"I used my powers because you'd just spent the last ten minutes calling me a piece of shit and implying that it's the 'natural order' for myself and everyone I care about to die a horrible death and then disappear into the void," comes the snap back, "and I made a stupid, petty mistake that apparently made me the bloody devil in your eyes."
He looks down at his sewing because he can't even look at Trevor. But that doesn't work, doesn't make him feel any less. So he makes a decision, putting the sewing kit down, leaving it with the work, and pushes himself up, looking at Trevor now.
"You once shamed me for assuming you'd have an issue with my relationship with another man, because it would take a real piece of shit to do something like that even though" and he chuckles ruefully, "you'd made it clear that you believed in God and in my time, those two far too often go hand in hand. But I suppose an eldritch abomination doesn't get a second chance. One show of temper and I'm an abusive fuck unworthy of even the chance to apologize when we might all be dead in the next-"
And that's when the words stop, the strange feeling around Jon stops, Jon stops...
"No, they don't get-" He starts to say, hotly, flushing red and finally throwing down his own work. But the words die in his throat as he watches Jon topple to the ground.
Confused and stricken, Trevor doesn't think this is a trick. He's up and moving after a split second of astonishment, kneeling down.
"Jon." He says, urgent, checking pulse, pushing his lids back, checking eyes.
Fuck. Fuck.
Trevor sits Jon up and starts beating his chest with the flat of his hand - one, two, one, two - in a rhythm, a much older version of chest compressions.
It is most certainly not a trick, as Jon's body (because it is most certainly a body) begins to go cold. There's no response to the questions either.
There's no heartbeat under his hands.
If he looks in Jon's pockets, he'll find Jon's communicator, his personal tape recorder (which Trevor is familiar with since it's his item), and a small notebook with a ribbon.
[The next thing he can think of is maybe a heart condition? A stroke? Something that would explain a sudden drop like that.
He tries to rouse him a few more times, increasingly concerned. He messages Warren quickly but doesn't think to check Jon's pockets just yet. Instead he lays him down on the floor of the dining room, swearing to himself. There's no warden to call - should he get him to an infirmary? Wait for Warren to show?
He pats the man down, wondering if he might have been stuck with something poisonous]
[ Despite sharing a birthday with the man (or god? or god in man?), Jon does not rouse. There doesn't appear to be any darts or attacks anywhere, no open wou-
Oh. His finger slices itself off, dropping away, sluggish blood dripping from it.
A dark spot starts under his shirt, under his ribs. Or where there should be ribs and aren't. ]
[Trevor's seen a lot of shit in his time as a monster hunter, but this is...really terrifying, now that he kneels beside him, watching this shit.
He compartmentalizes that thought expertly and starts undoing Jon's shirt, using a knife to slice it open rather than try to fight arms through the armholes when a finger just fell off like Jon's got leprosy]
[ There's no disease around the finger, or around the wound. In fact, it looks like a clean slice, like a cleaver from the kitchen. Under the shirt, there's two messy, uneven wounds that have stopped bleeding, but it almost looks as if it's more to do with gravity than anything else. The hollows where his ribs haven't been for years now are black and blue.
But uncovering more of his skin shows more of his scars, so so many circular holes all over him. ]
sorry don't know why I went brackets there for a few tags.
At least whatever's killed him got him quick rather than let him suffer through this while living. Trevor knows of some of the Fears - not all - and figures this might be them at work at the body. Or maybe if whatever's tying Jon to the ship is dying also.
He grabs his cape and wraps the body in it to prevent blood from escaping and staining the floor, freeing up Jon's item, the communicator, and the diary, figuring he might need to safeguard some effects. Especially when the last time Jon was incapacitated, someone needed to look after Daniel.
This is such a shitshow, he thinks.
"Couldn't have picked a worse time, could you?" He asks, quiet in the face of this very sudden, strange death. "Fucksake, Jon. You'd better come back so we can finish screaming at each other."
The voice slips out from the bundle, and Trevor will watch any stains, any blood, slowly seeping out of the fabric and unstaining as the bundle starts to shift a little, wobbling and unstable.
Trevor will get a choked whimper, Jon still woozy, his finger still bloody but apparently reattached. His shirt is still in tatters, but while the blood is still there, the wounds are not. The scars, however, remain.
