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Daycycle 122 [ January 15 - January 21]

daycycle 122

[Jan 15 - Jan 21]

[OOC Plotting for this Dacycle can be found here.]

Early, Early Morning [0200 - 0400]
At approximately 0200, several explosive devices planted in Technical Services by PURGE will detonate, damaging several memobanks. In a rush to prepare for the morning upload several Technicians will mistakenly put the wrong memories in the wrong banks. They will catch their mistake before the final upload, but as a result several memories will now be shared across different alpha citizens' consciousnesses. These memories will be experienced as dreams and characters will retain knowledge of them when they wake.

Memory Swap Pairs

Adam Parrish - Derek Hale
Zatanna Zatara - Oliver Queen
Steve Rogers - Ronan Lynch
Katniss Everdeen - Matt Murdock
Morgana LeFey - Tony Stark
Clint Barton - Allison Argent
Isabelle Lightwood - Lydia Martin
Buffy Summers - Barry Allen
Emma Swan - Parker
Cisco Ramon - Gracie Cannell
Natasha Romanoff - Jack Harkness
Primrose Everdeen - Alcide Herveaux

Room 1101 will be woken up at 1200 when a squadron of Internal Security Gray Ops come to arrest Bucky Barnes for treason. He will be led away at gun point and his roommates, Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish and Oliver Queen will be immediately taken into IntSec for questioning. They will be questioned about the activities of their former roommate for several hours before being sedated and returned to their room before 0500. Bucky's roommates will not remember his arrest or their questioning when they wake, though they may feel the lingering active effects of the sedative for several hours into their day.

The memory of Bucky Barnes having ever been present in Alpha will be erased with varying degrees of success from all those he came into contact with.

Early Morning [0800 - 0900] — All Troubleshooters Report for Duty

No Specials will be selected for a mission today.

Morning & Afternoon [0900 - 1600] — Service Firm Positions
All Troubleshooters not assigned a mission should report to their Service Firm for their daily duties.

At 0900 it will be discovered that the shooter from Steve Roger's assassination attempt has, ironically, been assassinated along with her guards in Armed Forces the night before. The letters mod will be left written in the shooter's blood along her cell wall.

Evening [1600 - 2200] — Citizen Improvement
All Alpha citizens are encouraged to better themselves through Alpha’s wide variety of educational, entertainment and cultural opportunities offered each evening. Attending these sanctioned events are not mandatory, but is highly encouraged by The Computer. Citizens choosing not to take advantage of these opportunities, have a growing number of other options available to them in how to spend their hard earned credits and free time.

Tonight’s event will be at 1900 in the Commissary and will be overseen by Clint Barton. Izzy Lightwood from Medical Services has been assigned to assist him in giving a demonstration on basic first aid and wound care.

Alpha Curfew Restrictions
All Alpha citizens should be in their quarters within the Wagon Wheel by 2200, unless they’ve been given permission from a GREEN or higher clearance level citizen. Sleeping Aid gas is dispelled each night in the Wagon Wheel at 2200 to assist citizens in getting a productive sleeping period.

Confession Booths
There are hundreds of confession booths available around Alpha Complex if a citizen would like to communicate directly with the computer. Please use these confession booths to report mission statuses, report treason or terrorist acts, unregistered mutants, confess your trespasses against Alpha Complex, request propaganda or speak with Your Friend, The Computer, at any time.

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morning

Without the distraction of trying to calm Katniss and remind her that everything is fine, Derek has entirely too much time to think about last night. His dreams were more vivid than they have been since his arrival here. He's fairly certain that Ronan, for whatever reason, played a pretty big role, but the rest is really confusing. It's hard for Derek to identify with the images in his head, but they're so real that he feels like he experienced them himself when he knows that he didn't.

He's sitting alone at the end of a table in the Commissary choking down soylent while he's trying to work it out. Were those stories that Isaac had told him about the way things were back home and Derek's subconscious is pulling them out of nowhere all of a sudden and filling in blanks however it can? Is Ronan supposed to be Jackson in this scenario? Was the fight his subconscious mind's way of making sense of the kanima mauling Mr. Lahey to death?

If that's the case, why did he/Isaac-with-the-wrong-face — surely another Alpha he's seen around in passing standing in because dreams are ridiculous — live in a trailer when Derek knows Isaac lived in a house? Why the hell was Ronan/Jackson laying on a bed with him/wrong!Isaac? Derek knows that Jackson watched Mr. Lahey beat the shit out of Isaac for years and did nothing. There's no explanation for the quiet companionship in the dream. Is there a significance to the Transformer that Derek missed because he's always thought dream interpretation is a load of horseshit?

