17 - video and spam for the gym; when it all comes crashing down.

[hungryanhorny]

[Video]

[There's only one pewter mug atop the counter besides Faith; but viewers shouldn't let that fool them. She's already on her third Pan Galact Gargle Blaster - fully drunk and looking to get drunker as she pulls a final sip of the heady stuff up to her lips for another drought. One last burst of forced apathy, before she puts the glass down.]

Barbara's gone.

[The feed clicks off.]



[Spam]


[Drunk - this much drunk - is very much different than buzzed; it's different from her normal drunk too. It isn't relaxed, or teasing; it isn't even apathetic anymore; it's angry; it's enraged - at herself, at the Admiral, at whatever the hell gets in her way.

Drunk; angry; and capable of punching through most walls - it's probably a good thing she's found her way into the gym. Not that the punching bag can take much more of her. Not when each punch pushes it to the end of its chain.]


ooc: Here for a few hours, and then gone until Weds. :( Putting this up to let everyone react, and because Faith can honestly use the support.

Faith locked her pup in the room if anyone's wondering - she doesn't want Ruby seeing her like this. >,>

Comments

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[knowsaboutanger]

It's your fault.

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[hungryanhorny]

Kinda figured. [Forget the fact that Barbara was just starting to trust her; no; really; it's temporarily blotted from her mind - it's much easier to just blame herself.]

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[knowsaboutanger]

Why didn't you protect her?

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[hungryanhorny]

Didn't think she needed it. [Didn't think the Admiral would snatch her away.]

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[batmanschmatman]

Kara, it's not. It's the Admiral's. Let her be.

[love_slave]

Why did they take yours away, too?

[Spam]

[batmanschmatman]

[Dick hadn't wanted to really say anything over the network, because what was there to say, really? And he had enough of his own angst about it happening to want to bother with trying to comfort Faith right now, so he'd headed down to the gym to go try to work things out.

Only to find that Faith was already there, and he stopped, watching her for a moment. He knew she was drunk, and he didn't approach, staying close to the door way.]

I'm the last person to judge about this kind of thing, but you might want to take it easy.

[Spam]

[hungryanhorny]

Yeah? [She gave the bag a particularly vicious punch, watching it swing to the edge end of its chain, blocking on the return, and kicking out again.]

What's he gonna do? Disappear me?

[hungryanhorny]

Must have figured out I wasn't cut out for it.

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[knowsaboutanger]

Right, I forgot.

It's the Admiral's fault. It's always their fault. Yet nobody raises a finger to change a thing, do they?

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[ichoosefight]

You okay? You look kinda... shit faced.

[Spam]

[batmanschmatman]

No, but being drunk and angry and trying to beat the hell out of a punching bag isn't going to do anyone any good, least of all you.

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[batmanschmatman]

If we could, we would, but we can't. Lashing out at Faith over what happened isn't going to change anything.

[Spam]

[hungryanhorny]

So what? Sit around and pretend she's not dead? [That Faith didn't let her die?] That's how it works, right?

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[ichoosefight]

Kara, don't. This is really not the time or place.

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[knowsaboutanger]

Right.

I'm not buying this martyr thing. If you cared about her you'd drop those bottles.

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[hungryanhorny]

Didn't think you'd care. [Sorry Steph's; she's in Do Stupid Things Until People Stop Caring About You Mode]

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[ichoosefight]

[ That actually stings. ]

I don't want you hurting yourself.

[Spam]

[batmanschmatman]

You don't know that. Sometimes inmates go home and something's changed so they survived whatever it was that got them here in the first place. And if I know Barbara- [Which he does, they weren't really that different in some of the ways that really mattered.] There is no way she didn't find a way to save herself and her family.

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[knowsaboutanger]

THEN WHAT WILL?!

[Her eyes are bright red.] Barbara didn't deserve to be an inmate. She didn't deserve this.

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[hungryanhorny]

'Cause she'd care? [They met in a bar. This bar.]

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[knowsaboutanger]

Why are you protecting her?

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[batmanschmatman]

And now she's home, and gets to go back to protecting her Gotham like none of this ever happened. Believe me, I get that you're upset, but yelling about it isn't going to change anything

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[hungryanhorny]

Relax, Steph; I can figure it out. [Like she figured out Barbara. And look how that turned out.]

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[ichoosefight]

Because she's my friend, and she's obviously hurting and she's not here to be your punching bag. If you want to talk, talk to me.