deathsdoctor | Appointments 2.0

Appointments 2.0

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[Action, January 3rd]
[Voice, March 8th]
[Written, June 11th]

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I think it says something about this place that that isn't even the strangest story I've heard here.

[It's another try at humor, even though he's exhausted and a ball of nerves right about now. Easier to try to mask what he's feeling than let it show. He's no fool, though-- he knows that Law isn't going to buy it. Call it an instinctive reaction.]

[Course not. You can see it in his eyes.]

Sure does. Now what's strange around here is to have something perfectly, mind-numbingly normal happen. Now that's weird.

[But he'll banter back. It's the least he can do.]

Getting drunk sounds perfectly, mind-numbingly normal to me. The very best kind of normal right about now.

[In other words, less talking, more heading to the place with the booze.]

[Good thing they're fast walkers. There's the barracks.]

As long as you don't count it's happening underwater.

[And he's going to walk right up and pull open that door. Teleporter here they come.]

I can overlook that fact if the alcohol is good enough.

[Gai doesn't need an invitation to step in and head right over to the teleporter. Normally he's not much of a fan of the device, but in this case? He is so going through it with eagerness.]

[Neither is Law, but it beats the sheer exhaustion of teleporting across the enclosure himself.

And tada. They set out into the old fort at the beach.]

Well, let's go see if it is.

[Gai might notice the beginnings of the pickling of static. One of telltales the Ope Ope no Mi is about to come into play.

The other is the steely gray blue eyes of the pirate now look very blue indeed. Like they're shimmering with internal light. Light that's about to blossom externally in any second.]

[Gai just watches this, intrigued, because he recognizes that glowing of sorts. Not specifically - he's never seen Law use his DF powers before - but in general, as his own eyes shimmer when he's scanning someone for a Void, so the only logical conclusion here is that Law is about to use some sort of power.

And it interests him, since he's never really seen the full extent of what the pirate is capable of.]

[Well, Gai's been present for when they've been used before, but those had been chaotic moments. Easily missed.

Law's hand sweeps out and the energy bubble forms. It's pure blue energy and the air inside shimmers like it does in extreme heat. The temperature, however, doesn't budge. It's not the only peculiar thing.

It feels like they're in a separate space, a world not ruled by the normal laws of physics but by Law. Yet they're still very present as well. The feeling is pure contradiction.

-Pop-

And then they're not on the beach at all. But on the deck of a ship underwater, nestled in a kelp forest. There's another bubble around them, wrapping around the ship. It's clear and somewhat filmy, just like a soap bubble. It keeps the air in. It's cool on that deck, but not cold.

And the dying light filters down around them, and beyond the bubble the schools of fishes roam.]

[That... was a bit unsettling even to Gai, who has been on the teleporters multiple times before. There was something about this that was different, that feeling of being there and yet not, and he almost opens his mouth to say something about it when suddenly they're on the deck of that ship.

They really are underwater. It's strange, yet somehow soothing. He could get used to this, he thinks, especially after he gets a few drinks into himself.]

Something tells me you don't have anything to worry about when it comes to people finding the ship down here.

[Law chuckles and leans against the mast. It may be a trick of the light, but he looks a shade more exhausted.]

Not until we have another blasted teleporting experiment at least.

[Gai's lips quirk slightly into a smirk, though it's about as strained as Law's expression.]

And something also tells me that I'm glad I missed that one.

That something is right on the money.

[He pushes himself off the mast to head below deck.]

It was hilarious at times, but mostly it was just a pain.

So how many people got teleported around while naked?

[Let's be real, he KNOWS the Malnosso would do that on purpose.]

Oh, practically half the village. They've made it a tradition to snatch people from their showers and stick them all in the village plaza.

Then I take back what I said a moment ago-- I do wish I'd been around to see that.

[Because there's no way that WOULDN'T have been hilarious.]

[Law laughs as he goes down the stairs into the galley.]

Well, it's bound to happen again so you might get your chance. Just be sure to avoid the shower when it does.

I'll be sure to keep that in mind.

[Meanwhile, Gai will just take a seat on the deck-- he's emotionally and physically worn out, as much as he's been trying to hide it, and he just wants to sit down and relax and get drunk out of his mind right about now.]

[It's not long before Law returns with the bottle of blue alcohol and two small glasses.]

Warn you right now. A bottle of this stuff can get even me drunk fast.

[And Law's alcohol tolerance is unnaturally high.]

That's exactly what I want to hear.

[The stronger, the better. He reaches up for one of the glasses, wanting to get started on this process right away.]

[And that glass will have a generous amount of Romulan Ale in it. As will Law's]

What I thought. Great seas, what a hell of a day.

[Now Gai does let his leader face slip, his entire body slumping down as he accepts the glass. It has been a hell of a day indeed.]

Hard to believe I was only gone for a few hours.

Yeah. [And that's a complicated mix of emotions right there. And he hates to admit that with three years under his belt, Law's never been home once. It's a bit of envy he'll never admit to... and one he doesn't feel in Gai's case as he's dead.

Nothing to go back to. He admits.] It seemed like longer.

It was a few months for me.

[He stares down at his glass for a moment, then downs it in a single gulp. He's going to need it if he's going to be recounting what happened in his world for the second time today.]

It turns out I wasn't even allowed to stay dead.

[...

Shock. And. You too?]

... what?

[Yeah. Refilling that glass.

Just give him a few minutes to process that first.]

The universe itself wouldn't allow me to die once Eve had chosen me as her king. No matter how many times I died, I would just be reborn over and over again until I carried out my role.

[His voice is flat, tired. He's tired, so tired, and having to make that announcement about the mission didn't do anything to help with that feeling, that much is for sure.]

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