cfuw 142: limbo.

[cfuw_shepherd]

[you are locked in a small room underground with no air conditioning and several TVs with video feeds to the game.

enjoy.]

Comments

[captainkink]

Yeah, it was... something.

[trickor]

[runs his hands over his arms]

I've seen you shirtless. There are no scars to indicate such trauma.

[captainkink]

Like I said, it was ... somewhere else. I don't know.

[trickor]

And this time, you...

[trickor]

You were concerned something similar may happen once more. Why didn't you tell me?

[captainkink]

And how was I supposed to do that? "Hey Loki, I've done this before and I had my arm ripped out it wasn't fun".

[trickor]

That would have worked, yes.

You'd not have had to bear the burden of anticipating that on your own, then.

[captainkink]

It was my phaser.

[trickor]

It could just as easily have been my knives and that would have been much more difficult to explain away.

[captainkink]

Fuck, I just--I don't know what I did wrong.

[trickor]

Nothing. You did nothing wrong, Captain, but to perhaps insist too strongly of our innocence. But we are innocent, and there is nothing else we could have done. If you'd not spoken the way you did, it is possible they'd have thought us less guilty, but it is also just as likely they'd have thought us guilty for it.

You did well, Captain. I apologize for not having been of more help.

[captainkink]

I screwed you over.

[trickor]

You didn't.

[captainkink]

Loki...

[trickor]

You didn't. You did the best you could, Captain, and there's nothing else I could have asked of you. But for our pride, we are the neither of us hurt.

[captainkink]

... Yeah.

[trickor]

So do stop blaming yourself for that which is not your fault.

[captainkink]

Okay, yeah.

[trickor]

...Are you all right?

[captainkink]

Yeah, I'm fine. I don't like losing.

[trickor]

Neither of us do.

[captainkink]

True.

[trickor]

There is no consequence, though, not this time. We will find a way to win, should we again find ourselves in this situation.

[captainkink]

... Okay.

[trickor]

Better?