The End of an Era (contd.)

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@chatterghosts 3 years ago
(( A continuation of The End of an Era! ))
Group One: Nicolette nods, and guides the group off, setting through the day. Aside from questions of polite interest, the transition is quiet.
The quartet eventually arrive at a building that appears... quite well-kept, exterior-wise. Nicolette suppresses a smile, but still manages to chuckle out, ".. I will admit that I didn't take Elias for the type to work at such a nice place."
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Group Two: "Eínai sto aíma mou. Den boró na stamatíso," Artemis responds in a cry for help, lips yet curling into a vicious snarl as he spits the words. He lunges for Richard, but not without a softer, more hesitant, "Lypámai."
By the time he topples the two of them, his eyes have snapped open, though they were no longer characterized with their warm brown irises. Instead, they were a vibrant green. His nose is bleeding as well, dribbling off of his chin and onto the ground.
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Group Three: Velius and Mattias have gone elsewhere, and Susan and Niamh face off.
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Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
You and me both.
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
(( Could you, uh, summon Silver? ))
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Hyde without a Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(Silverliné Carew Here you go! :) )
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Silver follows the three quietly, looking everywhere and seeing nothing.
Silvermod is at a gig. What do you require? . 3 . )
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
(( Just checking to see if you were still in the RP - people keep falling on and off the map. ))
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( We're here, don't you worry! 😃 )
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited
With confident strides, Nicolette, Silver, Arthur, and Jasper enter. The interior lives up to its outer impression - a rather calm bar. Unlike many more familiar back-alley locations, the room exudes a sense of class. The only excitement to be found here is in the laughter of merry people.
A bartender instantly beckons the group over.
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
( Silver blinks as they enter. Nicolette had hinted that it was a bar they were looking for...and yet...they were seeking Elias's workplace...
"Put it together toots" )
.....Elias... works at a bar?
( Her neck darkens at the realization that they've been noticed by the staff of said establishment. )
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Jasper Jekyll  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
( Jasper scoffs, inhaling more air than she bargained for in the process. )
You must not know-
... You don't know him do ya?
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Silverliné Carew  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago • edited
( She shakes her head, bun wobbling from side to side. )
Nuh-uh
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
Nicolette simply laughs. "It's a.. fitting job, for him."
The bartender gives a broad grin. "Nicki Nicki, looky here! Brought some friends too, I see." He flashes his toothy smile to the three.
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Oh... hello ( Silver lifts her hand and gives him a small wave. )
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
The bartender is middle-aged, tops, and his features are kind. "Hello there, darlin'."
His gaze turns to Jasper, and his eyes widen. "And who-hoa! Never seen the likes of you around here. I'd remember, I'm sure."
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Well take a daguerreotype, it'll last longer. ( She exhales sharply when she feels a familiar pointy elbow in her side. )
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Silverliné Carew  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
( Silver throws her elbow into Jasper's side. She hisses under her breath. )
Jasper.
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
He simply chuckles in response, "Nono, she's alright. I like the snarky type." His gaze moves to Nicolette, his voice soft and endearing, "What did you need, dear?"
Nicolette twiddled her thumbs, mumbling something barely above a whisper. "Could you.. could you get Jack to talk, please --"
"WHAT?"
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
( Silver glances up at Jasper and back to the pair.
"Jack...we don't know him. Best let this one conversation alone. " )
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
"He's the only one ever on shift with Elias," Nicolette huffs. "We need him."
With a dry laugh, the bartender leans over. "Yeah, 'm sure he wants to help a relative of a Castellanos."
"Well, we do have a more intimidating card to play." Nicolette gestures to Jasper.
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Though hardly surprised, Jasper raises an eyebrow.
Apparently her designation stretched far beyond Homeworld- a bittersweet thought. The Peridots were right, a Gem will always be useful only for their purpose
A soldier will always be a soldier.
Didn't she have this conversation with someone?
Jasper remains stoic, but internally, she shakes the thought from her head.
Focus on the task at hand. )
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
The bartender laughs, pointing a finger to the back of the room. He would direct the group's attention to an older man, darting around the room and taking care of tables. "Have fun."
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Almost instinctively, Silver shrinks and takes a step behind Jasper.
" This doesn't sound like fun." )
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
Nicolette leans over to Silver, voice no louder than a gentle whisper, "It'll be alright, friend."
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
( "comforted by a stranger? Oh how embarrassing."
She whispers back. )
You sure about that?
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
"Certainly," she responds, guiding the group over to Jack. As soon as he sees Nicolette, he appears deeply uncomfortable. She, however, greets him kindly. "Jack, my dear friend, how are you?"
He stammers back, avoiding her gaze, "I-I in't doin'ya no f-f-favors, Nic'lette."
Her smile vanishes, and she glances at the other three before continuing, "You don't even know what I--"
"Y'wan' me to help yah with Elias, 'cos 'e been out all 'a the month. Roigh'?"
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( "he's a smart cookie"
"you're really dumb" )
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
(( Is Jasper going to respond? ))
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Jasper and I both watch, neither willing to interrupt the seemingly private conversation, is she supposed to? )
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
(( Cut in as you see fit, I suppose. ))
"Well- yes, but you have to understand that he has a family that's deeply concerned fo--"
"I don' care. 'E's better gone, y'know. He in't right."
(( Now would be, uh, optimal. ))
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Aaaas Youuuuu Wiiiiiish *rolls down hill* )
And what gives YOU the right to decide which humans "go"?
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
"I did, lass."
Nicolette casts a curious glance to Jasper, interested in her reaction.
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
( She takes a step forward, instinctively yanking her arm away from Silver. )
Then I'd check my privilege if I were you, puny.
'Cause last time I checked, you're no better than anyone else on this hunk of rock. I'll bet you're just as weak.
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Silverliné Carew  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
( Silver stands amidst a roomful of strangers and yet the warmth prickles up the back of her neck, threatening to invade her porcelain complexion. Although not meant for her, the gestures still hurt.
"Just as weak"
"...as me?"
"It's just a defense mechanism. Don't make a scene. Don't cry. Don't drop the mask." )
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
Despite shrinking a good few inches under Jasper's gaze, he sputters out, "Y-y-you in't knowin' nuffin about me!"
Nicolette flashes a kindly smile to Silver, if anything else to calm her nerves. Her voice stoops to a gentle whisper again, "I didn't mean to sell out your..." Her eyes drift to Jasper, and then followed by the reminder that this was Victorian public, she continued, "...friend. It won't happen again, not without warning."
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Silver waves Nicolette's comment off with a well rehearsed smile. )
Oh it's okay! You didn't sell anyone out. We're just... doing our job.
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Her lip curls up into a sneer and she leans in forward ever so slightly. )
I know your kind.
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
With a small yelp, he makes a dart for the back room. Nicolette sighs and latches on to his collar, however. She spins him around and leans forward, whispering... something into his ear.
He pulls away with wide eyes, the blood drained from his face. Almost robotically, he says, "Elias was a real shifty type. Always grumblin' undah 'is breath, lookin' 'round suspicious-like. But 'e did come in - three a'four weeks ago. 'Is words to me bein' that he'd be off fer a bit. Pokin' around a bit, sure, word was 'e skulked around some real lowlives b'fore disappearin'..."
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
That sounds like him.
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
(( I BURST OUT LAUGHING ))
He snorts softly before continuing, "He was real quiet before, though. I in't ever willin' ta go talkin' with the kinds 'e was minglin' with. Couple'a buildings on the opposite street, first alley ovah. Can't miss 'em."
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( She TOLD you she knows his kind :D )
( Jasper squints her eyes, not threateningly, but searchingly, as if filing the information away- if a meathead could even do so )
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
He scurried away, and Nicolette relaxes. "Lowlives, then?"
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chatterghosts  Guest • 3 years ago
Nicolette nods, taking the trio across the street and through winding nooks and crannies, careful to keep her shoes clean - though for the more messier paths, she foregoes them entirely. Eventually, they would find themselves in a rather lively alleyway:
People line themselves at the edges of the alleyways, trading and playing shell games with outrageous results. A small tussle ensues farther down, between two displeased boys. There's a scent of smoke you simply can't place. Everything is poorly lit, however, so Nicolette would have to squint.
Not quite the lowlife hangout, it appears.
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( As they wind their way through the streets, Silver trails slightly behind, holding onto Jasper for guidance. She lets go when they reach their destination, looking to the scene before them. )
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
Nicolette's gaze drifts to the others, namely Silver. "My dear, are you going to be alright here?"
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Um... We'll find out ( She flashes Nicolette a hopeful smile. )
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Jasper Jekyll  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
I'll make sure nothing happens.
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
She nods, though as she finally faces the alley, the group would find each and every set of eyes on them. It's followed by a bout of hyena-esque laughter, and, "Who let the pretty ones play 'ere?"
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Silver smiles politely at each stare, carefully avoiding the eyes. The comment was both threatening and flattering and she wasn't sure which was the true denotation. )
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
One of the younger one strides over. "Pretty luv's ain't got much'va reason to be in these parts. What d'you seek here?"
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Before Silver has a chance to bristle, Jasper takes a step in front of her. )
A friend of ours is gone missing. Word is you guys are something of a lost and found.
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
The boy looks up towards Jasper, his eyes widening at the tower of a being. "Wow."
Another one of them scurries out from the depths, shoving him aside to stare in awe. "Who you lookin' for? I can tell yah. I know basically everyone around these parts!"
He was a little young for that statement, but who knew?
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Jasper glances briefly down at Nicolette, gauging her body language to see whether or not she wanted to be the one to explain their mission.
He's her.... someone in the family, chances are she felt most strongly about him. )
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
Nicolette beckons the boy away from Jasper and asks, her voice as sweet and kindly as ever, "We're looking for an Elias Castellanos. He's a very close friend and we haven't seen him for awhile."
The boy nods and retreats towards the back of the alleyway, gently prodding someone who, by all accounts, looks asleep. He then proceeds to whisper something, and the man snorts, and laughs.
He waves an arm and calls out, setting up something on the cobblestones with the other, "You three want to see little Elias?"
Nicolette chuckles. "Little?"
"I've known him a long time. Well, come on now! I don't bite."