And most importantly, why does Derek feel like he lived it, rather than like he dreamed it?

afternoon

For most of the day, Derek is working on his final reports for the research study. He goes to his troubleshooting station, cranks out the few assessments he has for the day and then, giving Katniss a quick kiss before leaving, gets permission to work independently.

Half the afternoon, he's in the Commissary with paperwork on one side of him and food on the other, and the other half, he's in his and Alcide's room. This stupid report is incredibly important. So much so that that fleeting kiss to Katniss — a domestic, relationshippy sort of gesture they'd never shared which, therefore, shouldn't have felt as reflexive as it had — is sort of the last thing on his mind at the moment, even though it really, really shouldn't be.

citizen improvement

While Derek doesn't typically have any interest in whatever stupid activity is set up for Citizen Improvement, now and again, something will grab his attention. Seeing as how he's stuck in this entirely too breakable human body for now, he decides that learning basic first aid is not actually a bad idea. So, after he finishes up the last of his reports for the research study to turn into The Computer in the morning, he heads down a little late.

Largely, Derek hangs back and listens. He nearly never makes a real effort to participate in anything offered by The Computer and this is not exactly an exception, but where needed, he'll be a little less stubborn and join in. All anyone really needs to do is ask.

After a long day of trying to put his head back together, he's admittedly much more focused on this particular activity than he ever seems to be with anything else. Mostly, it's because he just needs a goddamn rest from over-thinking his dreams last night, so something like this comes as a welcomed respite.

When Adam wakes, it's with a strangers face still prominently displayed in his mind's eye. When he wakes, his heart is racing and he isn't sure why. Adam used to have dreams, sometimes still does, that made his heart race. This, even though he has no idea how the half-monster half-man got in his subconsciousness, has done the same. It's an unnerving feeling, a feeling that implies that someone has been in his head, poking around where Adam doesn't like for people to see.

Adam knows that face because he pays attention. He's a professional people watcher. He's also very good at going unnoticed while he watches people, learns their behaviors, knows their names and routines before they even know he exists. That's why when Adam enters the commissary that morning and he sees that very face sitting at a table eating breakfast, he marches right over to the table and sits down across from him. Normally, Adam might not be so bold, but he's just unnerved enough by his dreams to throw everything off-kilter.

The bruises on Adam's face have dulled to a barely visible yellow, sickening looking, but almost healed. He's slim and is best described as a sepia photograph, all except his brilliant blue eyes, the eyes of a nineteen year old who was forced to grow up way before he should have had to. They're the eyes of an old soul in a young, beat up body. Those eyes stare at the stranger across from him for a few moments before he leans in and whispers accusingly.

"What did you do to me?" The moment the question is asked, Adam averts his gaze. He's never been able to hold eye contact for very long for all the wrong reasons - beginning and ending with his father.

Edited 2017-01-16 19:47 (UTC)

With his abilities in tact, he would've smelled and heard the other man approaching well before he actually got there, but as it stands, Derek is oblivious to the presence until he actually sits, and even then, Derek is so lost in his thoughts as he pushes his soylent absently around the plate that it doesn't occur to him that whoever it is has sat down there for a reason that has more to it than the seat happens to be empty.

It's when the other man leans in and Derek catches the movement out of his periphery that he finally looks and he frowns with incredulity for a second at the question, opening his mouth to respond nastily at an unfounded accusation from a complete goddamn stranger when it clicks. Wrong!Isaac.

Derek does a double take and drops his fork. "It's you," he blurts out. "Who are you?"

It occurs to him a second later that the question makes a little bit more sense now. Not much, but enough to merit an answer. "I didn't do anything to you, what are you—do I know you? I..." he pauses. "Is your name Adam? Is that your name? Adam?" he asks, trying to put the pieces together aloud as they come to him.

Who is he? Who is this guy? Derek, he thinks his name was? Adam suddenly thinks his assumptions about the man in his dreams doing something to him to make those vivid dreams happen might be totally and completely off the mark. He'd been so unnerved though, waking up and feeling like he was the monster in his dreams, that he hadn't really thought about it. Knowing how strange things happen in this place, he'd jumped to conclusions.

Usually Adam is a very quiet and thoughtful person. Now he's sitting here with a stranger, staring intently at the top of the table while trying to rethink everything. If Derek didn't make him have those dreams, dreams where he felt like he lived everything the star went through, then how? Who? And Why?

