Daniel Evans
Traveller
[TI0]
Name: Daniel Evans
Race: Human
Occupation: Ex-Cerberus Combat Engineer
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Post by Daniel Evans on May 21, 2015 17:11:39 GMT
He swung his legs off the side of the bed to sit there on the edge. Blank eyes peer towards the ground as he waited for his heart to stop freaking out, the hard thumping in his chest felt like a shot of emotional pain hitting him again and again. Daniel's body lightly perked up feeling the presence behind him starting to move, he tried his best not to wake her, the soldier didn't want the alien to see him like this. The human's body had a light tremble, his chest rising and falling sharply with each breath, to him it felt like anyone in close distance could hear his heart race. Feeling her body make contact with him Daniel's trembling starts to cease. Her comfort was like water hitting a out of control fire, he let out a audible shaky sigh as he took in a few deep breaths. This wasn't the time nor place to breakdown, if they win this war he'll have all the time in the world to cry, to be angry, to beat himself up for what happened. Even still he wasn't strong enough to keep those emotions in as he felt like openly sobbing right there. His breath hitched once or twice before he placed his own hands onto her grip, feeling her close by and caring for his state of mind was a little help. The wound on his conscience is too big to fix with a few words, but any little bit helped. "Y-you could say that." He muttered out softly before lightly closing his eyes. The man pondered her last words, it was something he never talked about to anyone. Always keeping it buried as it festered in his mind like a virus killing him on the inside. "It's a...hefty topic." He warns her, Daniel didn't want to bog her down with his sob story, we all have baggage like that, no need to force someone else to help you carry it.
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Calistaris
Adventurer
[TI1]
Name: Calistaris Ardelion
Race: Turian
Occupation: Shadow Broker Wet Worker
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Post by Calistaris on May 24, 2015 17:50:15 GMT
Cali let out a little yawn and dug herself down on his shoulder, still half asleep. Her arms pulled him in close and her talons scratched at his chest. "Whatever makes you feel better." She whispered in the darkness of the room. It was very obvious she was still half asleep, yet there was some sort of sincerity in her voice.
Her Omni-tool made silent alerts, blinking on and off repeatedly. She was still too tried to worry much about it.
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Daniel Evans
Traveller
[TI0]
Name: Daniel Evans
Race: Human
Occupation: Ex-Cerberus Combat Engineer
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Post by Daniel Evans on May 24, 2015 22:29:09 GMT
A moment passed allowing the human to gather his thoughts, his body relaxes and surrenders to her talons letting then scratch against his flesh. Opening his eyes Daniel softly spoke up, the tone of his voice light and cold. "Have you ever had to kill someone that you loved?" He asked her as Daniel just stares off into the darkness. After that he fell silent to await a response, more or less he just needed to get his thoughts out into the air. Not like it will solve anything but he would do anything to relieve his mind of such torment. Noticing the blinking notifications of her omni-tool he takes a glance down towards it.
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Calistaris
Adventurer
[TI1]
Name: Calistaris Ardelion
Race: Turian
Occupation: Shadow Broker Wet Worker
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Post by Calistaris on May 25, 2015 1:49:48 GMT
She paused as she thought of a response. "... No, but I did have to leave one behind as he went up in an atomic explosion." She admitted, her hands making their way down to his stomach where they rubbed in circles. Her Omni-tool never opened, so the alerts couldn't be read. But they persisted. New articles, maybe, reports, possibly even a message. However none of the info could be read without her opening the Omni-tool, which she didn't seem too keen on doing about now. "I'm assuming you had to?" She asked, having woken up a little from the surprise and severity of the question.
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Daniel Evans
Traveller
[TI0]
Name: Daniel Evans
Race: Human
Occupation: Ex-Cerberus Combat Engineer
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Post by Daniel Evans on May 25, 2015 2:15:53 GMT
As her hands trail down his body Daniel lightly sucked in his gut feeling her hands grace along his stomach. It didn't take him long to relax and out his held breath, the alien's unique touch eased some of the pent up emotional distress. The soldier went silent for a moment hearing what she had to go through, he couldn't imagine having to leave someone behind to die, well that would be hypocritical to say, Daniel has left his fair share of others behind, but you can't save everyone. "Yes...at the start of the war I..." Daniel fell silent as his words trickled to a halt, he found himself thinking back to what happened, the memory was so vivid like he would never forget. "Have you seen what Cerberus has done to their soldiers, the so called improvements made to them?" He spoke back up after his pause.
