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ten_fwd_ooc2015-03-22 06:42 am
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TEST DRIVE #10 - Cetacean Pool and Ten Forward
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Option 001. Cetacean Pool/Aquatics Lab: Of all the places in the world, you open your eyes and you find yourself in a medium-sized aquatics laboratory, filled with various living specimens along with various science officers bustling about trying to maintain order. There's much to explore here (and hopefully, in the crew's opinion, not break), but the main attraction is the large pool at the far end of the lab; enormous but tanklike in appearance, it contains several dolphins happily swimming about, seemingly without a care in the world.
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Option 002. Aboard the Enterprise, Ten Forward: You have no idea what just happened. One minute you were home, and now you're on a spaceship, in the middle of a crowded room. It looks like a bar. There are people eating and drinking, some in uniform, others not. Some are clearly aliens.
You've managed to land in Ten Forward a long bar with barstools and a bartender, tables sprinkled throughout, and the far wall is nothing but windows out to space. It looks like a nice lounge, low conversation making the room hum.
Better ask some questions and find out where you are, or just tap the closest person on the shoulder and try to make friends. The bar is open.
Option 001. Cetacean Pool/Aquatics Lab: Of all the places in the world, you open your eyes and you find yourself in a medium-sized aquatics laboratory, filled with various living specimens along with various science officers bustling about trying to maintain order. There's much to explore here (and hopefully, in the crew's opinion, not break), but the main attraction is the large pool at the far end of the lab; enormous but tanklike in appearance, it contains several dolphins happily swimming about, seemingly without a care in the world.
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Option 002. Aboard the Enterprise, Ten Forward: You have no idea what just happened. One minute you were home, and now you're on a spaceship, in the middle of a crowded room. It looks like a bar. There are people eating and drinking, some in uniform, others not. Some are clearly aliens.
You've managed to land in Ten Forward a long bar with barstools and a bartender, tables sprinkled throughout, and the far wall is nothing but windows out to space. It looks like a nice lounge, low conversation making the room hum.
Better ask some questions and find out where you are, or just tap the closest person on the shoulder and try to make friends. The bar is open.
H H H H H HIT IT
Tadashi knows the fire was real. There's still grit under his nails, ash on his clothes and the smell of it all sits heavy in his nose. But this place has to be real too. He can feel it when he pinches himself to check, and he can hear the burbling of the aquarium so clearly that it has to be right there in front of him. But how? How isn't he- he should be dead. He lifts a hand and holds it against his own chest, feeling for the unsteady heartbeat.
... Is he dead?
Tadashi doesn't really get a lot of time to think about that. His train of thought is pretty firmly derailed when he hears an unmistakeably familiar voice and spins around to confirm who it is.
"Hiro?"
There's an element of confusion to his voice, and a whole lot of fear. If he's dead, then-?
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. YO' ALWAYS NUMBAH ONE!
He remembers the first time he smelt smoke after Tadashi died; Aunt Cass had gotten a phone call and left some eggs in the pan just a little too long, acrid scent creeping up the stairs and slowly filling his room. That's what he'd woken to, yelling out Tadashi's name in a panic and falling right off the bed before reality stuck and--
And he was gone again. Just gone.
Hearing something Tadashi's said in his head isn't that odd. Bayax has hundreds of recordings of him, and Hiro's seen them all. He'll never forget the way he sounds, or the way he looked. How dorky his hat was and all the stupid cardigans he refused to stop wearing. It's never been outside of his head, though, and when Hiro turns he--
Of course.
Of course, it's a dream. Just a dream. Hiro manages to crack a smile after several long moments of staring like he's seen a ghost, voice wobbling but light spirited. Meant to be light spirited.
"H-hey, bro. Didn't see you there." Haven't seen you anywhere, actually.
At all.
BEST BUDDIES, BEST PALS, YEA!
"Hey. Hey, woah." He takes long, quick strides to Hiro's side and crouches over him, then places his hands reassuringly on the boy's shoulders. "Everything's alright. I don't know where we are, but- at least we're both here. It's okay."
Everything else takes a backseat for the moment, Tadashi's attention focused on calm, breathe, fix, heal. He smiles encouragingly at Hiro, and keeps his grip tight, mistakenly of the opinion that reaffirming his presence here will actually help rather than maybe, well. Cause panic.
YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO WORK THINGS OUT
He can't comprehend that, right now.
Slowly, he slumps forwards, Tadashi's chest cushioning his forehead as he closes his eyes. He can smell smoke and ash and his brother, mingling into some horrible, irrational fantasy that smells and speaks and touches just like the real thing.
Hiro's been fine. He's been fine, he's finally getting over this. Today was a good day, so why now? Why?
"Yeah." He croaks out. "Yeah. It's fine."
It's fine.
CANT YOU SEE YOURE TWO OF A KIND???
He really does want to let Hiro stay where he is. But Tadashi feels like maybe right now, it's a little more important he can see the kid's face. He squeezes him just once, arm secure around Hiro's back in a show of support. Then he ducks down to lean on one knee and look up at his expression. Okay. Not great. And definitely not 'fine'.
"What's happened? Talk to me."