MarieDavisRPs
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Somewhere in frickin' America, who knows where?
(OOC: This continues Kimmie Lang's story from here, which was her only post thus far.)
Kimmie Lang felt a hand jostle her foot, waking her from what felt like a long, satisfying sleep. The consistent and mesmerizing vibration and noise of the C-130 Hercules had vanished, and all she heard now was the shuffling of boots on steel aft of her as the crew and various other passengers made their way out of the plane and onto the tarmac.
"We're there?" she asked the Air Force enlisted man as he, too, headed aft. He didn't hear her apparently and continued onward, leading Kimmie to call out, "Where the hell are we?"
More than 20 hours ago, the cargo plane had left the South Pacific island; Kimmie had been working there for the past 14 months to earn her PhD and -- despite not being done -- had heard and accepted the call from NASA to join them as their Astrobiologist. It was her dream come true, particularly now that she was hearing stories about aliens coming to Earth!
The crew of the C-130 hadn't had much information to provide Kimmie, and there was a communications blackout as well. No one could tell her anything other than the rumor that the alien queen was meeting with the UN's Security Council in Bermuda for what was appropriately being called the Bermuda Summit.
At some point just after the Hercules was the recipient of a mid-air refueling, Kimmie had fallen asleep on a makeshift bed that one of the crew had fashioned for her, and she'd been out for the rest of the flight. Now, carrying her hastily packed bag, she descended the aircraft's ramp, expecting to find herself in either Houston, Texas, where NASA was based, or Cambridge, Massachusetts, where MIT -- her sponsoring university -- was located.
But when she got out onto the tarmac and looked for recognizable features, she found that she wasn't in either of those places. That was, of course, concerning.
But then she saw something -- or someone! -- that made her heart leap anxiously and her face go even paler than it normally was. Walking across the tarmac from yet another Hercules toward the terminal buildings was, of all the people in the world, Joseph Samson ... Kimmie's Ex!
She quickly turned her back to him, thinking -- hoping! -- that he hadn't seen her. It had been almost two years since they'd seen each other last. Joe -- who actually went by his nickname Brock -- had been deployed to some unnamable place that Kimmie had been certain was in a God forsaken desert or jungle somewhere, and although she'd known he could be gone for anywhere between 6 and 12 months, she'd told him that she would wait for him.
Then, four months later, Kimmie had been accepted into her PhD program, and without knowing when Joe might be back or -- honestly -- even caring, she'd packed up her shit and taken off for the South Pacific. She'd loved Joe, and she'd wanted to be with him, but she also wanted to be on one of the spacecrafts heading for the Moon or Mars, and her only chance of that was getting her PhD in Astrobiology.
As she stood there facing away from Joe, another soldier passed by. Again, she asked with desperation, "Where the fuck are we? Where is this?"
(OOC: This continues Kimmie Lang's story from here, which was her only post thus far.)
Kimmie Lang felt a hand jostle her foot, waking her from what felt like a long, satisfying sleep. The consistent and mesmerizing vibration and noise of the C-130 Hercules had vanished, and all she heard now was the shuffling of boots on steel aft of her as the crew and various other passengers made their way out of the plane and onto the tarmac.
"We're there?" she asked the Air Force enlisted man as he, too, headed aft. He didn't hear her apparently and continued onward, leading Kimmie to call out, "Where the hell are we?"
More than 20 hours ago, the cargo plane had left the South Pacific island; Kimmie had been working there for the past 14 months to earn her PhD and -- despite not being done -- had heard and accepted the call from NASA to join them as their Astrobiologist. It was her dream come true, particularly now that she was hearing stories about aliens coming to Earth!
The crew of the C-130 hadn't had much information to provide Kimmie, and there was a communications blackout as well. No one could tell her anything other than the rumor that the alien queen was meeting with the UN's Security Council in Bermuda for what was appropriately being called the Bermuda Summit.
At some point just after the Hercules was the recipient of a mid-air refueling, Kimmie had fallen asleep on a makeshift bed that one of the crew had fashioned for her, and she'd been out for the rest of the flight. Now, carrying her hastily packed bag, she descended the aircraft's ramp, expecting to find herself in either Houston, Texas, where NASA was based, or Cambridge, Massachusetts, where MIT -- her sponsoring university -- was located.
But when she got out onto the tarmac and looked for recognizable features, she found that she wasn't in either of those places. That was, of course, concerning.
But then she saw something -- or someone! -- that made her heart leap anxiously and her face go even paler than it normally was. Walking across the tarmac from yet another Hercules toward the terminal buildings was, of all the people in the world, Joseph Samson ... Kimmie's Ex!
She quickly turned her back to him, thinking -- hoping! -- that he hadn't seen her. It had been almost two years since they'd seen each other last. Joe -- who actually went by his nickname Brock -- had been deployed to some unnamable place that Kimmie had been certain was in a God forsaken desert or jungle somewhere, and although she'd known he could be gone for anywhere between 6 and 12 months, she'd told him that she would wait for him.
Then, four months later, Kimmie had been accepted into her PhD program, and without knowing when Joe might be back or -- honestly -- even caring, she'd packed up her shit and taken off for the South Pacific. She'd loved Joe, and she'd wanted to be with him, but she also wanted to be on one of the spacecrafts heading for the Moon or Mars, and her only chance of that was getting her PhD in Astrobiology.
As she stood there facing away from Joe, another soldier passed by. Again, she asked with desperation, "Where the fuck are we? Where is this?"