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masterofmatter ([info]masterofmatter) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-06-07 19:41:00


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Entry tags:firestorm, inactive - traya smith, npc - jai west, plot - "blackest night"

Making the Calls
It has to be done. It has to. If this crap continues on, it won't be good for any of them. Not just for Jai, who has to be going through issues. Not just for Traya, who he had been avoiding ever since he confessed there may be more than just friendship. And not just for him. So he finds a place that is open but deserted. The Ivy University Architecture and Engineering Study Rooms, on the first floor.

After holding his phone for several minutes, he begins to type out a message.

I hate doing this over text, but this needs to get resolved. Meet me in the Ivy U Arch&Engin stufy rooms 1st floor.

Then he scrolled down to the J's, casually noting the lack of names. In fact, Jai was the only one and he put it in on a whim. He didn't even know if it was a current number not. Then he clicked the box and scrolled down to the T's and clicked on Traya.

And away the messages go. Michael hopes this won't be a big mistake. He really does.



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[info]tiny_tornado
2011-06-08 12:28 am UTC (link)
When Traya got the text, she'd been at the rebuilt Secret Sanctuary, using the League-computer to look as NASA weather maps. With all the storms lately, she could swear there was something more going on than just foul weather.

But she didn't have any clues yet.

She stared at the message, unsure what she should do.

"...Okay, fine," she said, irritatedly, as she headed for the exit.

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[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-08 12:57 am UTC (link)
Jai was in between a few things, working on a few different projects. When he gets Michae's message, he sighs. What more is there to say?

"Damnit. Fine." he says.

He leaves his house, heading out to Ivy Town.

"Okay, what do you want now, Michael?" Jai asks.

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[info]masterofmatter
2011-06-08 01:09 am UTC (link)
Well, he shouldn't have been surprised by the speed of Jai. he is a member of the Flash family, after all.

"Look, the last time we talked things didn't go well. I do have an idea, though. Something I need to share with you. before we do that, though, I need to tell you my plan. It's gonna sound crazy, but I think it'll work..."

Stall, Michael, stall until Traya gets there!

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[info]tiny_tornado
2011-06-08 01:23 am UTC (link)
She's no Flash, but Traya's fast enough, showing up only a few minutes later.

She stopped when she saw who else was here. Great. The two people she least wanted to see right now. (Didn't she? Did she still...?)

"Oh," she said, quietly.

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[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-08 01:26 am UTC (link)
Jai looks at Traya, then at Michael with an "I should have known" expression on his face.

"Really, Michael? You called me here to ambush me?" he asks, a little irritated.

He doesn't look at Traya right now, because he's not sure what he'll do if he does. Chances are, he'll end up running right out of the room again.

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[info]masterofmatter
2011-06-08 01:55 am UTC (link)
"No, Jai, I didn't I came here to offer something. You saw something when you attacked me. You saw the Matrix. Do you know what I can do with the Matrix? We could use my normal powers, but we'd also be privy to one anothers thoughts."

Michael has to speak quick.

"If you want to see what I was thinking that night, all you'd have to do was ask and I'd bring you in. Both of you. It would be 100% honest. You'd see what it was like from our ends."

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[info]tiny_tornado
2011-06-08 02:00 am UTC (link)
"...Have those head flames been baking your brain, Michael?" Traya snapped, harsher than she intended. She hadn't realized how much seeing Jai would hurt...

She can't even look at him.

Outside, the winds began to pick up.

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[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-08 02:08 am UTC (link)
"Wait, what?" Jai asks, remembering what happened inside the Matrix. There had been someone else in there, too.

"Okay, I'm with Traya on this one. Dude, there is another person in there with you. I'm all for teams, but this is really breaking my brain here." Jai tells them.

"Besides, I'm not really sure I want the gory details of everything." Jai says. "If you two need this to figure things out, I don't think I need to be here."

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[info]masterofmatter
2011-06-08 02:12 am UTC (link)
Well, this wasn't going well.

"Yes, there was some. Ronald Raymond, better known as Ronnie. he's been retired, working as a PE teacher in Illinois, like spicy food but has a weak stomach. I know these things because of the bond."

Michaels face falls at the idea of them just walking out.

"Look, whats happened here, it isn't right, and I don't think just going to counseling or some shit like that will help. Just the Truth, pure and unadulterated, shared between us."

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Within the Matrix
[info]masterofmatter
2011-06-09 03:26 am UTC (link)
And without a moments hesitation, the humming of power around them is evident. It is difficult to describe, its like the last several minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey combined with Raw Creation.

And once the two people not familiar with the Matrix have found their bearings, the thoughts of the others begin to let themselves be known. And Michaels follows an odd progression: The night that Zombie Jai attacked, being deputized with the Green Ring, regret, the fight with Ceridan, what he saw when Traya hit him with the Blue Light, remorse, the fight with Jai, his "talk" with Traya, and guilt.

