001: Slippery when wet

[dann_0]

WHO: Danny Williams
WHERE: Fountain/Inn
WHEN: Friday 17 -> 22
OPEN TO: All
WARNINGS: Some mentioning of violence, almost freezing to death and possibly some nudity once he gets inside somewhere warm and can change clothes

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Fountain/Inn Nov -17th
The cold water comes as a shock to Danny's system. He had been... well not really safe or sound for that matter but at least warm in Colombia. The last thing he remembered was calling Grace and talking to her before the guards had caught on and dragged him outside to deliver a beating. He had blacked out in the middle of it and now he is surrounded by freezing water. He blinks and sees the light far above him. It feels too far but he has no choice but to swim for it. An eternity later he breaks the surface and gulps in cold air. He can see the edge of the pool and swims for it even as he can feel his strength leaving him by the second. He manages to pull himself out of the fountain, soaking wet and for a moment he just kneels at the side of it, looking around the area.

He wants to just lay down and rest, he feels so tired. And cold. His whole body shakes with the cold and it is hard to think and to breathe. But he sees a house with lights and he feels like he can almost feel the warmth reaching for him. He somehow manages to get to his feet and stumbles towards the inn. By the time he gets to the door, he doesn't have enough strength left to raise his hand and push the door open and instead he just collapses against it.

After he gets dragged inside and changes to warm and dry clothes he will be hiding next to the most convenient heat source until he feels human again.

Inn+Outside Until 22nd
Danny spends a lot of time at the Inn. Even days later he feels like he hasn't quite gotten warm again and he likes staying somewhere it is nice and warm. The fact that there are people here who can explain where he is and what is happening is a bonus as well. After a few days, he starts to get a little bit of cabin fever though and packs on as much clothing as he can before he sets out to explore the village and get a feel for the place.

Comments

[super_seal]

"Tw-Twenty fifteen?" Steve's eyes go big and his mouth gapes open. He tries to form words but nothing comes out. It's unbelievable. Even with the others here who told them when they were from, he hadn't really believed but with Danny... Now he can see that the small differences are partially due to age, even if it's only been three years... Jesus! Three months shy of three years. His hands drop to his sides as the impact of that fully hits him. "I... It..." He frowns and shakes his head. "I don't know why. You're from my future. Almost three years. I was bringing Wo Fat back from Japan..." His face scrunches up, confused. "I must have went missing bringing him back...?"

[dann_0]

He makes a face at the twisted ankle and then nods. "I see. Yeah, that sucks. How long have you been here?" He settles into his chair, seemingly not caring about going outside anymore. He is pretty sure she was here when he arrived, but he doesn't really remember much of the first night. He offers her his hand. "Danny Williams, by the way."

Inn, 17th

[elderflowermacarons]

He runs into everyone eventually. Taako haunts the place a bit. He cooks, he delivers some of his fishing catches when there's extra, he keeps an eye on comings and goings, but something about him always manages to exude a sort of disreputability that suggests he's up to no good. A fact of himself that Taako wears proudly. He almost always is, after all.

"You just crawl out of the world's least convenient portal or is the drowned rat thing just a look?" Shrill and faintly smug, it isn't a voice that tends to sooth its hearers. The man it belongs to certainly doesn't, short and wispy, sharp-featured, looking about to drown in his three feet or so of hair, is uncanny enough on his own. He doesn't look that interested in the answer, just making conversation as he wanders toward the fire.

[theluckygirl]

Claire's gaze moves to Danny's face and she stands so he can see her face.

"What happened? You're recovering from hypothermia. So do me a favour and take it easy for a bit longer, alright?" she told him. "How that happened, well that's a story that may sound pretty crazy.

How about we start with something else first. Tell me how you're feeling."

[littledhampir]

She shrugged her shoulders as if it was no big deal. As far as injuries go? She'd had worse, but the timing kind of sucked. She wouldn't mind exploring on a busted ankle if she had some kind of idea what was out there.

