Action/Video.

[collegedropout]

Who: Sam Winchester and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Space Bar or SS Bloodsport
When: The 9th - sometime these next few days.
(Note: feel free to take your time tagging this if you have a calibration with him! Or we can wrap it up quick or plan out the ending, whatever you prefer! No rush.)

[ACTION.]

[So — Sam got updated. Thank fucking christ. Nami, you'd better be ready for him to excitedly knock on your door at some point. You can also find Sam at The Space Bar, where he's right back to bar-tending. Feel free to stop by if you need him. But as everyone settles back into normalcy aboard the fleet, Sam makes a new entry to the network. Gotta air out that dirty laundry business.

A few days after they've returned home:]

[VIDEO.]

So, um. That was something, huh...?

[He clears his throat, drums his fingers on top of an old red book.]

Let's just clear the room — I wanted to apologize for... anyone who had gone into my head, or whatever you want to call it. I know there's a lot in there that isn't exactly pleasant to deal with. But I'm cool with it. I mean, I remember it all, and I'm totally fine with everything. So if you're worried about the whole trespassing thing... I'll get over it.

I'm just... I'm sorry, because I know some of it was... Yeah.

[He's dealt with worse. Far worse.]

There are some things for me to be thankful for, right now, in better news; I got a quick trip back home between the Marsiva and the Bloodsport. See, um... My brother, he made it out of a predicament in one piece when I was sure he was gone. And I did, too. Somehow. And I got to meet my mom. Like, in the flesh, as herself.

So as shitty as this month has been in some respects... I'm... just happy I've got her and my brother.

[Ehem.]

Anyway. Enough of the sappy serious stuff.

Anyone want to rent out a book? I'm starting to get quite a collection here.

I've got a list, I'll post it for you guys.

[ATTACHMENT://

IT by Stephen King (Peggy)
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Rick)
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum (Arthur)
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Bucky)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Sawyer)
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss]



... And...

[He holds up two more: All My Friends are Dead by Avery Monson and Jory John, and... The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories by Alisa Surkis and Monica Nolan. He winces.]

Look, I'm not going to kink shame — but someone please take the horse one. You can pass it around like it's The Ring video for all I care.

Comments

[collegedropout]

[He's relaxed and smiling, anyway.]

What can I say? My life's been nothing but secrets.

Once I needed to be admitted to a mental hospital for a case, so I just told them the god's truth.

[mucked]

I believe it.

[ lord knows, she might have easily seen someone committed should they spout half the nonsense he does. it's the fleet that's made her more accepting of such things. ]

[collegedropout]

[He huffs a smile.]

There's one thing that's easy for you to believe.

[Of course it involves him in a loony bin. That kind of cracks him up a little.]

[mucked]

I -- I don't know how you do it. [ she admits, twisting suddenly to a place of honesty. ] You talk about having lived a life of secrets and -- and Lord knows, I'm familiar. But you've shaken that restriction so thoroughly.

[ maybe she doesn't need to keep secrets here in the fleet. but she does -- it's second nature, and she doesn't like the vulnerability that comes with telling them. or letting other see them. ]

[collegedropout]

Honestly, I don't know. I've lived a life of secrets since I was eight years old. I think after a while, you start to get sick of it — or, or you start feeling like it's just all bubbling up, and you want someone to finally know. Without thinking you're crazy.

[But there are secrets. That goes unsaid. Ohhh, there are secrets.

Some secrets are just more pressing than others.]

I thought... What've you got to lose, to get some of it off your chest, you know?

[mucked]

[ what have you got to lose? ]

A great deal, in some instances. I'd rather not be fitted for a noose anytime soon.

[ -- the official secrets act might not be that harsh, exactly, but it's enough to have made her unwilling to say a lot about her work even now. ]

[collegedropout]

Yeah? Are all your secrets government and work-related, agent?

[He grins a dimpled smile. Teasing. He leans back.]

Maybe I'm getting rusty, but I think anything could turn into a secret with you.

[mucked]

Government and work are the same thing when you're a federal agent, Sam.

[ whether anything could be a secret, however? well -- she's not telling. ]

[collegedropout]

I'm usually just a fake federal agent, so I wouldn't know.

[He grins. This lil' shit.]

[mucked]

I suppose you shall have to take my word for it.