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Post by dars on Feb 1, 2022 17:10:19 GMT -5

ARCHIE GRIGGS

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DISTRICT 6
TWENTY-TWO

what i need is the dandelion in the spring. the bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. the promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. that it can be good again.

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Post by dars on Feb 1, 2022 17:44:12 GMT -5

"Oh."

Poor Archibald Griggs has just been informed of his dear dad's death. Everyone in the room stares- he can't find it in him to care. His gaze looms forward, eyes locked onto Commander Abraham in the immediate aftermath of his dreadful delivery. His father is dead. His father died. Was killed. Murdered.

He scratches at the stubble on his cheek, takes a seat and leans his elbow against his knee.

Raymond Griggs was an absentee father. He was selfish. He was domineering. A vainglorious asshole who managed to insult everyone he came across. But he was a rich asshole, and when the battle lines were drawn in the sand, he didn't choose the side with the easy win. And, you know, he was still Archie's dad.

He's seen this coming- you almost have to. It stings regardless. No one is speaking- they're looking for something nice to say. Something in his father's memory. Nothing. He guesses it doesn't really matter: the war effort lives on and as long as they still have a Griggs who knows the passwords to the accounts, it doesn't matter. Archie huffs a singular laugh through the nose and then he leaves the room. He doesn't cry, and neither has anyone else by the time the automatic doors slide closed behind him.

Oh.

The compound is... sterile. Replacement Griggs over here might not be his father with the connections yet, but there's only so much you can fucking do when you're 21 and taking over as a major benefactor for a highly illegal rebel movement that- in some form- has existed now for well over a century. He thinks he did decent- the property was one his father purchased years ago with plans of building a cellular device factory. Instead, the warehouse sat empty in the industrial sector for decades, doing nothing except collecting dust and taking up space.

"Shoulda been me out there."

He blinks, illuminated blue by the brightness of Elliot's stasis chamber. He meant what he said. She was the kid wonder and he understood that, but Archie said then he didn't think she was ready and here they all are. It should have been him that day. And it should've been him who replaced her as well, but it wasn't.

He supposes he's known Elliot for the majority of his life, to some degree. They weren't friends, but no one is here for friends. They're here for something bigger than this. Than her, than him, than Raymond Griggs and all the money he left behind.

"Guess I'm glad it wasn't."

Looking at her floating there, he realizes he'd rather be dead.

"They're giving me a chance now, though." He wishes she'd open her eyes, if for no other reason than to roll them in his direction. She doesn't.

"Training with Baines starts tomorrow. 6 am. sharp-" he huffs a laugh from his nose. She didn't hear it, but that impression of Lt. Baines was pretty good.

"Wish me luck."

The steam from the showers leaves the entire locker room hazy. He's sat with a towel around his waist, so exhausted he doesn't know if he can stand up. Everything in his body aches from the training. There's not a single part of him not being asked to be improved upon to some degree. The connection link is the most important part of this. He needs to be as perfect as he can be in order for the connection to remain as stable as possible. Otherwise it is the long sleep in a science-fiction tube, floating there in a watery grave with a heart too stubborn to quit beating.

He watches Pi flinch off her coat and limp into a shower stall, turns his attention to Gloria pressing an ice pack to the enormous bruise on her left thigh. It's easy to think Abraham and Baines are killing them: beating them senseless and then sending them to fight in a war that- mind you- Archie is still doubtful they can ever win. But it's just like what it took for them to get here: Archie grew up with this rebellion, and it wasn't until he had nothing but the bones and the memories that he was allowed into the conversation.

They had to reduce them to their barest forms first: reduce them to husks bred for war. Then they could rebuild them just as they were needed.

He tries to stand and a wave of nausea forces him to catch his balance on the lockers.

"Same time tomorrow?" Gloria asks.

He smirks.

"It's a date."

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Deleted 0 POSTS last seen Apr 28, 2024 11:54:20 GMT -5	archie griggs. six \| fin Mar 11, 2022 18:08:11 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2022 18:08:11 GMT -5 "Training with Baines starts tomorrow. 6 am. sharp-" he huffs a laugh from his nose. She didn't hear it, but that impression of Lt. Baines was pretty good. I HEARD THAT BOY accepted <3