He shakes his head and mutters an apology as he starts to get up from the seat across from Derek. Then Derek says his name and blue eyes snap back up to him as he sits back down. He looks at Derek briefly before looking sideways, away again and nods. "How do you know my name? How do I know you're Derek. You were in my dreams last night. Your... your face changed. You were..."

A monster? What? He has no idea what to call what he saw. "I don't know you." But he does now, doesn't he? In a sense... if the dreams were true. And if he dreamed Derek's life, did Derek dream his? His features fall and he whispers two words. "Oh no."

When the other man starts to get up, Derek's body jerks like he's going to follow him, but at the name, the other man sits back down and looks back at him. So that's a yes, Derek thinks, even before Adam responds. ...and that means it wasn't just a random dream with Derek's subconscious piecing together things from here and things from home to try to make sense of them. There's something more to it.

Derek tenses and takes in a sharp breath when Adam starts to mention his face in his dreams last night; jaw sets when he's nearly positive he knows the end of the sentence Adam doesn't let himself finish. "Not all predators are killers," he says quietly, frowning, and then a moment later, tacks on, "and I'm not a monster." Not anymore, anyway.

But now he realizes what's going on. Adam knows more about Derek than he should and Derek knows more about Adam than he should. Strangers forced to get to know one another without the other's permission; fed information they shouldn't have through their dreams.

"I dreamed about you last night, too. I thought it was something else; someone else." He's quiet for a moment. "I won't tell anybody about you if you don't tell anybody about me?" His eyes shift up from the table and the slop on his tray in front of him to the man across the table. "And I won't ask questions if you won't." Because it's none of his business what went on in Adam's life before this place and it sure as hell isn't any of Adam's business what went on in Derek's, they just didn't really have a choice in the matter.

Edited 2017-01-18 18:31 (UTC)

Predators are always killers if given the right prey. It's just a matter of time. Adam has been prey too much in his life to believe what Derek just told him. To Adam it's almost laughable, except that Adam isn't the sort of boy who laughs all that often. He isn't the sort of boy to even smile all that often, or to let himself be happy. What's given can be taken away, even emotions.

What he saw in his dreams looked like a monster. There were flashes of images without any context to Derek's story, or to any story really, just images, disjointed and unclear. It was violent and bloody and also kind of sad. Derek was chained up a lot. Restrained. Why restrain someone who isn't dangerous?

"No one has their... whatever powers they had here." Meaning, that's why Derek isn't dangerous right now, at least to Adam. And even then, the anger he'd seen in Derek's eyes in those flashes in some places, Derek could probably still be dangerous. Adam's predator was a human, after all. Nothing spectacular about Robert Parrish.

The knowledge that Derek saw any of Adam's horrible messed up life back home, the knowledge that Derek knows how weak Adam has been and sometimes still is, it's upsetting. Especially if Derek is as scary as Adam saw. He nods at Derek and stands up again. "Deal." Best to just back slowly away and pretend it didn't happen. "I'm good at keeping secrets. Just don't come after me an Ronan. That's all." Because if that happens, all bets are off. Everyone will know about it. Adam will scream it from the mountaintops, so to speak. Self-preservation at its finest. That's one thing Adam is good at, self-preservation.

Derek frowns. "They're not powers, they're who I am. They're what I am," he says. Humans just don't get it, he thinks, and maybe that's fine, but he's already feeling vulnerable knowing that Adam's seen things he shouldn't have, and yet Derek hasn't the option of knowing which things he's seen. Clearly, the werewolf, but Derek's always been more comfortable in that form than in the fake human one he had to maintain to stay alive. That doesn't surprise him.

"What they took from me was what makes me who I am. It'd be like if they turned you into a monkey. That's what they did to me, they made me a weaker version of myself who can't protect himself or anyone he cares about, it's not just about power. It hasn't been for a long time."

Why that word in specific gets under Derek's skin is pretty specific to the fact that he'd been briefly an Alpha for all the wrong reasons, fucked it up and cost people their lives, and learned the hard way that it wasn't power that he wanted and it isn't power that he needs. He'd wanted a family again.

Shaking his head, Derek clears his throat. "I like Ronan," he replies simply. "And I don't know you. You don't hurt the people I care about, to my knowledge, so you're fine by me. So's he." Derek hates the idea that he has to trust this stranger, this skittish, human stranger who Derek can tell is afraid of what he saw whether he wants to admit it or not. It doesn't make Derek feel very confident that the whole goddamn Complex won't know sooner than later what he really is and the worst part is that he won't even have the benefit of the enhanced abilities that come with being a werewolf to protect him from the inevitable response of humans to the knowledge: they will hunt him. His whole life, he'd been hunted. Why should that change here?

