➹ 101 | Voice

[peektuttut]

[The audio clicks on, and Tim's quiet for a moment, like he's rethinking alerting the Barge at all. There's a very quiet sigh, and then something that might have been a meow.]

Claudia's gone. I've got her cat, but all her stuff is gone. Looks like the Admiral changed his mind again. [The bitterness is audible, and he clicks the communicator off.]

[Filtered to Cass, Aya, Buffy, Steph]

[A little while after his first announcement, he adds a few messages:] How are you guys doing?

[Private to Kon]

Hey. [God he really doesn't know how to do this on the best of days, and this is not the best of days. This isn't the Kon he grew up with, this isn't the Kon who's saved his life, and whose he's saved. Although the latter isn't quite true anymore. Tim pauses for a long moment; he doesn't even know if Kon will be awake, or bother replying to this when he is.] Just checking in, I guess. I don't know. Don't worry about this when you wake up.

[Private to Luther]

Got a minute?

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[Private]

[prayformefather]

What's up? [Dude, your life is almost as shitty as mine. :|]

[Private]

[peektuttut]

[Let's talk about girls sometime :|]

Do you have any friends here? Like real friends, or at least people who could be.

[Filter]

[slayage]

[She sounds tired but not really too worse for wear.] I feel like I got hit by a train, I'm seriously craving vitamin water, there's this spot on my back I can't itch without making my abs scream at me.. But I'm okay.

[Pause.] Sorry about Claudia.

[Filter]

[peektuttut]

[no he doesn't want to talk about Claudia :c So: deflection!]

Should I look for a backscratcher?

[Filtered]

[demigoddess]

[ The fun really doesn't stop on the Barge. ]

I'm sorry to hear about Claudia. [ Even if she didn't get to know her that well. ]


Um, Tim? Are you busy? [ When else was she going to ask? ]

[Private]

[peektuttut]

[It's a laugh a minute.]

Not really. [He's moping and letting a kitten chew his finger. Give him a distraction.] What's up?

[Spam]

[batmanschmatman]

[It maybe said something about how far Dick had come in accepting that Tim wasn't twelve years old anymore that - pretty much immediately after seeing his network post - he headed over to his brother's room with a six pack, which made knocking on the door a little more complicated than he anticipated at first, with one arm in a cast, but he managed.]

It's me. Don't worry, I'm not going to give you my "if you don't open the door" speech. [Which he seemed to do a lot, and honestly he wasn't sure if enough time had really passed since the Crisis and the alternate Barge to be joking about it like that but. There you go.]

[Spam]

[peektuttut]

[Tim is laying face down on his stomach, watching Jinks knead the comforter on his bed. It's very entertaining, especially how the cat throws himself at Tim's face now and then. Tim groans a little a the knocking, but he picks himself up and heads out to the living room, cat held in one hand against his shoulder. (He doesn't trust Jinks not to just dismantle the place just yet.)]

Good, you give it too often.

[The door opens, and Tim arches an eyebrow at the sixpack.] Should you even be up and ab out, yet?

[most_feared]

Damn.

[He's feeling terse lately, but he liked Claudia. He knows her situations wasn't a good one when she came back.

Time to go hide his face in his work. At least Tim'll have more info to help Kon soon.] Sorry, Kid.

[peektuttut]

Just sorry she didn't get her deal. [And that she's gone, but. Tim is not one to wear things on his sleeve.]

[trenchcoatedly]

He seems to do that sometimes.

[peektuttut]

A little too often.

[video]

[looksfine]

[There is a noticeable delay in Aya's response. When she eventually does, Tim will notice she is laying in the infirmary bay. Several wires and patches hooking her up to a large machine. Her white components are noticeably scuffed up, and there is a yellowish tinge to her usual emeral pallor.]

[When she speaks, her voice is distorted]

My sensors say I am fine. Theirs seem to disagree.

[video]

[peektuttut]

[And his eyes are going wide in some alarm, for just a second there.]

I hate to tell you, but you don't look that great.

[Video]

[unweeping_willow]

Guess he didn't like her.

[Bitterness? What bitterness? Her voice is teasing, her smirk at least a good show for uncaring.

But her eyes are dead. If she can't not care, she's going to lose it.]

[Voice]

[peektuttut]

Guess not. [He's keeping the video off for this one; it's hard enough to keep his voice neutral, bu he doesn't play this game.]

Private

[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara knows that tone, and she's immediately concerned.]

You all right?

[Then, flat and forceful.]

And don't bullshit me, Tim.

Private

[peektuttut]

[That gets a snort, and he realizes again that he's just glad to have Barbara around again. It feels like it's been forever since he really talked to her.]

Wouldn't dream of it. I'll be fine, she was just - we were dating. Now she's gone.

[Private]

[yeahscience]

That sucks, man. Welcome to the club.

[Private]

[peektuttut]

No offense, but it's the worst club I've ever been in.

And I was in a D&D club once.

private;

[ichoosefight]

I've had better days. I'm sorry about Claudia.

private;

[peektuttut]

I bet. [He thinks 'at least she didn't try to kill me this weekend,' but he isn't about to say that.]

I used a serum from home to help him. It should fix things, for a while.

[filter]

[hellofist]

[She's got a slightly better grasp of the button layout on the comm now, so she's able to respond to Tim a little more easily than she did with Dick. There's still blips of video that show the bandages still wrapped around her eyes and an annoyed look because why are these things so difficult but finally, she gets the voice feed going.]

Okay. See funny sparkles. Who is Claudia?

... Can I pet cat?

[private]

[peektuttut]

[Funny sparkles asdfkjgh do not go blind Cass.] Maybe you should keep your eyes closed, for a while. Are you in the infirmary? I'll bring him for a visit.

Claudia's - Claudia was my girlfriend.

[takeyouapart]

I noticed her cabin had changed. [Since, you know, other neighbour.] I'm sorry.

[Ordinarily he'd ask if there was anything he could do to help take his mind off things but after the breach he's kind of :/ about that or how Tim might take it.]

[peektuttut]

[He is just. Trying not to think too much about that because clearly that is the healthier and easier way to be.]

Thanks.