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Jasper looks to the other two before making her way over. )
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
The man that has called to them looks surprisingly kindly. "You are searching for Elias?"
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Yeah, you seen him around lately?
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
He tilts his head. "What business have you with him?"
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
He's gone. Vanished without a trace.
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
The man shifts, sitting up fully. "Has he now?"
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Word is that he was last seen somewhere around here.
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
"And how can I be sure that you are not the people who seek to harm him?"
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
If we wanted to mess with him, we wouldn't be looking now would we?
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
He raises an eyebrow. "For the purpose of harming him."
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Jasper gestures to the door. )
Lead the way.
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( Jasper returns the bartender's smile with an expression far less warm. She eyes him through skeptical low lidded eyes, mouth set in a small frown. She squints briefly before turning her gaze back to Nicolette, evidently unimpressed. )
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chatterghosts  Jasper Jekyll • 3 years ago
(( See my response to Silver, please! ))
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Jasper Jekyll  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( I did. )
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Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited
Lewis's body lay unconscious in the alley. His soul, however, was steeped in a simmering stew of burbling emotions: alarm, chagrin, righteous indignation, and a deep-seated rage at whoever had done this to Artemis and therefore to Richard. Everything was falling apart. Again.
I'll be damned if that's so! he roared in spirit.
"I'll be damned if THAT'S SO!" he woke with a start, eyes wide as he rolled to the side and onto his feet. He lunged at Artemis from behind and dragged him off Richard with a strength that could only have been born of adrenaline. As soon as Weir'd managed to hoist him to a standing position, he simply flowed with the momentum, enmeshed his ankle with Geovanni's, and allowed gravity to do the rest. They both fell backward, his limbs pinning and encircling Arty's arms, torso, and legs. Lewis felt the impact of the cold, hard cobbles against his back and knew he'd regret it later.
"Richard!" he yelled through gritted teeth, eyes flashing. "Pull yourself together and bloody well do something!"
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis let out a cry as they both begin falling backwards. Finding that he is unable to move his wrists or knees, he gives a violent snarl, thrashing about angrily. He does attempt to headbutt Weir, but in his poor aim, this fails, too.
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Richard snarled, and for a moment he felt the icy calm of the wendigo the green fog had coaxed from him descend over his mind, the taste of copper and ozone in his mouth growing stronger.
For a moment, time stopped, and he blinked in surprise, unsure if the glowing in Artemis' now green eyes and the absolute lack of anything but red in Lewis's were a product of his imagination or real, vision distorted by the sporadic lighting of the alleyway.
Was that peculiar sensation chills travelling down his spine, or was it sparks down his arm? Where had it come from? It felt as if it had been happening for an eternity, and yet not at all.
If he had taken off his gloves, he would have seen the flickering within his hands, sparks and shards of blue thundering across the silent, stormy heavens trapped within. Though he felt it in his heart, he had no context for what it meant.
His body moved ahead of his mind, even as fast as it was to assert the proper balance between thought and perception. He knew nothing in the next moments but frustration and the howling and screeching of an internal tempest.
In the blink of an eye, in the upbeat of a frantic heart, he had pulled Artemis up off of Lewis, lifting him by the front of his shirt to hover two or three inches from the ground.
On the downbeat, he socked Artemis in the temple with as much force as he could muster without the threat of permanently damaging him, effectively rendering him unconscious in a singular, brutal, and disturbingly graceful instance.
A pair of hands anointed by a baptism of rain, lightning, and thunder. A cycle complete, and an ungodly energy released. A ritual completed in candlelight, a dagger dipped in venom and good intentions. They couldn't know. They didn't know.
The story that flashed in images across the back of his eyes was gone before he could even process what had occurred, leaving him with nothing but a lingering, ominous ache in his chest.
Like the calm before the storm.
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Jekyll1886  Tairais • 3 years ago • edited
Lewis had been clinging on for the life of both of them, but let go when he felt Artemis go slack, falling the half-foot to the ground to land on his feet. His own body was still tense, muscles taut, fingers half-curled, posture coiled as if ready to strike. The flood of adrenaline would take some time to leave his system, he knew from experience. Still, he was grateful the only one to see him like this was Richard. He forced himself to take in a breath and release it slowly.
"Thank you."
He noticed a mark on Artemis's neck. Small, like that of a syringe, the area around it discolored. His eyes narrowed. A wave of deep red hit Richard, though not as intensely as when Weir wore no flesh. The adrenaline definitely wouldn't be going anywhere anytime soon.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited
Richard's punch is effective, and Artemis' head lolls to the side, himself entirely unconscious, now. The way his neck is positioned, it's very, very clear that what Lewis sees is correct: there's a small puncture on his neck, marked especially by the discolored skin around it.
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Tairais  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Red and black ricocheted across a darkened mirror, amplifying it in the great caverns of his mind. His howling tempest was slow to abate, the red waves of a bloody ocean rose to meet furious storm clouds, fickle wind snarled and snapped and clawed at the both of them until there was entirely too much noise and he was drowning in it ALL-
"Never a problem." Each muscle frozen like a quivering bowstring, Richard allowed the full, darkened depth of his frustration and rage to paint his voice in hues of viscera, consonants jagged like bone grinding against bone, vowels thudding like the steady beating of a sleeping heart.
"Should we return to the Society, then? I feel we outstayed our welcome the moment we crossed that... establishment's threshold." Carefully pointed words, like carefully pointed daggers dripping venom and good intentions.
He kept his heartbeat steady, forcing it to keep time to the metronome counting the beats to Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, as he had heard it played when he was some years younger. Not that he could remember exactly where or when, he could only remember closing his eyes and letting the sea of notes pull and push at his mind.
Still, it was a fitting, if just a bit too lighthearted, piece to be played at the moment.
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Jekyll1886  Tairais • 3 years ago • edited
"Immediately," agreed Weir.
Remarkably, they were able to make their way back to the Society without incident. Though in various states of disarray, no one paid them mind. In fact, many of the lodgers involved in the search were only just reaching their assorted destinations as Richard and Lewis returned with Artemis. They strapped Geovanni to an examination table, lest he prove a danger upon regaining consciousness. This done, Weir and Prince proceeded to run an array of tests--biological, chemical, physical, biochemical, metaphysical, alchemical--the works.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
The substance seemingly injected into Artemis has biochemical and neoalchemical properties. Magic, it would appear to be.
Much in the later stages or the testing, Artemis awakes with a groggy start, awareness of his surroundings filtering through the murky haze of his thoughts. He groans and leans his head back on the headboard, where it's far more visible that the green of his eyes has dimmed - though only slightly. Softly, meekly, he huffs out, ".. Ahah. Ow."
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Richard had long since retreated into the cathedrals of his mind, listening to the pounding of wind and rain against bones of stone and glass. The tempest that had been raging within him for the past week and months had finally begun its crescendo, and he found himself completely unaware of what was occurring separate from his mind.
True, his body moved and responded, but his eyes were dark and unfocused, more celadon than the normal golden-green of shaking aspen leaves.
In his mind, he climbed the towering spires of the cathedral, howling into the wind and grinning gleefully as he nearly lost his grip time and time again. Lightning shattered the sky into a million cascading slivers of itself, the pieces falling and tearing his skin apart.
The dark thing within him struggled to burst free even as he tried to reign himself in. Now was not the time, it was not the place, and these were definitely not the people to be with.
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Jekyll1886  Tairais • 3 years ago • edited
"Hello, Artemis," Lewis greeted. "How are you feeling?"
Then he stiffened and stood up straight. He could almost swear he heard a distant, rolling roar, like the ocean or thunder. He didn't know why, but as he turned to the left his gaze came to rest on Richard.
He interposed himself between Geovanni and Prince, keeping his distance from each.
"Richard," he ventured, seeking contact under the unfocused eyes.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis chuckles, head tilting one way, and then another. "Could be better if y'unstrapped me right about now."
In the depths of his mind, Arty definitely knew that speaking was a bad idea. He wasn't unstrapped, unfortunat-- no. No, that's good. That's good. That was --
He rears his head towards the two, flashing a wide, nasty smile. "Riiiichard. Not feelin' too hot, huh? is it 'cause you know you can't save Elias? Is that it?" If he couldn't attack physically, words would have to suffice -- Why would you say that?
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
Lewis whipped toward Artemis.
"Oh, for pity's sake! Not you too now!" A half-snarl of frustration escaped his throat. What was it with this day?
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Tairais  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
His scarf had unfurled at some point, he noticed. Good. It made the snarling, and jagged nightmarish version of his kindly doctor's smile that much more obvious.
"Elias has nothing to do with this." His tone was hollow, mocking, laughing.
It was not his. It hadn't quite been his for a while, too much of his native accent creeping in, distorting the colors of his voice.
He had fallen from the great, soaring roof, and now he was drowning and numb and it was cold, the water was frigid in the January weather and he was drowning, falling and drowning and at peace.
He had actually fallen. His eyes rolled back in his head and he fell like a marionette, color and emotion and vibrancy leaving him in the span of an instant.
The windows of the cathedral shattered, and water and blood, black in the moonlight (when had the moon arrived?) swept through the sanctuary- his sanctuary.
The sparks that had been skittering down his spines and arms stopped, and the glow within his hands died behind leather gloves. There was a soft whine and a whoosh as the auxiliary power in his arms kicked in, not that he could use them or anything.
To Lewis, or to any who were near who could sense it, there was something akin to an enormous power surge of the metaphysical variety. Energy looped around him in the same colors of a summer thunderstorm, reaching out and giving anything that paid attention to it a white-hot shock. At the core of this miniature tempest lay a single shard of glass, stained blue and black like the stones in his hands. The radiating energy shifted around it like water in a snow globe, protecting it with all it could.
Elsewhere in the world lay a stone chapel, slowly being consumed as nature reclaimed what had been hers. Inside the chapel, untouched by the creeping grass and brush, a shattered window regained some of its form at the price of blood.
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago • edited
"Oohhh... So you don't mind his absence! I geddit," he drawls out. "You weren't that much of a lover to 'im anyway, rig--"
His eyes followed as he watched Richard fall, and began to laugh. Artemis internally cringed at his words, however. What am I even saying anymore?
A tinge more of green dissolved out of his eyes, and he shuddered.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
Shut yer geggie, Id-Artemis--Ah'm about well scunnered with ye!
