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[Texts, calls (for 90s canon and modern day) and pictures and videos (for modern day)]

Date: 2014-11-26 01:06 am (UTC)
hairlocked: (Between life and death)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
It's fine, really.

[ But he grimaces as he does it, because it is sort of gross, and there's blood and oozing, and Leoben looks entirely too pleased with himself, unspooling the wire with sticky hands and snapping it with his teeth, then jabbing the sharp end into his arm. ]

There's no need to look so nervous, Ray. I'm not doing anything I wasn't designed to do.

Date: 2014-11-26 01:20 am (UTC)
hairlocked: (Standing on the shore)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
[ Poor Ray. This is literally the worst thing that could happen to an oversensitive queasy at the sight of human suffering sort of guy, right?

Leoben finishes, letting the wire hang from his bleeding arm and bringing the other end up to jam into the stereo jack. He closes his eyes for a moment, and then the stereo turns on, and the radio tuner whirs through the channels, settling on a samba. The volume drops to a more conversational level.
]

Now do you believe me?

Date: 2014-11-26 01:29 am (UTC)
hairlocked: (Default)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
Ray, answer the question. I can use the radio waves for other things. We can listen into the police scanner--

[ Which is what it does, with another little whir, and sure enough there's chatter from the neighborhood coming through it now. ]

--or we can feedback our conversation straight to the station through the tape recorder. That's easy too.

[ He cocks his head over again. Still oozing blood, still with his sticky fingers holding the wire to the machine. ]

I don't know what else to try.

Date: 2014-11-26 11:21 am (UTC)
hairlocked: (To understand her destiny)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
[ Leoben sniffs, and grimaces, and drops his head down to pull the wire out of his wrist. The stereo switches to radio static in the meantime, and he gets the wire fall onto the floor with the bloodied knife, then wraps his hand around his wrist and looks back up, grinning victoriously. ]

I'm not as good at it as the others were.

[ Lonely noises. ]

Could you get the first aid kit?

Date: 2014-11-26 07:56 pm (UTC)
hairlocked: (Love that bonds everything)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
[ Leoben waits quietly, then takes the first aid kit and goes about getting his blood over everything in there too, thanks for helping, Ray. He manages to scrub away most of the blood under the wound, at least, sprays it with antiseptic, then bandages it one handed, using his teeth to tie a knot like he's just come from the trenches.

He huffs, relieved, but holds his arm nice and high to keep more blood from spilling. And then there's just him sitting in a bloody mess, grinning cheerfully at Ray.
]

You're special because we're genetically identical, Ray. But you're human. Entirely, one hundred percent human. You're beautiful.

Everything you do, your entire life, is more valuable than any presidency. You have a calling, you just don't know it yet.

Date: 2014-11-27 10:32 pm (UTC)
hairlocked: (The truths that float past you)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
Identical physically, perhaps, but you're genetically perfect. Genetically, Ray. It's a mathematical improbability, but here you are.

[ Bloodied, but ever so cheerful, and suddenly he lunges across the space and wraps his bloodied hand around Ray's jaw, leaning up into him, pressing very close. ]

Here you are.

Date: 2014-11-28 12:58 am (UTC)
hairlocked: (No one's coming back)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
But I--

[ He lowered his hands. ]

I don't even know if any of the others are still alive. I haven't seen any of them for hundreds of years. And you're so...so young, and beautiful.

You don't like to be touched?

Date: 2014-11-28 01:34 am (UTC)
hairlocked: (A part of me swims in the stream)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
[ Well he did leave a healthy smudge of blood there, sorry about that, Ray. ]

There were thousands of us, all the same, the same, and the same. And there was a lot of time, a lot of sitting around. We tried to reproduce--well, not with each other, that would be ridiculous, but there were a lot of things to learn, it was more practical to discover most of them with each other.

[ A flicker of a smile. ]

I can't help but wonder how close to the same you really are.

Date: 2014-11-28 10:42 pm (UTC)
hairlocked: (This is not all that we are)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
I haven't done it for a very long time. Thousands of years.

[ Sad robot sadness. He huffs, then draws back into himself, sitting on the floor at Ray's feet. ]

Are we going to Canada?

Date: 2014-11-28 11:42 pm (UTC)
hairlocked: (To understand her destiny)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
You mentioned it before.

[ Although he supposed going to the consulate was entirely out of bounds now, considering Ray wanted to keep him away from Fraser. He flickered into a wary smile. ]

Let me see...beautiful, Egyptian. So yes, thousands of years. [ He sighed. ] It used to be you just knocked them senseless and threw them over your shoulder.

Date: 2014-11-29 01:37 am (UTC)
hairlocked: (No one's coming back)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
You'd be surprised. It was the way things were done for the longest time.

[ He chews on his knuckle for a moment, inadvertently licking a lot of the blood away in the process. ]

You haven't... [ He gestured to the bruise coming up on his jaw. ] There's never been anyone else?

Date: 2014-11-29 06:40 pm (UTC)
hairlocked: (Nothing feels like it did before)
From: [personal profile] hairlocked
Not successful? You mean there were attempts?

[ He squints up at Ray, who's looking wary and uncertain now, and if Leoben was remotely human he wouldn't blame him. Instead it's awkwardness all the way, and touching his knee again. ]

You mean you couldn't close the deal. Do you think you've forgotten how?

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