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James T. Kirk ([personal profile] doneinthree) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2011-10-24 06:43 pm

Night 59: Main Hallway, 1-West

[from here]

Kirk ran into the main hallway and found nothing there except more pink light coating everything. His gut feeling said that if something was happening, it should've happened already, but he was a loss to explain what was going on. The system (if he could call it that, vague as it was to describe the whole Landel's torture/experimentation assembly line) had broken down at least once already, on that night when I.R.I.S. had first(?) appeared, and the whole of the building flickered like a malfunctioning hologram. Was that what the glowing cover was for? To prevent... he didn't know. Something. Something bad enough to warrant a Code Red.

(What had killed that creature?)

Waiting around here was already bad enough on normal nights, what with it being an open space with high traffic, but he'd picked it because it was the quickest and most obvious meeting place for all of them. Now with the whole area lit up like the inside of a strip club, Kirk was starting to feel like a lone piece of meat wrapped in a gold ribbon and tossed out for the wolves. He made a face for a second as he considered the unfortunate implication of mixing those similes, then decided that the dumb thoughts which crossed his mind ranked considerably lower in priority than, you know, paying attention to his surroundings and not getting himself killed.

Kirk swung the lead pipe in his hand once, just to focus, and shook his head as pain rippled out from the still-healing gunshot wound on his right arm. Take it easy, Jim, he admonished himself silently. It was still early in the night. Someone would be along shortly. And if not... he was giving his crew one minute. One minute, and then screw it, he was tracking down everyone himself.

[KIRK TO ENTERPRISE]

[identity profile] sortaheadstrong.livejournal.com 2011-11-27 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
She gave another nod, then watched as the young man passed by to head upstairs. When she thought he was past her, she sighed, still thankful that he hadn't seen what she'd done.

"Just don't get yourself killed."

"Don't think I could if I tried..." she told herself, mumbling aloud without thinking as she shook her head.

She hadn't tried to see if she was as durable as her usual, but that could have ended badly. For now, she was just thankful that she had her shadows and her scythe back. And once the guy was on his way, she could try using her powers to maybe find Shooter. She could just imagine how he'd been doing without her. Or what he'd possessed.