"Shut your mouth, Idtemis, or I'll shut it for you," Weir tossed over his shoulder as he made his way to Prince, who lay upon the floor. He knelt down to check his vitals, the metaphysical waves of energy breaking and crashing around Lewis like metaphorical waters about a centuries-old weir.
"Richard," he reiterated, fingers prising open Prince's eyelids so he could get a look at the pupils. A minor seizure, it appeared. He put a pillow under Richard's head and the handle of a wooden spoon in his mouth and simply stayed there, hand on Prince's shoulder, waiting for the tide to run its course.
Intellectually, he knew it was only a minor seizure in the physical realm. Spiritually, however...
A scene very similar crept in the back of his mind--holding on to someone slipping away. How many times had he done this? How many times would he have to again?
I will not lose this one. Not yet.
His grip was firm but gentle, steadying yet adamant.
Come back to me, Richard. COME BACK.
"Come back." The whisper bore more import than a thousand howling cries.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
He promptly snaps back, "Oh, please do!"
Observing the careful nature Lewis has with Richard, he clicks his tongue. "Careful now, we all know Ricky-Ticky's got someone, an' it in't you." He tilts his head slightly, his tone lilting, mocking, "Don't be worried, Lewis, I'm sure he'll wake up from his dirt-nap someday."
This wasn't right. Why was he being so -- what was wrong with him?
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Oh, just bally well bleed out your poison and have done with it," he shot back at Arty.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"And why would I want that?"
Lewis wasn't incorrect, though - the drug inside Artemis, whatever it was, was slowly getting flushed away. It wouldn't be long now, and the dying greens of his eyes agreed.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Because you're really going to regret this when you're sober." Despite his worry and disgust, he couldn't suppress the hint of a grin at the thought.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"I in't done nothin' to regret yet, but I'm sure you could help me with that."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Oh, probably. But I know you're not yourself--well, not your usual self, at any rate." You're very, very lucky this isn't our first meeting...
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"I wouldn't be so sure."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Now you're just trying to bait me." He sighed. "I'm not undoing the straps, no matter what you say. Fire away. Sting me with your worst, for all the good it'll do you."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis sighs deeply through his nose. "You know, I still don't get it. I don't get you. You want Richard to hurt people, and you say you're helping. Do you just not know how to pick a side?"
He adds, a thin smirk appearing on his face, ".. you're just as bad as any Jekyll or Hyde."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Well, then I'm in good company, aren't I?" he asked rhetorically, an equally thin smile on his face as he looked at Artemis. And, beneath it, a trace of...amusement. "And I know exactly whose side I'm on. If you can't see it, that's your failing."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis begins an angry retort, but he's cut off by a shuddering gasp. Lewis would be able to sense the metaphysical change in his soul- another shift in energy, but this time for the better, as the last of the drug dissolves. He winces, throwing his head back- and hitting the headboard- before letting it loll aside. "Oh. Ahah, ow. Ow."
He cranes his head to look at Lewis. His voice is weary, "Did Richard.. punchme?"
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Back to "Jekyll", are we? thought Weir. It's about damn time.
He could do nothing more for Prince at the moment. Reluctantly, he forced himself up and made his way over to Geovanni.
"Yes, actually. An unfortunate necessity."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"Wow. Uh- were these.. necessary?" He glances down at his strapped wrists. And chest, and everything else. He chuckles out, masking a tiny groan towards the heavy pounding headache in his head, "What, did I try to murder someone?"
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Lewis looked down at him silently. One eyebrow raised ever so slightly.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"... Seriously? I--" He takes notice of Richard's fallen form, his eyes widening significantly. "What happened?"
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
Apparently, Artemis didn't remember.
Interesting. He filed that away.
"A mild seizure with a God-awful amount of metaphysical backing. Tell me...what do you know of Dr. Prince?"
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"Why do you ask?"
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Because I want to know. Obviously.
He swallowed his irritation and explained:
"Because he's giving off a highly unusual metaphysical signature, and I was hoping you might be able to provide some insight into why and what it is." A polite smile.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"I don't know what could explain that. And, if I did, I'd unfortunately still keep to my strict standard of confidentiality. Real sorry."
A polite smile.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Even if my knowing could aid us all, potentially including your brother?" he asked, unfastening the forehead strap. "My, but you do have some scruples."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"Call it a strong sense of morality," he responds. To be fair, he would gave been willing to talk about it with someone else - but not Lewis. Not him.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
He undid the thigh strap.
"'Hope it keeps you warm at night..." ...when your brother's cold and dead.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"Excuse me?"
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Morality's all well and good, Dr. Geovanni," Lewis said, unbuckling the wrist straps. "It can give one a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling inside. The satisfaction of having done what's right. A clear conscience makes for a sound sleep, as they say." He unstrapped Artemis's ankles. "But it's a luxury at best, foolishness at worst, given the situation." There went the chest strap. "If you know something, say something," he advised, as he undid the last restraint. "Your future self may thank you."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
At this, Artemis briefly flashes a smile as he steps off, adjusting his cuffs. "Allow me to give you the personal guarantee that my future self will be grateful for my discretion." Not only myself, I'd bet.
He smooths out his curls before continuing, "Nothing I know will be useful to you."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
See the future, do you? Weir thought with sarcasm. You could do with a bit less morality and a bit more sense, ya numpty.
"Suit yourself. Know anything useful about what we can do for Richard right now, then--aside from the measures I've taken already?" Assuming you don't try to kill him again, he thought but did not say. If he needed to burn the bridge and salt the field later, he would. But not now. There were still trace amounts of that odd energy in Arty's system, and his own reactions, he knew, were largely the result of stress. He could hardly blame either of them.
Besides, we may need each other yet.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"Richard has a history with speedy recoveries, I've found," Artemis responds. Despite slightly more irritable, perhaps, he felt completely fine. "He does.. retreat into his head a lot."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
"So we simply...wait, then." That had been the only thing he'd known to do, too.
For a time, they did just that.
Weir fell into a reflective vein of thinking. Eventually, he saw fit to break the silence.
"Do you dislike me, Artemis?" he asked, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. There was no hint of sarcasm, no smirking amusement--nothing but an honest question in search of an honest answer.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"No," he answers flatly.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
That's something, at least. By the flatness of his tone, Lewis supposed his mind was on Elias...whom they had yet to find.
"I'm sorry I haven't been more helpful to you. My temper got the better of me," he admitted.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"It's alright." His response is yet again short. Granted, he did have his mind on Elias, but there was something else. There was always something else.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
A pause.
"What's...on your mind?" ventured Lewis. Whether Elias or something else, it might help to talk about it.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis flashes a meek smile. "Concern for Richard, and Elias."
He adds, a touch quieter, "Both of them, so distraught and scared of losing each other. Look at it now."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Aye," he agreed. "They have my sympathies, I'll own. Love's a fearful, fearsome thing."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
He simply nods. That's an improvement.
He would surely later associate this with the serum.
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Delayed, like a great whisper echoing through an immense fjord, Lewis's earlier words finally broke through the tempest of Richard's mind, drowning in the pages of its forgotten tomes of memory, inky raindrops spilling and blotting out words before he could engrave them into stone vaults.
Come back to me, Richard. COME BACK.
A ray of light broke through a cluster of anvil-like clouds, reaching out with warm hands to pull him closer towards the surface. As bubbles and currents whirled around his barely-aware-of-itself form, the energy that had been crackling and rippling throughout Artemis and Lewis's conversation began to vanish into the hardened center of itself, in much the same manner of a star imploding.
He was almost free. Almost awake.
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Jekyll1886  Tairais • 3 years ago
Lewis noticed a change in Richard's energy and was down beside him in less than the blink of time it would take lightning to strike the ground. Fear and hope arose in his breast like twins in a mother's womb, while his rational mind ticked on, noting signs both physiological and metaphysical and extrapolating their meanings.
"Richard, can you hear me?" he asked, hand upon Prince's shoulder once more.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
The first words that one of the two had spoken in the passing minutes instantly brought Artemis from his thoughts, and almost mechanically, he follows Lewis, hovering over the two with a watchful eye.
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
With the great, gasping cry of a man saved from the clutches of a watery grave, Richard awoke with a violent flurry of movement, mind and body struggling to reconcile in time to avoid the consequences of instincts engraved by too many years in unfriendly lands.
In rapid succession, he spat out the spoon in his mouth,- Why was there a spoon in his mouth? Where was he? Who was the person looming over him? There were dark spots and shadows drip, drip, dripping into his vision and warping and distorting the light- He pulled his feet under him into a crouch (clipping his unknown assailant's chin in the process), and lashed out with a shaky but true-striking hand to grab whoever it was by the throat, promptly all-but crushing their windpipe.
A snarl bubbled across his face, shadow and wrinkle highlighting his eyes as he drew to his full height and threw his would-be attacker against the nearest wall, leading to a resounding 'CRACK'.
He promptly followed through by falling back into a crouch to skitter backward. Backed up against the opposite wall, his teeth fixed in a gruesome mockery of human expression.
Only as his vision regulated itself did the panic begin to wear off. Though his eyes widened with fearful realization at what he'd done, he remained poised to strike, each muscle coiled like a particularly vengeful serpent.
Cazzo, cazzo, cazzo, cazzo! He couldn't feel his chest, tight as it was and with a heart beating so achingly against it.
What had happened?
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Jekyll1886  Tairais • 3 years ago
Weir's limp form fell upon the floor. It did not stir.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Everything had gone by too fast: in one moment, Richard had been on the floor. The next, two people were on opposite sides of the.. room...
Artemis darted over to where Lewis lay, tremblingly seeking any sort of vital signs. Each time produced a blank, and he drew his hands back, face stricken pale.
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
A mind full of white noise. Red noise, maybe, since all he seemed to be causing was bloodshed.
No,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no. Get out get out run run GET OUT WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.
Bile rose in his throat and he scrabbled to his feet, out of the room in two quivering heartbeats, fear, guilt, rage, and grief rippling off him in waves that, were Lewis still.. alive ( gods no why what have I done what have I done, I am sorry I am sorry it was a mistake it was instinct I am so sorry, atleisk man! )
He was gone. Gone, gone, gone, into the hidden places he had discovered in what felt like another lifetime, a pleasant dream he had just woken up from. This lingering sickness and darkness that clutched and dragged at his skin, this is what he was used to.
