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Rachel Conway ([personal profile] gotbottle) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2012-10-29 07:46 pm

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Who: Raylan Givens and Rachel Conway
What: Regrouping.
Where: Rachel's house, Flyside.
When: backdated to a few days after the riots.
Notes: n/a
Warnings: none so far, will update as needed.


It takes her a few days to reach out to people. It's not that she doesn't care.

It's that she cares so desperately, so deeply. Feels so much responsibility for everyone she cares about, too much to let them be dragged into whatever mess she's created.

But she can't be sure, at first, what that mess might be. She lets that small handful of days pass, lets time come and go and unfold and bring what it will. And it brings... nothing. Apparently.

No imminent danger, at least. Rachel still can't quite believe she walked out of the Arena with a fallen vigilante's sword down her boot and a purloined Militia agent's CiD slipped down her shirt, but she's apparently pulled it off. No one's come to kick in her door, no one's come to drag her away.

So now she can reach out. Now she can make sure the people most dear to her are all right without putting them in harm's way.

She starts at the top of the list.

are you okay?


She still can't bring herself to send even Raylan a voice or video message, started out paranoid after her curbside interrogation, got even more so after her thefts at the Arena. What if someone sees her face and remembers her? What if someone hears her voice and reads between the lines?

i'm at home.


Her new home, the house in Flyside he just got done helping her move into, in the days leading up to the riots.

come over when you can.


He works to help keep order in the city and to help those that need it and have no other resources. God only knows how busy he is right now, in the wake of everything that's happened.

i want to see you. i miss you.


And that, at least, requires no further explanation.
toooldforlosing: (tell that midnight rider)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-30 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
He sends her a brief text in reply, only a few minutes later. Good to hear from you. (The "I was worried" is silent.) I can stop by tonight once I'm off duty, if that works?

When he stops by, he makes sure he's cleaned up first. The damage to his shoulder was superficial; it still hurts a little, but it's patched up and hasn't impaired the use of his arm. You can't even see the bandages under his shirt. But he looks tired, a bit ashen. He's seen a lot of awful things in his life, both before and since Baedal, but that was something else again.

And beneath it all, the rage he keeps in check is all the more acute. But that does no one good now, so he pushed it away as he knocks at her door.
toooldforlosing: (and you spend your life)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-30 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Been better, but I've been worse, too." He leans in to kiss her, a quick and light hello. "How are you holding up?"
toooldforlosing: (the back-biter)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-30 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know, I'd be worried if you were holding up too good, after being at that thing. Come on, let's sit." Raylan is not very practiced at Talking About Feelings (especially his), but he's helped enough people through shock and trauma in different forms that he's not bad at it all told.

"You don't look hurt though, so at least you got out okay?"
toooldforlosing: (a hillside gravestone)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-30 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Saw you from a distance when I first got there, but I was too far away to get close. And then all hell broke loose and... well." He hadn't been far back, but far enough she wouldn't have had reason to look back and notice him - he'd probably have missed her, if not for the color of her hair, and even then seeing her at all was chance.

"Besides, I figured you for the type that couldn't sit idly at home with all that going on." Clearly, he wasn't that type either.
toooldforlosing: (a man from the northeast arrived)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-30 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
He shifts to let her curl up against his (left, uninjured) shoulder. "I managed. Another guy and I got hung up trying to help civilians find a safe exit, but we made a path."
toooldforlosing: (Default)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-30 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Christ. I'm so sorry, I didn't know." He didn't know she knew Tom, didn't know the man himself. There's nothing much else he knows to say, but he rubs a hand across her back in steadying circles. There's nothing that will make this better, and it's worse for knowing for certain the type of world in which they live, as well as that she's lost a friend.
toooldforlosing: (sooner or later)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-31 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Unfortunately, it seems like here, they had every right," Raylan points out, low and angry. "That's the problem. It was disgusting and I don't know what we can do about it yet, but it's clear they have friends in the highest places if they can do something that openly."

The fact that it had come to a head was less shocking to him than that no one had put any media spin at all, as far as he's aware. Just silence in the riot's wake.
toooldforlosing: (out of the mouth of this holler)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-31 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Raylan makes a face, then shakes his head. "You know, you're certainly not doing anything to avoid. You got it out without anyone seeing you?"

Despite himself, he does sound impressed.
toooldforlosing: (no one ever knew)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-31 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you hadn't noticed, the whole city's unsafe. And, not to minimize the crazy amount of trouble you could be in anyway, but I think I've managed to be my own target, you know. I work at Thames, I ignored orders to be at Mog Hill when the Arena riots were happening, I've had..." He chuckles.

"Well, my point is that we're too alike and we might as well enjoy each others' company in the meantime. Besides, I think your boss has plans for me."

All of which is to say, he's not going to let her push him away for his own safety.
toooldforlosing: (You'll never leave Harlan alive)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-31 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It gets an involuntary wince as she puts pressure on his wound. "Easy," he says, lightly, "there's a bit of a patch job over there."
toooldforlosing: (hard to tell the nighttime from the day)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-31 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Easy," he says again, more to her demeanor this time. "It's nothing serious, I just... might have got shot at. A little."
toooldforlosing: (I bet they danced them a jig)

[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-31 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
He laughs, shifting a little. "Okay, well, this is just a graze, so I think it actually counts as not a big deal." As opposed to being gut-shot, as he had been when he turned up in Baedal.

"Turns out shouting and waving a hat like mine draws gunfire in the middle of a riot. Who knew?"
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[personal profile] toooldforlosing 2012-10-31 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"We did, beforehand. Also, he just seems like a guy who generally has plans." And now he is aware of Raylan, so he probably incorporated him somehow. It's not a judgment, just an observation.

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