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Sergeant Rick Doyle || 28 Weeks Later ([personal profile] fuckthemission) wrote2012-06-11 01:03 pm

04 | voice/written/action | Kidnap shifts are a bitch, and I hate 'em.

[June 9th (Nighttime)]

[Doyle returns from the mission and hopes distantly that the shift placed on him would be gone. It is not, and he's got an insignificant wound that probably needs a few stitches and something to disinfectant. He basically makes a beeline for his place, locks himself up (and may run into people along the way, despite his attempts to be sneaky). He'll just have to wait for it to wear off.

Yeah.]


[Voice]

Can anyone do me a favor? Probably a doctor at the clinic--I need, uh. A kit for stitching up minor injuries, things like that? Something to disinfect a wound? I'm not really in a position to go down to the clinic... If we can arrange somewhere to pick it up, I'd really owe ya.

[If you're in Community Housing 7, you might feel a phantom heat passing through the Floor 3 hallway. Also if you're Doyle's neighbors or you're above or below his room, sorry about the weird heat that seems to bounce around your place. :|]

[June 10th]

[It's getting worse. He's feeling a lot more restricted, a lot more like he's drowning in peak summer heat. Started sweating more; he takes nightly walks like he does sometimes, though more-so to escape how his room smothers him. Eventually, though, he starts to realize that he can't go to the grocery store, or the restaurant, or the item shop. Or the middle of the plaza. Frankly, he realizes he's just shoving heat in people's faces wherever he's at.

There's some joke to be made about making people want to take their clothes off, but he's too tired to amuse it. He temporarily stays in an empty house further back from any people, just until this wears off. Needs food, though. Going to the grocery shop isn't going to work out. At all.

A while later, an anonymous person pens in
this handwriting:]

[Written / Anonymous]

I'm stuck in a predicament, and I kinda' need food. If anyone can drop some off at the house I'm staying in, I'd really appreciate it--and I'd owe you one. Just on the doorstep, and I can do the rest.

[If people do decide to help out, he'd appreciate it. He even pens the house number. Just don't be alarmed if you help, or even if you just walk by, that something unceremoniously warm is seeping through the walls of the house. He's got the air on, the fans on, and he's still not feeling too relaxed.

He also goes out and sits at the lake. By the time he's there for an hour, two, he sits in the water and feels some semblance of relief for once.]


[June 11th]

[Fucking hell. Fuck.

He's given up on shirts. He's drinking a lot of water, too. Been sitting in the shower at the unspecified house until he prunes up. It offers a little relief. Not a whole lot. When it starts to rain he goes outside, goes back to the lake, sits in the water, in the rain; he hasn't gotten sick from it yet, so he's not about to stop.

When the rain clears up, he drags himself onto the shore and lays there. He feels too hot. He's going to burn up--they're going to burn him all up, aren't they, those assholes?

Too hot... Ugh... Too hot.

It's raining and overcast and he's laying here suffocating in heat.

What were the odds.]



((ooc: basically anyone within a 10-foot radius will feel like they're in a really hot desert that will progressively get worse the closer they go; the heat is stifling and hard to be around. Another 10 feet after that, there's a mild heat that'll probably be more recognizable on the rainy days. Touching him'll make you feel like you're being burned. Also to note, it only effects living things. So no actual hot objects. :|b

It'll go away before anything gets too intense for him, but he's a little freaked out and anxious and all that.))


faithfulflame: (Mars Red Angel)

[Action]

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2012-06-13 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[When the door opens, Mars nods and smiles warmly]

Yes, hello Rick. May I come in? I promise, the heat doesn't bother me.
fleurdesel: left, tired, serious, angry (Told you so)

[action] June 11th

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-06-13 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You enjoy it.

[She dares to move a step closer. It's making her perspire despite the rain, now. She doesn't know how close she could get and still be able to bear it. Helping him up would be impossible.]

If that does not work I will find something that will. I'm certain there is someone in the village with ice based magic. Or I could hook you up to a chilled IV line- I've done it once before. It was an extreme case then, but. It did work.
fleurdesel: right, work, tired, serious (And that's that)

[action] June 11th

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-06-13 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Rick?

