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returnjourneylogs2022-02-17 10:38 pm
rank1) wrote in returnjourneylogs2022-02-17 10:38 pm
#4
Passengers: Travis and Jack, and any warden who wishes for them to shut up, and Travis and Alice
Location: Solitary
Date: Feb 17th
Summary: Jailhouse chatter
Warnings: None yet
For Jack:
Travis is bored, as Travis is wont to be in these situations.
He peers out of the cell, face pressed up against it so that he can see as far as he can. It's not that far, but it's better than nothing. Can't see any cameras, anyway. Doesn't sound like anyone is around.
"Hey Jack," he calls, curious. "You still in here?"
For Alice:
It's been days.
In this time, Travis has discovered several things:
1. He has not been without high-speed internet for 72 hours since the dial-up days. Sure, there's been a few dodgy moments here or there, like the eighteen hours he spent in jail for that stupid fucking misdemeanor a few years back, or the four excruciating days where he only had one bar on his cracked cell phone, but this has been forever. Actually, has it been forever? How many days has it been?
2. William has a balding patch on the back of his head.
3. Most adults don't have hobbies. It's just work and family and work and family and work and family and endless reruns of the million cable TV procedurals while they get to level 7854 in Candy Crush. (Okay, maybe the last one is a hobby. But not one Travis respects.) Travis, on the other hand, has so many hobbies that being forced to sit on his hands for days feels like an existential crisis. Were the work + family people right to train themselves on a baseline level of daily boredom and drudgery? Who is he without his hobbies?
4. In December 2009, James Cameron released Avatar, a CG monstrosity that could be otherwise be titled Dances With Blue People, shattering box office records. Despite this, over a decade later, Travis cannot remember the name of a single character or line of dialogue from the movie, and trying to recall a single thing about it is starting to feel like the real torture of solitary. ("Sigourney Weaver" is not a character name, but it is a nice interlude to think about how good she looks in an half-way unbuttoned shirt and frustration on her voice.)
5. Following that last note on #4, it is surprisingly hard to jerk off in solitary, as he is simultaneously in what is essentially a private room, and also very very very observed. On the other hand, his imagination is practically a superpower.
6. He misses his cat so much it feels physically painful. Is it crazy to think you were a cat in another life, and that's why you love this little creature so much? Yeah, probably. But that's what it feels like.
7. He likes the name Alice, but in a bittersweet way. He thinks he's going to keep calling her AQ.
Anyway.
"Didn't get her, huh?" he says to her, through the bars. Disappointed but not surprised. "She's safe, though, yeah?"
The cat is foam, but a foam effigy of his cat is still his cat.
Location: Solitary
Date: Feb 17th
Summary: Jailhouse chatter
Warnings: None yet
For Jack:
Travis is bored, as Travis is wont to be in these situations.
He peers out of the cell, face pressed up against it so that he can see as far as he can. It's not that far, but it's better than nothing. Can't see any cameras, anyway. Doesn't sound like anyone is around.
"Hey Jack," he calls, curious. "You still in here?"
For Alice:
It's been days.
In this time, Travis has discovered several things:
1. He has not been without high-speed internet for 72 hours since the dial-up days. Sure, there's been a few dodgy moments here or there, like the eighteen hours he spent in jail for that stupid fucking misdemeanor a few years back, or the four excruciating days where he only had one bar on his cracked cell phone, but this has been forever. Actually, has it been forever? How many days has it been?
2. William has a balding patch on the back of his head.
3. Most adults don't have hobbies. It's just work and family and work and family and work and family and endless reruns of the million cable TV procedurals while they get to level 7854 in Candy Crush. (Okay, maybe the last one is a hobby. But not one Travis respects.) Travis, on the other hand, has so many hobbies that being forced to sit on his hands for days feels like an existential crisis. Were the work + family people right to train themselves on a baseline level of daily boredom and drudgery? Who is he without his hobbies?
4. In December 2009, James Cameron released Avatar, a CG monstrosity that could be otherwise be titled Dances With Blue People, shattering box office records. Despite this, over a decade later, Travis cannot remember the name of a single character or line of dialogue from the movie, and trying to recall a single thing about it is starting to feel like the real torture of solitary. ("Sigourney Weaver" is not a character name, but it is a nice interlude to think about how good she looks in an half-way unbuttoned shirt and frustration on her voice.)
5. Following that last note on #4, it is surprisingly hard to jerk off in solitary, as he is simultaneously in what is essentially a private room, and also very very very observed. On the other hand, his imagination is practically a superpower.
6. He misses his cat so much it feels physically painful. Is it crazy to think you were a cat in another life, and that's why you love this little creature so much? Yeah, probably. But that's what it feels like.
7. He likes the name Alice, but in a bittersweet way. He thinks he's going to keep calling her AQ.
Anyway.
"Didn't get her, huh?" he says to her, through the bars. Disappointed but not surprised. "She's safe, though, yeah?"
The cat is foam, but a foam effigy of his cat is still his cat.
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"Something distracted the guards and I made it to a shuttle. Stole a shuttle," she says, correcting herself, as if that makes it more badass. "It's fine. Went back later and planted a big fucking bomb. Blew it up."
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"That must've felt good," he says. "Seeing everything that hurt you go up in flames... wipe it all away. You ever find out why they did it?"
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But she realizes after the initial rage subsides that Travis probably meant something else, and she exhales a bitter laugh. "And to make me a weapon. That backfired big time, right?"
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