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[personal profile] godslay 2017-08-05 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Distantly, Gamora hears Peter telling Kraglin to turn the ship around, that he leaves out the details (good, because she's fine, nothing is wrong, and whatever it is will resolve itself, it's fine), and if she had the presence of mind for it, she'd be grateful.

As it is, one of her hands keeps flexing her fingers, the other pressing momentarily against her eyes. ]


Fine.

[ Ground out through grit teeth, and she swallows around the tightening in her throat. She forces her breathing to slow, careful about the way she curls and uncurls her fingers, and then she looks back up at Peter. Her eyes are glassier, her pupils dilated, but she sets her jaw with that determination to overrule the overwhelming heat. ]

... How soon until we return?
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[personal profile] godslay 2017-08-05 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
... Yes.

[ She refocuses on Peter, watching him busy himself with the sink, but she's relieved when he comes over with the glass and the towel at the ready.

She reaches first for the wet towel, immediately chilled against her fingers. She sweeps her hair over her shoulder to set it on the back of her neck (though she gives a short hiss at the intense difference in temperature), and then she goes for the water. ]


Don't look so concerned.

[Mumbled around the lip of the glass. She's trying for reassurance, but it doesn't have quite the same effect when there's still something of a growl in her voice. ]
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[personal profile] godslay 2017-08-05 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Despite the raging haze of heat that keeps trying to pull her attention, Gamora focuses wholly on Peter as she takes a few more sips of water. She straightens up slightly in her chair as he gets to his feet, and concern seems like it's doing its best to fight its way through agitation. ]

What does that mean?

[ Through that fog, she wants to focus on Peter, even with all that prickling energy that she's keeping in check (or, still trying to, at least).

The glass in her hands creaks in protest as she squeezes a little too much, and she finally eases up before it breaks. ]
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[ She didn't even consider that one of the others might have to deal with this – whatever this is. ]

There was... something on the glass in those containers. I think.

[ She frowns as she tries to remember. ]

There were empty, but the glass was discolored.

[ Another wave of heat, and Gamora grimaces, getting to her feet suddenly with the need to move. She at least sets aside the water so she doesn't break it the next time her fingers clench and curl. ]
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[personal profile] godslay 2017-08-06 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
I do not need to sit.

[ Though she says it with far more aggression than she means to. If the fever wasn't so distracting, she'd probably apologize.

As it stands, she's instead inclined to pace – some way to channel that strange energy, to turn it into more than the thrumming of it under her skin. ]


And I didn't mention it because whatever this is should have been filtered out. It shouldn't have—

[ She interrupts herself with a short growl, pressing her knuckles against her eyes as she pauses mid-step. ]
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[ Gamora looks about ready to snap at Peter again that she doesn't need water, but through the haze of heat, she seems to realize he's just trying to help. ]

What do you think I'm trying to do?

[ ... Though she's still somewhat less successful in regards to the hostility.

But she reaches for the water she set aside instead, finishing it off – though more to satisfy him than because she's particularly thirsty. ]


Shouldn't— you check on the others?
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[ Gamora listens, however distantly, to Peter and the subsequent responses. It's reassuring, at least, to know that no one else is experiencing something like this (or it would be if she could focus on it), but she's more preoccupied with the heat swimming in her vision. ]

My hearing is still just fine, Peter.

[ Though she's taken the opportunity to lean against the counter, stopping her pacing as she tries for that slow, grounding breathing.

... It only works so much.

She also pulls the towel from the back of her neck, because it's already warmed through, and she drops it somewhat unceremoniously onto the counter beside her. ]


Just— come here.

[ She sounds far less steady than she did before, and when she raises her eyes to look at him, her pupils have almost completely swallowed up that ring of brown. ]
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[personal profile] godslay 2017-08-06 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gamora blinks past the fever to focus on Peter as he comes close, and she reaches for his wrists. ]

Give me your hands.

[ Because he runs cooler than she does normally, and now, she can only assume the difference will be far starker than before. Through that strange haze, she knows she wants to touch him still, wants that contact, though she's mindful of the strength in her fingers as she moves to tug his hands up to her face (given that she doesn't want to leave further bruises).

Better than a wet towel, at least. ]
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[personal profile] godslay 2017-08-06 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
It will run its course. That's all.

[ But she turns her face against the coolness of his broad hands, sighing with relief. It settles something in that feverish heat, even as her heart pounds a little too fast, and she glances back up at him again. ]

It has to work its way through my system.

[ Whatever she came into contact with, she at least believes in her modifications and their ability to process this strange toxin – because finally, given how much it's overwhelmed her, her hazy mind is apparently willing to admit that this isn't right. ]
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[personal profile] godslay 2017-08-06 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
I do not want a towel.

[ She says it matter-of-factly, though it lacks some of that growl from before. ]

I want you.

[ And that must be some of the fever, at this point, but it's no less honest as she relishes the coolness against her face. ]
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[personal profile] godslay 2017-08-06 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't tell me what I mean.

[ She glances up at him again, though she still keeps her face pressed against his palm. She shifts one hand from her cheek to press against the side of her neck, and it elicits another soft sigh of relief. ]

I mean that I want you.

[ His hands are nice, and that lowered temperature helps, but there's something about the insistence that makes it clear she isn't simply referring to this contact. ]
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[personal profile] godslay 2017-08-06 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's not looking at her anymore, and through that haze of heat, she's— confused by it. Did she say something wrong?

She moves his hand once more, resting his palm against the tendon where her neck meets her shoulder (exposed thanks to the low dip of that t-shirt she's borrowed), and again, his skin is still cool in comparison to her own. She turns his other hand to rest his knuckles against her cheek in search of another cool surface. ]


Why? [ She frowns, cocking her head slightly as she considers him. ]

Do you not want me?

[ ... Though maybe it's a failing of that foggy warmth that she doesn't specify what capacity she means it in – both the question itself and what she'd just said. ]

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