He should have known it wouldn't last. It never did. It truly never did.
What had he done
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Jekyll1886  Tairais • 3 years ago • edited
Dr. Geovanni discerned truly. There was no heartbeat to mark out the rhythm of Weir's time on earth, no breath to fog a mirror. Only a slowly growing pool of blood trickling out the back of his head with the aid of gravity. It came from the exact spot he'd been clocked earlier; the additional impact from Richard's throw had simply proved too much for the weakened wall of bone. The angle at which Lewis had hit had also snapped his neck, his crushed windpipe of little consequence after the audible CRACK. The blood at the corners of his lifeless eyes let Artemis know the death had been instantaneous, like a rabbit shaken in a hound's mouth.
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Catt Hatter  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited
(Seriously? SERIOUSLY!?
...
SeRiOuSlY?????)
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago
( *Quietly begins to hug/restrain Cat.* Shhhh....Shhhh....these things happen. We'll get our revenge later. Shhhh.....)
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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago
(Frgn, ghaa! *grips onto you and buries my face in your shoulder with a frustrated noise*)
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago
( Come away now. Come away from the breakfast square...it'll only hurt worse. *drags catt off into the horizon.*)
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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago
(*Sighs and is dragged a few feet before walking.*)
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago
(( Uh. Woops? ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 3 years ago
(*pouts*)
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis has little time to think on the situation before slipping into hysteria, stepping away from Lewis' corpse a
and shrinking along the back wall. This couldn't be happening. This wasn't happening. He could've warned Lewis. He was angry at Lewis. Why, why was he so angry?
Richard had already fled, leaving Artemis to do... what? What was he to do with Lewis' body? What would anyone do? Why didn't he know what to do?
He was falling into the depths of a breakdown long before he should've thought to stop it, sliding down against the surface of the wall, careful to avoid where Lewis had-
This was wrong. This had all gone so wrong, so fast.
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Silverliné Carew  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
( So I was recording because IRL anxiety about a show I'm in tomorrow, and I noticed that my music meme is perfect for you right now because it's both a wistful foreboding stage of grief and a dirge.
http://chirb.it/mktCm1
I'm so sorry. )
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chatterghosts  Silverliné Carew • 3 years ago
(( !!! This is perfect!
Ahah, yeah.. Arty did not see this coming.. Granted, I doubt anyone did. This got messy fast :U ))
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Ten minutes passed in quite literally the blink of an eye. In that single moment, he came to three conclusions:
1) He had left Artemis to deal with a body that was his fault, which was... terribly rude and quite insensitive, really. Especially since he didn't seem too fond of Lewis (not that he though that Artemis wanted Lewis dead).
2) Moping in the rafters of the Society was counter-productive at best, and Elias was in more in more danger the longer he sat on his sorry ass.
3) He had no idea how to find Elias without Artemis' help.
He swallowed, shoving aside the maelstrom of guilt and grief and furious rage at himself that had been building like a tsunami- and I see all the signs of a rising tsunami in you.- and made his way to the site of his friend's (though was such a simple word really the one to use for someone who had trampled across walked through his mind?) final breaths.
Neither Artemis nor Lewis..'s corpse were in the room he had vacated.
Hadn't he found a morgue during one of his late night escapades?
Deciding that yes, he most assuredly had (the smell of faint decay and preserving agents was rather distinctive, and he would know), Richard slid between the crawl spaces of wall and ceiling alike until he found himself standing a familiar doorway, the cloyingly sharp smell he had identified in his mind filling his nostrils.
It likely wasn't even all that strong, in reality. He could, however, vividly imagine each friend and foe he had left behind in his desperate bid for freedom trapped in the room before him.
These thoughts trapped him in the doorway, ghosts from the past howling and screaming for retribution as they reached out from behind compartments and cabinets alike.
At least they were all hidden. He couldn't bear to look at them right now. Couldn't show remorse (it had felt good, after all. It was beautiful in a dark and frankly immoral way. In his eyes.), lest he find himself sinking ever into his own mire.
It would be so much easier on his soul if he could just.. Do exactly what both Hannibal and Lewis had said.
He could remember all of those memories, now. He couldn't hide from himself, but neither would he allow himself to be himself- gods, he was getting a headache from being irritated by his own self-loathing (and disgusted for being irritated, and exasperated for being disgusted, and on and on and on- gods would he never shut up)
And so he waited for Artemis to see him, for Artemis was in the morgue too.
He should leave them, after all of this was said and done. Gods, he wasn't good for them. They deserved better than him.
And if he left, he wouldn't have to worry about disappointing them when he inevitably gave up resisting.
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago
Artemis had sorted the details out, and all that remained was ... nothing.
There was nothing now.
He'd caught wind that his sister had been badly hurt, his friend arrested in the very same instance.
His plan was falling apart with astounding results.
He shouldn't have remained in there with the body, he'd been due to leave long before, but he couldn't. Dragging himself away from that body meant defeat. He was down by half of the parties who had joined him. Richard had run off, too.
He would still continue the efforts, of course. Even when it inevitably failed, he'd keep going. He'd keep looking. He'd not stop until he found an answer.
Turning to leave, he came to face Richard. His blood drained away. Everything fell away.
He burst into tears.
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Silently, slowly, and knowing nothing of how to comfort a friend (he had never been good at comfort, far too used to blood-soaked hands and acrid fear) save for one thing, Richard stretched out his arms in a straightforward invitation.
Before him stood the Benediktas of another lifetime, though this little brother wasn't crying over a scraped knee, nor was he likely to laugh away the pain at a funny face Richard pulled.
He rather suspected that would get him punched.
'Little brother, little brother, I am sorry you had to meet me now, mirror broken and cracked. Would it have been you had met me whole, we could remember a brighter time together.'
He wished he could say he was unused to his heart aching. As it was, he was unused to feel tears prickling behind his eyes, though he did not allow them to fall.
They wanted to, though. He wanted to let them.
Oh, how his heart ached. Two brothers, with a pair of knives to his heart. How he loved them both in separate ways, and how he wished he didn't.
His heart ached, and it bleeded, and it cried the tears he did not shed.
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago
Artemis tenses up, shoulders drawing back. He shouldn't. He couldn't. Richard had killed someone.
He staggered forward, blindly into his arms on the account of tear-blurred vision. He so desperately wanted to resent Richard. He wanted to feel angry and upset that he'd taken a man's life. He didn't want to feel hollow. He didn't want a hug from him to fill that space.
But he couldn't, and so he kept sobbing instead, his shoulders trembling in effect.
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
Richard relaxed what was perhaps the tiniest fraction of a percent. The tears that had so treacherously threatened to fall now gathered in the bottom of his eyes, causing him to take a slow, measured breaths as he rubbed circles on Artemis' back.
He spoke lowly, slowly, afraid of wielding even one incorrect inflection or syllable, but determined to mend even a single part of the damage he'd caused.
For once, his stutter wasn't faked. Emotion made his tongue slow, and sentiment made it meander from its course in English.
"Jums būtų- Y-you would be w-well w-within your r-rights to nek- h-hate me, but I w-will r-remain w-with you as l-long as y-you will h-have me. I w-will w-walk into a žiau- bitter e-end if it m-means w-w... you r-rescue Mūsų trečią Elijui ". Er. Our Elias."
'If we had met in a different time, would I be a different man? Would I be worthy to be loved?' His internal voice was replaced by a different ones, one largely forgotten, one speaking of a shared homeland.
"Betrayal and forgiveness are best seen as something akin to falling in love," The voice forgotten had said. "You can't control with respect to whom you fall in love," the voice from home had replied.
They were both right, in truth. He would likely have loved and been loved, regardless.
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Jekyll1886  Tairais • 3 years ago • edited
From the direction of the table where Weir's body had been lain came a creak and a gasp...as, like a man starting from a nightmare, Lewis awoke. He sat up suddenly, staring at nothing with eyes which changed their hue: verdant green as the Tree of Life, black as the Waters of Death--
He snapped them shut, wincing, his soul snared in all-too-solid flesh. He opened them again--moss green--to behold the Society's makeshift morgue. Prince and Geovanni stood framed in its doorway.
"I've heard of 'love taps', Richard, but damn...take it easy next time."
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Tairais  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Richard's arms tightened around Artemis in an instinctual vice-grip as he went through the seven stages of grief anew in the span of, say, half a second:
Shock and denial: There was absolutely no way in all the combined hells of all the religions of the world that Lewis was alive. He had killed him himself. His mind was tricking him again, leading him down roads shrouded in darkness and clouds of grief.
Pain and guilt: Gods above, he had killed Lewis himself.
Anger and bargaining: It wasn't right, wasn't just. He would take Lewis' place himself if he were offered.
Depression and reflection: He was well and truly hopeless- he couldn't even trust his mind to tell him the truth. There was no point to any of the chaos he caused.
"The upward turn": Could Lewis really be alive?
Reconstruction: He could fix this. There was hope yet. He would piece together the mirrors and teacups he had shattered and they would come together.
There was a single, insignificant change to the seventh stage, however.
Acceptance and hope Indignation/Anger:
"In the name of Brėkšta and Veliuona, Lewis! I was about to shed tears over your cooling corpse!
His eyes had flickered between configurations of green and gold as his mood changed, eventually settling on one that was almost the inverse of his usual eye color: They were mostly gold, with flinty flecks of emerald as he let forth a string of startled curses that would make even the most tempered of saints burst into flame. Italian, Russian, Lithuanian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Chinese, Romanian, German, Welsh, Irish, and so many more he wasn't entirely sure he didn't merge some of them. The streak continued for what felt like an eternity, but was likely half a minute at most.
He could talk quite fast in any language that wasn't English.
Finally, he summed up his thoughts in a single phrase (this time, in English, though his accent leaped towards a full-blooded Italian one, as it was wont to do when he was angered): "What the Hell? You could have mentioned your hobby was ressurection before I killed you, yes? And you did not do this, why? Che CAZZO Lewis!"
He quickly released Artemis when he remembered the force of his strength and silently prayed he hadn't left too bad of a bruise.
