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CALLING: Tess
So, [She doesn't bother to keep the amusement out of her voice] what exactly does your letter say?
So, [She doesn't bother to keep the amusement out of her voice] what exactly does your letter say?
[ Joel clears his throat before reading it: ]
Wear matching pug sweaters all night with Isaac Clarke.
Wear matching pug sweaters all night with Isaac Clarke.
[ her tone of voice sets him on edge immediately ]
CALLING: JOEL
Ellie? Rover 13. Where are ya?
CALLING: JOEL
Ellie? Rover 13. Where are ya?
FROM: joel@cdc.org
No. Why?
No. Why?
Edited 2014-10-07 20:18 (UTC)
FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Edward Elric's height without his four-inch platform boots on is 5'4". Anyone who isn't an actual child will have a height requirement two inches more than that from now on.
As Benjamin and this loser just learned, don't bet against your instructor.
Edward Elric's height without his four-inch platform boots on is 5'4". Anyone who isn't an actual child will have a height requirement two inches more than that from now on.
As Benjamin and this loser just learned, don't bet against your instructor.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
Okay.
[ Thanks for wasting his time Dagger!!]
FROM: joel@cdc.org
What was the bet?
Okay.
[ Thanks for wasting his time Dagger!!]
FROM: joel@cdc.org
What was the bet?
FROM: tess@cdc.org
Did you get your pretty boy boss's new message?
Did you get your pretty boy boss's new message?
Edited 2014-10-29 20:02 (UTC)
FROM: starkov.alina@cdc.org
Is your leader-kid all right after the missions? [ She doesn't know which of the 'kids' he was talking about, though she has suspicions. But she keeps to the general still. ]
Is your leader-kid all right after the missions? [ She doesn't know which of the 'kids' he was talking about, though she has suspicions. But she keeps to the general still. ]
FROM: ellie@cdc.org
I NEED ANOTHER COSTUME
FROM: ellie@cdc.org
NOT FO
FROM: ellie@cdc.org
whoa ok
not for me for this guy named kyoya
hes gonna come do the candy thing too
I NEED ANOTHER COSTUME
FROM: ellie@cdc.org
NOT FO
FROM: ellie@cdc.org
whoa ok
not for me for this guy named kyoya
hes gonna come do the candy thing too
FROM: joel@cdc.org
I don't plan on making costumes for every kid up here you know.
I don't plan on making costumes for every kid up here you know.
Take note of your unit assignment, then come by the training to pick up your new gear.
By the way, those of you who got in really early, I've got a surprise for you.
By the way, those of you who got in really early, I've got a surprise for you.
FROM: tess@cdc.org
Get your assessment results yet?
Get your assessment results yet?
FROM: joel@cdc.org
"You're not completely useless." You?
"You're not completely useless." You?
FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Finally got these reassigned to new riders. You get one. For your babysitting adventures.
Finally got these reassigned to new riders. You get one. For your babysitting adventures.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
It's been years since I rode a bike.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
When can I take it for a spin?
It's been years since I rode a bike.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
When can I take it for a spin?
FROM: joel@cdc.org
You shouldn't have.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
What's this meat you got me?
You shouldn't have.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
What's this meat you got me?
FROM: warriorhead@cdc.org
I am advising you not to eat cake on behalf of one of your attachments.
I am advising you not to eat cake on behalf of one of your attachments.
FROM: tess@cdc.org
You heard about the dead people? I didn't know them but one of the names was familiar. Wasn't Isaac the guy you got paired up with when we first got here?
You heard about the dead people? I didn't know them but one of the names was familiar. Wasn't Isaac the guy you got paired up with when we first got here?
FROM: joel@cdc.org
Didn't hear any names.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
Shit.
Didn't hear any names.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
Shit.
FROM: tess@cdc.org
I got something, maybe.
I got something, maybe.
FROM: jacobs.shinobu@cdc.org
I'm assuming you've seen Dagger's latest mission, right? Well, I've got some people for you to stalk.
FROM: jacobs.shinobu@cdc.org
VAKARIAN, GARRUS (NHD-C12-VKN-033)
KAPLAN, WILLIAM (M02-B25-333)
XION (M02-B25-358)
Also, find anything you can on SHEPARD, LYDIA (NHD-C12-SHD-011) -- I'm assigning her to everyone.
FROM: jacobs.shinobu@cdc.org
Let me know if you run into any problems anywhere.
I'm assuming you've seen Dagger's latest mission, right? Well, I've got some people for you to stalk.
FROM: jacobs.shinobu@cdc.org
VAKARIAN, GARRUS (NHD-C12-VKN-033)
KAPLAN, WILLIAM (M02-B25-333)
XION (M02-B25-358)
Also, find anything you can on SHEPARD, LYDIA (NHD-C12-SHD-011) -- I'm assigning her to everyone.
FROM: jacobs.shinobu@cdc.org
Let me know if you run into any problems anywhere.
[ This really isn't his kind of job. Following people and gathering information on them was Tess' job, not his. Joel was... well. "Killer" was a word he'd heard a few times. "Psychopath". ]
FROM: joel@cdc.org
Got it.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
Got it.
[It's too late to be natural- too long after Selenia, too long after whatever they wanted to pretend that party was celebrating. But between the new stuff that had showed up in her room and the fact that she's still alive she realizes that it's never going to really be a good time.
So Joel will find a new rifle, a box of fifty bullets, and a maintenance kit left in his bunk. There's no note, but it's not like she's got paper, anyway.]