Through it all is a feeling that what he feels, even if he doesn't know exactly *what* it is, is wrong. He didn't want any of this to happen and he feels that the whole situation was screwed up because of him.

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Re: Within the Matrix
[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-10 01:13 am UTC (link)
Several of the same scenes in Jai's mind play out, but there are others that are added. His torture at the hands of Damien Wilson, the endless experiments and the constant pain. The horror of realization when he knew that he was starting to lose his memory and the final, cold knowledge that no one was coming for him.

Michael and Traya can easily see that Jai's death was a moment of pure release for him, a last, desperate attempt to keep himself from being used further...and that he'd done all he could do die on Damien so that he couldn't be used further.

Then come the scenes they would recognize, only from Jai's perspective; the night Mitzi kissed him, the same night he was taken. The night that Black Lantern Jai attacked, the tortures he'd levied on Dinadan, Iris, his parents and the two of them. His failure at keeping Keith from "dying". His feelings of not being able to rejoin the land of the living after so long away.

The feeling that no matter how long or how fast or how far he runs, that death is nipping at his heels and gaining with every single milisecond that passes. Jai knows that he can't slow down, even though he knows that he /must/ do so in order to find some kind of peace.

Wave upon wave upon wave of guilt washes over Jai, mixed with an undercurrent of pain and anger...but above all, a bleakness and desolation of spirit.

For Jai West is not truly happy to be alive, not after the peace that death had finally granted him. What Nekron did to Jai was far worse than what even Damien put him through.And he can't possibly make Michael or Traya understand that it's not /them/ that he really hates.

Jai hates /himself/ most of all.

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Re: Within the Matrix
[info]tiny_tornado
2011-06-10 02:05 am UTC (link)
Traya adds a third perspective on many of the same scenes, with images of her own filtering through.

Her absolute horror and despair when she learned that Jai had gone missing, amplified countless times over when she found out that he had been killed.

The attack on her and Michael, the accusations that cut to the bone. Her love and concern for Jai and whatever had been done to him, the emotional wall she created so that she could fight the zombies. A wall she wasn't sure had come down. She'd been angrier since then, more aggressive, willing to use her powers in ways she hadn't before.

The absolute joy she'd felt when he'd been returned to life, the feeling that things could finally just go back to normal. The shame for thinking such a foolish and simple thing, and the pain that came with the first and only boy she had ever really loved still thinking she had betrayed him.

Michael's own confession that the feelings Jai had seen were genuine, the strange sense of something she had felt when she'd touched him with the Blue Light. An attempt to reach out for friendship, only to find herself more groundless than ever before.

And worst of all, perhaps, the feeling of hope finally shattered. Traya's boundless optimism, the sense that somehow, in some way, everything would be right and good again, badly battered, perhaps broken completely.

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Re: Within the Matrix
[info]masterofmatter
2011-06-10 02:13 am UTC (link)
Well, this was not turning out to be as good of an idea as he had thought. This was a huge overload of images, thoughts, feelings, and just a lot of crap. Michael had thought that this kind of openness would at least get a lot of the problems out of the way (and in the open) but this is an openness that he didn't even feel with Ronnie. It could just be that Ronnie knows how to filter what he feels out because of his experience, but this...

"This wasn't a good idea. I'm sorry, you two. This is-this is really fucking intense. Worse than the Green Lantern ring. What the hell was I thinking?"

Filters, they don't really exist here.

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Re: Within the Matrix
[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-10 02:23 am UTC (link)
Jai has to focus in order to keep his mind from moving at a thousand miles per hour and overwhelming everyone else. Moreover, he has to stop and think about what he sees so as to process it all correctly.

Michael and Traya weren't really together, after all. He'd accused them of things they hadn't done, even if Michael really cared for Traya. Jai finally understood what they'd been trying to tell him for months and now he felt like the world's biggest jackass for raking them over the coals for something they hadn't done.

"No, Michael...you were trying to help. You've /been/ trying to help and I've been pushing away from everyone." Jai says.

"Don't tell me you're falling for these sob stories they're putting out. Man, you /are/ dumb. They're letting you see what they want you to see. I bet if you dig /deeper/ they'll show what you really wanna know." says a familiar voice that all three of them would know.

"Yeah, I'm in here, too, kiddies! Flamebrain did me a favor dragging me in here that one time, creating a piece of me that's going to haunt the three of you until you all die. Again. And look, it's Super-Skank herself, in the flesh.

Anyone notice how it gets more windy outside when she gets pissed off? Let's see if we can make her wipe Ivy Town off the map today!
" Black Lantern Jai taunts.

"Get out of my head!" Jai yells, grimacing in pain.

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Re: Within the Matrix
[info]tiny_tornado
2011-06-10 02:34 am UTC (link)
A voice that Traya had hoped long buried, one she had tried so damn hard to forget. The voice of accusations, the voice that had hurt her so much.

"Jai!" she screamed.

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Re: Within the Matrix
[info]masterofmatter
2011-06-10 02:36 am UTC (link)
"YOU! You're still in there?"