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Calistaris
Adventurer
[TI1]
Name: Calistaris Ardelion
Race: Turian
Occupation: Shadow Broker Wet Worker
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Post by Calistaris on May 25, 2015 2:34:59 GMT
She nodded slowly, hands now resting on his thighs. "It's not just Reaper forces we've been fighting out here. Cerberus, Geth, hell I've heard of some locations being attacked by Collectors. True or not, it's a rather scary thought." She explained, starting to stare off into the darkness as well. "It's wrong. Enslaving them as they do. It's no better than what the Reapers are doing to use; our friends and family. Like sucking the spirit right out of someone, just for a slightly sharper edge." She whispered, closing her eyes as she thought back. "Could be worse. Could all be clones, genetically made just be soldiers. I've seen enough of those to know I don't like 'em."
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Daniel Evans
Traveller
[TI0]
Name: Daniel Evans
Race: Human
Occupation: Ex-Cerberus Combat Engineer
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Post by Daniel Evans on May 25, 2015 2:55:40 GMT
"I remember when they started the upgrading process, a few soldiers here and there would be called up to get 'modifications' and then they come back..different." He explains thinking back. "It was strange..they had a personality but it wasn't like what they had before, they could talk and carry on conversations with each other but...it wasn't right." It was hard to describe how the upgraded Cerberus forces were like, it seemed like certain emotions and attributes to their personality was ripped away, only the will to serve Cerberus and to fight was left. "I won't ever forget seeing their faces for the first time, a guy I knew, well I didn't know him too personally he was just one of the secondary squads funny guys, always had a smile on his face, always eager to make others laugh, I was in the locker room when he came back from getting...improved...he seemed normal, I thought nothing of it until he turned around to face me." Daniel went quiet for a moment, the mental image of the soldier's face sent a chill down his spine. "He looked like a husk...the sight almost made me sick." He shook his head lightly trying to forget. "Fucker still had that smile though, even Cerberus couldn't get rid of that." The human lightly half smiled but it quickly vanished. "Soon everyone I knew was changed, then they called me up for my procedure...I couldn't do it, I knew something was wrong and fucked up about the whole thing so I ran." That part he didn't regret, it was what happened during his escape that really weighs him down. "There was this...woman and...I had to kill her." He fumbles lightly over his words as he explains this to the Turian.
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Calistaris
Adventurer
[TI1]
Name: Calistaris Ardelion
Race: Turian
Occupation: Shadow Broker Wet Worker
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Post by Calistaris on May 25, 2015 3:19:51 GMT
Cal listened, then tightened her grip on his as he got to the end. "Shh, shh... No need to continue if you don't want to." She whispered, nudging the side of his face like she did with his forehead earlier. "I understand." She continued, lying down and tugging on him to join her. If he so accepted, she'd rap one arm around his chest and grip onto his shoulder. "C'mon. Few more hours rest, then we'll start off the day." She suggested, already closing her eyes to sleep.
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Daniel Evans
Traveller
[TI0]
Name: Daniel Evans
Race: Human
Occupation: Ex-Cerberus Combat Engineer
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Post by Daniel Evans on May 25, 2015 3:41:12 GMT
His last words vanished into the darkness as she nudged him, now shouldn't be the time to bring up the past. It should be a moment of comfort and rest. Falling silent Daniel nudged up against her before accepting her embrace. Falling into bed with her he brought his legs back up under the covers as he brings one arm to rest on her hip. The two were once more close, sharing warmth and comfort. Daniel's face was close to hers as he lightly brought their foreheads together. "Yeah...of course ma'am." He whispers quietly to her. The soldier's other hand reaches up to lightly cup her cheek, a thumb reached over to run along her mandible going back and forth slowly.
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Calistaris
Adventurer
[TI1]
Name: Calistaris Ardelion
Race: Turian
Occupation: Shadow Broker Wet Worker
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Post by Calistaris on May 25, 2015 3:58:37 GMT
She couldn't help but smile at his interest in her mandibles, finding it funny how he's touched them constantly now. "Y'know, some Turian tribes see that as a marriage proposal." She whispered. It wasn't true of course, but she wanted to play with him, feeling his strangely flesh body against hers. "Gotta admit to you though, sleeping next to something that doesn't have a hard shell? ... It's kinda nice." She complimented, her free hand feeling his chest once more.
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Daniel Evans
Traveller
[TI0]
Name: Daniel Evans
Race: Human
Occupation: Ex-Cerberus Combat Engineer
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Post by Daniel Evans on May 25, 2015 4:07:50 GMT
Lucky for him it was dark so the alien couldn't see his sudden red face, it response he slightly pulled his hand away in embarrassment but slowly put it back letting the thumb go back to running along her mandible. "Is that so..?" He was trying to hide the embarrassment in his voice by trying to seem confident and cool headed, it kinda worked at least he thought it was working. The hand that was on Cali's hip moves up to cup her other cheek, now both mandibles were receiving attention. "Well you know...feeling up a guy's chest is sorta considered foreplay in human terms." He tries to play with her as well in response to her words.