Derek's eyes shift up and down over Adam's face. He inhales deeply through his nose by reflex but can't catch the scent because his human nose is worthless. "What did you see?" he finally asks. It's too much not knowing. Did he see Derek snapping Paige's neck? Slashing Peter's throat? Trying to kill Jennifer? Actually killing Boyd?

Did he see those things completely out of context the way Adam's memories were largely if not completely out of context for Derek? If so, it's no wonder he's uneasy. Without context, Derek does look like a monster and he knows it.

Of course Adam knows nothing about what he saw of Derek. Again, there weren't even really situations he could understand. Just jumpy flashes of images - and a lot of them, too many for him to make sense of outside of the startling image of Derek's shift from man to something else. Those red eyes and teeth and claws. Adam saw that loud and clear. But then he's been hard-wired to spot threats since he was kid. And then there was the image of Derek chained up - more than once, it looks like. At least he thinks that's what he saw.

For a moment Adam's features soften a bit, because he can understand something being so much a part of you that it's not a separate thing entirely. Cabeswater was taken from him after all, the one thing besides Ronan that protected Adam. But then Derek goes into another explanation that has Adam on edge again. If they took that beast from Derek, shouldn't that be a good thing? In the end, Adam doesn't do well with confrontation so he stays silent. Of course this is his fault. He started it by barreling in without thinking... which he usually wouldn't do except, he's been trying to be braver than he was. It was stupid, really, to initiate contact with someone who usually has sharp teeth and claws.

At mention of Ronan, Derek has Adam's attention. He never really meets his gaze because all of his bluster from before is deflating into 'holy crap what am I doing' and 'stranger danger'. But he pays attention, because it has to do with Ronan. Derek knows Ronan. Adam wonders if Ronan knows what Derek is. Does Adam even really know what he is? No. He wants to tell him to stay away from Ronan, but he isn't that brave in the moment.

He leans in and whispers after a glance around the room to see if anyone was close enough to hear him. No one is. "I saw you chained up. I saw your eyes glow red and there were fights and... your face. Maybe people were hunting you, I don't know. I couldn't tell. There were a lot of images, no words, really."

The silence is something Derek hasn't decided is either good or bad. It could be that he's quiet because Adam is being introspective and trying to see if there's anything in the dreams he had that would suggest Derek isn't, in fact, a monster. But Derek has no idea what all Adam saw, so for all Derek knows, the guy got a montage of all the things Derek regrets, because he thinks about them the most. If that's the case, then all that Adam probably saw was a parade of blood, death, and grief. Not good.

Adam leans forward and whispers and Derek's heart sinks. Red eyes. He's seen when Derek was an Alpha. It's, quite frankly, one of the lower points in Derek's life, if you ask Derek. He made some of his worst decisions that caused some of the most pain and loss during that time in his life. A hurt expression crosses his face only long enough for Derek to feel it there before he can straighten it into something more neutral.

"People have been hunting me my entire life," he whispers back. His eyes shift up to try to meet Adam's. "Literally, my whole life. When I was chained up...did you see who I was looking at? Was it a woman?" Was it Kate? "She's a human and a werewolf hunter. She killed my family, almost all of them. She lied to me, she told me she loved me, and I trusted her. And to pay me back for it, she made sure my whole family was in one place, because we locked ourselves up and chained up the kids who didn't have control of themselves on the wolf moon because it's the strongest pull. She waited until that moon and she set my house on fire. There were kids, human kids, in that house. But yeah. I have glowing eyes and fangs and claws; I'm the monster, right?"

Derek leans back and takes a deep breath, his stomach turning with the memory of what happened so many years ago when he was too busy thinking with his dick to realize that she'd set a trap and he'd stepped willingly into it. It makes him sick to think about to this day. But if Adam is going to sit across the table from Derek and think that he's a monster, then Derek is going to remind him that humans can be monsters, too. Adam should know. His father beat the shit out of him. Derek's ear still has a phantom ringing in it.

"I would appreciate it if this could remain between us. Even if I did have my abilities, I wouldn't hurt Ronan, or you. Like I said, I don't know you; I don't have any reason to. And Ronan, he's helping me learn to fight and protect myself without my normal strength and abilities. I'm not going to hurt somebody who's helping me, Adam, I might be a werewolf but I'm not an idiot."

daycycle 122

[Jan 15 - Jan 21]

Derek Hale | ota throughout the day

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evening

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