Second Time Bitten ✗ Video

[notevenagirl]

[The feed flicks on to the redhead, looking concerned. Her normal semi-cheerful smile is gone, and those who know her would know she hasn't been herself since the last jump.]

I know I ain't the first person who's come back here before. I mean however long the jump normally lasts? I went back home for a few weeks. Seems like there's always something. [Which she's fine with. She always seems to manage, make it through. But now with Bill being as brainwashed as he is, and everything completely fucked, it's taken a lot out of her.]

Guess I'm just wonderin' how y'all cope with knowin' that there's some pretty heavy shit goin' on back home, and there's nothin' you can do about it.

[She chews on her lip for a moment.] I think it's the not knowin' that's botherin' me the most. I ain't helpless. Best part'a bein' a vampire is you can really fuck some things up, but what do you do when another vampire-- who is supposed to be dead [thank you, Eric]-- is three thousand years old and about to attack like an entire race of-- well whatever fairies are? Not to mention someone close to you.

And I'm here. In space hell again. [She gives an exaggerated smile.] Fantastic.

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[onsilksheets]

Is being here a lot worse than back home where things have gone to shit?

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[notevenagirl]

Yeah, kinda. At least back home I was a little more prepared for the supernatural stuff. [Jumps and docking and wormhole things that killed you? Not really ready for that.]

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[onsilksheets]

My world has it's fair share of supernatural beings so I was more open to the idea of spaceships. Doesn't mean I like it though.

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[notevenagirl]

Well bein' on a spaceship that didn't periodically try an' kill ya wouldn't be so bad.

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[target]

[ignore the text that gets sent first. he's still trying to break himself out of that habit.]

Trying to work out how to deal with shit back home is a waste of time. You're just gonna forget all about this place when you leave.

[well, in his experience, at least.]

[notevenagirl]

I did forget about this place when I was home. But that doesn't mean I can forget about home while I'm here. [Which has been her problem since she came back.]

[target]

You keep focusing on all that, you're only going to fuck yourself over. [a shrug and-]

Maybe it's time to find yourself a distraction instead.

[the_infiltrator]

You're a vampire?

[You probably get that a lot, Jessica. But seriously, what. The cyborg doesn't believe you.]

[notevenagirl]

Yes, I am. [And you look human enough that she's going to keep her distance if she can.]

[the_infiltrator]

[But Cameron can't study you from a distance, Jessica o_o

She frowns, and tilts her head.]

Does it hurt? To be dead?

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[ripstides]

Gonna go out on a limb here and say fairies are probably, uh, just fairies. [ not that any random species is just anything. but what else would you call them? that wasn't her main point and he tries to weed out the influx of information. try the explosion of awesome!

right, right. fist bump over super powers or vampirism later. she's being serious. he can try. ] Honestly, I have a ton of experience with getting thrown into things that should have nothing to do with me and that seem impossible to handle. I try not to think about it so much, here or there. But I know that doesn't always help.

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[notevenagirl]

Well I was gunna say people, but I guess they're still people? Fuck, I don't know. [She just found out about fairies, okay.]

Think I'm just gunna have to get used to bein' worried until I don't think about it. I'm just stuck here.

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[ripstides]

If they look like humans, maybe. I don't know how things work in your world. [ then again, most creatures in his had the capacity to look human. only if you were a demigod or something else, something irregular and you really looked.. there might be a tail or one eye, maybe some fangs. ] Just about. I know it's not home and the people you want to see the most probably aren't around but the important thing to remember is that we're all stuck here. So, you're not alone.

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[mingus]

[ oh people can go home and come back, huh? that is... interesting to note. he would press on it but it would just be making her repeat stuff anyway and he knows how to use context clues SO CHANGE OF PLANS: ]

Vampire, huh? That is fascinating in a purely curiosity only standpoint. Can't really help on the "heavy shit" front though. My problems are more like "I hope I don't get fired" instead of "mass fairy genocide" so...

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[notevenagirl]

Lucky. Everything's fucked back home. The American Vampire League is pretty much like startin' a war with humanity over fuckin' Lilith's blood and being dominant. Like everything they've managed to do in the past like three years since we came out of the coffin is gone. Vampires are killin' and makin' others because the Tru Blood factories were bombed.

Not to mention the three thousand year old vampire who once ripped the spine out of a man on television. Yeah, he's loose. And you know, fairy genocide or whatever. [That's a big word.]

Oh, plus I was kidnapped by Obamas, and that's all in the last like three or so weeks.

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[mingus]

[ He opens his mouth to say something but then closes it, tilting his head to the side and frowning slightly. Then opens it again and frowns again and-- ]

... Well. Sounds like you need a break.

[doesntdohumble]

You do not get to pass judgment on me, baby vampire.

[He's only just barely holding on to his temper here]

[notevenagirl]

You're in the middle of the AVL. Whatever reasons you have, hope they're good enough to lose Sookie over'em. [Crossing her arms.]

[doesntdohumble]

Well, I wouldn't know what those reasons might be, seeing as how they are in the fucking future!

[Okay, you're really starting to annoy him here Jessica :( It's not like he has answers for you, he's about two years behind]

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[disparage]

[ it's stupid to think you're the only one on the ship who knows or is a vampire, but caroline's been thinking that way since she first boarded the tranquility. the only vampires she knows are the guys who come from her home world, so there's a magic word in this broadcast that has caroline rearranging the settings of her response. ]

You're a vampire?

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[notevenagirl]

Yeah. [She blinks. She already stated it.]

I take it vampires in your world ain't so open.

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[disparage]

We're still believed to be mythical or Hollywood invented.

[ oh, whoops, a little slip there. caroline gives a bit of a shrug, a little embarrassed that vampires are the butt of jokes in her own world. it's not like she wants them to be outed, but life is much more difficult when lived in secrecy. ]

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[heltersskelter]

[there are a number of responses to this, he knows, and it takes him a moment to consider a response before he flicks on the video]

That rough, huh?

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[notevenagirl]

[She's so frustrated and exhausted that by the time he talks to her, she's subdued. Her eyes look down at her hands.]

Yeah.

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[heltersskelter]

You wanna hang out?