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[There is a really, really unpleasant banging noise, like someone's thwacking their tab against a rock because (surprise) that's exactly what this particular someone is doing. A feminine, Australian accented voice cuts in after a while.]

-would have been nice if they’d given us a bloody crash course in how to use these things. How do you even-

[There is jarring sound of static and then a burst of distortion as a finger jabs at the TAB]

-tell-

[Another jab and more distortion.]

-if it’s-

[One more jab and for some strange reason, the image feed is flipped upside down and everything is strangely… purple.]

-working?

[There’s a sigh, and then coming through the upside down, purple video feed there’s a woman with dark hair looking quizzically at the TAB with a furrowed brow until she sighs.]

Some week this is shaping out to be.

[She jabs at the tab again, and while the feed returns to right side up, it’s still conspicuously purple.]

Okay. I don’t get it. Never did go in much for the whole sci-fi thing. First person to tell me where I can get a beer and a back rub in that order is my new space best friend. Name’s Chloe by the way. Chloe Frazer.

[She squints at the tab and then rolls her eyes.]

Shit, did I break it? Fantastic...

[ooc: backdated to during week two!]

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Oh like you don't sound like a velociraptor after a night out, that's the pot calling the kettle Barney right there, I remember your hen-

[Hen do, shit that's lacking in sensitivity and this is kind of awkward, it's the first time she's seen her since... the thing.]

How you doing Elena? I should have rung you ages ago and now- well Jesus, I wasn't expecting us to wind up in space of all places!

What happens at the hen do stays at the hen do, remember?

[ Elena gives a small smile. Yeah, now it's gotten awkward. Best to carry on. She angles her TAB to show her left arm in a sling and a splint taking up most of her upper arm. ]

I'm better. Trucking along. And yourself? I wouldn't worry about it, Chloe. Stuff comes up. Life gets busy.

[She's about to do the sympathetic 'hey so I know we met through our mutual connection to Nathan Drake's dick but you're my friend too now and I don't want to pick sides especially when he's being an ass' spiel, but it's slightly thrown off course by the sight of her plaster cast.]

Christ Elena, what the hell? What happened?

[ Good thing that spiel is thrown out the door. ]

Ohhhhhhhh you know— monsters board the ship and make a wreck of it, throw some squishy humans in the middle of that, broken limbs and near deaths happen. Oh, and the ship crashes into this planet aaaannnnd here we are.

On the plus side, you look great. Glad to see you're all right. And you're lucky, you left us at a good time and came back at a good time.

Welcome back.

[Chloe blinks, frowns, and then jams a finger in her ear to clean it out because she's pretty sure she just had some epic mishearing going on, or now her ears are dodgy to go with her wholly unreliable legs.]

...Okay I think my wires got crossed in transit or something because I thought you just said that I've come back.

You didn't hit your head in amongst all of that monster stuff did you, sunshine?

No, you heard me right. You don't...remember...?

[ Well, that can't be good. A laugh is pushed out. ]

A few times, actually. But I'm being serious here, Chloe. You've been here before. On the ship.

No... believe me Elena, I've not been on a ship or an alien planet before. I'd remember if I had.

...wait, is this all some sort of elaborate hoax you and Nate are trying to play on me here? Because you and your ex are coming up with some pretty special bullshit here.

[ Well now, this wasn't good. Elena frowns, all laughter wiped away. They'd played darts together and pigged out on snacks, she didn't remember that?

What the hell was going on?

The mention of 'ex' gets her brows nearly kissing her hairline. Woah woah. ]

My ex? He's not— Wait. Ex-what? Ex-boyfriend? Ex-husband?

...okay what is going on here? Because the last time I saw you you were about to go winging your way off on honeymoon and I was nursing the mother of all hangovers. I hear nothing but good things, then Nate turns up in London yammering on about unfinished business and Drake and lacking certain vital pieces of jewellery on his ring finger, he tells me it's all over and now we're in space, everything's shot to shit and you have no idea why I'm starting to think everyone's off their bloody rocker except for me!

[Sorry for the tirade Elena. It has been A Day.]

[ Oh... Okay, so this must be what Nate had been talking about, how he had come in through the Ingress a week after her. From the sounds of it, after Elena's put two and four and eight all together, Chloe's arrived from some time after the wedding, after the beginning of their estrangement when everything had fallen apart, and also from before her and Nate patching things together.

Well. Shit.

Also, let it be known that it's a pretty damn feeling when your supposed husband is without his wedding ring but you're still sporting yours around and pretending everything is honky-dory. ]

Do you feel better getting that out..?

Yeah, little bit.

[And then she breaks out laughing, it's kind of stressed and not exactly the genuine 'isn't this funny and aren't we having fun' laugh Chloe likes to laugh, but here we are.]

Jesus Elena, am I losing my mind here or am I seriously tripping balls because I'm not really sure anymore.

Do you want me to come meet you? Then maybe we can talk about this and make sure you don't trip on too many balls.

Just tell me where you are, I'll come to you.

Um... that might be a bit awkward.

Nate's on his way and I know things are... well actually I don't know. Are you two even on speaking terms?

Unless there's something I don't know that you aren't telling me...? Last I checked, yeah, yeah we are.

We're on more than just speaking terms.

[ She looks away from the TAB, looks down to her left hand hanging out of her sling where she sees the silver glint of her wedding band. ]

[And here we have the first bit of good news that Chloe's heard all day, so it's met with a sigh of relief and a grin.]

Oh thank god, I knew he was being a tit. What made him finally drag his head out of his arse, did he see you in Yemen and immediately realise that some things are more important than Francis bloody Drake?

There wasn't much to see. Sully acted as a buffer within the first step he took off the plane.

[ It's good to see that grin and hear the relief but for Elena, this is like putting one puzzle piece together with the other. ]

But I think since he's on his way to you, he can tell you the story.

Why do I get the feeling there's a lot more to it than just Sully running interference?

[There seems to be an awful lot more to everything and Chloe's feeling distinctly like she's out on a loop.]

He's given up on Iram I hope.

He...told me I looked great? After not talking to me for months.

[ Chloe is so out of the loop. ]

There's not much to give up on. He got there.

You know, I bet if we stood him out in the middle of a completely innocent looking field in the middle of the English countryside he'd trip over a stone and unearth Camelot with the luck he has.

[Seriously. What is with him.]

And what about the wicked witch of the wizened- you know, I'm out of double-you words to describe her. What about that Marlowe woman and her lapdogs?

I honestly don't know how he does it. Or why I did it.

[ As in why she stayed around, why she cared so much, why she loved him after he'd walked out on them. ]

Apparently they went down with the ship after it all went to hell.

Sometimes I ask myself the same question, but then I get the cheque and I'm reminded. But this last one...

[She gives her a knowing look. She's been trying not to get too tangled up with any seriously dangerous shit like Lazarević but Talbot and Marlowe had shot that resolution up shit creek.]

Glad to hear they got what was coming. Jesus, you should have heard the epithets Charlie was coming up with when they had him on morphine.

There wasn't much of a cheque for me.

[ Half the time a majority of it ended up going to her boss to replace whatever she lost, making up for the costs. And then her doctor bills, whatever she could give to Jeff's family once she was stable enough.

Whatever had been left, the price had been left on her body. ]

All I know from Nate and Sully, at that time, was that Charlie had broken his leg.

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