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Calistaris
Adventurer
[TI1]
Name: Calistaris Ardelion
Race: Turian
Occupation: Shadow Broker Wet Worker
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Post by Calistaris on May 25, 2015 4:58:45 GMT
Cali smiled as her companion played along. "Oh really now?" She whispered, the hand creeping around to his lower back where her talons began clawing at him. "So this is our honeymoon then?" She continued to tease. Cali still wasn't used to the fleshy skin against her naturally hard shell, but she liked it all the same. "No point in not getting to the fun part."
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Hours passed before Cali finally awoke. Her Omni-tool had been constantly going off now. There was no reason not to check it now. She opened the device and looked down at the reports. Most of the older ones were still about the event on Tuchanka, But as she continued reading the newer ones, Cali's heart dropped to her stomach. Moments passed before she finally reacted, tossing on her make-shift armor. She then scrambled into the main hall.
"All hands on deck! We have multiple reports of large Reaper forces approaching! This is not a drill, I repeat, this is not a drill! I want every able bodied individual with a gun stat! I want the Kodiak to be found and repaired ASAP, we are under attack, let's move!" She ordered, grabbing herself a rifle.
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Daniel Evans
Traveller
[TI0]
Name: Daniel Evans
Race: Human
Occupation: Ex-Cerberus Combat Engineer
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Post by Daniel Evans on May 25, 2015 5:16:46 GMT
Daniel's heart beats hard inside his chest as he stared at her. "Guess not..you lead I follow." He tells her before letting the two have their moment together.
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Laying curled up by her side the soldier slept softly getting some much needed and better rest. His chest rises and falls lightly with each breath, feeling the Turian get out of bed and scramble the man stirs awake lightly. Running a hand over his face his eyes shoot around, before he could say a word he just catches a glimpse of Cali rushing out of the room. Sitting up Daniel could hear her words echo through the halls, then he finally realized what was going on. "Shit.." He curses under his breath before rolling out of the bunk and onto the floor with a thump. The man scrambles to grab his clothing and gear. Sliding on the jacket and pulling up his pants he stuffs his weapon onto his side before tripping out into the hallway. "H-hey wait up!" He calls out finally getting his balance.
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Calistaris
Adventurer
[TI1]
Name: Calistaris Ardelion
Race: Turian
Occupation: Shadow Broker Wet Worker
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Post by Calistaris on May 26, 2015 0:30:29 GMT
Cali was far too busy to wait, already handing out rifles and pistols and anything else that could even remotely be used as a weapon. She did see Daniel however, still handing out the weaponry. "Daniel, how long until you can get the Kodiak here, then how long until you can repair it?" She asked. It all seemed rushed and formal, like last nights events hadn't happened. "And how much supplies do you have on it, and what kinds? We need guns, ammo, medi-gel. Just about everything honestly, and we need it n-" Cali was about to finish until a loud slam and rumbling cut her off. The impact was hard enough to cause an earthquake where they were, but it still seemed a good distance away.
"Everyone, duck and cover!" She commanded, grabbing Daniel and yanking him under a lunch table. The tremors eventually stopped, but Cali remained cautious. "No one make any loud noises..." She whispered, certain a Reaper just touched down. Certainly a being like that could just scan for any organic life, but she still hoped it would pass.
About 10 minutes of complete silence and what sounded like loud stomping away from their position later, she got up and looked around. "Everyone alright?"
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Daniel Evans
Traveller
[TI0]
Name: Daniel Evans
Race: Human
Occupation: Ex-Cerberus Combat Engineer
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Post by Daniel Evans on May 26, 2015 0:55:54 GMT
Running up to the Turian Daniel stares at her as he was bombarded with questions, he opened his mouth to speak but was cut off as she kept talking. When the loud slam broke through the already chaotic atmosphere the engineer shoots a look towards the ground as everything started to shake. Almost losing his balance he found himself already being grabbed by Cali and thrown under a table. Hitting the floor with a loud grunt his arms reached to grip onto her as the shaking stopped. His eyes glancing around as everyone fell silent, he even found himself holding his breath trying to keep as quiet as a mouse. That 10 minutes might has well been a year, fear sparked through his body like lightning and he couldn't do anything about it, only just lay there and hope that death didn't come swooping in.
Daniel closed his eyes and tried to zone everything out as they waited as his hands gripped onto Cali tightly. When any close call like this happens he always thinks about what if this is it, that his luck ran out and this would be the moment he dies. Opening his eyes he looks around at the scared occupants of the room before looking back at the Turian. Maybe death wouldn't be that bad, certainly he wouldn't have to fight in this war anymore. When she stood up it broke the thought from his mind before he slowly sat up. "I'll live.." He breathed out almost breathless.
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