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago
Artemis would've spring away from both of them, were he not being held in a death-grip by Richard. He experienced the similar indignation towards Lewis that Richard had, however, followed by even more confusion. He promptly wipes his tears away, watching Lewis with pure incredulity. "Ho-- how did you... Your skull, it-- it c-c-caved!"
(There was bruising, but it was ignored in favor of shock.)
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Well, it's not exactly the sort of thing one brings up over tea..." said Lewis with a shrug, palms upturned, in response to Richard. To Artemis, "What can I say? Death doesn't take well to me. I always seem to startle it away--like a skittish rabbit. I could explain further, but shouldn't we be looking for your brother?"
Beneath the nonchalant bravado, he was touched. They actually cared that I died. He found it both quaint and endearing.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
That response fails to please Artemis, and his face turns a bright red. This is about the most angry either of them would have ever seen him. "The other groups haven't arrived yet, so please, do humor me. I've covered for both of your sorry asses now, and I still think that those stupid geology twins think me a murderer!" He sighs, scrubbing at his face. "Not here, maybe, but I'm expecting a damn reason you're still walking."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
"The geology twins? Oh, dear..." said Weir. He hoisted himself off the table with a stretch, landing deftly on his feet. "I'll have a talk with them later; I'm sure I can convince them it was simply a harmless metaphysics experiment with frightening-looking side effects--'Schrödinger's scientist', if you will." It then occurred to him Erwin Schrödinger would be a child in this time period, if he existed yet at all. "Or something along those lines. I'll sort it out. Not to worry."
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Tairais  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Taking Lewis'... interesting comment in stride, Richard shot Artemis an apologetic glance and remembered to let go of the poor soul before he was startled again. He took a step forward towards Lewis and frowned, crossing his arms over his chest.
It was concern that motivated him to speak more than anything, really. Revival or no, Lewis' skull had been caved in.
(He was really oddly accepting of it all, 'it all' being the whole... resurrection debacle.)
"While I am more than my fair share of curious and confused as well, I must ask, Lewis. Are you well in the aftermath of that? It sounded and looked about as pleasant as drowning in reverse may be."
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Jekyll1886  Tairais • 3 years ago
"Fit as the proverbial fiddle, physically," he replied. Richard was taking it rather well, he thought, the initial spate of multilingual cursing notwithstanding. "Mentally, I can't be as..." he searched for the word, "dissembling?--Tactful.--as polite society requires...not for a few minutes, at least." A brief laugh, through his nose. "The higher brain's always last to the party." He grinned like a drunk. "Mmm... Soul-wise, I feel like I'm in slow motion right now. I'm experiencing what seems like pain, and my nerves are singing something awful, but I know it's just sensation coming back. It'll sort itself out and then pass." He thought of something. "Confidentiality, though," he said, looking to Artemis, then back to Richard, eyes a little wider. "That, I need from you." He tilted his head, his neck giving an audible crack. He blinked a few times. Then, a mere afterthought: "Please."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis nodded, though he continued to prod at the situation, his arms crossing over his chest. "I still ask that you explain in the first place how you're still.. alive...or resurrected, or however it's gone."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"I don't have all my words--vocabulary--access to all of my vocabulary," he re-corrected himself, "right now, but the best way I can think to explain it is this: My soul is sacrosanct. The body merely follows suit, whether I will it or no."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago • edited
Artemis would've responded, but he didn't - his attention was near-totally taken by... assuming what his gaze had been fixed on, a lamp. To the observant, however, his eyes would've been imbued with gold, a stare that seemed too strange to be his own.
Metaphysically, the difference in his presence was also prevalent - 'Artemis' seems to disappear, something highly unusual, and almost unfamiliar, in it's place.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"How now, but yours isn't," he remarked as the odd shift in Artemis caught his attention. "What is it this time?" he asked, unsure whether he'd get silence, an explanation, or a blow to the face in return.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
The gold dissolved.
Artemis begins to speak again, "Huh? My apologies, I was jus--"
He flinched at an imaginary blow, grasping his head and grappling onto Richard for support - he would've lost balance and fallen otherwise. This time, he raises his gaze, and his eyes are an icy... blue.
It was too dark, too chilly, too smelly. Everything had a great, far-reaching stench of vomit, and the London air had slipped past small crevices and filled it with a cold that was amaranthine in it's presence.
No one else could see this, however, and it was accentuated with a shooting pain in his skull.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"What the bloody blue blazes did they put in you?" said Weir softly. Concern for Artemis mixed with scientific curiosity, but the most pressing matter, he supposed, would be to find Elias. He had a hunch if the three of them could do that, they'd find whoever'd done this to Arty as well.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
“What the bloody blue blazes did they put in you?” said Weir softly. Concern for Artemis mixed with scientific curiosity as the nature of the metaphysical forces at play set off every internal warning bell. He recognized this type of soul pattern, off though it was. His earlier hunch had been right, though he couldn’t be sure of the exact bioalchemical mechanics of this particular variation on the serum.
We have to find Elias, thought Lewis, if they were to have any hope of salvaging Artemis. Either he’s behind this, or he knows who is.
Either way…I want a word.
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Tairais  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Richard's thoughts were much the same as Lewis's, though whether by his own processes or by the echos of whatever bond they had forged in dreaming together, it didn't matter.
He held Artemis steady, the faintest flicker of worry penetrating the facade of calm he wore like a shawl wrapped tightly around him to protect from a metaphorical chill. At least, he hoped it was metaphorical.
He said nothing, merely watched and waited to react. There were still shards of glass tumbling in his mind, making an absolute mess of the tapestries and wallpaper that hung there, echoing and clattering against masks and suits of armor.
He'd move as soon as someone started to lead the way.
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago
"I'm fine, it's just strange-" He grunted. There was another wave of pain.
"What do you mean he can se-- he can see- w- wait, he's seeing what I'm seeing?" The voice that spoke wasn't one he knew, though it fumbled through it's words, scared.
"And him you," added a voice outside of the gaze he was looking through. Like the first, Artemis didn't know it.
"Oh-- w-wait, does that m- is that why there's a- wow, that's very bright- sorry, um, uh -- h- ..hello? What's his nam- Ar.. Artemis? Artemis can hear me?"
A thought that followed, yet again not his own: Nononono don't listen to him you can't you can'tcomeyouhave to-
Everything stopped.
The color in his eyes had left, leaving them glossy and defocused, but brown once more. It took another moment for vision to return to him. A handful more passed in tense silence. Eventually, he willed his voice to work again. "Can someone grab a chair?"
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Weir did so.
"Where were you?" he asked, once Arty had settled. The latter hadn't been present, that much was certain, judging by the look that had come over him.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"I don't know," he admits. He rubs his temples for a moment, trying to will away the pain that had overtaken his head. "It was dark, and it all smelled really bad. There were people talking..."
"What do you mean he can se-- he can see- w- wait, he's seeing what I'm seeing?"
And him you."
"It was someone else's eyes, they said, uh.. I don't know."
His eyes lit up blue again.
"I'm seeing him-- it's Artemis again!"
"What is it?"
"I-- there's two guys - they're both really tall--"
There was a shriek -
- and the connection shuttered out. Artemis sucked in his breath and buried his face in his hands.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Someone else's..." Lewis echoed, then stopped cold as Arty's eyes went icy blue. An energy signature came through, loud and clear, Artemis's presence almost incidental, as if he were a mere vessel for a moment. Then the shared connection went dead.
But it was all he needed.
"I've a terribly silly idea," said Weir with a grin which bordered on feline, "though it might just work, particularly if we can use intelligence gathered from the other groups to narrow our search."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Though slightly out of it by the amount of pain running through his head, he stuttered out a small, "What is it?"
The sound was gone, leaving his ears to ring in a desperate cry for something, anything. It was so cold and so uncomfortable and -
The eyes he was looking through swiveled left and right, up and down. The edges of this one's vision were dark, but it seemed to amplify the glow of- what were those? Gibberish formations of dots and lines. It wasn't any text he knew.
Artemis stifled a dazed groan.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"If I had an inkling in which part of this city to look, I'm fairly certain I could home in on the energy which came through you when your eyes went blue. I sincerely hope the other search parties found some information to point us in the right direction, because the alternative is a rather silly (and potentially costly) scenario in which I hail the nearest hansom and ride about town willy-nilly till I feel a ripple."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis appears quite hopeful at this, a tiny, bare smile twitching onto his lips. "That sounds great, actually."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Excellent. In that case, I'll go gather a couple of things now which I would've brought with me this morning, had I known we'd be on the hunt for Elias today. With any luck, the other parties will've begun trickling in by the time I return."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis nods. "Susan and Nicolette won't be long now, I hope."
--
Elsewhere, having recently re-entered the Society, Susan wanders the halls, seeking Gra-- Artemis.
Eugh. The name didn't fit.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Lewis had just returned from gathering the necessary items. He'd also changed his clothes, opting for the purple waistcoat, as it had more pockets than the green one. Upon entering the Society, he spotted a woman traipsing down one of its halls. He recognized her as the leader of one of the other search parties.
What a stroke of luck!
He approached her.
"Excuse me," he said politely, "I know we've not been properly introduced--Lewis Weir, by the by--but I recognize you from earlier. How did your search go?"
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
The woman stops. Though patched up thoroughly since the events previous, it's quite clear she had returned from a vicious brawl.
"Oh, right." Her tone remains even, monotone. "Susan."
She pauses to consider her words, before going the most concise route and clearing her throat. "Our party fell apart."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"How dreadful," said Lewis in genuine surprise. Her pause, however, inclined him to think there was more to the story. "What on earth happened?"
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"Four of our five-person company fled at some point," she huffs. "The fifth was arrested. She assaulted me."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Great Scott, a fellow searcher did this to you? What the--" he remembered he was in a woman's presence, "What happened?"
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"She got enraged over small, trivial things. Poor girl was deranged," Susan said. She was blatantly lying, of course.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"What manner of trivial thing could've prompted such violence towards a lady such as yourself?" asked Weir, seemingly concerned about Susan's injuries.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
She sighed dramatically. "Oh, if I only knew. She was crazy, I say. So, so very crazy."