He drops back for the moment, but doesn't seem to be attacking. Instead, he'll grab at his throat because fucking ouch. When he can think, he'll hold up a hand in the silent, universal request for 'please stop hitting me'.
"Shit! Shit shit shit." He swear-chants, apologetic as he starts peeling away his cape at the top to stare Jon full in the face. "Sorry! Fucking - never seen a man do that yet."
"Jon, what the fuck. You just - are you death-tolling?!"
The noise of confused 'I don't know' that comes out of Jon is almost drowned out by the door opening and Warren... pausing in the doorway with a raised eyebrow.
"...soooooo not dead?"
Depending on where Trevor is looking, he might see Jon shake his head emphatically... and then wobble a hand. He might not. Warren, on the other hand, is holding out a hand as if to say '...shooooould I stick around or you got this?'
Far too long with Douglas Eiffel has his 'farce' detector going off, but he's not going to assume.
"That I can do. I know it threw me for a bit of a loop on my way up here? And he's definitely been at this longer. Want me to ping Jacobi to come up and help?"
Warren will grunt as he nods, and give a thumbs up before departing, closing the door after him.
Jon, who'd been watching the whole time, finally lets out a cough he'd been feeling as he tries to swallow and get out a word. It's clear he's... a little wobbly.
"Not... sure. I- feel? Like I died again?"
He wobbles and doesn't even try to do anything but stay sitting up.
"Not... like here. Like- like when I was in the coma. Back at home."
He blinks a little like an owl before looking down at his clothing and then over at Trevor.
He almost shakes his head... but he decides that's a bad idea as he wobbles. And swallows, hard, around what is an uncomfortable hunger that's started gnawing.
"I just- I don't know what happened. And I don't- I-" he swallows a little harder, and this is more about something else, "I know we're, um, in the midst of something. But that's-"
He feels the wave of hunger and dizziness and forces himself to keep his eyes open. And not... do what he shouldn't.
"I'm sorry." The words are difficult, not because he doesn't mean them. Because he does. "It was shitty and I'm sorry and you- you deserve to know that you deserved better w-whatever comes."
"No, I'm-" there's a flicker of a glance at Trevor, but he swallows instead of finishing his sentence.
"I'm- whatever happened, it... felt like when I... like when I died. Waking up from the coma." Hungry, like when he'd woken up from the coma.
"I'll- I'm... sure I'll be fine. I just-" He breathes in and out a few times and makes sure not to look at Trevor. He doesn't trust himself. "I should- I might want to go back to my rooms. J-just in case."
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He looks down at his sewing because he can't even look at Trevor. But that doesn't work, doesn't make him feel any less. So he makes a decision, putting the sewing kit down, leaving it with the work, and pushes himself up, looking at Trevor now.
"You once shamed me for assuming you'd have an issue with my relationship with another man, because it would take a real piece of shit to do something like that even though" and he chuckles ruefully, "you'd made it clear that you believed in God and in my time, those two far too often go hand in hand. But I suppose an eldritch abomination doesn't get a second chance. One show of temper and I'm an abusive fuck unworthy of even the chance to apologize when we might all be dead in the next-"
And that's when the words stop, the strange feeling around Jon stops, Jon stops...
To topple over. Dead.
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Confused and stricken, Trevor doesn't think this is a trick. He's up and moving after a split second of astonishment, kneeling down.
"Jon." He says, urgent, checking pulse, pushing his lids back, checking eyes.
Fuck. Fuck.
Trevor sits Jon up and starts beating his chest with the flat of his hand - one, two, one, two - in a rhythm, a much older version of chest compressions.
"Jon!"
What the fuck just happened?
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There's no heartbeat under his hands.
If he looks in Jon's pockets, he'll find Jon's communicator, his personal tape recorder (which Trevor is familiar with since it's his item), and a small notebook with a ribbon.
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He tries to rouse him a few more times, increasingly concerned. He messages Warren quickly but doesn't think to check Jon's pockets just yet. Instead he lays him down on the floor of the dining room, swearing to himself. There's no warden to call - should he get him to an infirmary? Wait for Warren to show?
He pats the man down, wondering if he might have been stuck with something poisonous]
Fucking christ, Jon.
cw finger harm, blood
Oh. His finger slices itself off, dropping away, sluggish blood dripping from it.
