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Date & Time: Saturday, March 3rd. Evening.
Location: Unit 205
Characters: Nathaniel
noble_nate, Anders
birdhousesoul, and Martin
septim
Summary: Stomping microchips should not be tried at home
Warnings: Mild violence and more than a little angst
Nathaniel staggers into the apartment, looking like he’s had ten kinds of crap beaten out of him – which, unfortunately, he has. He’d been doing rather well in his silent observations of the Masked, keeping to less noticeable vantage points and using the shadows to slip from place to place. He was a highly skilled rogue, but the Masked were better. And more numerous.
He’d fought back viciously, of course, but in the end it hadn’t done him any good. He’d emerged from the attack bruised and battered, and with what he assumes is a microchip inserted into his back.
He slams the door closed behind him and leans against it heavily. At least he was fortunate enough to be living with two mages that specialized in healing. Hopefully, at least one of them was home.
“Anders…? Martin…?”
Location: Unit 205
Characters: Nathaniel
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Summary: Stomping microchips should not be tried at home
Warnings: Mild violence and more than a little angst
Nathaniel staggers into the apartment, looking like he’s had ten kinds of crap beaten out of him – which, unfortunately, he has. He’d been doing rather well in his silent observations of the Masked, keeping to less noticeable vantage points and using the shadows to slip from place to place. He was a highly skilled rogue, but the Masked were better. And more numerous.
He’d fought back viciously, of course, but in the end it hadn’t done him any good. He’d emerged from the attack bruised and battered, and with what he assumes is a microchip inserted into his back.
He slams the door closed behind him and leans against it heavily. At least he was fortunate enough to be living with two mages that specialized in healing. Hopefully, at least one of them was home.
“Anders…? Martin…?”
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What he says is: "We're both alive. That's something." Not negligible, either. They've both been in scrapes they didn't think they'd survive. "If you'd have left, I'd have gone after you anyhow."
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"At least now we know not to destroy the chips; we can pass that information on." It was a heavy price to pay for knowledge, but it might hopefully be useful to others. "And you and Martin can get your own chips out easily enough." Honestly, that's more important to him than his own predicament.
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Guilt is rising in him, the way bile rises in the throat, but he swallows it back. No time for it now; he's in healer mode, concerned primarily with the well-being of his patient, and as his patient also happens to be his lover, he's that much more intent on caring for him. It's unfortunate that nothing material remains to be done or disposed of. Gently he strokes Nathaniel's hair away from his face.
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He doesn't speak for a long time, just enjoying this closeness and the sense of security that comes from it. Finally he voices the thought that's been running through his mind for hours now.
"I feel so helpless," his voice is soft, barely more than a whisper. "I feel weak...and utterly useless."
There was a long time when he would never have admitted to such vulnerability, and even now, Anders is the only one that he can be so open with. It's still hard to give voice to such thoughts, but he knows Anders won't think less of him, or--even worse--pity him.
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There is nothing to be pitied in such a defeat.
Fighting back is an option, usually a futile one. There's the chance of catching the point of your staff (if it's a sharp one, or steel-ornamented) in a crevice between plates of armor, at the armpit perhaps. A very unlikely chance. The best option is to run. If you run, you're not a coward, and if you're caught, you're not a loser. The odds are stacked against you from the beginning. All this stands between Anders and the possibility of pity. The analogy's too close: phylacteries, the microchips; Templars, the Masked.
"I know the feeling." The rueful understatement is as close as Anders will come to unpacking all that for Nathaniel. Anything more specific would sound wrong, somehow, as if detracting from the seriousness of Nathaniel's situation or the very real violation he's suffered today. "I was just as helpless. I hate that I couldn't keep them off you, and I hate what they did to you. It may take some time, and some doing, but we'll make them pay."
This is a promise, filled with cold certainty. Coming from the man who blew up the Kirkwall Chantry, it means something.
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He slowly turns in Anders' arms to face him. He runs his hand along Anders' cheek before leaning in to kiss him lightly. "We'll make all of them pay," he says as he rests his forehead against his lover's.