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Throughout the duration of Lewis and Susan's conversation, Richard stayed with Artemis and did his best impression of patience, looking for all the world like he very much did not want to pace anxiously or run outside and start running, running anywhere on the off chance it'd bring him to Elias
He really needed to calm down.
With a sigh, he closed his eyes and allowed his mind to wander into the sanctuary of the cathedral and began to piece together the broken parts of the stained glass, feeling some semblance of order return to his thoughts as he did so.
It didn't stop the rain or waves pounding against the outside, but they didn't sweep through the inside of that part of his mind this way.
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago
"Are you alright?" Arty's voice pierced the silence. However dazed and pained his head was, it couldn't cloud his ability to be concerned.
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Richard nodded, though his eyes remained closed. There were pieces missing from the window, and he was walking the halls of his mind trying to find them, passing over those doors that were locked with iron chains and painted with ash and smoke.
"I am fine. Merely... trying to minimize my.. 'knee-jerk?' I think is the term, reactions. Given that they did little to help us at the bar and led to... Lewis's temporary demise, I assumed it would be best I regain what control I have over myself."
Nothing felt right, per say. He should've felt more embarrassed or upset by his tentative control, but instead he felt.. empty. Restless and empty, and too focused on those emotions to pay any mind to the others.
It occurred to him that the feeling was likely a form of worry and helplessness. Odd, but not entirely so, given the circumstance.
Elias. Mylimasis. I am sorry. We are trying to find you, I promise. Aš tave myliu. Lik saugus. Prašom. Prašom.
A candelabra somewhere fell over, and he one of his hands jerk somewhere separate from the rest of his body. This floating feeling was less than ideal, he could hardly focus on anything. Artemis and Lewis.. probably needed him, and he couldn't..
Couldn't focus through a mind full of cotton and fuzz and sparks of static.
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago
Artemis flashes a weary smile. "We'll find him."
His eyes turn a bright gold.
"Don't you dare look for me, Arty. Don't you come looking- please." An added thought: "Tell.. Tell Richard that I love him, but he needs to stop looking, too-"
It went dead again, another instance without warning, and Arty clasped a hand over his mouth, his voice unwilling to rise above a whisper.
"Elias?"
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Mylimasis.
His eyes snapped open.
The gold flecks in the stony depths of Richard's own eye seemed to flare in response to Artemis's, though this was likely due to a trick of the light.
Probably.
Head jerking like a creaking statue come to life, several microcosms of expressions flickered across his face. Eventually, it settled into something resembling confusion, hope, apprehension, and an attempt to remain calm.
His person suit had holes in it again, and at this point, they were great, gaping gashes.
"What?"
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago
"I-- I don't know, it -- it was different. It sounded like Elias, at least -- I think it was?" He runs a hand through his hair, an attempt to keep his even temper-
Green eyes.
'...symptoms best described as a cross between dysentery and the Black Death'--
He let out a whimper, head lolling to the side.
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Artemis?"
Before he could think better of it, he placed a hand on the man's shoulder. He didn't know what else to do. He was a being of a primal nature, no matter how hard his mentors had tried to get him to come into their games of manipulation and metaphors.
It was this primal nature that had the dark... thing in the back of his mind snapping and howling for something to fight rather than questions without answers. The small garden his mentors had tended reminded him to be curious, but it was largely overshadowed by the need to do something, anything at all.
He wanted to help but couldn't, and the people he loved were in danger again.
It never ended.
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 3 years ago
He couldn't control his muscle's loss of tension. "Nnh- I don't know, I-"
He drew in a deep breath at the jolt of pain he'd felt in his shoulder. As he went to grasp it, he saw it- his sleeve was blossoming red. It wasn't excessive blood, no dangerous amount lost, but it'd happened out of seemingly... nowhere.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Well, what do you expect from a fae lass like that?" said Lewis with false sympathy. "Though she did get arrested, you said. Perhaps they'll lock her up in Bedlam. Did anyone manage to glean anything about Elias before everything went somewhere hot in a handbasket?"
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"No," she says, far too quickly. "No, they didn't."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"That's a shame," he remarked. Internally, he could swear Susan didn't want to find Elias. It occurred to him this could be out of a dislike for Elias, a desire to see Artemis fail, or both. Not only that, but he had the creeping suspicion she'd sabotage any other group which tried to find him.
Preventative measures, then.
"I can tell by those bandages that fae devil likely used her claws. I do hope someone's given you your Faerie Fever inoculation."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
".. What-now?"
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Oh dear. I can tell by that reaction no one bothered. Well, not to worry," he said, rummaging through his vest pockets. "Faerie Fever is quite lethal--madness followed by paralysis, followed by symptoms best described as a cross between dysentery and the Black Death. But, never fear," he reassured. "If you contracted the infection within the past six hours' time or less," he explained, producing a syringe, "this can still save you."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
She starts into an alarmed response- But, much in the way that Lewis had seen before, her eyes burst into a bright gold.
"Don't you dare look for me, Arty. Don't you come looking- please." An added thought: "Tell.. Tell Richard that I love him, but he needs to stop looking, too-"
She moaned and held her head up.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"Well, s***." Not another one! There were at least three different energies flowing about and through each other, maybe four. They were not mixing well.
Oh, Hell with it. He jabbed Susan with the syringe, its contents a powerful, long-acting sedative of his own devising, and depressed the plunger a quarter of the way.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Her tense, taut muscles went slack a significant amount. "What the hell did you do? Wh-- what is going on.."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"For one, you're safe from Faerie Fever, so take heart." He smiled. "For another, that may just keep your heart rate and neural activity from reaching dangerous levels. I hope. And, if my hypothesis is correct, the same may hold true for anyone else sharing this infernal connection."
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Her shoulder was bleeding now. "Wh-- huh?"
Gold.
"You can't do this! They can fee--
A cut appears on her cheek, split by some invisible knife.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Susan's shoulder--her uninjured, never-bandaged shoulder--was bleeding.
That doesn't bode well.
The theory Weir'd been formulating was confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt when the cut appeared out of nowhere. He put his hand to her chest, over her heart--propriety be damned!--to feel the flow of energy.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Three souls were linked, flowing, moving together in perfect synchronization. Three Castellanos children, feeling in time with each other.
Susan stutters out, "What's going on?--"
"Have mercy on Arty, a- and everyone else. They aren't in this, Joseph--"
She staggered back, holding her eye.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
"ELIAS! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!" he roared, aiming to catch Susan (and, therefore, everyone else) by enough surprise that his message might get through. "SPECIFICS!"
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"I DON'T KNOW, ASSHOLE--"
Dead again. The gold sputtered out.
"He doesn't know," she spits out.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
"Well, that's just grand," Lewis grumbled. Flagging down a hansom was starting to look better and better. "Anything useful at all?"
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
"I don't know what's going on, dear," she says through gritted teeth.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Lewis closed his eyes, took a breath, and let it out slowly.
He opened them again.
"Well, let's hope Artemis can help us with that," he said, turning from Susan and heading off down the hall. She would follow if she wanted. If not...he found he honestly didn't care.
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
She does follow after, only with the occasional moan.
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
They shortly arrived at the room wherein Richard was tending to Arty.
"He's alive," said Lewis as he entered. "How are you, Artemis? Were you able to see or hear anything useful?"
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Artemis, much like Susan, has the very same swollen eye, cut cheek, and bloody shoulder. "He's --"
Blue - no, gold.
"STOP DOING THAT, YOU F**KING IDIOT--"
"Elias isn't cooperating," he says, stifling a moan. Susan grabs a chair and draws it up near Artemis, falling aside him.
Susan's nose had begun bleeding at some point, and when he sees this and places a tentative hand on his own, Artemis sees blood dribble down his fingers. "Elias..."
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
"Oh, damn." He stopped in his tracks at the sight, wondering who had blue eyes, and whether they were just a side effect of whatever was causing the connection. In any case, time was running out. "Where did Silver's group go?" he asked. Perhaps he could meet up with them, on the off-chance they'd found something. Otherwise, he'd hijack a hansom if he had to.
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Tairais  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Richard nodded, taking each bit of information and tucking it away in a room he could unlock and peruse later, filing it among cluttered shelves. He fought down a small smile at Lewis' somewhat.. loosened state to address the issue of confidentially.
"Of course. As I said to you on the night we met, 'If and when I call on you, I will take your secrets to the grave, as I have done with many others.' I intend to be a man of my word."
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago
("Elias was in more in more danger the longer he sat on his sorry ass."
*grumbles in corner* Damn right he is! >:( )
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Tairais  Hyde without a Jekyll • 3 years ago
(( If it makes you feel any better I have a really cute Yuletide/Christmas card I'm working on for you, completely devoid of danger.
It involves sweaters and mistletoe. ))
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Tairais • 3 years ago
(AWWWW!!!! <3 <3 <3 That's so sweet of you!! And after this RP I'm going to needs some cute non dangerous pictures of the breakfast square or Princellanos...or both...probably both... )
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Dr. de Lezo  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
( From the depths of the fourth dimension, Alano whispers quietly )
Do you need a second albeit cursed life Doctor, Señor?
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chatterghosts  Dr. de Lezo • 3 years ago
Artemis whips his head to face the voice, words spilling off of his lips. "He doesn't have a pulse - oh God, why didn't I warn him- the back of his head is slightly c-c-caved, um, uh, j-just..."
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Jekyll1886  Dr. de Lezo • 3 years ago
((I appreciate the offer; it's very kind of you. Unfortunately, with Lewis, it wouldn't take. Dr. de Lezo is, however, welcome to try if you think he would.))
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chatterghosts  Dr. de Lezo • 3 years ago
(( Please ignore my previous response -- I misread it, and my phone won't let me delete it. ))
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Mysterious Gamer • 3 years ago
(chatterghosts just because i'm curious i want to know what Artemis said >.<
and @DeathMurder_JH here's your last response:
"I do not know... How about taking me somewhere else? How about taking me to the doctor or a hospital? I do not want to bleed to death... I do not want to lose you." He coughed and passed out.)
Matt? Matt?! *Velius heard he was breathing and calmed down, then tried to stop the bleeding, taking more clothing to stop the bleeding. It seems that it was beginning to stop. Then he pressed a piece of clothing in one of the wounds and pressed tightly* I know this'll hurt you but I'll try my best to stop it..
