video; a work in progress

[whatsupcroc]

( Audio picks up the sound of industrial construction, either things familiar in woodshop, car garages, or anywhere of a similar sort. When the feed goes live, Collette is framed to one side, looking forward and away from the camera.  She's clearly resting on her arms, and given the angle of the ground on the screen, she's probably lying on her stomach in order to do this.  She glances over her shoulder, eyes going to something behind the tablet being used for recording, then smiles as her eyes drop down to the tablet itself.  For all intents and purposes, the camera is positioned to make the viewing audience seem like they're side by side with Collette, wherever it is she is, keeping a low profile in this industrialized looking area.  Concrete floor that she's resting on, packing boxes ahead of her, bundles of cables and chains glimpsed somewhere past her head. )

Guys!  ( She keeps her voice low, not a whisper (they carry further, and can't be heard about the ambient noise), but low to avoid excessive attention. )  Anyone else catch where they dragged the ship off to with that giant crane after the crash? I wondered about that. But I've got news!

( She makes a waving motion at the camera, and it shifts, jarringly, to leave Collette off screen and show something covered in plastic and wiring and cables, a few Initiative workers using welding guns, others wheeling parts away or calling out shouts of questions over the sounds of construction. )

They say the spaceship's salvageable!

Comments

[ganking]

[ so angry, gosh. ]

Apology? Whatever happened to you must've really sent that noggin of yours spinnin', 'cause I have no idea what you're talking about.

[ :) ]

not here

[reconnaissance]

( BUT SHE IS WATCHING YOU AS OF RIGHT NOW, DEAN WINCHESTER

WATCHING )

[whatsupcroc]

( She really does not enjoy being angry at people, and it's hard to let go of someone being as deliberately jerkish as Dean. )

Might want to get that short term memory checked out, Dean, I'm starting to worry your condition's more than a personality flaw.

[ganking]

[ scoff. ]

I'm not the one with the condition here, sweetheart. Or did you forget 'bout the part where you sometimes turn into a literal cockroach or whatever? Now there's something to get checked out.

[whatsupcroc]

I don't know, I think I'm far more impressive in scales, personally. But you know all about that!

( God, this frustrates her, and it's starting to show much more than she likes. Collette rubs her face with her hands. )

Listen, I don't have time for you being stupid like usual right now? I'm actually happy with a whole lot of things right now, so I can say I'll be generous and not hold your own thickheadedness against you, but you've got to pull your head out of the sand and start dealing with the people around you. Like an adult! Dropping plant pots on people's head is not a way of pretending to work together.

( Pulling her hands away from her face, she smiles. )

So don't do that again. At all. To anyone. Except, possibly, that one zombi maker guy if he comes back. You've got permission to hit him over the head with pottery!

[ganking]

[ but collette, maybe he just wants to see you lose it. though the comment about scales doesn't make him happy. ]

Who says I was pretending anything? And if it's such a problem, maybe you should stick out've dangerous zones, kiddo. Ain't nobodies fault but your own if something happens when you're the one puttin' yourself in the line of fallin' debris.

[whatsupcroc]

( She regards her tablet with that smile still on her lips; she shakes her head after another thirty seconds. )

I can't figure out what it is you think you're doing here. I don't mean not fighting what the Initiative wants you to do, that's smart, it's probably one of the only smart things you do. I mean what it is you do here.

[ganking]

[ see this is why he tried to drop that flower pot on you. ]

How's it any of your business? And what does it even matter? I do what I do, and that's it.

[whatsupcroc]

You know, I'm starting to think part of why you don't like me is because you know I'm right half of the time!

[ganking]

[ HE LOOKS SO UNIMPRESSED. ]

Pretty sure I haven't heard a single smart thing leave your mouth in all these months.

[whatsupcroc]

( She snorts! )

I thought teenagers were the ones supposed to be infamous for selective hearing! You might want to get your ears checked out, make sure nothing weird's up with them. You know, like a loss in hearing, extra ear wax, broken hearing aids...

[ganking]

Only if I get to dump another pot on you.

[whatsupcroc]

Oh, and now you admit it? You're --

( insufferably stupid and making her friends worry )

-- so dumb!

[ganking]

[ shruuuug. ]

And you need to get a bit more creative with your insults. Or was that part damaged in your little accident, too?

[whatsupcroc]

( She grins. )

You want me to get more creative with insults?

[ganking]

Even you gotta admit they're a little lacking.

[whatsupcroc]

( She giggles. )

Why do I have to be good at insults?