[Another step. She swallows back a muted curse. Standing next to a furnace in the middle of the summer hadn't been this stifling, this unpleasant. She makes a belated not in the back of her mind to remember if she wrote her will out to allow herself to be cremated. Not that she could change it, but she feels like she's got a solid idea of the sensation. And doesn't care for it.

She takes a slow, deep breath- almost chokes on it. Grits her teeth and inches closer. If it's gradual, she can bear it. Almost. Another inch. It feels like a mile. The nape of her neck is sodden, now, hair slicked against her skin.]


Do you need help standing?

[action] June 9th

[personal profile] herd_effect 2012-06-13 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[He opens the door, takes a few steps towards Doyle, and...hesitates. Because man, it's stifling hot in there. His gaze flickers to the thermostat and he goes over to it, squinting at the reading.]

Is this broken? You shouldn't be staying here with the heat blasting like this.
geniustheveil: (pgsm ☤ shock!)

[Aaaaand action!]

[personal profile] geniustheveil 2012-06-13 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ami arrives, just slightly out of breath from her hurry but prepared with all the things that could be needed. She finds, soon enough, that he was telling the entire truth: as she gets closer, it becomes warm, then hot, then decidedly uncomfortable.]

How did the Malnosso...?
relictusdeus: (Mmnyes; popcorn.GIFing)

Jun 11 - is sometime in the evening okay?

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2012-06-13 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[At first, he supposes the man sprawled by the lake to be a corpse - - but as he draws nearer with his spear out, looking to understand what had happened but wary of what could be a trap, he notes the rise and fall of Doyle's chest. So he's alive. Recognition dawns an instant later.

Well, well.

And then he feels it, invisible waves of heat pressing against his body, enveloping him. Any stronger, and it could almost form a barrier.
]

...Are you so thrilled to see me?

[He teases while glancing downwards, his rain-drenched hair plastered to his face. You look sweaty and flushed - what else could he be expected to say? With a chuckle, he adds:]

'twould seem you have saved me the trouble of stripping you of your shirt.
stillplaying: ([happy] real or not real)

[action]

[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-06-13 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[On the rainy day, the warmth is nice. She doesn't think too much on it. Doesn't question how the chill's left her spine. It gets warmer as she walks closer to the edge of the water. But it's only enough to get her to remove the jacket, something she would have done regardless.

She sits and the boots come off next. Maybe he has the right idea. Going for a light dip in the water, despite the rain. How long has it been since she's gone swimming for the fun of it?

But the actions are slow. More of her focus is on him. This far away, it's hard to tell if there's anything amiss. But if he's out here, if he's swimming, he has to be doing better.]


I'm not always in trees. [Only when it's most convenient.] Hunting's better on the ground.
fleurdesel: left, tired, serious, work (Just a short breath)

[action] June 11th

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-06-13 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I've endured worse Rick.

[The heat was chronic, though. More persistent and lingering than any of her bruises. Stifling and thick in the air, heavy on her skin, radiating misery along with it's source. Much. Much different than multiple spots of bone deep pain. But not quite as bad.

She thinks. Her memory is fuzzy on some of the details. But as far as he needs to know? This isn't the worst she's walked through. Not by a long shot.

Even so. She doesn't take another step forward. She doesn't step back either. It's uncomfortable, it's frustrating, and she knows if she just walks backward ten, fifteen steps? She'll be fine. But that's cowardice.

And she'll never allow herself that while Rick's miserable. It's stupid, but she won't.]


I am fine where I am.
faithfulflame: (Mars Flame Dance)

[Action]

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2012-06-14 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Mars walks in and shuts the door behind her, offering up the basket.]

Well, even though I'm not an ordinary person, don't think of me as anything strange. Think of me as a friend. And forget about the heat for a minute. Its just a really hot summer day, after all. Drink some water, and lets talk.

[action] June 9th

[personal profile] herd_effect 2012-06-14 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
What? [He takes another few steps in Doyle's direction, utterly confused, and reaches out to tentatively touch his forehead. Annnd practically jumps back.]

Oh my God. How--how are you even--?!
geniustheveil: (pgsm ☤ eh?)

[action!]

[personal profile] geniustheveil 2012-06-14 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Without using her powers, and perhaps even then, she can't come closer. Ami shakes her head to signal it.]

You were right. I can't get too near. Where do you want these left?

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