Another accidental video - re-entry with a new canon point

[makeflowersgrow]

[Dirty fingers brush over the NV screen when it switches on, leaving bloody streaks across the screen. The whole video is vibrating; as the fingers move, a view of the Newcomer apartments from the baseball diamond is clearly visible. Whoever is holding the NV is clearly a newcomer and clearly in some kind of trouble.

After a minute, there's a shallow gasp and a moan; the voice is high pitched, obviously a girl's. The NV falls, and goes black; it's camera down in the dirt. But it lasts only a minute. The owner of the voice goes to pick up her NV, gasping in agony as her hand curls around the device. It's obvious why; there's a hole shot clean through her palm and out of the back of her hand.]

Marius? Marius, where are you?

[The voice has a heavy French accent when she speaks, and just for a minute, Eponine's face comes into view. It's dirty and tear stained. Her hair is a mess, greasy and tangled but that is the least of Eponine's concerns. She's forced herself into a sitting position, and one hand she presses to her chest, - a chest which is bleeding profusely. She gasps again, and sinks down onto the ground and out of sight of her NV.Without anything to support her weight, she can't keep herself upright any more. She knows she's dying, and tears wet her cheeks. She feels sick and dizzy and the world - wherever she is, fades in and out. She needs to see him before she dies. Her breathing is getting more and more shallow. She has to ask his forgiveness.]

Mariussss...

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video later

[towerlocked]

Eponine! What's happened?

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[makeflowersgrow]

[It is, again, later by the time Eponine answers, after surgery to close her wounds and mend the holes in her body. She's bandaged up now, and in a hospital bed, though she looks pale and exhausted.she sounds pleased, though, to hear from Snow.]


Madame! I had forgotten you! Do not worry for me though; I will live... Now.

[towerlocked]

I'm glad to hear it. It would grieve me if you were gone.

[makeflowersgrow]

Would it?

[There is genuine wonder in her voice.]

Well, I think I did die, when we went back in time... I thought I dreamed it when I awoke on the Rue Plumet, but this cannot be a dream for if I were not here, I know I'd be dead.

[towerlocked]

You died in your own world? [how could she not know that?]

[makeflowersgrow]

I was shot, Madame, a few hours ago.

[She sounds upset now, though there are no tears in her eyes. She's too tired for tears]

they were going to shoot Marius - I saw, and so I climbed, and I pushed him and put my hand on the gun, and the soldier fired. It went through here

[She holds up her bandaged hand, first touching her palm, and then the back.]

and then here,and then it went into my body here, and out behind.

[She gestures to a spot between her breasts.]

I fell; I couldn't hold on. But I fell here. I do not know how... But I could feel it on me, death. He was coming for me this time.

[towerlocked]

[Snow puts her hand over her heart in sympathy. It's such a horrible and tragic way to die, and yet she understands the motivation behind it. If anyone were to turn a hostile hand toward Chris, for example, she would readily step in the way]

I know not what the proper thing is to say...

[makeflowersgrow]

Neither do I.

[She shrugs and then grimaces from the pain]

there is no need to say -

[towerlocked]

You should rest. We can speak again when you feel better.

[makeflowersgrow]

Yes, that is a good idea - they gave me something and it makes me just want to sleep, Madame. But I will be... I do not know where I will go, Madame, now, but I will be around soon, and then we can have ice cream.

[That makes her grin] I was so sad when I thought I had dreamed ice cream. It is good to know it is real and I can eat it again.

[towerlocked]

I will look forward to it. Rest well, Eponine.