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DR. STRANGE. ([personal profile] portalling) wrote2022-04-02 01:17 pm
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aberratic: (𝟐𝟎𝟏.)

[personal profile] aberratic 2025-03-27 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Whether she's manipulating him or not, she doesn't press for any more of a response to point three, just lets him move them right along to—well, in her opinion, it's the one he's most likely to agree with.

"Even if Isaac were here, there would be some reason not to move forward. An upcoming battle, or one of us needed on a mission, or a concern about my health, or yours—Doctor, you know better than I that ideal conditions don't exist. To put off a time-sensitive procedure with an unknown expiration date waiting for them is folly.

"That does not, of course, excuse recklessness," she allows, anticipating that particular rejoinder, "there's a difference between waiting for survivable conditions and an elusive ideal. But even in that case, Stephen—"

Ness's eyes have been focused on Stephen's this whole time, tracking his every twitch and hum to gauge how her arguments are landing. She doesn't look away, now, but her eyes soften, dropping the logical mask to let her true feelings shine through.

"Who could have a better chance of seeing me through this than you? You have knowledge of technique and science that no one else on this entire continent could even dream of, decades of experience, and a track record that speaks for itself. Yes, it would be better to have Isaac—but you are a doctor, not a healer, and of the two I will take preference for the doctor, any day."

It's hard to believe that they haven't even known each other a whole year. Stephen has become so important to her in such a short period of time—half a year, a little more than, and she's ready to put her life in his hands.
aberratic: (𝟏𝟓𝟖.)

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[personal profile] aberratic 2025-03-28 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Usually, Ness respects his recoil from earnest emotion. She doles her affection and admiration out in small doses, titrates up every so often as he develops more of a tolerance—there is no surer way to put someone off a thing than to force it on them, after all.

"Stephen."

She says his name, and stops there. She won't continue until he looks at her, and perhaps when he does he can see the exact moment that she decides to approach his desk, to lean forward and hold his hand, the way he had held hers in the library.

"I trust you. I trust your mind, and your medicine, and your hands. My skull or my arm, it makes no difference to me."
Edited (i didn't want you to think i was rejecting your subject) 2025-03-28 02:32 (UTC)
aberratic: (𝟏𝟐𝟗.)

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[personal profile] aberratic 2025-03-28 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
He says alright like he's just signed her death warrant, with such defeat it hardly even feels like a victory—but it is a victory, albeit one she won't be crowing over any time soon. Ness squeezes Stephen's hand back, then lets it go.

"Thank you," she says, sincere as ever, "for trusting me back."

There will be time for them to discuss the particulars of how they're going to accomplish this later. For now, Stephen's just agreed to something he'd prefer not to do, and Ness won't make him deal with her any more today. She gathers her notes, says her goodbyes, and leaves Stephen to contemplate what he's just signed up for.
armd: (○ doesn't sound right)

[personal profile] armd 2025-04-01 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Right.

(It makes sense. But a suggestion:) Maybe we shouldn't keep it in the infirmary while we're keeping lyrium recovery patients there too.
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[personal profile] dissolving 2025-04-01 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, [ he says, and this time it is an exit — ] Be good to Barrow, yeah?
youwonscience: (know why)

[personal profile] youwonscience 2025-04-06 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Cosima nods. "I think that might be easier, if I were in that position. Like ... relationships are weird, you have to hit the timing just right. I can imagine the world where the good feeling was still there, I still liked that person, but the stars just didn't align, you know? Not saying it wasn't wild for you."

But then again, in a very different way, with Herian's return she sort of has an idea of "person you cares about knows who you are but doesn't feel the way you'd expect them to." It's different, but close enough to make an imaginative leap.

"...on the run across the multiverse, huh?" Because that is quite the sentence to throw in as an aside.
youwonscience: (I feel you leaving)

[personal profile] youwonscience 2025-04-27 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
She takes the evasion gracefully; either they'll talk about it later, or she'll grant him the out. "It's so wild. I mean, physics isn't my area, but I knew about the possibility of the many-worlds theory. But it took me a week or two to feel fairly sure I wasn't hallucinating when I first came to Thedas. It's unreal to imagine coming through a rift when you already knew your world was just one among many."

Cosima smiles, and adds, "I don't know if this is at all consistent with your experience but like ... it was kind of weirder seeing a New York with superheroes or a Seattle overrun with zombies than getting used to Thedas. I mean, they were Fade projections, but they felt real enough for it to be unsettling. Does that make sense? I mean, don't get me wrong, it was plenty weird. But starting from whole cloth in a lot of ways was like, okay, I'm here now, let's learn the new rules. I didn't have to, like, imagine if there was a version of me in the world already who died from fungus zombies or if that world never had a me at all. And here you've straight-up met alternative yous."
armd: (hate it)

[personal profile] armd 2025-04-30 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that'd be good. (If there are politics hidden behind this decision Abby doesn't think on them — to her, it's simply a measure of being prepared for anything.

... And because she wants to complain a tiny bit, actually, she adds,)
He knocked out Clarisse.
Edited 2025-04-30 23:38 (UTC)
youwonscience: (I’ve been making mountains)

[personal profile] youwonscience 2025-05-01 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Her laugh is big, genuine as it is surprised. "Oh my god, OK, first of all, do you consider identical twins alternates of each other? Because clones are way more like twins than we are anything about alternate universe. And second of all you can't just ask people who their favorite sibling is, that's the most only-child-ass question I've ever heard."

She doesn't give him a little shove, though it seems for a moment like she might. She has also not denied having a favorite.

"I guess... I've met a bunch of them, but there are three who are really, like, part of my life on an ongoing basis. Well. I'll say four. One of them died, but I'd still count her. And like, with the asterisk that I say my life but it's you know, the Cosima back in Toronto. Since none of them are here right now. But you know what I'm trying to say." Possibly.
youwonscience: (I want to win the war)

[personal profile] youwonscience 2025-05-05 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh shit." She's aware of having stepped in it, even if it wasn't quite her fault. She's not going to press, but she does say: "...Beth. Beth was my sister who died." A little offering of sorts; she hasn't talked about Beth to many people in Thedas, and it feels as if he's earned the right to that much. "They do till count."
armd: (aw come on)

[personal profile] armd 2025-05-05 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Barrow. (Why would Lazar—)
armd: (lurking)

[personal profile] armd 2025-05-05 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
I've seen him smash through a brick wall before.
armd: (not sure)

[personal profile] armd 2025-05-05 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Are you in the middle of something else or something?

(LISTEN)

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