A dark spot starts under his shirt, under his ribs. Or where there should be ribs and aren't. ]
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He compartmentalizes that thought expertly and starts undoing Jon's shirt, using a knife to slice it open rather than try to fight arms through the armholes when a finger just fell off like Jon's got leprosy]
cw body horror, blood
But uncovering more of his skin shows more of his scars, so so many circular holes all over him. ]
sorry don't know why I went brackets there for a few tags.
At least whatever's killed him got him quick rather than let him suffer through this while living. Trevor knows of some of the Fears - not all - and figures this might be them at work at the body. Or maybe if whatever's tying Jon to the ship is dying also.
He grabs his cape and wraps the body in it to prevent blood from escaping and staining the floor, freeing up Jon's item, the communicator, and the diary, figuring he might need to safeguard some effects. Especially when the last time Jon was incapacitated, someone needed to look after Daniel.
This is such a shitshow, he thinks.
"Couldn't have picked a worse time, could you?" He asks, quiet in the face of this very sudden, strange death. "Fucksake, Jon. You'd better come back so we can finish screaming at each other."
no worries!
The voice slips out from the bundle, and Trevor will watch any stains, any blood, slowly seeping out of the fabric and unstaining as the bundle starts to shift a little, wobbling and unstable.
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Re: no worries!
He drops back for the moment, but doesn't seem to be attacking. Instead, he'll grab at his throat because fucking ouch. When he can think, he'll hold up a hand in the silent, universal request for 'please stop hitting me'.
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"Jon, what the fuck. You just - are you death-tolling?!"
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"...soooooo not dead?"
Depending on where Trevor is looking, he might see Jon shake his head emphatically... and then wobble a hand. He might not. Warren, on the other hand, is holding out a hand as if to say '...shooooould I stick around or you got this?'
Far too long with Douglas Eiffel has his 'farce' detector going off, but he's not going to assume.
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"I guess we've got this."
He says, sitting on the floor after this actual death experience.
"Sorry, Warren. Thanks. Here, can you check on Lark for me? If this shit happened to Jon, I want someone looking in on him for me."
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"That I can do. I know it threw me for a bit of a loop on my way up here? And he's definitely been at this longer. Want me to ping Jacobi to come up and help?"
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"Couldn't hurt. I want to get Jon to the infirmary."
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Jon, who'd been watching the whole time, finally lets out a cough he'd been feeling as he tries to swallow and get out a word. It's clear he's... a little wobbly.
"Not... sure. I- feel? Like I died again?"
He wobbles and doesn't even try to do anything but stay sitting up.
"Not... like here. Like- like when I was in the coma. Back at home."
He blinks a little like an owl before looking down at his clothing and then over at Trevor.
"...what happened to my shirt?"
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"Sorry. That was me - I thought you had been stabbed or something."
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"Quite all right. I have been stabbed many times but... Not today."
He wobbles and swallows and tries to think.
Then looks up and over.
"You're all right, though? Nothing- nothing struck you?"
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..Nearly anyone. Jon is not one of those people.
He rubs his shoulderblades, exhaling.
"No. Should it have?"
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"I just- I don't know what happened. And I don't- I-" he swallows a little harder, and this is more about something else, "I know we're, um, in the midst of something. But that's-"
He feels the wave of hunger and dizziness and forces himself to keep his eyes open. And not... do what he shouldn't.
"I'm sorry." The words are difficult, not because he doesn't mean them. Because he does. "It was shitty and I'm sorry and you- you deserve to know that you deserved better w-whatever comes."
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"Hey. It's fine. I'm fine." He murmurs back. "I know I can be a really stubborn ass about things. Sorry."
Trevor blinks, eyeing Jon, seeing his sick expression.
"Are you sure you're not death-tolling?"
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"No, I'm-" there's a flicker of a glance at Trevor, but he swallows instead of finishing his sentence.
"I'm- whatever happened, it... felt like when I... like when I died. Waking up from the coma." Hungry, like when he'd woken up from the coma.
"I'll- I'm... sure I'll be fine. I just-" He breathes in and out a few times and makes sure not to look at Trevor. He doesn't trust himself. "I should- I might want to go back to my rooms. J-just in case."
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"How about I give you something to take home, for the road?" A bit of a pick-me-up horror novella.
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He would really like to be halfway decent at lying one of these days. Just... once. Just once.
"You don't have to. I know you have other things that need your- your focus."
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