Draft Log #3: During v. 2.0

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone on the draft
What: Day 3-5
When: August 27th-August 29th
Where: ONCE MORE INTO THE-- ...BEACH
Summary: Like it says above. The draftees reach the beach.
Rating: V FOR VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR!!


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[captainhornblower]

Naïve...

[Horatio seems to consider the word for a moment before he shakes his head.]

I can't agree.

He... I've known him to make sure a man doesn't take himself too seriously, but I would not call him naïve.

[herotypical]

Well...[ buffy shrugs. ] You'd know him better than I would. That's just the impression I've got.

[captainhornblower]

It's...

It's Archie. [There's no better way to put it.]

[herotypical]

Beyond words, huh?

[ a bit of cheek but she seems to have fallen solemn. ]

[captainhornblower]

Something like that.

[A pause as he sorts through the thoughts.]

Naivety... is unblemished. [Another pause.] Mr. Kennedy has seen war. [And a great deal many more things I have not.] War... leaves no one who sees it unscarred.

[It's a bit romantic of a way of putting it, a habit he has generally grown out of. But, then, he is not in the habit of speaking about naivety or war in the abstract.]

[herotypical]

He's seen one kind of war. I don't see why naivety can't exist in chunks.

[captainhornblower]

Maybe it does, but I know that I would not consider him naive.

[herotypical]

...So maybe it's just culture shock, instead. [ it's a pet theory of hers. buffy's hellish home world offered such a different outlook on life. ]

[captainhornblower]

Culture shock?

[herotypical]

[ she allows herself a smile. ]

I'm a twenty-five year old woman gone weapon with the ability to bend metal and lift a man like he was made of air -- [ a throwback to her first conversation with archie. a wider smile. ] And then throw in that I'm from the future part?

Culture shock.

[captainhornblower]

[He supposes that explains the term. Sort of. Enough that he can nod as if it did, at least.]

This world has a great deal of very strange things.

[herotypical]

[ and then, gently: ] And not all of them so bad, huh?

[captainhornblower]

Not all.

[But some. Some things he is very, very glad his world does not possess.]

[herotypical]

[ but this is buffy simply trying to get a bead on whether horatio is from before or after archie's death -- after all, she sees herself in similar shoes now that giles has finally revealed his own to her. ]

I've been here for over two years, now. The silver linings somehow manage to get even more silverer. Not that the trade-offs aren't painful -- I'm not saying anything like that. This place? It's a prison. A tragedy. And it should be stopped.

[ but she wants freedom on her own terms...not waiting around for some hourglass to trickle out. ]

[captainhornblower]

[Horatio lowers his voice, at once cautious and thoughtful.]

A prison? I... suppose it is. Something like that.

But a better prison than others.

[A beat.]

The guards, though... Those...

[It's dangerous, but Jilly has spoken of Buffy as someone to be trusted.]

Those must be stopped.

[herotypical]

It's tough, huh? Caught between our keepers who want to use us and the fanatics who'd have as all perma-dead.

But I don't think it's impossible.

[captainhornblower]

Very little, I think, is impossible in this place.

[herotypical]

...Except for the things that should be possible.

[ like remembering. ]

[captainhornblower]

It is... a strange place, certainly.

[herotypical]

You'll adapt. It's probably cruel to say but...you will. To the lights and the food and the strong, independent women. And the vampires. Though I think we're a little low on those at the moment.

[captainhornblower]

[...Vampires? He... isn't even going to ask. But he does manage a chuckle.]

Perhaps I will.

No doubt it will depend on how long my stay here is.

[Really, he won't out and say it... but he hopes he is here long enough to adapt.]

[herotypical]

..I'm sure Archie'll want you here for a while longer. If I was in his shoes, I would.

[captainhornblower]

I have a duty in England, a war there to fight.

[It's said simply, a statement of fact. Yet it is not followed by any righteous statement of finding a way back.

He knows, is compelled to know, he has to go back. That doesn't make him in a hurry to go.]

[herotypical]

Funny, that. I have my very own earmarked duty in Scotland. A war, too.

[captainhornblower]

[It isn't the important part of her statement. He should have asked about her war. He knows that, and yet... "War" does not catch his attention. Not like another word does.]

Scotland.

I've only been once. I didn't get the chance to stay long.