So Joel will find a new rifle, a box of fifty bullets, and a maintenance kit left in his bunk. There's no note, but it's not like she's got paper, anyway.]
FROM: joel@cdc.org
It's too early to be my birthday.
[ Or maybe too late. The chill of winter had been on the air when he and Ellie'd been in Colorado. ]
It's too early to be my birthday.
[ Or maybe too late. The chill of winter had been on the air when he and Ellie'd been in Colorado. ]
Edited 2015-01-10 17:47 (UTC)
FROM: joel@cdc.org
Luck held out this time. Even got all my limbs.
Luck held out this time. Even got all my limbs.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
You and your young make it?
You and your young make it?
[ Your young. Joel is this close to sending back she's not my daughter before he sighs. ]
FROM: joel@cdc.org
All in one piece.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
All in one piece.
[By the time the last of the Neraki have fled and the Khapri are dead or gone, the camp is dark and in shambles. Too many people running around shouting and it's hard enough to see your hand in front of your face let alone who else is left. Not like she's not looking.]
FROM: tess@cdc.org
Where are you?
[Waits two whole minutes before trying again, and maybe he's just not in the kind of state where he wants to be typing in the dark, anyhow. Even if she hadn't seen him around the med area or-
But the call rings through.]
( 1 ) VOICEMAIL TESS
[[Texas, this isn't- [And her voice is a tight snap of anger, because she doesn't know how to be any other way, but she bites off the words before she can finish, takes a shaky breath.]Just call me.]]
FROM: tess@cdc.org
Where are you?
[Waits two whole minutes before trying again, and maybe he's just not in the kind of state where he wants to be typing in the dark, anyhow. Even if she hadn't seen him around the med area or-
But the call rings through.]
( 1 ) VOICEMAIL TESS
[[Texas, this isn't- [And her voice is a tight snap of anger, because she doesn't know how to be any other way, but she bites off the words before she can finish, takes a shaky breath.]Just call me.]]
FROM: tess@cdc.org
I missed you out there.
I missed you out there.
FROM: joel@cdc.org
I fired a rocket launcher.
[ Priorities. ]
I fired a rocket launcher.
[ Priorities. ]
[Whenever Shinji finds Joel after the fight, he'll look like the walking dead. Nervous and pale in the face, he'll do his best to hand off a small piece of folded journal paper with a polaroid inside. It's a letter, written in the best English that Shinji could muster. His letters look a little shaky but really, he's tried his best. Once it's handed off he'll leave before Joel can stop him. He doesn't want to face the man. He can't.
When Joel opens the paper it will read:
To Joel,
I am very, very, very, very sorry to give this letter.
Ellie died. I saw. Nothing I could do I am very sorry.
Here is photograph of Ellie. It is only thing I can give.
I am very sorry.
Sorry for bad English.
Shinji Ikari]
When Joel opens the paper it will read:
To Joel,
I am very, very, very, very sorry to give this letter.
Ellie died. I saw. Nothing I could do I am very sorry.
Here is photograph of Ellie. It is only thing I can give.
I am very sorry.
Sorry for bad English.
Shinji Ikari]
[ He doesn't think much of it, at first. Shinji looked nervous and ran like a startled deer, but Joel doesn't claim to know the kid as well as Ellie might. For all he knew, it'd been the fighting that wore him down. He didn't like asking for things, and wrapped up as Joel is in his search for Ellie, Shinji's behaviour isn't something he thinks much on.
Until he opens the note.
When he reads through the broken English, his brow creases. What he's reading doesn't make sense, at first. He'd be inclined to think it was a joke, but this wasn't something they joked about. He and Ellie'd had too many close calls. Checked in with each other enough that Joel knew where she was almost all the time. Her going missing after the fight told him one of two things: she'd been injured, or she was checking up on people.
But death?
He looks up, looks around. The camp is loud but he doesn't hear anything when he scans for Shinji. The boy isn't anywhere to be seen.
Joel doesn't think. He doesn't speak. He doesn't breathe.
He starts searching. ]
Until he opens the note.
When he reads through the broken English, his brow creases. What he's reading doesn't make sense, at first. He'd be inclined to think it was a joke, but this wasn't something they joked about. He and Ellie'd had too many close calls. Checked in with each other enough that Joel knew where she was almost all the time. Her going missing after the fight told him one of two things: she'd been injured, or she was checking up on people.
But death?
He looks up, looks around. The camp is loud but he doesn't hear anything when he scans for Shinji. The boy isn't anywhere to be seen.
Joel doesn't think. He doesn't speak. He doesn't breathe.
He starts searching. ]
FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
[He's not going to demand he join them, because what father wants to see his daughter's body?]
We are burying Ellie. Do what you must.
[He's not going to demand he join them, because what father wants to see his daughter's body?]
[ Joel doesn't get this message because he isn't checking his black glass. He's secluded himself away from camp, listening to the sounds of the planet. Where he is, he can hardly hear the noises of people bustling around the rovers. They're all grieving. Digging graves and mourning.
His black glass beeps at him, a reminder. He considers ignoring it. But she is his goddamn unit lead, and he reckons the last thing he needs is Dagger coming down on his head for not following orders.
Joel stands up and shoves the revolver that'd been in his palm down the back of his pants. ]
FROM: joel@cdc.org
Okay.
His black glass beeps at him, a reminder. He considers ignoring it. But she is his goddamn unit lead, and he reckons the last thing he needs is Dagger coming down on his head for not following orders.
Joel stands up and shoves the revolver that'd been in his palm down the back of his pants. ]
FROM: joel@cdc.org
Okay.
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