TSW 22: Robin's Dream

[14:35] IcePickLobotomy Time: ??? Location: ???
[14:38] IcePickLobotomy [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds3kMYH3t60 ] You're standing in the helicopter, you know the one. But there's no sound, no deafening thrum of the rotors, no worried hand on your shoulder. No smoke-streaked blue sky with washed out browns and yellows bellow it. A sheer red void surrounds you, no ground. Sharp black shadows flickers across the compartment. The air is dry and hot and...
[14:38] IcePickLobotomy ...stagnant but carries no scent. Your lighter is missing.
[14:38] IcePickLobotomy And standing before you is. . . you.
[14:39] RobinE  (do you mind if I take both sides, Lana and Robin?)
[14:39] IcePickLobotomy (Yeah go for it. As a note, no lighter on either of them)
[14:40] RobinE  (alright)
[14:40] RobinE  (I'm going to preface Lana stuff with Lana:)
[14:40] IcePickLobotomy (Gotcha)
[14:41] RobinE  Lana: "Hey there." her tone is more up-beat, but its still familiar.
[14:42] RobinE  stands there surprise and anger on her face.
[14:43] RobinE  Lana: "We need to talk I think."
[14:43] RobinE  "I have nothing to say to you."
[14:43] IcePickLobotomy Darkness, for the briefest of moments. Red eyes star out at each-other before the light returns.
[14:44] IcePickLobotomy *stare
[14:44] RobinE  Lana: "No but I /need/ to say something to you."
[14:44] RobinE  "Why should I listen to you?" Robin sharply notes.
[14:46] RobinE  Lana: "because I care about you, about us."
[14:47] RobinE  "Don't you DARE say us!" Robin's fists clench.
[14:49] RobinE  Lana: "Robin I get it, you don't like me. I don't care.
[14:49] IcePickLobotomy "And why not? What are /you/ going to do about?" Another you steps out of the cockpit, lighter in one hand. She looks at both of you with unconcealed contempt.
[14:50] RobinE  Both of them stare at the third, awestruck.
[14:51] RobinE  "Who are you?" Robin lets out.
[14:51] RobinE  Lana: "I don't remember you."
[14:52] IcePickLobotomy "I'm the one that does what you can't" Flick, click, hiss "Too weak." Flick, click, hiss "Too /afraid/" Flick, click, hiss "Is it any wonder everyone hates you?"
[14:52] RobinE  Lana: she stands "no one hates her!"
[14:53] RobinE  "You... I don't remember."
[14:53] IcePickLobotomy She snorts "Why /would/ anyone like her? She doesn't even like herself."
[14:54] RobinE  "I... no I don't."
[14:55] RobinE  Lana: "Robin don't, she is just trying to mess with you."
[14:55] RobinE  Lana: "You can't be real! Neither of us remember you."
[14:56] IcePickLobotomy "And why would you? You don't /want/ to remember." Flick, click, hiss goes the flame. "But I do."
[14:57] RobinE  "I want to know. IT'S MY LIFE!"
[14:57] RobinE  Lana: "there you go!"
[14:57] IcePickLobotomy "And that's where you are wrong." Flick, click hiss "It's our life Robin. That's what you don't get, it's not /you/ it's /us/ ."
[15:00] RobinE  Lana: "What do you want?"
[15:00] RobinE  "Lana!?" Robin protests.
[15:00] IcePickLobotomy "I want to live. And our /friend/ Robin here is making that harder. Do you need me to spell it out for you morons?"
[15:01] RobinE  "I was trying to LEAVE active roster. What are you talking about?"
[15:01] IcePickLobotomy "And that's the problem. METI fails and we /all/ die."
[15:01] RobinE  Lana: "She isn't living if she doesn't make any friends."
[15:02] IcePickLobotomy "Do you really think some green-horn with a few weeks of training is going to do anywhere near as well as you? As /us/ ?!"
[15:02] RobinE  "SHUT UP!" Robin throws a punch.
[15:03] IcePickLobotomy Your hand impacts hers. She squeezes your trapped fist and forces you to your knees. "And what happens when the new pilot dies? There'll be a gap. One that they can use. A weakness."
[15:04] RobinE  "But I can't, I'm too afraid. It will end the same."
[15:05] RobinE  Lana: "Robin she only cares about herself not, us. Don't listen to her!"
