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edge_of_forever2012-05-21 08:57 pm
nottheotherguy) wrote in edge_of_forever2012-05-21 08:57 pm
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[debut] I think I'm breaking down again
Tony's car was nicer than anything I'd ever been in, and he drove it fast. "Should I be nervous?" I asked; he looked at me quizzically. "Last time I saw you in a race car, it didn't end well." Even in the backwoods of Canada, I'd seen the footage of him in Monaco. He looked like he was trying not to find that funny.
"Live a little, Jolly," he said finally, and I didn't try not to laugh. It felt good to have something to laugh at.
I leaned my head back against the expensive leather and let my eyes fall shut. It felt good to rest, too. I didn't think any of us had done that much lately. At some point I dozed, lulled by the sun on my skin and the wind rushing by. When I woke up, I wasn't in the car anymore.
If they'd ever managed to get me into that glass cage at the bottom of Fury's flying command bunker, it might have felt something like this. The room was small, but only one wall was open, and it hummed with energy like the forcefield around the tesseract. I sat up, rubbing my eyes with the heel of my hand, looking around. I didn't like what I saw. There was someone else in one of the other beds, but whoever they were, they were curled up into a ball, out cold. It was eerily quiet except for the almost inaudible whine of machinery-- the air conditioning, probably, and the lights, but I'd be shocked if there weren't cameras hidden all over the place too.
I felt the rumble under my skin, the other guy wanting to come out. Neither of us liked the look of this one bit. Shut up, I thought, and got to my feet.
"Hey," I called out, going as close as I could to the doorway. "Hey Fury, I thought we were gonna play nice."
There was no answer.
"Live a little, Jolly," he said finally, and I didn't try not to laugh. It felt good to have something to laugh at.
I leaned my head back against the expensive leather and let my eyes fall shut. It felt good to rest, too. I didn't think any of us had done that much lately. At some point I dozed, lulled by the sun on my skin and the wind rushing by. When I woke up, I wasn't in the car anymore.
If they'd ever managed to get me into that glass cage at the bottom of Fury's flying command bunker, it might have felt something like this. The room was small, but only one wall was open, and it hummed with energy like the forcefield around the tesseract. I sat up, rubbing my eyes with the heel of my hand, looking around. I didn't like what I saw. There was someone else in one of the other beds, but whoever they were, they were curled up into a ball, out cold. It was eerily quiet except for the almost inaudible whine of machinery-- the air conditioning, probably, and the lights, but I'd be shocked if there weren't cameras hidden all over the place too.
I felt the rumble under my skin, the other guy wanting to come out. Neither of us liked the look of this one bit. Shut up, I thought, and got to my feet.
"Hey," I called out, going as close as I could to the doorway. "Hey Fury, I thought we were gonna play nice."
There was no answer.
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I didn't know what to say to the other thing she said-- about not needing to be fixed. I couldn't really relate.
"The other guy's green because of the gamma. Gamma particles," I went on, realizing she had no idea what I was talking about. "Radiation. They basically injected me with liquid radiation. It was supposed to make me stronger, faster, with quicker healing. The other guy has all those things. He comes out when I get upset." She blanched, and I quickly clarified, "Not just like, stuck at a red light upset. Like, scared and pissed off and trapped all at once. Like before. Usually I have a better handle on him, though. I'm sorry," I said, suddenly guilty because I hadn't said that yet. "It looks like you'll be okay now... but I'm still really sorry."