gipsy_danger: ([ gipsy ] fallen)
gιρѕу ∂αηgєя | JAEGER MARK III ([personal profile] gipsy_danger) wrote2013-07-15 11:02 pm

for [personal profile] striker_eureka

((starting here))

True to her word, Gipsy waits.

Of course, she can't do much other than that -- she's fairly constrained by previous injuries, and though her arm has been reattached and repaired she still can't quite walk on her own. This, Gipsy makes abundantly clear in beeps and grumbles, but it's mostly ignored because there's nothing they can do about it quite yet. Progress is being made, but it's not nearly fast enough for her satisfaction.

It's why she's grumpy as hell when he comes the next day; beeps decidedly irritated and far too loud for someone that had been drifting solo with a jaeger the previous day.

(( other conclusions Here. ))
striker_eureka: (up; saying goodbye)

[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
He'd tell her that it wasn't her fault that Yancy died, that it was a risk all pilots took every time they set foot in a Yaeger and walked out to do battle, that Yancy and Raleigh both knew what it was they were getting into. But he won't, because he knows she knows that, just like he knows that guilt often doesn't pay any attention to logic or reason. He still feels guilty for Leslie's death all those years ago, and he quite literally had nothing whatsoever to do with that.

He shifts his arms on her and kisses her hair, stroking her back slowly as he wrenches himself out of the pained haze such powerful memories put him in.

It's okay, love, I don't blame you for it.

There's no point in denying what she's said; she's right. She did hurt him. But he doesn't exactly mind. She couldn't help it. Everyone gets caught by their memories once in a while.

I'm not leaving you, Gipsy.
striker_eureka: (down; disappointed)

[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Hercules has had a lot of unwinable arguments in his life, quite a lot of them with his wife when she was sick, when she wanted him to leave her so that he and Chuck wouldn't have to go through watching her die slowly and painfully. He knows how to do this.

So instead of getting angry at her, he just lets her push out of his arms, lets her stand and try to make him angry. It won't work.

I don't want to go. His head hurts. He should go. He should disconnect and go lie down and look back on his life choices. But he doesn't want to. And I won't blame you for this because it's not your fault.
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[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently Gipsy knows how to fight dirty. He was quite willing to stay when he knew he was only hurting himself, but if he's hurting her...

He's pretty sure she's just lashing out to hurt him, but he doesn't want to risk it.

Gipsy... He's on his feet now but he doesn't remember standing, his hands outstretched in supplication. I don't want to hurt you. If I'm just making it worse...
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[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Hercules isn't unused to this kind of bemusement, it's an emotion he wore often enough when he fought with Leslie. When he's not entirely certain what just happened, but that he's pretty sure it's his fault. Or at least, that he could have done something to fix it, but didn't, and now everything is more than a little fucked up.

He tries to call out to her, but she stays resolutely silent, and even Herc knows better than to try and reestablish the Drift after what just happened.

So, reluctant as ever, he climbs out of the cockpit and makes his way to the control room on slightly-unsteady legs. He knows just how much trouble he's in, but at least Hercules is able and willing to stand up and face the music when he has to. It helps that he knows that Stacker will yell and rail and threaten him with permanent grounding, but then he'll pour them both some scotch and they'll sit quietly in his office and lament the direction their lives have took.
striker_eureka: (down; disappointed)

[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
After a day off to rest and recuperate — honestly, he could use more than a day, but he's got things he needs to do — Hercules tells Tendo to stop throwing rookies at her, since she'll refuse to drift with them; he'll do it.

Or at least, he'll try. Gipsy rebuffs him when he tries to speak with her, won't even beep or whirr at him in response, and he gives up after twenty minutes of trying to coax her into letting him in to her cockpit.

The same thing happens the next day, and the next, until he just throws up his hands and tells Tendo he's on his own to fix this, dammit, he can't think of anything else to do and he's got other things that need attention that aren't childish and stubborn Jaegers. (It's possible her stalwart refusal to speak to him has hurt his feelings. He'll never tell.)

