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Ianto Jones ([personal profile] torchwoodteaboy) wrote2010-08-29 03:17 pm
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[RL WITH SULU]

The past few days had been exciting ones, and definitely not in the way that Ianto would have predicted them to be when he'd first set foot on the boat. They should have known that there would be something wrong with this, but how were they to know that Sulu saying that nothing could go wrong after what they'd accomplished on the first night would come back to quite literally haunt them, as it were? Because there really was no denying it anymore. There'd been enough talk about what else had going on in other people's cabins enough to know that it wasn't just their suite. The whole ship was buzzing about it, and though everyone was reporting different things happening, there was really no doubt about it. Regardless of whatever was causing it, the place was haunted.

Ianto'd tried ignoring it. He'd tried rationalizing it, and any other number of things to keep from admitting that what they had were ghosts on their hands. There was really just no denying it anymore. What had started out as objects moving every once and a while, and strange sounds in the night had turned a lot more active over the next few nights, the hot water switching itself off as Ianto was showering, their suitcases emptied out all over the suite while they slept. Ianto'd made sure that the door had been locked each time, and had even taken to sleeping with the key in his shorts pocket, but it wasn't any use. The door hadn't been opening to let anyone in--whatever was happening in the suite, it wasn't coming from the outside.

What had started out as them trying to make the best of their vacation had ended up with, well, at least Ianto being very wary of his surroundings, and of what could possibly go wrong with them. As much as he'd like to initiate something more with Sulu, the idea that they would be watched while they did was...more than a little bit of a turn-off. He hoped that Sulu understood, as it was.

Sulu, for his part, seemed to be taking this whole ghost thing pretty hard. Because paranormal things were sort of right up Ianto's alley, considering that he worked for Torchwood and all, he was trying his hardest to be a good Torchwood officer, keep a level head for the other man, and not freak out at anything that might have otherwise given him pause. Sulu hadn't admitted to being frightened of these ghosts, but. Ianto could tell that he was definitely a lot less comfortable with the thought of them being around than even Ianto himself was. It was almost nice, to be able to be there for Sulu like he had to be because of these hauntings. Almost.
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[personal profile] parked 2010-09-28 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sulu was a rational man. He was very good at rationalizing almost anything, really, with the right amount of evidence. Unfortunately, though, he was also a little superstitious, and he'd been raised to have a healthy fear of the paranormal. So, after the creepy first night, Sulu had been a little more cautious about the situation - surprised and creeped out more often than he would have liked, given how nice the room had seemed before things began being moved around without their knowledge, before they heard strange noises, before people began talking about all the ghosts they'd interacted with...

Sulu did everything in his power to keep his jitters to himself, to keep Ianto from noticing just how much this sort of thing freaked him out - he knew that he was doing a shit job of it, but he was grateful that Ianto at least pretended not to notice. It was a nice gesture; one that Sulu appreciated more and more as he continued to get spooked by footsteps, knocking on the walls, water pressure changes, lights flickering - ugh.

The worst part, Sulu had to think, was that there was no way to hide out from the eerie phenomena. The entire ship was haunted during the night; during the day, it was fine, but that was hardly a consolation. In fact, it just made the nights more unbearable. And no amount of reassurance from Ianto could... well, could really stop the fear. That was the worst part.

The only place that seemed the "least" haunted, as far as Sulu was concerned, was the shower. The water pressure sometimes changed, pelting him with hard water; other times, the water temperature would drop to freezing or up to scalding, but honestly... That really was the worst that could happen. At least, that's what Sulu kept telling himself, especially tonight as he got ready to take a shower. A few minutes respite, he figured.
Edited 2010-09-28 23:02 (UTC)
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[personal profile] parked 2010-09-29 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Sulu swore loudly as the water changed from lukewarm to ice cold, quickly moving to rinse out the shampoo; the water, however, chose that moment to shut off completely, leaving him with soap in his eyes and a string of swears coming out of his mouth. He grabbed a towel and went to the sink, feeling around until he finally turned on the faucet, rinsing out the soap and then stepping back. He heard Ianto calling out his name - sounding... no, he just sounded strained, maybe like he was expecting something.