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
If you're really going to help him. But if you don't, you can go away. *Velius sighed and looked away, obviously disgusted for Michael's presence, but he's going to hear Michael's proposing* Why is my fault anyway? I didn't made him have nightmares every night!
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
I can handle this alone. *Velius looked a little bit angry and sighed, then looked away* And I don't enjoy to see others suffer, you know? At least I don't enjoy to see him suffer..
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
He didn't told you that we're couple? Or you're too idiot to see it?*Velius looked surprised, but changed his face to angry and sad at the same time* Well, do you have a better idea other than talking to me and laughing in front of me?
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago • edited
*Velius waited until the nurses take off Mattias, snarling and looking angry at Michael* I know you'll ask something in change of this, what do you want?
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
Really? And what you'll do to me if I don't agree? *Velius looked at Michael with a defiant and angry look*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
I said to me, not to him! *Velius looked more angry at Michael and grabbed him by the collar* Don't involve him into this, could you?
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
You coward.. I don't promise anything about it. *Velius looked at Michael and smiled* I'll always be ready to pay the price of your stupid kindness~ *Velius smiled mischievously and winked at him, then laughed* You can do to me what you did to John~
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
Don't you dare.. *Velius looked creepily at Michael and made appear a silver knife and some poison* I know exactly where to hit you~ *Velius gave him 5 glasses of poison and stabbed him several times until Michael bled. Then he went to where it was Matt and looked worried*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
Shh Matt, calm down. If this was the Madhouse, the doctors would had kidnapped you and me! *Velius held his hand tightly and kissed his forehead* There's nothing to worry about. I'll explain everything to you later. For now, calm down.. *Velius looked at Matt, watched if there's somebody in the room and kissed him slowly, then caressed his hair and waited for someone to come*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
I'm a relative of him! *Velius looked at the nurse and looked away, nervously* W-We are a couple, and i'm responsible of him. But still I'll leave. *Velius went away of the room, but disappeared and went beside Matt. He stared at him and at the nurses for a long time* [I'm sorry, Matt.. I'm so so sorry..]
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
(So sad! D':)
*Velius was about to cry in that moment, but he had to contain himself, otherwise the nurses would discover him. Many hours passed and Velius stayed beside Matt in all those hours. When Velius noticed that one of the nurses were about to get out of the room Velius teletransport into a chair that was out and sat in it*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
(and it's all John's fault!)
Can i donate blood for him? *Velius looked worried to the nurse, then waited an answer from her* Is he alright? *Some tears came out of his eyes but he wiped them and still waited for the nurse to answer*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
You can't my love, you have to stay here for a while. *Velius looked sad at Matt and kissed his forehead* And before you say anything to me, I stayed beside you all the operation. I'm not going to get away of your side again..Even if I have to stab John! *Velius looked at Matt and cherished his hair then sat in a chair that was beside Matt* Now i have to donate blood for you, I'll make myself corporeal and I'll donate it for you, alright? *Velius tried to smile but he wasn't able, instead of it he closed his eyes and kissed Matt's cheek, then looked at Matt. Some tears came out of his eyes and he sobbed. He was really sad*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
Then I'll do it for you~ *Velius hugged him carefully and went to sat again* It isn't your fault, I didn't do anything to stop John while he was hitting you.. I-I'm sorry.. *Velius sobbed more and more tears came out of his own eyes*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
(Before your message, Velius went corporeal. I forgot to write it xD)
He's ready. *Velius wiped the tears and rolled up his own sleeve, then looked at Matt and to the nurse* I-I'm ready too..
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
Don't be scared, this'll make you good. Remember that I'm here.. *Velius closed his eyes and smiled, then looked at Matt worriedly* hey what did you hid?
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
Oh.. Matt.. *Velius looked sad at Matt and sighed* You could had waited me, I would come back! John pushed me to leave you, I didn't wanted to leave you! *Some tears came out of his own eyes* It's all my fault that you have those scars.. I'm sorry.. [I promise that John will pay me all this, I swear..]
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
Ssh, don't worry. I'm here now, nobody will take you from my side again.. *Velius kissed him slowly and hugged him. A few tears came out of his eyes* We can't go until you recover yourself my love, and I won't risk your life. Besides we still have to search clues to find Elias!
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
Stay quiet. We'll be in home soon, my love. You lost a lot of blood because of John. I'll make him pay, I swear. *Velius looked angry for a moment, then looked worriedly at Matt* If you want to go home, then let me donate you the blood! You'll be alright!
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chatterghosts  Mysterious Gamer • 3 years ago
(( "It's in my blood now; I cannot stop. I'm sorry." ))
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chatterghosts  Guest • 3 years ago
(( Greek! ))
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
*Velius remained to hug him affectionately, he smiled and cherished the hair of Matt for a long time...*
Emilly and John
T-Thank you d-dear.. *John closed his eyes inside the blindfold and the both were teletransport to the mindscape, there John healed himself and made disappear the blindfold, then looked at Emilly* Well, Michael can't come here *John looked away and sighed, then looked at Emilly again* And i promised you answers right? I can't bring you the exact answers, but I know exactly who would do it.. *John made appear a portal to the world of where it was Velius and Mattias* I'll take you with Mattias and Velius. Prepare yourself, maybe Mattias will treat you as an hallucination. Try to convince him you're real or things will go worst to him. Keep in mind that he's in the hospital, and that he's sensitive with his health in this moment, capiche? And.. Oh, do you want to change your clothes? I can do it if you wish! *John looked happily at Emilly and waited an answer from her*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
S-Stop crying.. I'll cry if you do it... *Velius looked sad, then kept hugging him tightly, then wiped his tears* Please.. I don't want to see you like this..
Emilly and John
The most important thing is that you'll not be seen as an hallucination, the other ones.. well, you're going to know the answer to them by yourself.. *John sighed, then looked at Emilly and snapped his fingers. He changed her clothes. An pale yellow dress and shoes of the same colour replaced the bloody dress* what do you want to do with your hair and that crown?
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
*Velius just remained silent for a few minutes meanwhile he was hugging Matt tightly. A few tears came out of his eyes, and he tried to wipe them*
Emilly and John
As you wish, dear. *John took the hand of Emilly and the two were teletransport into the place where it were Velius and Mattias* W-Well, h-here we are! *John looked happily at Emilly, but changed his expression as he saw Mattias crying and Velius hugging him* *whisper* Wait here, dear. *John looked at Velius and Mattias and sighed wearily, then went beside Velius and touched his shoulder* Hey.. V-Velius.. I b-brought a s-surprise for M-Mattias..
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago • edited
*John looked at Matt with his eyes full of sorrow and laid up his arms in signal of surrender, then grabbed him, made him lay into the bed and put the catheter into his arm again* I brought y-your s-sister alive.. *John looked around all the hospital and found her walking down a hall, then grabbed her left arm and he teletransport her and himself where it were Mattias and closed the door* Don't d-do that again, alright? It'll c-cost me a f-few wounds from your b-brother.. *John grabbed her hand and placed her in front of Matt* S-See? *John smiled wearily and looked at Matt full of sorrow* Be kind to her, she d-doesn't r-remember anything of the p-past..
(Velius just froze xD)
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
EVERYONE! CALM DOWN! *With his powers, John raised up everyone from the ground, except Velius, who was still frozen* John looked at Michael angrily* Tell Mattias the truth about everything! Stop being a mystery to him! And most of everything.. DON'T YOU DARE TO LEAVE LIKE A DIRTY RAT! *John looked at Mattias* You.. Calm down! I've brought your sister alive! And this is all real! Just.. do it... *John looked worried at Velius and made him a gesture to come close to him* Hey, I know you'll ask me for answers, but..
I'll ask you later. Now, Mattias. *Velius looked at Mattias and made a worried look* I didn't told him anything about us. They didn't knew it until you almost screamed it! *Velius got beside Matt and kissed his cheek* Calm down my dear. You, Michael and Emilly have a lot to talk about..
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
Alright, Alright. *Velius went outside the room and looked angry, then sat in the ground. John did it too and sighed tiredly*
I-I guess I owe y-you all an explanation of all t-this..
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
[Nngh.. I really want to go..] *Velius put his head in his hands and stayed like that for a few minutes. John looked angry at Michael and sighed tiredly*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago • edited
*Without even saying a word, Velius went inside the room, closed, locked the door and went beside Matt, then cherished his hair for a long time. John looked angrily at Michael again and murmured something, then looked at Emilly worriedly*
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago • edited
Nngh.. I only w-wanted to m-make him h-happy f-for once in his m-miserable life.. and I'm r-really s-sorry for hurting him b-before, I wasn't t-thinking clearly.. *John didn't resisted and laid in the ground, with Michael's hand on his head. A few tears came out of his eyes*
*Velius placed Matt's hand on his own chest and pressed. His heart rate was normal and calm. Then he held his hand with Matt's hand and crossed fingers* This is real my dear. If my heart beat isn't real, then I don't have any reason to exist.
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Mysterious Gamer  Guest • 3 years ago
I f-forgive y-you two, but p-please, d-don't hurt y-yourselves! *John got up from the ground and went beside Emilly, then made her sit in the ground, looked for Michael and made him lay in the cold ground. John sighed tiredly and sat in the ground, beside Emilly*
*Velius smiled during the kiss and placed his free hand in the neck of Matt. When finished the kiss, Velius looked happily at Matt and hugged him, then held his hand tightly* Now, are you alright my dear?
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Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
*Niamh's eyes narrowed* "What's so funny?"
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
"Why're you here, really? Humor me."
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
*You know that moment when a person is so angered so quickly, they take a step back and just* "I-if you think this is some sort of joke. You are sorely mistaken."
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
"I said humor me. Are you here to help Grace? Is that it?" Her eyes narrow. "Unless you're one of those types that call her- what was it. 'Artemis'?"
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
"W-wha- Who in hell's name is Grace? And yes do because that's his name!" *Niamh stared at her in a way that would be similar an older sibling when their younger as said something particularly stupid* "You off your rocker?"
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
She lets out an indignant snort. "That's not her name! 'Artemis' is some.. some silly thing she made up. It isn't right."
