reconnaissance: (♔ that I would fight you for)
ellie linton ([personal profile] reconnaissance) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-06-08 06:48 pm

we wear our bruises like watermarks

Date & Time: backed to before epidemic stage two, June 6th?
Location: 1. Outlands & towards the clinic 2. casa de batrek & elsewhere
Characters: Ellie & Ygritte, Ellie & Kirk 1.0
Summary: two for one to spare your reading page:
1. Ygritte and Ellie go to the Outlands for camouflage adventures that don't go so well
2. Jim gets annoyed by his tiny annoying sister and hauls her to the hospital
Warnings: Ygritte, Ellie, Jim. I'll add for anything else that applies. Gross sickness?
Notes: Action or prose logging, I'll go with whichever you prefer C:


Ygritte
It's been a while since they originally talked about it, but finally Ellie's gotten her act together. Granted, it might not be the best day for it, when she's coughing and wheezing, but conditions in the field were never perfect and she had to learn to work around them. Swallow her coughing, or what have you, because if the enemy heard you cough when you were invisible and three feet away, you'd be toast. Not that she could actually turn invisible yet, but that's hardly the point, right? She would get there eventually, and in the meantime, maybe Ygritte would enjoy the target practice.
She's sitting up in a tree on the outskirts of the forest, waiting. She's not camouflaged at the moment, just trying to keep a little more out of the rain, and it's a pain not having her device on her to distract herself as she waits. She's pretty sure this where she said they should meet, but her head feels a little fuzzy, and she's irritated with herself for not thinking to double check.

A moment, and she drops back out of the tree, venturing out of the trees to see if she can spot Ygritte or get her attention.



Jim
The thing is, after going to the Outlands, mucking about, and then insisting on getting someone else to the hospital because they look worse than average (if that's a polite way to say they look like absolute shit), it means running about a bit yourself. Once upon a time, Ellie might have bet money on her immune system, but that was Before the War. Everything had been different, then, and viruses didn't knock her about the head as badly as they did now. Her logic, though, was that Ygritte was stubborn and isolated and needed to be hauled into the city, and on top of that, Ellie has had months of decent food and building up her strength. And that should make all the difference, right ?

It's just an unfortunate coincidence that she looks so completely disgusting later that evening, shuffling out of her bedroom to get a refill on tea.

But there are no teabags. “Jim.” Croaked, more than spoken, and she grimaces as she wanders to try and find him. “Jim.” Whoops, no, that just sounded worse. “Did you finish the tea?” You dickhead will follow if the answer is yes.

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