[ Gift, horse, mouth. As long as she can do it again (??), things will be fine. Jim's manifesting. That's what the kids do nowadays, right? Gwen allows him to tie the fabric around her arm, and Jim knows it's more for him than it is for her - that she's letting him do something, some way to start repaying the horrible debt he's racked up. ]
He's not he - Spock - [ Jim's trying not to panic and failing, which is really not a great sign. He's usually good under pressure - like he said, kind of in the job description. But having a direct line to Spock's mental anguish and the physical beating that's unfolding while they sit here, helpless - well, that's a different matter entirely. Jim makes a concerted effort to focus on Gwen, pulling himself away from the bond, the mental link still connecting him and Spock and the terrible, gaping maw of the Gnosia. ] Spock caught him, Gwen. They're fighting, but Peter's suit is compromised.
[ A grappling, fist and fury and violence, barely restrained, because Spock is reeling from the loss of Jim - he knows what happened here, as easily as Jim knows what's happening there. Peter is worth much more whole. Peter's suit, gone, knocking Spock off balance - the whip Spock had fashioned as a weapon, caught in Peter's hands, arrow wounds twinging where the shafts were still embedded in Spock's person - ]
Spock don't - [ Jim lurches forward, a hand outstretched, as if to do something. But the damage, it seems, is already done - Jim's hand lands hard on Gwen's shoulder, his own knees threatening to buckle again. ] Spock just - he broke Peter's collarbone.
[ A nerve pinch, dropping the kid like a stone, a decisive victory. Oh god. Spock has him. Peter, at his mercy, the only thing keeping him alive (or, well, his mind not soupified) the fact that he was a hostage. ]
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He's not he - Spock - [ Jim's trying not to panic and failing, which is really not a great sign. He's usually good under pressure - like he said, kind of in the job description. But having a direct line to Spock's mental anguish and the physical beating that's unfolding while they sit here, helpless - well, that's a different matter entirely. Jim makes a concerted effort to focus on Gwen, pulling himself away from the bond, the mental link still connecting him and Spock and the terrible, gaping maw of the Gnosia. ] Spock caught him, Gwen. They're fighting, but Peter's suit is compromised.
[ A grappling, fist and fury and violence, barely restrained, because Spock is reeling from the loss of Jim - he knows what happened here, as easily as Jim knows what's happening there. Peter is worth much more whole. Peter's suit, gone, knocking Spock off balance - the whip Spock had fashioned as a weapon, caught in Peter's hands, arrow wounds twinging where the shafts were still embedded in Spock's person - ]
Spock don't - [ Jim lurches forward, a hand outstretched, as if to do something. But the damage, it seems, is already done - Jim's hand lands hard on Gwen's shoulder, his own knees threatening to buckle again. ] Spock just - he broke Peter's collarbone.
[ A nerve pinch, dropping the kid like a stone, a decisive victory. Oh god. Spock has him. Peter, at his mercy, the only thing keeping him alive (or, well, his mind not soupified) the fact that he was a hostage. ]