare. Worse than a nightmare. [ Dawn shakes her head. ] But there's still hope for a fix... [ She trails off, sounding unsure. Waiting for Gar to jump in with some hope. ]

[rationalizes]

Nothing that we've found so far, but... There's always hope.

[watcherjunior]

[ That's not exactly comforting. But she'll take it. ] Always. [ Punctuating the word with a firm nod. ]

And not so subtly segueing and-slash-or shifting the topic... I hear congratulations are in order?

[rationalizes]

Congratulations? [ lmao her head is not following ]

[watcherjunior]

Yeah. Violet said.. [ Awkward, awkward, oh man, she shouldn't have, but she already said it. ] You and Jack are engaged.