He stops coming to visit.
striker_eureka: (down; disappointed)

[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Hercules keeps himself busy now that Gipsy has broken up with him, as it were, spending his days training at singlestick with the other pilots in the dome, going over strategy with Stacker in his office, playing fetch with Max in one of the unused hangar bays. He'd never admit it, but he feels oddly lonely now that Gipsy is refusing to talk to him; these past few weeks have been really nice, having someone else to talk to, someone who doesn't resent him (Chuck), or view him as some kind of mythical hero (the rookies), or a washed-up has-been (some of the other pilots). Gipsy has the most solid AI of all the Jaegers, and so talking with them just isn't the same.

Plus he feels oddly like he's cheating on her when he drifts with the others, so...

He's in the gym, working with the loose weights when he feels the first reverberations of music. At first, he thinks it's another attack — there isn't any precedent for a noise of that caliber — but then the lyrics start and he actually drops his weights on the ground. The other people in the room look just as surprised as he feels, staring at him with wide eyes as he slumps back against the bench and covers his face with his hands.

"Jesus fucking Christ, are you kidding me."

That's when the laughter starts.

The laughter that follows him all the way from the gym up to the control room, where Tendo is looking just as confused as Herc feels. Stacker, thankfully, is as stony-faced as ever, but Herc can see the little twitch around the edge of his mouth that means his old friend is laughing at him. It only gets more pronounced when Gipsy segues into N*Sync.

And then Taylor Swift.

"Good god, man, can't you unplug her or something?"
Edited 2013-07-18 16:56 (UTC)
striker_eureka: (up; skeptical)

[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
As if Tendo practically collapsing on the ground isn't bad enough, Gipsy's next musical choice has even Stacker breaking down into startled guffaws.

Hercules is town between horror and hilarity.

He's pretty sure his face is burning right now, but that doesn't stop him from shouldering past all the frozen people in the control room to grab at the microphone that has a direct link into each Jaeger.

"Gipsy Danger, that is enough."

That's right, Herc, pulling out the Dad Voice is exactly the right response to this situation.

"Turn that racket off this instant."
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[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
This is mortifying. He'd rather she stuck with Taylor Swift, he will never ever live Boyz II Men down.

He growls into the microphone, his fingers tightening around the stem.

"If you don't turn that off right now, I won't come Drift with you."

It's probably an idle threat, because there's no way anyone can do any work with that cacophonous noise happening, but still. "Gipsy. I'm not kidding around."
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[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Finally, the music stops.

Hercules lets out a relieved groan and lets his head drop down, his free hand coming up to cover his face. "For Christ's sake," he mutters, shaking his head. Thankfully everyone else is too stunned by what happened to be able to say much of anything, which is why he jumps a little when a hand lands on his shoulder.

"Better go see what she wants," comes Stacker's amused baritone, and Hercules lets himself groan again.

"How the fuck is this my life," he gripes as he gets his helmet and suits up.
striker_eureka: (crop; sunglasses)

[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
He is absolutely going to blame Stacker. He is going to blame Stacker for everything.

Clambering up into the cockpit and hooking himself into the conn-podd feels alarmingly familiar and comforting, even with him being as mortified as he is. He doesn't think too much about it.

Initiating neural handshake in 3...2...1...
striker_eureka: (up; glasses)

[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
He's a little bit wary, since he's been pushed away for so long, but yes he's here.

Hello, Gipsy.
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[personal profile] striker_eureka 2013-07-18 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
If she were a regular woman he'd probably try to hold out a little more to make her realize just what it was that happened and how it affected him, but while Gipsy is a giant behemoth of a fighting machine, she's also very young, and her consciousness is younger still.

Oh, it's alright, love.

He spreads his arms in a familiar hug-me gesture.

C'mere. I forgive you.

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