"Rose Hathaway." Accepting his hand. "Got here the day before you." She'd seen him getting dragged in out of the cold and wondered if her own arrival had seemed quite as spectacular, her memories of it still hazy at best.

"You didn't miss much. Mine involved more clothes." The hint of a smirk touching her lips.

[dann_0]

"What? No that is impossible. You made it back. I left you back in Hawaii a few days ago." Danny frowns. Is Steve messing with him? But why would he? And with all the other stuff going on here, is it really that unbelievable? "But.. How long have you been here?"

Re: Inn, 17th

[dann_0]

Danny blinks up at Taako, his brain still feels like it is moving a bit slow thanks to the ice bath he had had early. "I felt like going for a swim." He answers looking at the guy like he is crazy.

"Why? You wondering how you can get this look?"

Outside 20th

[chosenbytheocean]

"No. It isn't." Moana's home was technically part of the Samoan islands though a little less well known since it was the name of a town, not the whole island.

She smiled a bit when he stepped out of her path. "The inn. I was going to make some fish soup." She looked up a Danny with a curious glint in her large dark eyes. "Do you want some?" If he wanted some then she was going to volunteer him to help her make it. If he was from Hawaii then he probably knew something about fish and if not, Moana can teach him.

She taught a lot of people in the village.

[babyhunter]

Clary stared at his chest before pulling the snuggies over his shoulders. She then took his wet clothes and laid them out next to the fire to dry. "Yeah. No problem. Sort of a sucky time to show up here." She took a seat next to him and gently put the back of her fingers against his forehead. Clary had no idea if they had any medicine here, it wasn't something she had asked about.

"Just don't get sick." There was a small plea in her voice that mixed with worry and relief.

"I'm a pretty awful cook but I can see if there is tea or soup in the kitchen. If not I can boil water." Drinking hot water might not be ideal but he'd be able to warm from the inside out so that was something.

[super_seal]

Running a hand through his hair, Steve shakes his head. "Dammit! Others had said that people were grabbed from different times... I didn't fully believe..." Looking back a Danny his face is pinched in a pained expression. "A little over two months, roughly. Last thing I remember is flying the Yakuza chopper over the ocean with Wo Fat as my prisoner. Then the well. No Wo Fat. No Chopper. Mary arrived about a month ago... Last thing she remembers is being on the plane when I sent her back home after she'd been kidnapped. She doesn't remember coming to Hawaii with the flight attendant job or being set up to smuggle the diamonds. I thought she repressed the memory or something but..."

Swallowing, Steve looks over his partner again, concern still in his face. "Danny, why were you in a Colombian prison? What happened?"

[dann_0]

He frowns and lays back down. "How? I was in Colombia. This is not Colombia." He does seem to relax a little, he still doesn't have a lot of energy.

"I am... actually not cold. And my brain feels... slow."

[dann_0]

He raises an eyebrow. Then he realizes she is probably talking about the wet clothes being peeled off him. He blushes slightly and shakes his head. "Yeah, I am not planning on repeating that if I can help it."

He looks around and then back at her. "You know anything about what's going on here?"

[littledhampir]

She lifts her shoulders in a shrug like him stripping was no big deal to her. "Shame. From what I could tell that's the closest thing to excitement they get around here."

Rose blows out a stream of air, brushing her long hair back over her shoulder and gives a non-commital shake of her head in reply.

"Depends on who you talk to. Somebody told me we're like a bunch of lab rats and this is a really big cage. It's half science, half magic, half..." That was one two many halves. "Psychotic serial killer antics if you ask me. We're either experiments, prisoners or kidnap...ees." Or as she was starting to think, all of the above.

Outside 20th

[dann_0]

"Sure, I've survived being Kamekona's guinea pig for five years I am sure I'll survive whatever fish soup is." He smiles at her and follows her towards the inn. "How do you make it?"

