Jaeger Pilot Bianca S.

"You can fight the hurricane. You can win."

[caravaggiocupid]

Aurora Wings Unfold

[pearlfoxtrot]

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Armand followed her hands with his gaze until her soft fingers started gliding on his jaw. His eyes half-closed as he was reminded of how differently Bianca touched from his other lovers. Everything was gentle with her, and yet before you knew it, she had you exactly where and how she wanted. If it was sorcery, it was one he willingly submitted to. He shivered when she touched his lashes, and his half smile grew full.

He captured her hand on his chest and kissed her wrist “Yes. Where I will end you will begin. Bloodlust shall drive us and affection bind us together. I am glad the kaijus are evil. We will have no remorse when we take them apart and revel in our secret nature, the one we push down so hard when we cling to our humanity”

He grabbed her by the waist, lifting her high “I will teach you everything I know so all are in awe of… what should we call the jaeger? I’m certain you will have a poetic idea. What about Venetian Curls? Mmm, no. We need something less soft”

Delighting herself in the cold touch of her lips against her wrist, she received his words with avid ears, her gaze ablaze, marveled and eager “Oh, you have worded it precisely, dearest, Isn’t this a task much suitable for those like us? It shall be a delight to join you, yes”

A gasp came out of her followed by a soft laugh when she found herself lifted effortlessly by Armand’s hands. Armand, her boy, her friend and her lover, was perhaps the only person in the world capable of erasing completely all her worries. A part of her was alway watchful, always in guard, but not around him, with him she felt joyful, free, even juvenile.

Easily entrusting herself to his hands she smiled widely “Everyone will be in awe for just seeing me walking into it, dearest,” she said with amusement very palpable in her voice “I will think of something... but now put me down or carry me properly in your arms so we can go to see our Jaeger”

[caravaggiocupid]

Aurora Wings Unfold

[pearlfoxtrot]

caravaggiocupid:

Armand was momentarily lost in the softness of her lips, which matched so perfectly her kind heart when it came to him. He missed them already when she pulled away “There is no need for apologies. You have always only shown me the caring side of yourself. I know about your ruthlessness only from how you dealt with those that would have harmed you. You have been my friend and lover and confidante, it shouldn’t be that much of a stretch for our minds to connects when our heart and bodies are already acquainted”

The redhead took her hand and twirled her in place with a laugh “Nothing? I shall remember those words” He caught her, arms around her waist, serious “I cannot stop piloting. You know I go stir crazy without some excitement. If I don’t pilot a jaeger, I’ll find something else that is outrageously dangerous to do. Would you not rather have an eye on me? I will be safe with you. Well, as safe as driving a giant hulking man of metal against eldritch horrors can be called safe” He admitted softly “When I pilot, it gets me out of my head, paradoxically. It’s…relaxing”

She followed her lead giggling into a graceful twirl, her arms coming to rest on his shoulders after it. With a knowing smirk, she listened to the words she had expected leaving his lips.

“I can’t have that, certainly. though is difficult to think something more outrageously dangerous that what you already do” idly her hand disarranged some auburn threads “yet, I will make sure it’s quite safer now” she giggled softly “at least, as safer as that can be”

Sobering her expression her hand reached his face, knuckles trailing his jawline and her thumb caressing his cheek as her gaze took in every line of his features, finally resting over the long eyelashes that she touched too, very gently with her fingertips before letting her hand settle on his chest. Her gaze peering into his eyes.

“I will take care of you and you will take care of me, won’t you?” she stated softly as a vow “You will teach me this time, everything I must know. You will lead me through battlefield and victory, and we will rise over the blood spilled at our feet. Together always and always unafraid.” she smiled, “Those monsters are hideous enough that I feel no sympathy for them nor remorse over their annihilation, it should be fun”

[caravaggiocupid]

Aurora Wings Unfold

[pearlfoxtrot]

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Armand was surprised “You know we are compatible? Why did you not say anything before I started my ill-fated match with Benji then? I would have preferred drifting with you a thousand times over” 

He picked one of her slender hands in his “I know you Bianca. I know that behind your gentle smile and charming words is a ruthless mind. I knew you as a murderer and courtesan. You know what you want and how to get it, and you don’t shy away from the difficult choices that might litter the way. We are much alike you and I” He touched her face with fondness “I also know you as a friend and once mentor” He smiled, thinking of the time they had spent learning about one another in the brothel “I trust you. I know that if you tell me: I am ready to pilot a jaeger, then you mean it. You would not put me in danger and you would refuse to step into one unprepared”

His eyes shone “If we pilot together, we will be beautiful and dangerous. We will need to rename the jaeger of course, to herald the beginning of a new era” Armand hoped that this would be the last one, the one that would last “So what say you?”

