open ♔ castle farewell socialization

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WHO || The Knights [ota!]
WHAT || The Knights prepare to depart for America
WHERE || The castle, London
WHEN || Directly after this is announced, Fall 2017
HOW || Actionspam

The acting Heads of the Knighthood - Hasmed and Solace - have made a decision that is not easy for many.  Given the terrible state of everything happening in America, they've decided to relocate operations entirely to the States, and have secured a facility near Las Vegas.  It is certainly possible, with the grim missions that lie before them, that many, or all, of the Knights may never return.  Reactions to the announcement are certain to be strong, but it's time to choose what they will bring with them to their new life - and for some, to decide if it's a journey they can bring themselves to take.

[ This is the social log for anything before the Knights relocate to Las Vegas ]

Comments

[hacker]

No, but ... I'll be with SHIELD. And if there's one thing we're good at, it's secrets.

[ They don't have the manpower they used to, but she has a feeling they could pull something off if Sam needed it. ]

I'll just feel better if you know how to reach out without worrying about Hasmed or Solace sending the Dragon's Waste Management or whatever else they do to people they call traitors.

[familybusiness]

That seems to be our entire lives, huh. Secrets.

[He doesn't even mean it in a bad way anymore. It's just the way things are.]

I think they've got their hands full, but we're not taking any chances just in case. That said, we're cut off from basically everything most of the time, so I might need you to look up some stuff for me in the future if that's alright.

[There's no internet. It's a nightmare.]

[hacker]

So ... You want me to be your Q.

[ Just clarifying. Without the toys, maybe. ]

[familybusiness]

[Amusement colors his voice.]

Is that a bad thing?

[hacker]

No, I dig it.

[ And her tone matches. ]

I'll be sure and curate a fine selection of memes to go with any arcane data dumps.

[familybusiness]

Comic relief is definitely welcome.

[A beat.]

If you hear anything helpful about what might be happening in LA, that would be helpful too. I can try to do the same for you guys.

[hacker]

Sam, if you—

[ He's not going to like this offer. She knows it already. She just ... wants to say it to know she said it. ]

... SHIELD can protect you. From Hasmed and Solace and the Knighthood. Just because they put you out in the cold doesn't mean SHIELD will.

[familybusiness]

[It's not that he doesn't like it. Honestly, it's kind of comforting to know there's someone on their side that isn't here.

That said, there's too many factors at work here.]

Unfortunately, that's not my call.

[He's the newcomer to this group. And he knows that not everyone else will want to jump into another organization with a bunch of people they don't know when it came to this. They couldn't even trust the people they'd been with for years. There was also the matter of getting outside people involved and, therefore, hurt.]

I'll mention it to Jack, but I think we're going to have to fly solo on this. There's too many variables to contend with already that I don't want to subject anyone else to.

[You know, considering there are a couple of fiends basically demanding to be involved, too.]

[hacker]

[ It's probably for the best, Sam. She's an idealist who isn't vetting this past Coulson and May's vigorous pragmatism. She wants to believe that SHIELD is just Good because it's SHIELD and they've been good to her. That's not necessarily the reality. ]

I figured, but ... Well, I had to try. I just wish I'd been fast enough to get Jack in to brief Coulson.

[ Hasmed and Solace can't be trusted to do a half decent job on all the failboat intel. They need failboat for that.

But that's all tactics. It's probably not the warm saccharine wistfulness that this exchange calls for, but Skye isn't especially good at being that kind of person. She doesn't have experience letting herself miss people. ]

[familybusiness]

Maybe Jack will want to exchange info with him at some point. It can't hurt to have allies, even if we aren't in the same place at the same time.

[It might take more than just them. It might take more than all of them put together.

It was hard to say.

Sam wishes he could stop missing people. That would make his life a hell of a lot easier.]

Especially now that we can't contact the knights.

[hacker]

You can't contact the Knights' leadership. There's no one else you trust who stuck around?

[ She'd volunteer, but she has a feeling she's gonna be persona non grata with plenty of people right about now. ]

[familybusiness]

I don't have a whole lot of people I can trust period. Not after what happened with those other members of our team.

[Not with Hell getting their fingers into everything.]

That's a big part of the reason that this...means a lot to me.

[He's trusting you, Skye. That's a big fucking deal right now.]

[hacker]

Well, I'm pretty sure you are, like, the one person who's trying to trust me, so.

[ She tries to play it off like a joke but

she can't finish it. It's there, out in the world. ]

... Don't die out there, okay?

[familybusiness]

Yeah, you too.

[He's not planning on it, but when does anyone?]

I'll catch you later.

[hacker]

Yeah.

[ She hangs up and, for a while, just lays there in the bed with the phone on her chest. Then, slowly, she picks it up and punches in the number for her SHIELD phone to send to him. There. Handled. She's done everything she can to keep him alive a little bit longer tonight. ]