002 | Voice

[alittlesideways]

[Tommy's transmitting this from the bar, where he basically has been living ever since his last post. He sounds a little distant, distracted, and very very drunk.] I had a wife back home. Jeanie... We married before I shipped out to Iraq. Never even had a chance to open our wedding gifts. [Gifts that he shot.] Never will, now. [BECAUSE HE SHOT THEM. Also, he's in space. Which is good, since she has a restraining order against him.]

I keep thinking about what I'd do if I ever saw her again. What I'd say... [How he'd make things right.]

I know I'm new here, but I can't be the only one missing someone. You all have somebody, right?

[He's quiet for a while, then:]

What would you say if you could see 'em again?

[OOC: To folks I owe tags to: I have not forgotten! Just gonna play catch up later today.]

Comments

video.

[ex_sorted385]

[ After a lot of thought about how to answer the first question, Tosh finally decides it would open a can of worms she's not prepared to discuss with a stranger, and just skips to the second one. ]

I'd tell him he was a hero.

video.

[alittlesideways]

[The word 'hero' sits with him. He's been called that, himself-- and punched the lights out of the person who called him that.] What did he do? Fight in a war?

video.

[ex_sorted385]

He gave up his life to save the world.

video.

[alittlesideways]

He died for a good cause... [Like his brothers in the army. Maybe they weren't saving the whole world, but they died for what they believed in. Or so everyone kept telling him.] Doesn't make it easier, does it? Hearing that.

Re: video.

[ex_sorted385]

It's better than dying for nothing. [ Knowing that it would have happened anyway, and in the original timeline it would have been for nothing, is small consolation, but it is something. ] So I suppose it makes it a little bit easier.

[ No it doesn't. ]