"Yeah?" he called back, trying to blink his eyes and only managing to get more soap in them. He leaned over to splash water in his face and felt a cold chill run up his spine - deeper than anything the water could have caused. Shuddering a bit, he forced himself to not turn around, and absolutely refused to look into the mirror. Who knew what might be looking back at him from behind?
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[personal profile] parked 2010-09-29 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Sulu leaped away from the sink as the door flew open, one hand grabbing the towel he'd wrapped around his waist, the other flailing ineffectually as he realized the following things: 1) you could not hit a ghost, so punching was useless; 2) Ianto was not a ghost and therefore not someone to hit; and 3) Ianto had run into the bathroom and was now panicking against the door.

Pausing, Sulu gulped and tried to give Ianto a casually curious look. It failed utterly as his expression revealed just how freaked out he was by Ianto's sudden appearance. "Ianto? - What happened?"
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[personal profile] parked 2010-09-29 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Sulu reached forward as Ianto gasped for breath, putting a hand on his shoulder. He could feel his own shoulders tensing as worry and a healthy dose of fear filled him, Ianto's expression and panic doing nothing to help him out. When Ianto moved and grabbed his arm, he switched hands easily, grabbing the towel tight in his other hand and letting Ianto pull him.

Because, the fact of the matter was that if Ianto was freaking out - Ianto, the one who dealt with things that were far more paranormal than the things Starfleet dealt with, who had damned ghost machines for crying out loud, was panicking, and that made Sulu even less eager to stay in the room than he had been before.

"Okay," he said quickly, "All right." He didn't want to ask what had happened - he didn't want to know. He knew he should probably grab some clothes, but... fuck it.
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Sulu almost made a grab for a pair of jeans lying crumpled by the bed, then thought better of it as Ianto continued to pull him towards the parlor - if Ianto was going to run out of the room in his shorts like that, Sulu was positive he could deal with being in a towel. He'd never seen Ianto this before; Sulu hadn't realized that Ianto's rationalization and general level-headedness had been the ground he'd needed during this entire haunting, to keep him from panicking too badly, but now that it was all but gone, he was quickly seeing the difference.

The lights started to flicker like candles in the wind as Ianto tried the door, that ugly, terrifying cold chill sweeping down Sulu's spine like a - like someone -

Sulu spun and slammed his back up against the wall beside Ianto, trying to decide if closing his eyes or keeping watch for the possibly physical manifestations would be better. "Ianto," he said, in a very quiet and strained voice that rose in pitch as he spoke, "I don't want to point out the obvious, but our room is haunted and up until now, I could mostly deal with that, but now I am starting to panic and I think I need that door open now thank you."

Well. The calm rationalization of the last few nights had been great while it had lasted.
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[personal profile] parked 2010-09-30 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
No, that was not what Sulu had wanted to hear. It was possibly the exact opposite of what he'd wanted to hear. He didn't like the way Ianto was referring to the general feeling of unease as "it", like it was personified - which it clearly was, but Sulu didn't want to believe that. He - didn't quite see the shape that passed in front of the light, not really, but it was almost like a shadow in the corner of his eye. He tensed his shoulders, tried to calm himself down.

"This is a bad time to mention that I'm Not good with ghosts," Sulu mumbled to Ianto, "I'm really, really not good with ghosts." He didn't like the cold air, or the feeling of eyes on them, or the footsteps, or the damned things trying to touch them, and he wasn't sure he could keep it together long enough to deal with this.
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[personal profile] parked 2010-09-30 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
"...Touched?" Sulu turned his head to look at Ianto, eyes narrowing a bit, though the rest of his expression betrayed how freaked he was. "What do you mean, touched?"

Because, despite his fear, despite the fact that ghosts - spirits, entities, whatever they were - despite the fact they scared him, terrified him even, they were incorporeal. The most they did was throw things around; maybe they'd stack furniture, or make noises, but they never, never were supposed to touch the people they were haunting. If they did, it moved from the realm of "acceptable fear" to "terror," and Sulu... Sulu couldn't do that.

"I really don't want to be in here, Ianto," he said weakly, listening to the suitcase being opened and the whisper of noise the clothes inside made as they were taken out. He tried not to focus on the fact that he could almost hear some kind of talking, or humming.
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[personal profile] parked 2010-10-01 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, no.