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
"Yes. It. IS!" *Niamh slamed her foot down onto the wooden floorboards, it shook the hallowed house and echoed along with her voice* "Why would he make something like that up? And anyways it's not your business, I can't imagine moon goddess being anywhere NEAR mix up with the likes of you"
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
(( KICK HER ASS, NIAMH. DO IT ))
"She's trying to be something she isn't!" Susan lets out a long laugh. "Grace asked me to help. She wanted my assistance."
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
(GLADLY >:D)
"If ARTEMIS thinks HE needs any of your help then HE must be truely desperate" *Niamh snarled, animal-like. This is truer than just a literary expression, it reallu was similar to an animal's. A shadow had kept up her face, eyes glinted, her teeth seemed sharper than before and it was almost as if she was slowly lowering to all fours, hunching up like a tiger about to pounce. One more word out of Susan until I guarantee her demise*
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
"You mean Grace," she corrects.
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
*And with a clamorous battle cry, Niamh was a blurry bullet hitting Susan with pure rage miles per hour*
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
Susan let out a shriek, failing to avoid the beatdown.
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
*She was a flurry of claws and punches and kicks and asperity, screaming a long list of profanities not appropriate for any '12 year old', fighting until the both of them rolled out on the London streets*
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
Susan staggers away from the crazed child, eyes wide, and probably bleeding from many orifices. "What the hell..."
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
*Niamh was about to lunge again when she noticed* humans. *She froze. They were surrounded by a small but growing crowd, curious about what looked like a fight between a respectable young lady and some heathen child with wings? Some called for the police.*
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
Susan flashes the 'child' a brief, nasty smile, but it becomes a turmoiled sob as tears begin streaming. "Y-y-young lady, have you no sanity? I-I was just asking for you to say G-Grace in the n-n-name of the L-Lord!" She sniffles, tears rolling off of her cheeks.
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
(not gonna lie, I as I read this and I started heating up myself)
"NO! WAIT PLEASE. T-THIS ISN'T-" *She spun around looking for an exit only to be met with cold, stony stares; disgusted, horrified, petrified, of the sort*
*Niamh started shaking, taking a few steps back, vision becoming blurry with tears? She hadn't cried in years.*
"I-I-I-I-I don't- wait, t-t-this isn't w-w-what, p-please"
It's too hot. Fire. Mother? Father? Where did you go? Why did they take you away? Snow. It's so cold.
*Backing up, backing up, backing up into a wall, clutching her face, whispering* "nonononononono"
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Catt Hatter  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
(Man, I really want to interject and have someone come rescue the poor girl. But I didn't make it to the first part of the story in time! T^T And it's already got so many people in it! AAHH! chatterghosts ! What do?! )
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chatterghosts  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago
(( Feel free! ))
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Catt Hatter  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(Gracias!)
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
Susan, however broken she had become by Niamh's hands, still staggered back towards the house, a bloodied victory grin on her expression.
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Catt Hatter  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
*Someone came running, and knocked her to the ground on their way past.
The person in question broke through the crowd, sending several people falling into their neighbours. He picked the cornered girl up in his arms, and hurriedly scaled the wall before anyone rightly knew what had happened.*
On the roof...
Hey, you okay? *Sozo asked, setting Niamh down on the icy roof tiles.*
(Starry Eyed Hey there! Zebra-boy has a soft spot for odd ones. was that too easy of a rescue? Did I derail anything?)
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Starry Eyed  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago
(ah here it is. Hey do you still want to do some sort of alternate timeline thing? Just as a little experiment as us scientists do?)
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Catt Hatter  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
(If you're up for it, sure. Sozo really needs to get out more. Although, the question will be which timeline is canon otherwise things will be confusing later on.)
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Starry Eyed  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago
(HELL YEAH I AM >:D and I am happy to contribute to Sozo's social life. oooOOOoooOOOOooh that's a good point, I was thinking the original would be canon just because we finished it and I have no idea how long you and I can get on ^^; BUT we'll see how this goes)
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Catt Hatter  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
(Fair enough I suppose. It's your turn, just post your reply to the one where Sozo snatched the girl to the roof. Okay?)
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Starry Eyed  Catt Hatter • 3 years ago • edited
*Niamh remained in a defensive curl, shivering though she was not cold. No these were chills of the past*
Mother? Father? In her head she was screaming but only came out as raspy tones in voice. Her feet dragged behind her, shoulders hung low, head down, fingers brushing the frozen ground. She was moments from collasping. The burns thought to be chilled by the snow only shot the fire deeper still. Mother? Father? A snap of a branch! Hello little girl, are you lost?
*Niamh continued to whisper* " nononoonononononononono"
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(aaaaaaaaaaand I just got that double meaning. Very clever I mean just *slow clap* bravo)
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
(( *finger guns* I do like my jokes. ))
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(*finger guns* eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy these jokes are unSUSANable, goodness GRACEious, it really is a work of ARTey. eyyyyyyy)
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
(( I fell out of my chair. ))
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
((All these jokes are so rELIASable!))
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Tairais  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
(( Absolutely RICHard with humor and wit! ))
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
(( stOP ))
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Jekyll1886  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
((Don't be LEWISdicrous!))
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
(Are you ok? I really CHAIR for your health well then again I am feeling quite CHAIRitable but falling off one no that can't be furniTRUE you BEDter watch out for yourself I don't think it WOOD be very nice but you should always CHAIRish the moment no MATTERress what.)
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Tairais  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
(( "Pure rage miles per hour": Oh my god, I'm laughing so hard. Im probably not supposed to laugh but oh my gosh that just tickled my funnybone ))
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Jekyll1886  Tairais • 3 years ago
((Well, you're not alone! XD))
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Starry Eyed  Tairais • 3 years ago
(Quite proud of that line actually :D)
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chatterghosts  • 3 years ago
(( Aaaaha, deepest apologies that my horrible person got Niamh arrested :,( Susan's a.. Not Good person. Don't worry, she'll get her justice! ))
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago • edited
(no no this it good, I really needed to give Niamh some exposure anyways, I already figured out a little prison break out thing for her. Yeah I kinda noticed XD.
Oh I'll make sure of it >:D *in the distance* JUSTICE COMES FROM ABOVE)
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chatterghosts  Starry Eyed • 3 years ago
(( *looking around, terrified* PHARAH NO ))
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Starry Eyed  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(PHARAH YES)
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Jekyll1886  • 3 years ago
((You have my sympathies.))
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chatterghosts  Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
(( *huff* I really wanted to watch Susan di-- can't say that about my own characters? No? Fine, ugh.. ))
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(( I gotchu fam. It will hap. ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 3 years ago
(...A strange thing to offer as a comfort. Writing is weird. I love it. :3 )
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Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
(Hoooow to get involved... ;-; I'm sorry I wasn't here... can you fill me in on this plot line please? <3)
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
(( Elias has been missing for two months, and search parties have been put out in the effort to find him, lead by Artemis, his wife, and his sister, respectively.
Susan, the sister, got the everloving crap beaten out of her. The group has since dissolved, and one of it's members arrested.
Nicolette, the wife, is currently guiding her group to an old friend of Elias'.
Artemis, as well as Richard and Lewis, are preparing to run about the city in search of a certain energy. Artemis has been kidnapped, jumped, temporarily controlled by magic, witnessed a death, had a breakdown, and quite literally swapped his soul three times in a short span of time. ;P ))
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(Great! Aaaand
Alicia has been trying to remake the machine that brought her here
She's going to feel AWFUL when she comes back XD)
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Alicia Ghast  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
(I guess she should do something. If it's not just hopeless ;-;)
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
(( WOO ))
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(Hooray for feeling bad when my characters feel bad because I am suddenly a wreck?)
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Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
*Alicia walked into the society and to her room. She had a bag full of parts, the metal inside rattling and echoing through the large rooms. She threw the bag on her floor and sighed. This was hopeless! She didn't know what it was made of or how it was made... she needed to talk to Artemis. She went to his room, knocking on the door and waiting.* (I don't know if he's there or not? Probably not, but maybe something will happen or someone will walk by so I won't have to tell her XD)
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
(( For all purposes, I'm going to say this is after everyone regroups - while Arty isn't there, someone else is. ))
A gentle, sweet voice sounds from behind. "Artemis is away, darling."
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
*she turned and frowned* oh. Where is he...? I need to talk to him, if... you have any way to tell him?
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
Before her was a kindly woman, lithe and graceful in appearance. "He's searching for his brother," she tilts her head. "You must be Alicia."
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
*her smile faded* he's... looking for Elias? And I was off trying to make something I can't make. I should've been here, helping him! I promised...! Do you know where he is?maybe I can find him!
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
"I don't, dear," she says with a frown. "Please calm down. My name is Nicolette. I'm sure we could fine him together?"
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(Wait, has he said anything about her? 
No, we talked about her but... right?)
*she looked down* right. I'm sorry. It's a pleasure to meet you!
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
(( He's talked about her, definitely. To both of them, respectively. ))
Nicolette gives a warm smile. "Artemis speaks very highly of you, my dear."
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
He does? *her eyes brightened* oh, um, so how do you know him?
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
She laughs. "We have a marital agreement."
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(I Googled it to make sure that is what I think it is but it just keeps saying divorce and I'm freaking out. Why am I a mess suddenly. I blame you.)
Marital...? You... oh jeez. *the brightness vanished, and she frowned faintly*
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
(( I mean that they're married, but not quite in love. ))
"It's not bad, my dear. I promise." She wears a reassuring smile.
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(I... I know, but I had to double check. I don't know why... XDX)
But... you're married, and I... was trying to...
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
She looks around, as if to be wary of a listener, before saying, "It's a status symbol, you know."
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
Status... oh... so, it's not about love... *she sighed* that's sad... you should marry someone you love...
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
She smiles. "Arty is a dear friend of mine, but I do have someone I love, trust me."
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
So it's okay... thank God, because... I really like him. *blushes and smiles nervously* um... anyways, we gotta find him...
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chatterghosts  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
(( If you intend to join, I suggest you wait - in reality, the groups haven't even met up yet. I can @ you when they do and they can resume from there? ))
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(Sure!)
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Alicia Ghast  chatterghosts • 3 years ago
(Change of plans, that might not work? Disqus is freaking out on me and I'm not getting notifications. Ugh. Hopefully it'll get fixed.)
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