Fuck fuck fuck fuck!

"How'd you even survive? All the black lanterns got destroyed!"

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Re: Within the Matrix
[info]dc_adult
2011-06-10 02:40 am UTC (link)
"Calm down kid," Came an older voice in the Matrix. this one is more distant, removed from the situation.

This, of course, is Ronnie.

"That thing must have latched onto the Matrix when it forced its way in last time."

With the precision of an expert surgeon, Ronnie begins to try to separate Black Lantern Jai from Not Dead Jai.

"Don't know how you latched on, you stupid little leech, but you're not stayin' on the kid."

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Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-10 02:50 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-10 03:07 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]masterofmatter, 2011-06-10 03:14 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dc_adult, 2011-06-10 03:15 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-10 03:29 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-10 03:39 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]masterofmatter, 2011-06-10 03:49 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-10 05:00 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-10 08:20 pm UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]masterofmatter, 2011-06-12 08:31 pm UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-12 11:37 pm UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-12 11:47 pm UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]masterofmatter, 2011-06-13 01:21 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-13 01:31 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-13 03:12 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]masterofmatter, 2011-06-13 03:17 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-13 09:28 pm UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-14 12:37 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-14 12:59 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]masterofmatter, 2011-06-14 02:20 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-14 02:37 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-14 09:33 pm UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-14 11:50 pm UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]masterofmatter, 2011-06-15 12:02 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-15 12:11 am UTC
Re: Within the Matrix - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-15 12:45 am UTC
Down Mexico Way...
[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-16 12:45 am UTC (link)
Minutes later, Jai and Traya are on the Jai's favorite beach in Cancun and he lets go of her hand, turning to look out over the water. He doesn't say anything for a long time, taking several deep breaths before turning to her and speaking.

"Okay, Traya. Let me have it." Jai says.

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Re: Down Mexico Way...
[info]tiny_tornado
2011-06-16 01:13 am UTC (link)
Traya took in a good long breath and when she did, it seemed as though the winds picked up with it. They breeze flowed back in the other direction when she let it out.

"I was so upset when you died," she said. "And as much as I tried not to believe what that thing was saying... it still hurt.

And then you came back. And I thought everything would go back to normal. And it didn't. And that hurt. A lot. You were the first ever guy who I didn't just completely freak out or who didn't want to bolt when they found out about my dad. The first guy I ever really loved."

The wind picked up again. "That whole mess... I didn't know what to think, what I had done wrong. It took me way too long to get my head on straight after that."

It died down again. "But the fact is, Jai... I never stopped loving you. Ever."

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Re: Down Mexico Way...
[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-16 01:29 am UTC (link)
Jai feels the winds pick up and shift and die down as Traya speaks. Something about the timing caught in his mind and he realized, quickly, that Traya was doing it.

"Look, I...I still love you, too, Traya. I never stopped. It just...it hurt when I thought you were with Michael. You were the last person I thought of when I died. I wanted to tell you I loved you, even when I couldn't remember your name. I remembered your face, though." Jai says.

"I treated you really badly, and I get it if you need to take things slow or if you don't want to do this anymore. I broke up with you and you're well within your rights to tell me to go to hell.

But if you give me another chance, I'll make up to you for as long as it takes." he says, looking at her intently.

"I love you, Traya Smith. I think I always will."

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Re: Down Mexico Way...
[info]tiny_tornado
2011-06-16 10:28 pm UTC (link)
Traya wrapped him in a hug and kissed him, long and hard.

"That answer your question?"

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Re: Down Mexico Way...
[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-17 01:08 am UTC (link)
Jai returns the kiss, holding Traya tight. Only now did everything in his world feel /right/ after so many months of things being wrong.

"Sorry, Miss Smith. I'm a little tone deaf. Can you repeat that answer a bit louder for me?" Jai grins.

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Re: Down Mexico Way...
[info]tiny_tornado
2011-06-18 12:37 am UTC (link)
"Hmm... Let me try."

She kissed him again. And boy did it feel good to be able to do this once more.

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Re: Down Mexico Way...
[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-19 03:25 am UTC (link)
And yes, there is a great deal of reunion make-out with Traya, because Jai has needed something like that for a long time. When they both decide to come up for air, Jai just holds her close.

"I missed you. How is everything else going?" he asks.

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Re: Down Mexico Way...
[info]tiny_tornado
2011-06-19 11:05 pm UTC (link)
"Missed you too," she told him, leaning her head on his chest.

"It's all right. Helped save Atlantis, passed by classes, went to the Disney Store with Petra."

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Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-20 01:55 am UTC
Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-20 10:52 pm UTC
Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-21 12:02 am UTC
Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-21 11:53 pm UTC
Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-26 01:46 am UTC
Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-26 02:49 am UTC
Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-26 06:52 pm UTC
Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-26 10:06 pm UTC
Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]dareyoutorun, 2011-06-27 12:54 am UTC
Re: Down Mexico Way... - [info]tiny_tornado, 2011-06-27 10:36 pm UTC



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