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Post by First Aid on Feb 10, 2008 21:59:40 GMT -5
“Yes," First Aid tilts his head. "Want to talk about it? You must miss them."
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Post by Slingshot on Feb 11, 2008 17:23:50 GMT -5
This guy's from another gestalt. There's someone else here
who understands
like him.
He almost reaches out to say something- But First Aid's offer to talk about it shuts the Aerialbot down. He doesn't know this guy. Not yet.
"What's it like for you?"
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Post by First Aid on Feb 11, 2008 18:49:43 GMT -5
Right, that offer was a mistake. Aside from anything else, First Aid doesn’t think about this often enough to feel confident verbalizing it. But First Aid made the offer, and he meant it, so he’ll try, even if maybe he should have kept his vocalizer off. “It’s. I don’t know how to put it – for me it’s like there’s somewhere you belong, where you fit, and you’re there even when you’re not. If I’m with the others, I know what they’re going to do, I don’t need to think about it. Sometimes, when I’m on my own, I can feel what they’d do in my place – not reasoning it out, but as if I remember doing it.”
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Post by Slingshot on Feb 12, 2008 19:43:21 GMT -5
Slingshot's gaze shifts slightly, so he's staring past First Aid rather than at the Protectobot. "I hear them- I used to hear them. It wasn't really them, just me remembering how to be them."
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Post by First Aid on Feb 13, 2008 18:51:05 GMT -5
“It’s stopped?” First Aid asks. It’s a disquieting thought, that that sense is something that fades. Slingshot’s characterization of it as memory is perfect, so he must suppose it does makes sense; memory fails when not reinforced by new experience, and senses atrophy when there’s no call to use them.
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Post by Slingshot on Feb 13, 2008 19:02:29 GMT -5
"Yeah." Now Slingshot is looking directly at First Aid. "Yeah. It stopped. Not heard a bit from them for- days, at least. Maybe weeks."
His fist clench, and he jams them even deeper under his arms. He hadn't even noticed until just today! Hadn't noticed that he'd lost his brothers!
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Post by First Aid on Feb 15, 2008 0:09:25 GMT -5
First Aid looks steadily back at him. “Have you noticed anything else? Any other changes in senses, anything at all?”
He doesn’t really think there’s anything generally wrong, but he’d be remiss if he didn’t check.
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Post by Slingshot on Feb 15, 2008 14:59:21 GMT -5
Slingshot tilts his head up as he mentally goes over the last week or so. "Nnnno. Just the burnt wings, and I know where that came from."
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Post by First Aid on Feb 15, 2008 22:35:04 GMT -5
“Good. Tell me if something comes up.” The hideous possibilities that have occurred to First Aid (what if general problems follow from the specific issues as a combiner’s constitution is deprived of one of its key operating parameters?) are fairly remote, he’s sure, but they make very vivid images. “I don’t think the separation should affect anything else, but no one really knows. We’re in a totally new situation, out here.”
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Post by Slingshot on Feb 16, 2008 22:52:41 GMT -5
"Yeah. I know." That this is a totally new situation or that he should report any problems to First Aid? Probably both.
His gaze dips back down to the partially harvested body of Optimus Prime. "Look- I-" He jaw tightens. "I need my team. Not just because of Superion. Because we're a team."
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Post by First Aid on Feb 18, 2008 12:03:00 GMT -5
“No, of course,” First Aid says, a little surprised, “It wouldn’t even work if you weren’t.”
He hesitates, then says, a bit hurriedly “I need my team too. It’s strange, not being able to talk to them, working alone – I mean, not that I always am, exactly, but it’s different, when it’s help, and not a team.”
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Post by Slingshot on Feb 20, 2008 12:20:03 GMT -5
The first part gets First Aid a blank look, because that totally failed to have an understandable connection to Slingshot.
The second, though... "You ever- I don't know, work with other people? Like the way you work with your team?"
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Post by First Aid on Feb 22, 2008 9:51:19 GMT -5
“Yes. A lot, really – other medical personnel, for the most part. It’s not the same relationship but it’s… close, some ways.”
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Post by Slingshot on Feb 22, 2008 12:13:17 GMT -5
"Yeah? So it can be done... I can manage with Skyblast as my wingmate?" He doesn't realize it himself but the look he gives First Aid is so very hopeful.
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Post by First Aid on Feb 24, 2008 0:13:42 GMT -5
First Aid nods enthusiastically. “I don’t see any reason why not. You get on already, right?”
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