The Last Test [closed to: Adam M., Cale, Inara, Miku, Robin, Shadow, Sheik/Zelda, and Tony Stark]

[cityship]

There is a traitor in your midst, meatship. A crew member working for the Nightmare King, enacting his will subtly on the crew.

This person has access to all the Nightmare King knows about their crewmates, and there's plenty the horrible being can glean from their dreams.

Today, it's time to act, to try to cripple all they can, to bring the fears of their crewmates to the forefront to make them easier prey. Today they revel in their cruelty, their soul twisting and writhing in the grips of their cruel master.

[ooc: This is your cue! Each of you, tag in making a new subthread, and set up the setting of where your character is, like you'd do for an post to the comm in general. In the OOC post please lay out the fears and insecurities you plan to exploit in your character's final nightmare to help with the messin'--they'd be bringing those fears to the forefront with their comments, to make it easier for the Nightmare King to act on them]

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[daaayum.livejournal.com]

She looks out into the City, her eyes sad and scared.

"The scary part is--is that feeling, like you can't do a thing about it. Like nothing can stop the ax from falling down."

[mrsarcastic003]

And... he knows that feeling very, very well. It's the one he gets every time he thinks about the future he's facing, and what he might (will probably) become.

"Yeah. I know."

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Have you lost people? You just...have this look."

And she knows. She knows where you hurt, Tim. She knows where to dig in and cut you without you even seeing the knife.

[mrsarcastic003]

"I--yes. My family. My parents, and--probably--my stepmother."

Not to mention Steph, which is complicated, and the friends who are--apparently--going to die soon, if they ever do get back to the right place and time.

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

"Jesus, Tim."

She goes on, "I'm sorry I even brought it up. Look at me worrying my head off and she might be okay, somewhere. I shouldn't be complaining. It could always be worse."

After thinking for a moment, she presses a light kiss to his cheek.

"I'm gonna go to the Sensoriums and practice. See if I can get the maudlin beat out of me. I hate when I'm in a mood like this."

[mrsarcastic003]

He nods a little giving her a faint smile. "I've been doing that a lot lately. Or this." He gestures to the city around them. "But I can go with you if you want. If you'd like company."

And he's not going to say that he doesn't really want to be alone right now, but...

He doesn't really want to be alone right now.

[daaayum.livejournal.com]

If it'd been her, really her, she would have said yes. She would have practiced, they would have flirted, she would have made him laugh and forget moping over this.

If it'd been her, she wouldn't have given the knife a twist.

"I really need to be alone right now. Sorry," she says, as she gets up to go, leaving him with his thoughts.

"I'll see you around, okay?"

[mrsarcastic003]

"Sure. See you later." He watches her go, and--patrol was supposed to make him feel better.

Why does he feel worse?