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Date: 2019-08-12 03:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gr1m
People were afraid of the power Overwatch held, or were jealous of it, and so took everything out. That's fucking what. [There was a pause- before a couple of shadow hands rose up out of Gabriel's shadow and did a second raiding of the fridge. Pulled out about four containers of what was obviously food, pre-made and likely all from the fact he couldn't cook a single helping to save his life.

Reyes could only manage full meals for multiple people, but at least it was good. The hands returned with the containers and some forks. Grabbing up one as for the moment after that large drink he was going to be eating some cold- it looked like some sot of cheesy chicken pasta.]


Genji's lightened up a lot, that monk I mentioned before. He's a good kid, always had been even with all that hurt and anger in him. [Could fucking relate now.] He wanted me to celebrate my 60th, and so he and Kevin pulled together a Halloween themed birthday party for me. Actually invited other people who knew me here, too.

First time in years people wanted to celebrate the fact I exist. [Well, it was starting, but at least this time when he took a swig from his own bottle there'd be food with it.]

I don't even know when I did, kept telling myself it was pointless- but people kept... wanting me to have something.

[Jack was going to be in for a surprise, because the fact it cut through Gabriel's own metabolism on top of the wraith bullshit- well. He'd been feeling it a lot sooner than he expected.]

Date: 2019-08-13 06:47 am (UTC)
gr1m: (Steeply priced)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
They sure as fuck don't, and boy has Talon killed for it whenever someone's gotten overly greedy. [Had carried out a few of those himself- Akande likely had as well, judging by what had happened in Venice.

Gabriel tapped the lid of a box-]
There's enough for you, if you don't want to drink on an empty stomach. Do you better in the long run. [-before returning to his bottle. If he was going to even near the possibility of hanging over a toilet, he at least wanted more than stomach acid to come up after a while. Terrible as that thought was.

He was a 'responsible' drink-to-numb-the-pain-er? Something.]

Was a good party, yeah. They'd gotten Ana's help, too.

[Good memories of that day, but it's all they were. Even then they only would last so long as he was in this place. Pointless again.] Sometimes you've also got to decide if having it is worth that risk. Taught you that, too.

[Was anything ever worth that risk?]

Date: 2019-08-15 08:54 pm (UTC)
gr1m: (Good old fashioned lover boy)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
When I'm not off on more important jobs.

[As for the food? It looked like something with steak, sliced up and seared so very nicely. Even if cold it would still feel like it was warming the man up as he ate. There were vegetables in there as well. Some possibly roasted potatoes. Whatever it was it was delicious, give him that much.] I'm responsible, even if I plan on getting drunk enough to black out.

Better not done on an empty stomach. [Still, there was a nod to the question. He'd made it. His food was always comforting in the emotional side of things. Warmed someone up from the inside out in the most pleasant of ways.] Yeah, got in a lot of practice here.

[Hell, part of the reason he invited Jack over was to let him have the time. He didn't doubt it had been like a gut punch, but let him process it in his own time.]

And even then they're temporary for this place. Go right back like nothing ever happened.

[Yet here he was all the damn same. Taking another drink from the bottle with the neon purple mix-] I don't regret anything about what we did back then.

All the more reason I'm doing what I'm doing.

Date: 2019-08-18 01:16 am (UTC)
gr1m: (Whatever lies beneath)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
[Reyes had just gotten better at cooking, even if it still ad to be in large enough batches to feed a large family or else it was horrible. Just showed in what he was offering Jack, cold or not. It was almost funny.] Get back in to gear tomorrow, got to clean out the rest of that base and... I'll figure out what to do with it.

[Hell, he did appreciate the fact Jack had shown up at all, needed him there even if he couldn't really explain to himself why. To make sure he wasn't alone? That was one, on top of the fact he knew and cared about Ana, would under stand without having to talk about it. Talking about it was the last thing he wanted to do.] Gotta fill the time somehow.

[For once it was just too much to stay conscious with- or maybe he was finally allowing himself a break from his own thoughts. Long overdue.]

Either or, I guess. Mix of folks across the board a range of those two here after all.

[Alternating, slowly, between eating and drinking- even if he finally finished off one bottle and was picking up a neon green one to pop open next.]

She got tired of us arguing back and fourth when we were literally saying the same thing at one point, jut worded differently because of how stressed we both were.

Date: 2019-08-20 01:44 am (UTC)
gr1m: (Just how things go sometimes)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
There are still things there from when Oxton and the monkey were here. [Moved from the apartment they'd had yes but- That was a lot of time, wasn't it? Things from a little while before he'd arrived and now he was basically the last of those who'd been here so long. It felt- well. all the more reason to remind himself it wasn't just him, right?

Two years ago he wouldn't have given a single fuck and left it all there to rot away. Now it just didn't sit right with him.

There were indeed different flavors, but they all ranged within sweet. Made it dangerously easy to drink a lot fast if one didn't know just how alcoholic it was.]
It doesn't matter in the end, so why not enjoy yourself while it lasts if that's what you want? Some people here are dead in their world. Got nothing to return to.

[A smaller swig of his second bottle then. Leaning heavier on his drinking than eating, but still.]

We could after a while on our own, given time, we just didn't have that time.

Date: 2019-08-20 10:30 am (UTC)
gr1m: (This is getting annoying now)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
It all used to be in an apartment, but Amari figured it'd be better to keep it in the base, since... probably want them to move in there if they ever showed back up. [Oxton had for a short period of time, but hell if he didn't avoid her. Too much energy for him to deal with when for the most part he... didn't much care for anyone.

