LitShark
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Solitary Survivors. (Closed for now)
((OOC: This thread is now closed for inmates, but if you have ideas or questions visit theOOC Thread . There might be more openings soon for "natives".))
Nigel gripped the photo of his wife between his well worn fingertips. The way he was cuffed and shackled, his entire range of motion consisted merely of sitting upright, but even if he were unhindered, he would still be sitting right there staring ath the old worn photo.
How long had it been?
A year and half, maybe two...Bloody hell, it had been two and a half years since Nigel had seen his beautiful wife Clara. He'd neglected his family in favor of taking this nice "coushy" assignment in the States. He hadn't been home since before the Ireland assignment. Now he'd never get to see her again.
The government certainly told her that he was dead, if even that. They might have simply told her nothing, left her in the dark for all this time. At very least she'd be assuming the worst by now. Perhaps even remarried...
Nigel lifted a hand to scratch the dense stubble on his face. He was a fool. Of course she'd bloody well remarried. The woman was as beautifull as a goddess, nay, more beautiful. It must have been some mistake she'd ended up with him in the first place.
Nigel tucked the picture back into the pocket of his prison jumpsuit where he also kept his small tobacco poke. He tried staring out the little port-hole of a window, to take his mind off the thought of his beautiful wife Clara off knobbing some stranger in his bed.
The wing obscured most of Nigel's view, but Nigel could see a small sliver of the dense Amazon Rain Forest below. The thing looked so massive, beautiful and wild. It seemed so close even from that high.
Actually it was pretty close... They weren't nearly as high as they should have been.
That's when Nigel's keenly trained eye, caught sight of long black trails of oil working their way down the outside of one of the engines. The oil was spattering out onto the wing as well.
"Pilot!" Nigel shouted, his heavy accent obvious. "You're losing oil from your second engine. Lower altitude and find a spot to land. Put in a call for assistance right aw-OOF!"
Nigel was abruptly silenced by a rifle- butt colliding with the back of his skull. The heavy set guard behind Nigel smirked before spitting a mouthful of tobacco swill over Nigel's prison issue boots.
"'At's 'bout 'nuff 'atta yew limey-little baaastard." The Southern guard, drawled at Nigel.
It always had amazed Nigel that Yanks could talk and talk, yet never actually begin a single word. Nigel thought that he might be able to make a completely different sentance using only the letters his pudgy little assailent left out of his declaration.
"U a tough hoe!" Nigel exclaimed suddenly, as though he were a contestant on 'Countdown'.
This monumental accomplishment of language earned Nigel another smack to the skull. He wouldn't be too good at word puzzles if this continued.
"Ah'll show yew 'o da hoe is!" The guard shouted, raising his gun again.
"Wait!" The captain shouted, halting the guard's next attack. "We're losing altitude... my guages are all over the place."
"That's bloody well what I said, now init?" Nigel replied, trying to lift his shackled hands up to the back of his head to check for blood. "How i het u."
It wasn't quite the masterpiece his first letter scavenging sentance had been, but it still got the point across. Since Nigel was the only one who heard or understood this little game, he'd give himself credit.
((OOC: This thread is now closed for inmates, but if you have ideas or questions visit theOOC Thread . There might be more openings soon for "natives".))
Nigel gripped the photo of his wife between his well worn fingertips. The way he was cuffed and shackled, his entire range of motion consisted merely of sitting upright, but even if he were unhindered, he would still be sitting right there staring ath the old worn photo.
How long had it been?
A year and half, maybe two...Bloody hell, it had been two and a half years since Nigel had seen his beautiful wife Clara. He'd neglected his family in favor of taking this nice "coushy" assignment in the States. He hadn't been home since before the Ireland assignment. Now he'd never get to see her again.
The government certainly told her that he was dead, if even that. They might have simply told her nothing, left her in the dark for all this time. At very least she'd be assuming the worst by now. Perhaps even remarried...
Nigel lifted a hand to scratch the dense stubble on his face. He was a fool. Of course she'd bloody well remarried. The woman was as beautifull as a goddess, nay, more beautiful. It must have been some mistake she'd ended up with him in the first place.
Nigel tucked the picture back into the pocket of his prison jumpsuit where he also kept his small tobacco poke. He tried staring out the little port-hole of a window, to take his mind off the thought of his beautiful wife Clara off knobbing some stranger in his bed.
The wing obscured most of Nigel's view, but Nigel could see a small sliver of the dense Amazon Rain Forest below. The thing looked so massive, beautiful and wild. It seemed so close even from that high.
Actually it was pretty close... They weren't nearly as high as they should have been.
That's when Nigel's keenly trained eye, caught sight of long black trails of oil working their way down the outside of one of the engines. The oil was spattering out onto the wing as well.
"Pilot!" Nigel shouted, his heavy accent obvious. "You're losing oil from your second engine. Lower altitude and find a spot to land. Put in a call for assistance right aw-OOF!"
Nigel was abruptly silenced by a rifle- butt colliding with the back of his skull. The heavy set guard behind Nigel smirked before spitting a mouthful of tobacco swill over Nigel's prison issue boots.
"'At's 'bout 'nuff 'atta yew limey-little baaastard." The Southern guard, drawled at Nigel.
It always had amazed Nigel that Yanks could talk and talk, yet never actually begin a single word. Nigel thought that he might be able to make a completely different sentance using only the letters his pudgy little assailent left out of his declaration.
"U a tough hoe!" Nigel exclaimed suddenly, as though he were a contestant on 'Countdown'.
This monumental accomplishment of language earned Nigel another smack to the skull. He wouldn't be too good at word puzzles if this continued.
"Ah'll show yew 'o da hoe is!" The guard shouted, raising his gun again.
"Wait!" The captain shouted, halting the guard's next attack. "We're losing altitude... my guages are all over the place."
"That's bloody well what I said, now init?" Nigel replied, trying to lift his shackled hands up to the back of his head to check for blood. "How i het u."
It wasn't quite the masterpiece his first letter scavenging sentance had been, but it still got the point across. Since Nigel was the only one who heard or understood this little game, he'd give himself credit.
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