His words softened her gaze and brought an affected smile to her face. She shouldn’t have doubted he would know her truly, since it was true they were so alike, creatures with a tender charade and ruthless soul. Others would fall in the deception, but not them. They could see through it into each other and love each other even so, as their truly were. She leaned into his tender touch, placing her hand atop of his, reveling in the intimacy she had dared to forget.

“I wouldn’t, never, that’s for certain... all you have said it's true, dearest. I apologize for disbelieving in you and in us, truly, I should have known better." She stood then, taking his hand from her face she held them both between them as she placed a gentle, chaste kiss on his lips as emphasis for her words and apologies.

“My dearest, there is not way I can possibly refuse you when you have that shine in your eyes”  She stated, fond smile curving her lips as she stared into his eyes “All I really want, is you to be safe though. If I say no, is there any possibility that you may forget this and step aside from the Pilot forces all together?" She was all too sure it was a hollow effort, but it might be the only opportunity she will had and she had to try it.

[caravaggiocupid]

Aurora Wings Unfold

[caravaggiocupid]

Armand felt instantly better, surrounded by her warm presence. “I know, I know, you told me he was too young and rash and you were right. I kept trying to lead, smoothly and I thought, daringly enough to keep us in sync. He on the other hand kept spiking in the drift, pulling sharply to do ill-advised actions in a split second. I am pretty certain us piloting together is never to be again. After the last stunt he pulled that nearly brought the jaeger to its knees, I chewed him out and one thing led to another, he called me cunning but without drive, only fit to follow, and I said he was full of bravado without the wits to back it up” Armand mussed his hair again “. I might have brought up Daniel. I think we will not talk for years and I am out of commission until I can find someone to drift with”

He looked from under his fringe “Say, have you ever thought of piloting? We are the same age, give or take a few years, and we share a past and a maker. It could work. We could be drift compatible. Well, if you think you can put up with me. I’m sure you would make my numbers look splendid” He gave Bianca his best dazzling smile, toying with a strand of her hair

[pearlfoxtrot]

 Her eyebrows raised as he started telling the story, his eyes widening when he described the argument and finally a soft “oh” came out of her lips at the mention of Daniel. A messy fight it had been no doubt about it, she shook her head letting it drop for a moment, golden locks waving with the movement.

When she looked at him again she met with a look she knew all too well, and about she was to scold him for trying to charm her into whatever he was about to ask, when he made the question.

“Oh, I know we are drift compatible, dearest, without doubt,” she said, sighing and still giggling, unable to resist his charms. She squeezed his hand for a moment and stepped back, leaning on the couch’s arm as a seat. She pondered the question for a moment, her voice somehow sobered when she spoke again “I never suggested it because I didn’t think you wanted me in the drift with you...why I mean is, are you sure you trust me for this? We can’t go there if you are not confident about this, about me” She could fight, and she wasn’t afraid to get her hands dirty, so to speak. Yet she was aware, that by her own choice, most people would never believe she could put up a physical fight, let alone against a Kaiju.

[caravaggiocupid]

Aurora Wings Unfold

Armand looked at his drift suit wistfully, and then closed the door of the storeroom with a sigh, wondering if he would ever wear it again. Another of his partnerships had disintegrated violently and he was not sure Benji would talk to him for a century after the fight they just had. More importantly, he had no one to drive the jaeger with anymore. As he left the room with his hands in his pockets, avoiding the gaze of anyone that might try to ask about his plans for the future, Armand mentally tallied who he could potentially be drift compatible with, and who among those few would put up with his mercurial thoughts. Marius dominated the link and made it impossible to drive efficiently. The very thought of touching minds with Lestat made him recoil. He didn’t know how Daniel did it in fact. The redhead wondered if his ex-lover had picked the hotheaded pilot just to spite him after the fiery end of their association. Sybelle was too unstable to drift with. Maybe he should approach Louis? As his options dwindled, panic at the idea he would never pilot again gripped him.

