[ Yeah, she is. And she should probably get up since she wouldn't put it past Eren to fall right asleep while in uniform. It just saves him the time and effort of putting it back on again later. He needs to get some rest and that's what she wants, and she'd only been sitting on his bunk so that she might see his face for once, exchange some words maybe, but now that's done and they should both get some rest.
Except he'll leave again. He'll keep moving, progressing, and it'll take time for her to catch up again so for now. ]
I'll get up. [ Just like him, she doesn't make any efforts to move. Instead she slumps against him a little more heavily, relaxed where he's tense. ]
Except he'll leave again. He'll keep moving, progressing, and it'll take time for her to catch up again so for now. ]
I'll get up. [ Just like him, she doesn't make any efforts to move. Instead she slumps against him a little more heavily, relaxed where he's tense. ]
FROM: smith.erwin@cdc.org
Eren Jaeger. Status?
Eren Jaeger. Status?
"Veins of the Dragon?"
[uhH. He understands...some small percent of all that. Some very very small percent. And it's written clear on his face, in the slow way he repeats it, as if to be sure he'd getting it right.]
You're saying you can sense where people are? [And she wears the mask because...?] What d'you need something like that for?
[uhH. He understands...some small percent of all that. Some very very small percent. And it's written clear on his face, in the slow way he repeats it, as if to be sure he'd getting it right.]
You're saying you can sense where people are? [And she wears the mask because...?] What d'you need something like that for?
[Hinata please. After trying and failing for clarification—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I'm not telling jean anything
[lbr they've been driving each other nuts in medical for x amount of hours already, they've probably made it pretty clear how they feel about each other right now]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I'm not telling jean anything
[lbr they've been driving each other nuts in medical for x amount of hours already, they've probably made it pretty clear how they feel about each other right now]
nah misfires to erwin about jean's booty calls I guess
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counterattacked
2015-01-02 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[But okay, lets pretend this is a serious game for about five minutes.
So ah, the Commander. (Former Commander?)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
Still in medical, sir.
[Apparently titan regen powers do jack squat against gross death bugs. But he's well enough (or stubborn enough) to type, if nothing else. And by the time inboxes are up again they've announced they've got means to a cure.]
So ah, the Commander. (Former Commander?)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
Still in medical, sir.
[Apparently titan regen powers do jack squat against gross death bugs. But he's well enough (or stubborn enough) to type, if nothing else. And by the time inboxes are up again they've announced they've got means to a cure.]
[Who even looks at the TO: field of their own inbox, lets be real.
so: wh.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
what should work?
so: wh.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
what should work?
pls .... that's not even worth putting in his burn book ....
imperatives
2015-01-02 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
That is unfortunate. Try not to die, Eren. Especially when you haven't been given the permission to do so. [ahahhaa what a funny joke he just made.]
When you are ready, I'd like a report about how you've adapted to the CDC - especially now that you're a team lead. I hope you don't mind accepting my late congratulations. Permit me to say that I am proud of what you've done.
[this is probably the only case where your kidnapping actually yielded some good results, so here, take this pat on the head.]
When you are ready, I'd like a report about how you've adapted to the CDC - especially now that you're a team lead. I hope you don't mind accepting my late congratulations. Permit me to say that I am proud of what you've done.
[this is probably the only case where your kidnapping actually yielded some good results, so here, take this pat on the head.]
[She nods, giving him a look like it should be obvious. All she's doing is knowing where any living being is in her immediate surroundings, gosh, what's so weird about that?] And animals, but humans give off a stronger signature. All of the emperor's heirs and their personal guards are trained in the use of this.
[uH...]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
what do you mean joy jean's an asshole
what the fuck are you even talking about
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
what do you mean joy jean's an asshole
what the fuck are you even talking about
[Funny joke... He answers seriously. (Of course...)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I won't. I'm not dying here.
[And as much as he looks up to Erwin, it's hard to accept that headpat as praise.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I wouldn't call it anything to be proud of, sir.
[Climbing the ranks in the CDC. As small a step upward as it is. Most of what they've accomplished—bowing to kidnappers and threats and blowing Ajna to bits—only serves to make him angry.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I won't. I'm not dying here.
[And as much as he looks up to Erwin, it's hard to accept that headpat as praise.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I wouldn't call it anything to be proud of, sir.
[Climbing the ranks in the CDC. As small a step upward as it is. Most of what they've accomplished—bowing to kidnappers and threats and blowing Ajna to bits—only serves to make him angry.]
We are learning how to fight in terrains none of us have even dreamed of back in our world.
I am hopeful that whatever skill you hone in here will be put to good use when we return; that in itself is a small victory to consider.
I am hopeful that whatever skill you hone in here will be put to good use when we return; that in itself is a small victory to consider.
