Viewing Party 2 - R3: THE RE-CRY-ENING

[misanthropicprinciple]

We got castmates. We got clues. We got crap to bitch about. They get a library? And a LAUNDRY MACHINE?

Welcome, murderfam... TO THE R3 LIVEWATCH.

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[kingshaming]

[Xander hadn't been focusing on the tv either- sitting a ways away in case someone, specificly Jane, needed to be escorted away.

... he didn't expect Jamie. He's up in a flash. In hindsight, maybe too MUCH of a flash, and at Jamie's side, lightly touching his back]

Jamie...!

[unhappylittletrees]

[If this were any other panic attack Jamie would leap out of his skin then collapse somewhere until his screaming bird brain calmed down enough for him to process things.

But this isn't a normal panic attack. Jame draws in a sudden, sharp breath when Xander moves. He feels a hand on his back and wants to scream but he can't get his brain and mouth to coordinate. So he does the only thing his erratic brain can think to do.

He balls his hand into a fist, whips around and delivers a solid, frantic punch to Xander's face.]

[ratherdoweddings]

Xander-san!

[Yurika jumps to her feet, knocking over a box of chocolate-covered something-or-others, and rushes to the two.]

Jamie-san? Jamie-san, we're right here!

[unhappylittletrees]

[He's still shaking and doesn't look all there at the moment so staying away might be in your best interest, Yurika.]

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika stands warily, looking between Jamie and Xander, and then at the television.]

...It can't be.

[kingshaming]

[Xander is a sturdy man, but he can't simply eat a suckerpunch that easily. He reels and trips over his own feet, ass hitting the ground hard.

Still, he has the sense of mind to raise a hand at anyone still in the room- especially the season 3 folks that might not know his and Jamie's history and might start retaliating against what looked like a dirty swing]

[unhappylittletrees]

[Jamie's hands are shaking, blood is pounding in his ears and everything feels both muffled and Too Much as the same time. In the back of his screaming brain he can almost hear Bolton's voice trying to soothe him, coaxing him to count down and focua on something other than his racing heart.

Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven? Yeah, seven. Seven is right. Si...six. F i ve. Four. Three. Two...

He blinks slowly, the rest of the world coming back into focus. His hand hurts? Xander is on the ground-? Oh.]

...shit.

[stitch_in_time]

Sorry I'm a bit late, Spacebucks was a bit backed up-

[Here's the Doctor, juggling a few trays of space coffee as he switches off his hardlight disguise, and then, just. Pausing. Taking in the scene.]

Ah. Maybe caffeine's not what we need right now. What'd I miss?

[cyan_maid]

[Given her own anxieties re: the frosted tipped elephant in the room, Jane is a little slow to react. She only manages to realize that the sound she hears is not a good one once Xander has already been punched.]

J-Jamie...? Jamie?!

[daughterofthemark]

[There is suddenly an arm in front of Jane. Arianna knows she's worried but she would also prefer that nobody else move into punching range until they're sure he's done punching.]

[cyan_maid]

Uh-

[no let her go Jamie needs help]

Hey - no, let me - Arianna...!

[daughterofthemark]

Please, wait one moment.

[Look, see, Jamie is trying to calm himself down.]

[cyan_maid]

...

[...Reluctantly obliges. Let's be real, Jane probably needs a slight calm down herself.]

[unhappylittletrees]

[Oh...oh no, Janey.

Even with the static still mucking up his head, he wants to hug her. But then Blaze Dudely's voice snarls from the television and the panic rises and starts choking out everything else again.

No, no, no he can't do this, he can't stay. He can't-

Jamie bolts from the room with no idea of where he's going except out.]

[cyan_maid]

[Arianna's common sense be damned, Jane is gonna bolt to follow Jamie. That of course doesn't mean she'll necessarily find him, though, so I'll leave it up to you if she does.]

[unhappylittletrees]

[Honestly...he's not hard to catch up with. He tears through the house at top speed, leaving the front door open on his way out, but he only makes it into the yard. When Jane finds him he's on his knees in the grass, his head ducked down and his hands in his hair while his breathing comes out in ragged gasps.

The only upside here is that he's remembering to breathe and that's an improvement from previous panic attacks.]

[cyan_maid]

[The thing is, she definitely hadn't thought this far ahead when she went after him - and while Jane has had her own panic attacks, she has no idea how to calm someone else's. But. But she wants to be there for him. She wants to try. That's what gets her to slow down and stop a couple yards away, breathing hard through her nose, face pulled tight in concern.]

...Jamie...? Jamie, I'm...I'm here. You're not along, o-okay? I...I'm here if you need someone.

[She mostly wants to just pull him into a hug but considering the fact that he decked Xander, she has a rather sizeable Concern about doing that out of the blue.]

[unhappylittletrees]

[It takes a long few minutes before his breathing starts to become less labored and the death grip he has on the roots of his hair relaxes a little. He doesn't move to get up from the ground though.]

...Jane, what the hell happened to him?

[cyan_maid]

...

[She closes the distance between them. Slowly.]

I'm going to hug you. Okay? It's just me.

[She says it so he doesn't lash out when, gently, Jane wraps her arms around Jamie as she kneels down beside him, holding him tight. Anchoring him here, to this moment.]

I don't...I don't know how, but he's...a cyborg. And I don't know if him "hijacking" this group was for show or actually unexpected. [A pause.] There's...no way you're scared of him for the same reasons I am, is there.