Armand turned the corner sharply, passing the data analysis room. In front of multiple screens was a warm golden flash of hair that the screens bluish light didn’t manage to lessen. The data analyst’s soft face was closed in a look of intense concentration and Armand broke into an affectionate smile. Bianca. Even if he had wished to sidle out of the laboratory without talking to anyone, Bianca was an exception. Besides, if he never came back, he would never get to see her again. Armand approached her and tapped on the screen with a large smile ‘’Mmm, bad numbers. Cherub Zulu is really out of control these days. No wonder he is out of a partner’’

[pearlfoxtrot]

She had spent the best part of that night staring at the screens unhappily. When she thought about taking a break from Kaijus and battles footages to concentrate instead on the records of pilots and candidates for the Night ops she wasn't expecting the amount of exercises, test, simulations and even interviews recorded, uneven to the small size of their program. These new Jaegers were state of art technology, it was understandable they wanted to collect as much information as possible in case of any abnormality and for the sake of the research and development of the program. Still, this level of vigilance made her wary. She had half the mind to push on the matter using her gifts if it were necessary, but such was against the conduct code, which she had already bended to get all this tapes. Even more significant, though, was that she had other priorities in his mind at the moment. To look for potentials partners for Armand.

Now the auburn vampire was in the screen, suited up and next to Benji, conducting routine checks in the Drift and the Jaeger’s systems. She had the charts and results on paper too, and she felt as if she knew their procedures by heart. She was observing the screens attentively nonetheless when the real Armand entered the room with news that didn’t quite surprised her.

“Your numbers are always good, dearest,” She said pausing the footage, standing to greet him. A quick a hug, two kisses on his cheeks and a warm smile that lingered on her lips like her hands on his arms “Though you know my opinion on Benji as your partner”

They had talked about it before. Benji was too young in the blood and it was Bianca opinion that better compatibilities were found on those of similar capabilities, among other criteria. Even being Marius’ fledgling, Benji couldn’t measure against Armand, and Bianca was sure the young vampire was a drag in the drift. Their compatibility worked just fine, but it could be better, and given he was up to the task of fighting Kaijus she wanted only the best for him.

“Are you sure this will be definitive? what happened?”

[pearlfoxtrot]

After responding to the last text message, she put her mobile aside and mentally pressed the play button on the remote near her. The three screens in front of her came to life showing differents angles of the same scene; A Jaeger battled a level 3 Kaiju surrounded by the clean blue waters under the bright sun just about a mile away from the coast.

Just a couple of minutes after her mobile buzzed again and she paused the video footage once more. Apparently, her contact in the Academie was having troubles with the new recruits that were hoping to join the Special Night Ops as Jaeger pilots. It wasn't a surprise. Since they had joined the humankind efforts against the Kaijus it had become clear for her that making drift compatibilities work will be a significant issue. Piloting Jaegers subjected the mind to great pressure and immortals minds were capable of better processing bigger loads of information, certainly. However, there were a number of cons too; stronger personalities, a marked sense of being, trained secrecy and distrust, and the memories brought to the drift, sometimes centuries of them, that in most cases weren't easy to just pass by.

She answered the text and focused on the screens again. Their artificial light were all the illumination in the room, but it was enough for her. She wrote down her notes on the clipboard she held on her hands without even bothering to lower her gaze. When the quick sound of a knock on the door interrupted in the room she sneered but didn't pause the footage neither averted her gaze.

"Yes. Come in" she said out loud, keeping her voice friendly.

[newt-the-groupie]

Spotting her seated at one of the Mess tables the biologist swaggered his way over trying to look impressively Scientific.  Newt slid smoothly down onto the bench across from her and leaned to prop his elbow on the table.  “Well hello, pretty lady, do you come here – shit.”  His line was unable to finish due to his elbow sliding right off the edge of the table and it nearly caused Newt to topple out of his seat.  So much for a smooth introduction.

[pearlfoxtrot]

Bianca observed the man as he took a seat in front of her. He was hardly the first mortal trying to impress her around here, but he was the first that had actually succeeded, even if not for the reasons he would have desired. Leaning back slightly, she offered a cordial smile when she recognized him from the security files she had glanced over a while ago.

“Dr. Geiszler, am I right? Good evening” she said, collecting the various documents scattered on the table into a neat pile “Just yesterday I was reading your work on the standards and variations of Kaiju tissues through different levels”

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