Took several stabs at his pasta dish, but at least he was remembering there was food in his lap rather than just downing that second bottle. Working at it a little slower, some pleasant warm buzz already developing even with the food.

Step one getting there.]
Not all of the memories back home are bad. Got some good ones.

[Even if the ones of the last several years wouldn't count amongst those.]

Always worked better together than against each other anyway.

Date: 2019-08-22 12:40 am (UTC)
gr1m: (It's a mystery)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
Oxton popped back up for a couple of weeks, but she never remembered being here with Winston. Avoided her myself, don't think she ever noticed I was here. [He was good at it when he wanted to be, going unnoticed-] Wilhelm was here for a little while, too. Seen a lot of familiar faces but.... [He was the only constant now, technically, wasn't he?

Was more playing with his pasta than eating it for a moment, getting a good amount of it and sliced pieces of chicken on to that fork. A few veggies stuck to it by cold cheesy sauce.]


Other than going to Venice around Carnivale and dressing up? Not really. [He still enjoyed dressing up in costumes, some things didn't ever change.

Did finally eat that forkful of food, washing it down with a bit of that neon liquor.]


I miss it.

Date: 2019-08-25 03:38 am (UTC)
gr1m: (Faded in and out)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
Yeah, and McCree's been here three times now, each with no memory. [It was a common enough occurrence really. Didn't make it better, just... expected if someone left and then reappeared enough, bit chance it was for the first time for them all over again. Just how it was. Humming a little to that last statement. Just three of them now.

Gabriel felt safe enough, and knew that the dogs were a good early warning system that would snap anyone out of some drunken stupor if anyone did dare try to get in. Two of them trained well enough that it wasn't just Morrison or Reyes whoever would have to worry about.

They were... fine.]


Nice to be able to keep that much at least.

[That much of himself anyway. No matter how much else he let go of or tried to bury. Eating a little more than drinking for the moment again.]

Always knew I was safe with you at my back.

Date: 2019-08-26 05:24 am (UTC)
gr1m: (Drink it down)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
A second chance or Hell, rate from your own experience. [A little dryly spoken, but it was how he viewed the place; could even be both at the same time. Needed to go back, return to his own mission, but hell.

So much more was possible here, even if loss had a whole new level to it.]


Other than my best friend? [Why yes, he counted Jack amongst those losses.] No big trip back home. No home at all for that matter, nothing to return to. Feeling of safety. List could go on.

[He'd made his choices, going to take another drink and eyeing Jack over that bottle at that little memory-]

Got you back. Remember the blizzard?

Date: 2019-08-29 06:46 pm (UTC)
gr1m: (Too old for this shit you know)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
[There was some scoff of a laugh in reply to that one, taking another drink before letting the bottle set on the coffee table. All the better to eat slowly, pacing himself more with the food than the rate he was drinking. Be better that way.

Easier to sort of linger in that warmth that pooled through him from the drink, settle in the softness brought with that. Temper didn't flare when he drank, he just got either sentimental and sappy or.. mellow. Easier to laugh and joke.]
Making a joke of myself helps.

Either embrace the fact I'm an undead monster with nothing other than revenge and the mission, or go insane and scream.

[Hell of a time—]

Lucky I was nice enough and didn't shove you over where the lake was frozen over, just partially buried you in five feet of snow with a well timed shove.

Date: 2019-08-30 11:21 pm (UTC)
gr1m: (We really doing this one?)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
[Just what he did, try to find some way to cover the pain and bury it, be it through just ignoring it or finding some morbid sort of humor in it all. How he coped, even if it wasn't the healthiest thing to do, it got him by. Most of the time.

This was a time he didn't want to be alone, rather than holing himself up. Had only done this once before.]


What doesn't kill you, and the grave can't hold me. [Slow swig of that neon liquor-] And another kid that likes dropping by in the middle of the night to raid the kitchen of sweets.

[Didn't mind that one, really.]

Helped pull you out- and made sure you got warmed back up safely, but it was still funny seeing you disappear in all of that snow.

Date: 2019-08-31 02:53 am (UTC)
gr1m: (What even is this)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
[Gabriel was allowing himself to linger in that warmth of alcohol going through him, the mellow mood to where he at least felt okay. Giving himself that much before driving to dive in to blackout drunk. Be getting there soon enough, really.

Then he was setting the chicken and cheese pasta to the side, for Jack to get a hold of if he wanted. Attention going full to the bottle.]


Dramatic or die. [Needed to be dramatic.] Mostly animals these days, somehow.

[There were so many good memories from back then, before the pressure and stress had gotten to them both. So easy to be pulled apart, drowning. The both of them had been drowning in the end.]

Hell of a snowball fight, too.

Date: 2019-08-31 03:30 am (UTC)
gr1m: (That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard)
From: [personal profile] gr1m
Did me good over the years, can't deny that. [Just... further embraced it now.] They're all good dogs... good animals.

[At least there was knowledge where she was going back- and sticking with Jack. Knew there'd probably be some fight there if she was intent of protecting Cairo and further from Hakim, like she'd been doing.

Only Jack would know the details whenever he went back. Forgetting that any of this happened again. Maybe would stay whenever he vanished ag—

Reyes down the bottle in one go, reaching for a third, flicking the cap off with a finger before taking a fresh swig.]


As you deserved every one I got you with.

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