Outside 20th

[chosenbytheocean]

Moana looked over at him while a crooked smile pulled across her lips. "It's soup with fish in it." Her tone was light and just a little bit teasing. "I'm Moana. You arrived a few days ago." She spent most of her time between the Inn and her boat which was moored in the second village. The cold weather had prevented her from returning to the boat when she planned. She's going to wait a few days and make sure that it was clear before heading out.

"Mostly it's just fish and water. It's called Sua I'a where I'm from but you need coconut to make it properly. Without that it's just fish and onion soup. I put potato in it once but it wasn't as sweet as it's supposed to. Someone told me to try yams... I think that's what they're called so I was going to see if the inn had any of those."

[dann_0]

"Soup sounds pretty good. Reminds me of hiding from shitty winter days in Jersey." He smiles at her. "But you don't have to. I'd rather you'd tell me where we are and what happened to me?"

Then he offers her his hand. "I am Danny by the way"

[elderflowermacarons]

"Can tell you one thing. I'd make it look good." Which is, if absurd, arguably true, if you're into fragile and weird. Though his own exit from the fountain was more of a bedraggled scarecrow kind of affair, aesthetically speaking. He didn't have time to prepare.

[dann_0]

Danny tries to follow everything that Steve is telling him and he frowns, taking a few seconds to sort through all the questions in his head. The easiest would be to answer Steve's question.

"Remember Mattie? He was involved with a Colombian drug cartel. Some guy comes and threatens him and says Mattie owes him money and that I have to give it to him. When you and I go to deliver the money turns out the guy had killed Mattie ages ago. I get pissed and kill him and then a while later the CIA shows up. Turns out the guy was an informant for them so they are not too happy with everything."

[dann_0]

"Lab rats? How would that even work? I am not exactly seeing any doctors or lab coats? How would they keep watch? Is this some sort of sci fi bullshit?" He is still finding it all hard to believe, but then again it seems impossible that he'd be here yet here he is.

Re: Outside 20th

[dann_0]

"Yams or sweet potato. You're used to them being all orange inside right? Potatoes, like I am used to them, are white or pale yellow inside. They are not sweet at all."

He nods. "I did arrive a few days ago. In the middle of the snowstorm. That is not something I recommend doing."

[dann_0]

Danny raises an eyebrow. "Something looking good is a subjective thing though." He grins a little. "I'm Danny, you are?"

[elderflowermacarons]

"Not when I'm in the room it's not." There's some falseness to that bravado. He lost a lot of his looks after Wonderland and its nasty lich overlords, but he's still not bad, certainly, and faking it until everybody buys it is a common tactic of his. "Taako," he adds disinterestedly, making no attempt to remember the name.

[super_seal]

At Mattie's name, Steve crosses his arms and nods. He liked the younger man when he'd met him last year, but he knows it was a rough time for Danny when he suddenly took off and that Danny's been worrying about his brother since. The more Danny talks, the stronger aneurysm face pulls on his features.

"First, you know you didn't have a choice right? That if the cartel came after you now for money they'd come after you again in the future. They don't just stop. If you wouldn't have killed him, then I would have." Of that Steve has no doubt. Just the idea that this madman threatened Danny. Next time he'd go after Grace, and that was just unacceptable. One less scumbag in the world seemed like a good thing to him. Then, Steve bites his lower lip. "So the CIA extradited us for killing their informant? We should have been able to fight that..." It's an assumption that he was there with Danny as there's no doubt in Steve's mind that if Danny was in the prison, Steve had been there with him, or Danny wouldn't have gone.

[littledhampir]

Rose fixed with him with a look that assured she'd reached the limit of her speculative powers and shrugged. "Hell if I know. Not my theory. I don't even care what this is, I just want out." She took the hands-on approach to dealing with problems. "Failing that... five minutes in a room with whoever is behind it."

[dann_0]

Danny laughs and then nods. "Maybe not." He shrugs. Taako isn't exactly his type but he knows better than to tell the guy that.