Sulu practically felt the blood drain from his face as Ianto spoke, eyes narrowing and moving to look towards the bedroom. He heard that laugh - it sent shivers down his spine to hear it, to know that something was in this room and had touched Ianto, and apparently thought it was fucking funny.

Sulu had two different actions he could take at the moment. The normal route at this point, with the fear and hot-cold adrenaline running through his veins, was to try everything to get the hell out of the room. But Sulu knew that there was no safety out there - people had been seeing ghosts out there, and there was nothing to say the thing wasn't going to just follow them.

The other option was to let that adrenaline take over, embrace that fear and move past it to get pissed off at some dead... demonic son of a bitch to try touching either of them.

Sulu squeezed Ianto's hand tightly, and then growled, shouting in the direction of the bedroom, "You think that's funny, asshole?!" Sure, he sounded scared, but he sounded pissed too, and that was the point. The giggling stopped dead and Sulu snarled, "That's right, you shut the fuck up and don't touch either of us!"
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"I'm not letting it touch you again," Sulu said, holding Ianto's hand tightly. He found himself nearly charging up, as though this was just the beginning of a very loud yelling match with a non-corporeal being. And then there was the sound of glass shattering as a lamp hit the wall that separated them from the bedroom. "Shit," he hissed, recoiling because if it was getting violent...

He wasn't sure where to go or what to do at that point, an the sound of glass crunching underfoot made Sulu pull Ianto back, away from the wall an away from the door. And then the footsteps changed from slow and steady to a quick dash, and one of the crystal glasses on the coffee table flew at Sulu, crashing a foot or so away from him against the wall. "Shit!"
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[personal profile] parked 2010-10-01 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Getting a metal tin thrown at him had a way of making Sulu really regret getting angry and lashing out. Mostly because there was nothing for him to fight off - it couldn't be put into a chokehold; they couldn't even see the thing, know if it was by them, if it wasn't -

"I'm fine," he said weakly, keeping his eyes locked on the room instead of Ianto - he wasn't going to let the same thing happen twice, and he was going to make sure to get out of the way himself, next time. "Probably... shouldn't have said that," Sulu mumbled, as the desk pulled away from against the wall and then slid as though it were on wheels, slamming into the wall across from them.
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[personal profile] parked 2010-10-02 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Telling this thing that they were sorry was, first of all, a lie, because the only thing Sulu was sorry for was that he couldn't beat it up. It was also apparently the wrong thing to say, as Ianto's voice pitched and he stepped back. Sulu grabbed him by the shoulder and watched as the lights flickered, dousing the room in darkness for a few moments before returning.

"I don't think that's going to help either," Sulu mumbled into Ianto's ear, feeling woefully underprepared standing there with Ianto in a towel. He knew that he'd probably made the wrong move, yelling at the thing, and his fear was compounded when he heard that godforsaken voice call out Ianto's name from somewhere near the settee. The decanter and the caddy it was in shook, rattling against the coffee table. Sulu suddenly didn't care that he wasn't exactly dressed for a haunting, so long as all that crystal stayed the hell away from them.
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In all fairness, Ianto had pointed out Sulu's yelling hadn't worked, too. "If it hadn't decided to touch you," he hissed, "I wouldn't be yelling at it." As far as he was concerned, this was all the ghost's fault.

Still, Ianto had far more knowledge on how to handle ghosts an the like, so he fell silent, gritting his teeth and closing his eyes because, this whole thing just was too much for him at that moment.

"Yeah," he said, directing his voice towards the decanter, "I'm... sorry about that." If Ianto felt crazy talking to thin air, he had no idea how Sulu felt.
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[personal profile] parked 2010-10-04 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Sulu felt absolutely ridiculous about them talking to thin air; it was possibly one of the most insane things to happen to him in a while. Still, he knew that there was something else in there with them, something invisible and something that wanted to mess around with them enough to hurt them. There was too much that could go wrong for Sulu to risk letting his panic and nerves get to him.

He hated that it kept calling out for Ianto. He didn't want it to say either of their names - he wanted it to get the hell away from them and stop ruining what was very nearly going to be an amazing vacation. Fuck.

"...What now?" Sulu asked Ianto quietly, keeping an eye on the decanter.

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