INBOX - NHD-C12-KRI-248 - IKARI, SHINJI

[forevalone]

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[forevalone]

_{[There's the temptation of laughing but Shinji manages to stop himself from doing so. Instead he holds out his hand for Ciel's black glass, a small smile on his lips.]}

Here, give me your black glass. I'll give you some. _{[A pause.]} Music, I mean. I'll copy some of the music I have on my device onto yours.

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

Ok so what are you doing about it?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

What do you mean?

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

What's your plan? You're checking in with them, talking to them about it. But what are you doing to make it better? To make sure they don't end up on one of Dagger's lists again?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

How should I know? I don't even know why they got in trouble in the first place.

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

And?

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

Not knowing isn't going to help you in the field.

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

But sure. Let's say you can't get intel. What else can you be doing to help?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I don't know.

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

You can't think of anything?

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

There's a lot happening in camp and that list has people from a bunch of different teams. What are we short of? What are the things those people might have been doing before they got hit with this?

[forevalone]

_{[Too much pressure.]}

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Food? Medical supplies?

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

People were patrolling I guess...taking care of animals?

[2leftfeet]

[The school of 'throw everything at the wall until something sticks'.]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

Good. Most of your cell isn't in the condition to help with that, but you are and you can prove it

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

So you've identified some things that are problems. Which one are you focusing on

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I can cook? I'm already pet sitting...I'll do anything they ask of me to help them out.

_{[Shinji that's backwards...you're supposed to be the one "in charge".]}

[fossils]

[ Always the tough questions. ]

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

I don't think there's any one good answer to that.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

I could tell you what it was like for me when I was younger.

[ When he was smaller. ]

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I'd like that.

[fossils]

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Most people here don't know this about me, but I considered small and unhealthy when I was a kid. Had asthma and a bunch of other medical problems growing up.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

My mother was the bravest person I knew. She was a nurse, working with tuberculosis patients. Back then we didn't completely understand how it was spread.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

You could be fine for years working there and then one day end up a patient. She worked at that ward, no complaints, taking care of people until she got too sick to anymore.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Jobs were hard to find back then, but she still could've picked anywhere else to work.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

Once I must've asked her why she didn't. She just told me someone had to take care of those people. Was simple as that for her sometimes.

[ Not quite about himself, but it's even more rare for him to talk about her. This seemed to make sense. ]

[forevalone]

_{[Honestly he can't even imagine how Steve would look as "small" or "unhealthy", considering the size of him now. What he was expecting even less was for him to talk about his mother.]}

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

She sounds like an amazing lady, Rogers-san. She must have been incredibly kind.

[fossils]

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

She was.

[ Some parents, he would realize later, wouldn't have always been so kind about having to raise a kid like him. ]

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

I guess I learned to be brave from her. Like I said, I was small. Got picked on a lot because of it. I wasn't very fast either, learned that I couldn't outrun them, so I stood my ground.

FROM: rogers.steve@cdc.org

I guess doing that for myself enough times made it easier to stand up on my own, when I knew things weren't right and someone had to do something.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Smaller than me?

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

I wish I had known what my mother was like. I at least have a picture of her now.

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

If there's one thing I've always been good at it's running.

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Every time I try to be brave it backfires in my face.

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

...I want to be brave like you, Rogers-san.

[alittlemaster]

[Reluctantly, Ciel hands over his device. It isn't that he doesn't trust Shinji, it's just that handing over something like the blackglass seems like handing over... a part of his soul, you could say.

Which is hilarious.] Copy the music? Wouldn't that take a long time? [He's thinking hand copying, or text copying. Writing a copy of musical sheets takes a long time, okay!

He doesn't know how anything modern works, fuck his life.]

[2leftfeet]

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

You're thinking small, Ikari. I'm not talking about what your cell needs, I'm talking about what the crew needs

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

We're short 36 people, 3 of them from your cell. It's up to you how to figure out how to make your cell operational even though it's short handed

FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org

Figure out what you think is the most helpful thing for you to do and ask one of Green's trainers about how you can make it happen. Rogers or Kaburagi

D121

[paraclete]

FROM: nagisa.kaworu@cdc.org

Shinji-kun

[Sending this text is the first thing he does upon waking from stasis. He's already leaving to find Shinji's rover, walking while he texts.]

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Kaworu-kun, you're okay?

[paraclete]

FROM: nagisa.kaworu@cdc.org

I'm on my way to you right now.

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Okay.

[paraclete]

FROM: nagisa.kaworu@cdc.org

You're at your rover?

[forevalone]

FROM: ikari.shinji@cdc.org

Yes. I'll wait for you outside.