nyc --> london ♔ and as the vision fades | i'll say i was blinded by your eyes

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♬ It Happens All the Time - Depeche Mode

WHO || Failboat, Des, Rafael, Isabella, Burt, and more~ [closed]
WHAT || The Knights finally say their goodbyes and head back to the castle
WHERE || NYC hotel; flight to London; London, England
WHEN || March 16th
HOW || Actionspam or prose

What was supposed to be a night to unwind wound up with a confrontation between Failboat and Keijen Blade that didn't exactly go the way the team was hoping for. However, in the process, they at least managed to get Isabella back and extract Dumage from her long term undercover assignment.

The remainder of the night is spent back at the hotel, recuperating, in order to catch the flight back to London the next morning. This also means saying goodbye to those who will be going back to Chicago: Isabella, Burt, and Rafael.

Comments

[notaroundme]

[It might keep your hands busy, Des, but flying is still faster if we're going to talk patience.

And no matter how immortal, good luck driving a car through an ocean ;)]

Not all of us can have your metabolism.

[She saw you all sloppy, don't forget.]

[nothingsodivine]

[how do you know archer's car doesn't have a submarine function????

The only time Des will ever approve of Archer's car.]

It's a curse. [No, really. That's... exactly what it is.] Did you at least enjoy yourself?

[Because he's pretty sure the night was a bust for... everyone. Or maybe it wasn't. Maybe the bloodshed and tears and alcohol brought them closer together. Also wow Des and small talk. This is new.]

[notaroundme]

[...she doesn't. That could totally be a thing. A terrible, horrible awesome thing, like most things that involved Archer, tbh.]

If only you could share that burden from time to time.

[But she gets it, at least as much as any non-immortal teenager can.]

I did. For awhile, anyway. Then it kind of went to Hell. Somehow, though, things seem...better now. So I guess you were right after all.

[Weird how that happens, huh.]

[nothingsodivine]

[His expression goes very grim.] Perks aside, it's not a burden anyone would want.

[He's very sensitive about that, but he waves it off, since it was clearly not meant to be taken seriously.]

Break the tension. No one wants to talk about it, but when everything goes to shit, they either open up or realize nothing was worth arguing about. Blade dicking with us aside, I think everyone got something out of it.

[notaroundme]

Anyone who stopped and actually thought about it would agree with you.

[There were crazy meglomaniacs out there no doubt that wanted eternal life, but even just pondering it for awhile made it clear it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.]

I'm just glad we all made it out in one piece. [But Des is right, it did the team some good.] If I never see that guy again, it'll still be too soon. Did you know the first time I met him, he put some weird kind of mind control on Myri? It was the creepiest thing I've ever seen.

[nothingsodivine]

He did it to Isabella and Archer too. [He grimaces.] That rat bastard's gonna get it.

[notaroundme]

Seriously?

[She shudders a bit.]

Gross. I hope someone takes away his free will. See how he likes it.

[nothingsodivine]

Personally, I just wanna put a bullet in his brain.

[notaroundme]

How about both? [She pretends to ponder it before nodding.] Yeah, let's go with both.

[nothingsodivine]

I can arrange both.... Just find me a psionic with no moral code. Should be easy. I've never met one who has one.

[HE DOESN'T LIKE PSIONICS AS A GENERAL RULE. He especially doesn't like them when they try to disintegrate him. Seriously. That was even worse than all the other reasons he would dislike psionics.]

[notaroundme]

Well, most of the ones at the castle probably have some kind of moral code. And other than you guys, I don't really know anyone at all, so you're going to have to be the one to pull that part off.

[No, really, she's spent pretty much all her time in this world ever with you losers.]

[nothingsodivine]

Well, you're gonna be doing your time with the telepaths now. Good times all around.

[notaroundme]

At least I won't have to consider the possibility of these ones sharing all my secrets.

[A beat.]

Probably. Hopefully.

[nothingsodivine]

If they do, it's because they're gossipy dames and not because they're looking to kill you.

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