Let's all hold hands and sing Kumbaya

[notzubats]

Who: Everybody! It's a planet mingle!
Broadcast: If You want!
Action: On the Holding Hands plant!
When: From June 23 until whenever we need a new mingle.

[At long last, the fleet has arrived to a new planet. This means it's time for a mingle guys! Get in! ]

Comments

[axiomed]

[ He beams. ]

Hello Wrath. You look lovely as usual.

[pain_train]

[She isn't immune to compliments, so that gets a big grin and maybe a little blush.]

Thanks! Nothing hurts!

[After living with constant pain for a year and a half, it's like a revelation.

Without further ado she goes in for a hug, and rather than the awkward side or from behind hug, she takes the frontal assault angle. Which means straddling his lap--with some measure of care so she didn't squish him or knock his chair over--so she can wrap her arms around him and bury her face in his shoulder.]

[axiomed]

[ He blinks, surprised before he wraps his arms around her comfortingly. ]

[pain_train]

[It's been so much harder than she's ever been willing to let on, to have been immobilized again. The constant anxiety and maintaining an outwardly positive attitude as much as possible has left her feeling perilously detached from reality in some ways. So this is a reaffirmation of her own reality as well as an affectionate gesture. One of the first things she had to learn after being discharged was how to reach out and find a new way to be okay.

But I'm here and you're here and everything is gonna be okay.

She's glad, so very glad, that Charles is all right. Looking better than ever, really. She'd been worried about him, and she'd missed him--talking to someone over the network, even having them sit next to you when you can't look at them straight on, it's not the same--and she's so relieved, so glad to see him. She hadn't been kidding, when she'd said she loved him.]

[axiomed]

[ He rubs the small of her back. It was nice to see her again - the person who has accepted him unconditionally. Though he still holds back, it's easy to bask in her simple feeling. ]

It looks like you're in good health.

[pain_train]

[Him rubbing her back doesn't hurt, and doesn't make any of her muscles twinge. It's a small thing, but an important one. Beverly really did fix her.

Hopefully it was the right thing to do.]

Yeah. I got a physical therapy list a mile long and Kurt won't let me forget anything about it, but Beverly fixed me right.

[axiomed]

[ continued from here ]