Video; Round-Trip Home

[ragnarsson]

[The video opens up with Ivar sitting on the edge of his bed, phone recording in one hand, and a knife being fiddled around with in the other. It's clear he's got something on his mind.]

So it turns out if you properly motivate people, they can get that portal fixed up to get you back home.

[It's best not to ask what motivation that was, but Ivar being Ivar, most everyone watching can probably figure it out.]

I'm going back home for a while to take care of some unfinished business. I left in the middle of a war and I need to see that through before I come back. [He pauses.] And don't bother trying to talk me out of this, I've already made up my mind. I'll see you all in two weeks.

[He waves goodbye with the knife and then cuts the video. Looks like the Quarantine has a reprieve from the crazy Viking for the next fourteen days. But he'll be back. Ivar's far too tough to do something as basic as dying back in his home world.]

Comments

[burntbridges]

I know war is a vacation for you! I know glory is the only thing death means to you unless it happens to someone you care for, I know killing others and showing your power over them makes you happy! I know this is going to be fun for you, and you know it too! Because at least I had the decency to listen when you speak, you ungrateful thoughtless bow-legged half-formed excuse for a man!

[She always manages to bring it back to his legs, doesn't she - it's the one weak spot that she's always had her grasp on. The one thing that she knows she can hurt him with, when he doesn't even have to try to whittle into her. She hasn't even finished her sentence before her eyes fill with tears, but she has one last weapon knowing she can stay far away from him until he's gone.]

I hope you come back to find Marco has moved on and lost interest. I hope you die out there and come back to stay in the hospital for a month while they fix your mangled body up. [She wrinkles her nose, in that way that she always does when she's grasping for straws.] And I hope someone pushes your father through the portal and you never see him again.

[And on that note, she shuts her feed off.]