Edited 2015-01-03 00:02 (UTC)
[To hell with just falling asleep in uniform. He could probably fall asleep sitting up, right now. But he doesn't, hasn't, if only through stubbornness, force of will. He ducks his head as if to nod, but he doesn't really make it there. As if raising his head again is too much effort, he leans to press his face into the shoulder beside the hollow of her neck, the familiar fabric of her scarf. The hand twisted into his bedsheets seeks hers out to wrap around her wrist, firm against her pulse. Not so hard a grip that she'd have trouble escaping it, but tight enough to make the message clear.
He doesn't speak to insist. It's loud enough an answer, anyway. (Don't.)]
He doesn't speak to insist. It's loud enough an answer, anyway. (Don't.)]
[Bertolt and Annie, too. And Eren's come a long way from Trost, from training. It sits heavy on his shoulders, firm in the set of his jaw. But some things just don't change much.]
They're titans. [As if picking up on the aggression in the assertation, Piper bares her teeth in Eren's direction in an inpatient snarl before resuming her pacing. They're titans, and Eren had admired Annie. Looked up to Reiner.] They're trying to wipe humanity out.
[What other answer is there?]
They're titans. [As if picking up on the aggression in the assertation, Piper bares her teeth in Eren's direction in an inpatient snarl before resuming her pacing. They're titans, and Eren had admired Annie. Looked up to Reiner.] They're trying to wipe humanity out.
[What other answer is there?]
Emperor?
[He repeats that, too. Because there isn't enough of humanity left where he came from for more than one country, let alone an empire. But heirs and guards...he can make a guess.]
Like a king?
[He repeats that, too. Because there isn't enough of humanity left where he came from for more than one country, let alone an empire. But heirs and guards...he can make a guess.]
Like a king?
[A pause to deliberate—like he really knows what to do with the thing, but—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
hang onto it and get out of there
[Whatever dragged it there might be hanging around. They can figure out what to do with it later.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
hang onto it and get out of there
[Whatever dragged it there might be hanging around. They can figure out what to do with it later.]
Yes, though an emperor rules many lands, whereas a king only rules one. The emperor of Xing holds all the clans in unison, so that the wars previously waged between them would never again return.
[How would he know what a king was, but not an emperor? She thought such concepts would be commonplace.]
[How would he know what a king was, but not an emperor? She thought such concepts would be commonplace.]
[Ah, the creeping pot calling the kettle black. Love lives????]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
you messaged me, dumbass
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
you messaged me, dumbass
[Given that—
a) Eren wants very little to do with discussing Jean's past love life (as if he even had one during training)
and
b) Hinata is actually sitting...all of ten feet away from him in medical
—Eren takes the high road here and chucks an empty water bottle (or something similarly handy and not...dangerous) at his big orange head.
Opening his mouth is easier and harder than squinting down at the screen. His voice comes out hoarse and tired and still-sickish but at least he doesn't need to type.]
Cut it out.
a) Eren wants very little to do with discussing Jean's past love life (as if he even had one during training)
and
b) Hinata is actually sitting...all of ten feet away from him in medical
—Eren takes the high road here and chucks an empty water bottle (or something similarly handy and not...dangerous) at his big orange head.
Opening his mouth is easier and harder than squinting down at the screen. His voice comes out hoarse and tired and still-sickish but at least he doesn't need to type.]
Cut it out.
--- Ow.
[with less gusto than normal, yelp much more commentary on the reflex than actual pain. the far it makes him move doesn't feel good; the room had previously ceased spinning, but as the fever drained out of him, chills and achy joints had been left behind.]
[it doesn't stop him from keeping up a ghost of amusement.]
[so worth it.]
Fine, fine...
[a beat.]
[a snort.]
Sir, yessir.
[with less gusto than normal, yelp much more commentary on the reflex than actual pain. the far it makes him move doesn't feel good; the room had previously ceased spinning, but as the fever drained out of him, chills and achy joints had been left behind.]
[it doesn't stop him from keeping up a ghost of amusement.]
[so worth it.]
Fine, fine...
[a beat.]
[a snort.]
Sir, yessir.
[As shit as he feels and as terrible as the situation is (they've come up with a cure but they're still wondering on the culprit,) Hinata backs off easy, and it's tough to stay irritated overmuch. Eren's regen might repair some of the cinnabug damage a bit quicker but it doesn't stop him from feeling sick and tired. If anything it exacerbates the latter. But it does keep him a little warmer than most when the air decides to chill.
He frowns over at Hinata's surrender, his snort. And his sir-yes-sir, which sits weird on him even if it's not entirely serious (?) and he raises a hand to scrub the heel of his palm over an eye.]
Shut up. [But don't shut up because—] You okay?
[They'd spent much of the lockdown hanging around and feverishly bitching at each other (or over each other) in times of clarity. But now.]
He frowns over at Hinata's surrender, his snort. And his sir-yes-sir, which sits weird on him even if it's not entirely serious (?) and he raises a hand to scrub the heel of his palm over an eye.]
Shut up. [But don't shut up because—] You okay?
[They'd spent much of the lockdown hanging around and feverishly bitching at each other (or over each other) in times of clarity. But now.]
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