[log] Just Gotta Get Out [closed]

[rubikscomplex]

Characters: House, Al, Joker, Steve, Jade, and Rhys/holo!Jack
Location E15 - Building 130 (the Pharmacy)
Date: Day 097, Evening and through the Night
Summary: A very unlikely group of people get stuck in a building together for the night. At least least four of them have a decently good reason to want to punch one of the others.
Warnings: All warnings that come along with Joker, House, and holo!Handsome Jack

[One could say that the Norfinbury Hospital Pharmacy is one that's decently-sized. It must have once also had a small section for food, but the shelves are empty now save what few items can be found. Occasionally there's even medicine. Of course, to say that it's decently-sized is considering that usually only two or three people are in it at a time. Six is pushing the limit, especially six people who really don't have any business being in each other's vicinity.

Al is the first one there, taking the day to investigate his new surroundings, but the others trickle in slowly, some more worn than others from a long march.]

Comments

@hotstud_xxx; text; private

[rubikscomplex]

[ After the paralysis had worn off, and he'd watched to make sure Joker didn't try anything, House had made his way to another corner of the pharmacy, making certain to put several aisles between himself and Rhys. He still has a medical interest in the man. ]

request your mn levels
admin'll probably refuse, but whatever
were your robot bits repaired fully?

[headjacked]

[ He's back-and-forthing with Angel when this pops up. The username alone makes his stomach flip-flop. Rhys puts off reading the actual text until he's done talking with Angel, and.

It's... not entirely what he expected? What he does expect will undoubtedly come later, he's sure of it.

There's a major delay, but eventually, a response. ]

okay

[ In response to the question, Rhys attaches a picture of his shoulder where the skin meets metal. The angry red from the cold is old news, but the skin-webbing between the organic and synthetic? That is new. And also gross. ]

[rubikscomplex]

[ It will probably come later, but at the moment, House is being anti-emotional. There are too many emotional people here. ]

interesting
have you tried picking any of that off?
does it feel like real skin?

[headjacked]

Yeah

it does

bled a little too

[rubikscomplex]

well, don't die
you might grow your arm back

your port thing
what the hell is that?
i whacked it and you went the full jack

[headjacked]

[ Another pause. He liked it better when the conversation wasn't going that way. But it was always going to go that way. ]

It goes into my brain

Probably not hard to figure out why hitting it hard is Very Bad

[rubikscomplex]

i'll keep that in mind the next time your roboarm's choking me
so, i'll let everyone else freak out about the fact he can actually take over your entire body
but let's agree never to meet again unless i need to be murdered
can i count on you for that?

also, "language"?
jackie's got some real interesting priorities

[headjacked]

Strangling not choking

[ Speaking of priorities, jeez. That was reflexive.

Rhys takes a moment to sit up, breathe deep, and remember how punctuation works. ]

I let you go.

[rubikscomplex]

you really wanna play the semantics game?
let's go all the way and say you were crushing my trachea
call a spade a spade!
and you totally did let me go
and then you didn't
and then you did again when the giant tin can made you
kinda says there's a problem there

[headjacked]

That works, actually.

The letting go is important. The part where I did it on my own before you hit me. I have a lot of control when I'm actually conscious.

[rubikscomplex]

so we have to make sure you're never unconscious?
also pretty sure it

[House breaks off, consciously pulling himself back. He doesn't actually want Jack coming out to play again tonight. He has other things he needs to do apart from die here, and it might just encourage Joker. They've already freaked out the dog girl enough.]

are you talking he can take you over in your sleep unconscious
or purely trauma-induced unconscious?

[headjacked]

Purely trauma.

So maybe encourage people to hit me less.

[rubikscomplex]

again
i'll remember that the next time your hand is around my throat
totally

don't cyborgs have, like, firewalls or subroutines or whatever to deal with rogue ais?
future world srsly needs to work on its literally internal security if not

[headjacked]

Yeahuh, it's THAT simple.

Stick with doctoring and I'll handle my business. I honestly don't even know why I'm talking to you right now.

[rubikscomplex]

because you feel guilty
is it really that hard to piece together?

how'd he get inside you?
i'm guessing it's something to do with that fancy port

[headjacked]

And you care because...?

Oh yeah, you don't, it's just weird morbid curiosity or something. Whatever. Going to take a leaf out of your book.

[rubikscomplex]

so i don't have a right to know anything about the guy who nearly killed me?

[ It's pressing hard at the guilt button, but he is morbidly curious and wants to know. ]

[headjacked]

[ oh no


rhys does care



From several shelves over it sounds like a set of noodle legs are kicking a wall. Once that dies down, House gets his response. ]

It was an accident that YES involved my port and THAT IS ALL YOU GET.

[rubikscomplex]

illegal download gone wrong?
this is why we pay for our porn, rhysie

[headjacked]

[ haha fuck text for this next bit, he yells it loud enough for everyone in the pharmacy to hear -- ]

STOP CALLING ME THAT!

[rubikscomplex]

temper temper
that what he calls you, then?

[headjacked]

Don't play dumb.

[rubikscomplex]

huh.......?

[headjacked]

durrr is that what he CaLLS you???
durrrrr like that isn't the most obvious thing in the world durrrrrrrr






I'm a doktur

[rubikscomplex]

it's spelled dokdurrrrrrr