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[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Who: Kirk + Watanuki + anyone
Where: In the caves, returning to the dorms
When: Day 113, evening.
What: Dehiatus!

[There's a pair of Blanks stumbling back in the direction of the dorms, looking rather worse for wear (and possibly smelling of lava).]

Hell, what was that supposed to be?

D-does it look like I know!?

Comments

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

I have already stated that I am fine.

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

You are so not fine.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

I admit I am not in my normal state, but I am fine, Jim.

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

You're not going to listen to me, are you.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

... I am listening to you now.

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Then at least consider my advice. As a friend who's worried about you.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

[hesitant]

... There is nothing that should cause you worry, Jim.

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

You're tired and you're going back to an probably-empty garden. Of course I'm worried.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

You have your own team.

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Hey, I'm a captain. If I can worry about an entire spaceship full of people, I can definitely worry about more than one team.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

Regardless of the size of your team, Orion should still be your priority. Captain.

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

And they are. But you're pretty high up there too.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. Lacerta will tend themselves.

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

.......

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

...

Jim?

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Sorry, just --

[rubs at his head a little]

It doesn't have to be one or the other.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

"Just"?

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Not my memory. His.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

[headtilt]

A memory.

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Yeah. You -- he said something like that.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

It is a logical statement.

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, well. It was a complicated situation.

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

How so?

[in_the_chair.insanejournal.com]

I don't remember all the details. But you were -- he had to repair the plasma conduits on the ship. And it was massively irradiated, so ...

[out-ofthe-chair.insanejournal.com]

... Thereby sacrificing his life to save the ship and her crew.