#artemisxmia

[meiakrp]

COMMUNICATION RECIEVED FROM GHOST

                        happy birthday @artemisxmia​

[miaremy]

⇜ a shot without the aim ⇝

so far being a junior agent is great. he's actually, legally allowed in the labs-- the weapons labs, not the labs labs, because fuck those --and he legally gets to work with alistair and gaeul. there are so many tools at his disposal that he hardly knows what to do himself. so many ideas whir through his head at once that he can't even make sense of them half the time, so he's not nearly as productive as he'd like to be. he figures it's kind of a learning curve, even for someone that learns as fast as he does, and he'll adjust quickly to the new environment and new tasks.

he figures he should focus on building something useful, like a weapon, instead of the bullshit he made before when he was bored-- not that some of that wasn't useful. it's just different now, having a role he actually cares about, knowing he can contribute something to meia that other people can't, and that they'll actually really listen to him now.

building the weapon is the easy part. the focusing is more difficult, especially because everything is great except baram, who just so happens to be working close to him at this present moment.

jj honestly doesn't really know what their problem is. sometimes it seems like baram wants to be his friend, and sometimes he's pissed off at him for no reason. sometimes jj thinks he's cool and then baram makes everything about himself for no reason, and that irritates the hell out of jj. it's like baram is always begging for a fight, and jj is prone to banter at best, so matters...rarely go well between them.

jj is trying though. he doesn't want to make alistair as angry with him as jinx was, or get kicked off of this team before he really starts, and he doesn't want to make too much trouble for haneul, either. so he's trying not to fight baram, and that generally means not talking to him, but jj can only go without talking for so long, and there's something that's been bothering him.

well, lots of things about baram bother him, but that's not the point. the point is, baram's enhancement is really fucked up. it isn't just the headaches and occasional bloody nose typical for those with mind enhancements; it makes him sick. jj also heard murmurs about his dad working for kaiser, too, and jj doesn't want to assume-- okay, he assumes a lot actually, and a lot of times he's right. this time, though, he acknowledges that it could just be projecting.

he's still coming to terms with the fact that he was probably kaiser's science experiment, and that he has no way to prove it. all he has are dreams and this sick feeling in his gut when he thinks of the man's face, or spends too much time in the med wing, or sees a needle or a scalpel or lights are too bright or a room is too white. there's nothing concrete, and even if there was, it doesn't fucking matter because he still can't remember any of it. it doesn't matter because no matter how much insider information he wants to give the head agents, he may never know what happened to him in there, and that makes him feel sick too.

he doesn't know why it matters if people experimented on baram too. they're both here, and their brains are both broken because of it, even if they're still enhanced.

he doesn't want to admit that maybe he just wants someone to understand, even if it's baram of all people, so instead he'll pretend he's just investigating to find his own answers about what might've been done to him.

"hey, baram, your dad worked for kaiser, right?" he starts, no beating around the bush whatsoever. jj rarely does. "okay, i know that's kind of a weird thing to ask so i'll tell you why i'm asking. kaiser is why my memory is gone. well-- i guess i don't know that, but do you ever just...know something in your gut? and if you're right everything in your head makes sense, mostly? it's like that."

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[meiakrp]

E N T E R I N G C O D E N A M E  … AGENT ARTEMIS YOUR IDENTITY HAS BEEN CONFIRMED  WELCOME HOME, AGENT

Agent ARTEMIS is enhanced and has been assigned to team CROW

ACTION REQUIRED ;  please follow and welcome your fellow agent.

a demon has you and your team cornered. your medic is down and you’re running out of energy. you notice that there is a way to escape but it would mean leaving your team. what do you do? be honest.  

RESPONSE RECORDED BELOW

he scoffs, an almost amused sound, the expression on his face confused and easygoing, as if the question sits as a runner-up for most superfluous inquiry that's ever been presented to him.

"what, do people answer this like 'i'd go - better one of us lives than everybody dies?'," he lets out another comfortable puff of air and leans back in his chair, toying absentmindedly with a well-worn charm bracelet around his wrist, "i'm not leaving them behind, if that's what you're asking. listen, you see a way out, you let everybody know.

"first of all," he continues proudly, with that air of arrogant genius that seems to sit permanently on the cuff of his sleeve, sitting forward and resting his elbows on the table, as if he might challenge his interviewer to a game of go at any moment, "it's one demon. if my team can't take on one demon, then, i dunno, death has been a long time coming. we blow the sucker's head off, carry our medic outta there, and make it home before dessert. simple, easy, not stupid."