Look Out Santa Barbara

(beep) Hey, this is Jackie. *sings Marzipan style* Leave me a message and I'll get right back to you, hey! Leave me a message and I'll get right back to you, hey! Leave me a...(beep)

All voicemail, text messages, or phone calls can be directed at this post.

Rehearsals were always the best of times. Not for the singers and stage hands, but for Jacqueline one of the cleaning girls, it was a magical time. She paused, leaning on her broom in the wings, listening as the aria was reaching its highest point. Her eyes with a faraway look. Music always seemed like something other people created from nothing. Important, educated people who knew how to take marks on a page and turn it into songs.

She quickly snapped out of her reverie as the song was ending and the chorus kicked in, sweeping away from the chorus girls who were trickling on stage. If she was caught not working again, it wouldn't do to be fired and thrown out into the street. She was an orphan, came here as an orphan, and would likely always be where she was, sweeping the dust from the wooden floors.

"Moineau!" she flinched and scurried from the stage at the voice overhead. One of the stage hands, a thuggish man named Joseph had seen her lollygagging and was tromping along the catwalk to climb down. He took to ordering her around a little too much lately. At first, he had said he would look out for her, but lately he had been taking the back of his hand to her instead. Her nickname was petit Moineau or little sparrow and he used it like a swear word.

Jacqueline hurried away from the stage, hoping he would not catch her and he would forget. Not so, his large hand found her and pulled her aside with a firm grip. She knew better than to complain or beg, this was not the first time he had laid hands on her. Even now, she could smell the alcohol on him, putting him in a foul mood. A gasp escaped her as the back of his hand cut her lip in a sharp crack. "Too slow, Moineau, do you want to be tossed out with the trash again?" he hissed in her ear. None of the other people on stage were close enough to see or even care what was happening. Another slap across the face, a welt on her cheek. "Please, Monsieur Buquet," she tried to say but it was in vain. He had a head of steam and intended on taking it out on her.

Soon her face was a mass of lacerations and welts as she lay on the floor, cuts on her arms. The cruel man taking off his vest as he stood over her as if he was only getting started. She was barely awake but had not cried out during the whole ordeal. Fearing that he meant to kill her right there and now, she cried softly and tried to crawl away. "Not done with you, petit Moineau," he sneered, pulling her up by the collar of her blouse with a knife in one hand, a broken doll of a person. No one around to rescue her...

[from here]

( He was chained to the wall... )

[from here]

[He looked over at her, then at the bulge of her belly]

Are they establishing a fortress in there?

( cont. )

[texting Shawn]

There's SNOW OUTSIDE. Where R U?

"No! You can't!" Jackie was running alongside the Captain, trying to keep up with him. They, unlike everyone else, were running towards the crashing noises instead of away. She and him seemed to always be running towards danger instead of away from it.

But this time he wasn't coming back. That bomb in his hands was built to take out a planet eating blob monster and not even the Captain could escape a black hole. Even if he could come back to life. Jackie tugged at his sleeve as they pulled up next to building. "Please, don't do this. There has to be another..."

He was gripping her by the shoulders, giving his spiel again about how to take care of the Tardis and how to get back home. She pushed his hands away, not wanting to hear it. "Why does it have to be you?!" she yelled at him over the din of the crashing towering monster coming their way. It was unfair, she knew why it had to be him. Because he cared too much. Just like she did.

And then he was kissing her. Probably to shut her up but she wasn't thinking of that. She was flashing back to all their adventures together....

Opening her eyes, she could see him running towards the fifty foot and growing green blob that was tearing apart buildings and dirt in it's wake. "Captain, no!" She yelled, wanting him to come back but her feet wouldn't move.

It was then that she saw him go down....the plan curtailed by a flying two by four that was thrown from a building and smashed him into a wall. Jackie ran to his side, turning him over and ignoring the nearness of the beast coming for them. He had blood running down the side of his head but he was out cold. "Oh Captain, wake up....you have to-...."

She stopped. Looking up at the monster that was going to destroy the entire planet and everyone and everything on it. "You have to....stay here." Picking up the bomb in her hands, she bent down to kiss his forehead, wiping a tear away with the back of her hand. "It's been fun. Thank you." It didn't matter if he heard her or not, but she had to say it.

Walking slowly towards the greenish mass that was now 200 feet high and growling as it gobbled up any obstacle in it's way. "Hey you!" Jackie yelled, hugging the bomb to her chest. Just inside, she'd throw the switch, she had to remember that. "Come and get me!"

The Captain came around just in time to see Jackie sucked up into the greenish blob....a few seconds later, there was a loud bang and the monster imploded into itself till there was nothing left.


Nothing but a destroyed trail of buildings and an empty street.

ooc: so ends Captain Verse, segwaying this into Broken Verse :) written with much <3 for captain_flyboy

Pick one of the 25 and I'll write up....something...Let me know if you want me to include your character or if you want to do it an rpg form. If there's not one on the list I'll be happy to oblige with something else and if you want the inclusion of your character or another of mine that you know of... please let me know. (took out a few that I didn't want from the original meme and added a few of my own)

( pick a Jackie )

List of all muses available is here if you want someone other than Jackie.

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Wet. Confused and wet, that's the two words that stuck with her from all that Neo had been trying to tell her those last few seconds. The rest had gotten lost as she was pulled so far away, it seemed to take forever and no time at all in the same moment.

And then it was over.

Jackie tried to open her eyes and move but she felt distinctly like she was under water. Her hands reached around as if in slow motion, trying to find something....and found a tube stuck to the side of her stomach. Everywhere her hands moved, there were tubes or something similar and they all seemed to be attached to HER.
There had to be a way out of here, she didn't even know how she got in here in the first place. She could barely move, she felt so weak all over, but there was no way she was staying here. Her hands found the top of some sort of membrane, scratching at it and trying to get it open.

Something else broke it, not her. A giant metal claw reached in, puncturing the pod and pulling her out by the neck into the cold air. Jackie struggled against it in vain, blinking her burning eyes against the light and trying to make out the impossible robotic shape in front of her. She was choking against something down her throat.

It happened so fast, there was a hum of a drill and Jackie got the most incredible uncomfortable feeling right in the back of her neck before the robot dropped her back into the soup as if it was done with her. She choked and gagged, finally able to pull out the tube down her throat and breathe on her own.

She was having a hard time sitting up in the slippery pod being that A: she had no clothes and B: she was sitting in a slightly warmer than the air pinkish soup of sorts. Jackie tried to keep low with it up to her neck, shivering as she tried to look around.

....next to her was a person. In the same pod as her. And beyond it another. And another. Whole rows of people all hooked up. It stretched up so far she couldn't even see the end of the...building? they were attached to.

Coughing, she said hoarsely, "No...way..."

It was then that tubes started popping off of her arms and legs and the pod purged everything inside of it. Jackie managed to catch a breath before she went under again. The sides were too slippery on the tunnel, she couldn't get a grip.

And then she was falling....straight into freezing cold water. Hypothermia, that's all she could think of. Fighting the urge to panic, she remembered what her uncle told her about what to do if you fall through the ice and curled herself into a ball, still holding her breath. Amazingly, it worked, she floated to the surface slowly but her lungs ached, she thought she would never get there in time.

Something splashed into the water with her, grabbing her...Jackie couldn't help it, she panicked thinking it was another robot and accidentally inhaled some of the water.

Next thing she could remember was someone giving her mouth to mouth and waking up coughing on a very hard floor, shivering under a blanket.