[15:05] IcePickLobotomy "Then you might as well try. You'll be one of the first to die, so you won't suffer as much." She snorts "Yeah, which is why I'm here. This bitch dies and we're all dead, so I got a vested interest in keeping her alive."
[15:08] RobinE  starts to cry. her arms fall limp and she sits where she is.
[15:09] RobinE  Lana: "Robin I hate to say it, but she is right, a little." she coldly glares at the third girl.
[15:10] IcePickLobotomy "I don't think any of us wants to die, she isn't /that/ worthless. /yet/ . But I'm going to make you a deal Robin. You don't want to fight? Fine." Flick, click *hiss* "Let me. Wouldn't be the first time we ame to this arrangement. Not that you'd remember."
[15:10] IcePickLobotomy "That or man up yourself, but I don't think you will."
[15:11] RobinE  Lana: "Robin don't let her, she sounds crazy."
[15:11] RobinE  "AREN"T WE ALL!"
[15:12] RobinE  Lana: " Robin come on, you can do it yourself. You just need support."
[15:12] IcePickLobotomy She smiles and steps close, you can smell the smoke and ash on her "I'm exactly as you made me Robin. Because you couldn't bear that burden. Where it would have broken you it made me /strong/ . And now I offer you my strength again."
[15:15] RobinE  "Fine, but no one can know." she says, trying to wipe her tears and sound strong.
[15:15] RobinE  Lana: "Robin! No, you can't!"
[15:16] IcePickLobotomy She offers you her hand. "Oh that suits me /just/ fine." She turns to Lana "And ditzy-bitch? Try anything funny and I'll make your life /very/ difficulty."
[15:17] RobinE  Lana: "You take this to far, and I can make our lives very short." Lana says sternly.
[15:17] IcePickLobotomy "If you had the balls to do it I wouldn't be here."
[15:18] RobinE  Lana: "I don't want to do it. But if you make me, I won't let you win."
[15:18] RobinE  "STOP BARTERING WITH MY LIFE!"
[15:19] IcePickLobotomy "Oh but Robin?" Her tone is sickly sweet. "Didn't you know? It's /our/ life now."
[15:20] RobinE  reaches out to Sabrina's hand.
[15:21] RobinE  "I know." she sounds defeated.
[15:21] IcePickLobotomy She grabs it, red eyes meet crimson as you shake. "My business is down." She lets it go and moves to the door "Toodles losers." And then drops out of sight.
[15:23] IcePickLobotomy *Done
[15:24] RobinE  Lana: "hey, are you alr-"
[15:24] RobinE  "Don't talk to me."
[15:24] RobinE  Lana: "I don't like this any more than you do."
[15:26] RobinE  "I never liked it, or you."
[15:26] RobinE  Lana: she sighs, "I know, and I don't expect that to change. But you can."
[15:27] RobinE  "You would kill me if you needed to, why should I listen to you."
[15:28] RobinE  Lana: "I would kill us. Robin, whether you want it or not, me and that other girl are all part of you. I don't want to die either."
[15:29] RobinE  "Sounded like it." Robin says sarcastically.
[15:29] RobinE  Lana: "Robin its time to GROW UP! You can't run forever, and I don't think you should waste your life trying!"
[15:30] RobinE  is startled by Lana's sudden anger.
[15:31] RobinE  Lana: calms herself. "Look Robin, I get it-"
[15:31] RobinE  "no you don't."
[15:32] RobinE  Lana: Ignores her, "but you need friends, and you have some. Don't loose that."
[15:32] RobinE  "They aren't friends, didn't you hear her. No one likes me."
[15:34] RobinE  Lana: "She just wanted you to side with her. They threw a party for you! They talk to you! They Listen to your stories!"
[15:34] RobinE  "Arina hates me, and the others just tolerate me."
[15:35] RobinE  Lana: "maybe you need some time to let it sink in, or some time to collect your thoughts. They are your friends, and they are a part of your life. Like us."
[15:36] RobinE  falls silent and just sits staring at the floor.
[15:37] RobinE  Lana: "I'm sorry this all happened Robin, but your life this now. Might as well make it the best you can."
[15:37] RobinE  waves her away, fed up.
[15:38] RobinE  Lana: "Ok, ok we can be done."
[15:38] RobinE  Lana: leans back against the chopper and falls silent.
[15:38] IcePickLobotomy And you dream.
[15:38] IcePickLobotomy You dream of Starless Skies and Strange Vistas