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quietplacelogs2018-03-05 07:01 pm
beyourzoomer) wrote in quietplacelogs2018-03-05 07:01 pm
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Featuring: Max Mayfield + Others
What's Happening? Finding things on the porch, delivering a gift to Steve and a network post - OTA
When: March 5th - ?
Content Warnings: None so far.
I. [Spam - Open to Housemates/People Who Might Be Visiting]
[There's a huge box on the porch when she arrives home from her quiet maintenance duties and for a moment, she just stares at it. She approaches it with caution, poking it lightly with her left shoe. When nothing happens, she moves to kneel down beside it, carefully pulling the lid off and staring at the contents inside for a full moment, shock running through her.
Because right at the top lay her skateboard from home. Broken, but held together with gray tape. She wonders if she's hallucinating, but she reaches out and picks it up and when it doesn't crumble to dust, she hugs it to her chest. Tears prick her eyelids and she rolls her eyes at herself for getting so emotional over something so simple, but it's her board. And it's here, even if she can't actually use it.
After a long few moments, she carefully moves into the house, setting her board down on the couch and then hauling in the box to see what else is there.]
II. [Spam - Open to Steve Harrington]
[The moment she finds the bat, studded with nails, she knows exactly what to do with it. Who it belongs to. She has no clue why things are showing up here that are from home, but it's something she's relieved to see. She's seen Steve in action with it once before. There's not exactly a door to the family room, but she lingers in the door frame when she sees him sitting by the fireplace.
She lifts her hand in a wave to try and catch his attention, hiding the bat behind her back for the moment.]
[UN: MadMax]
So weird question but did anyone else get a big box of random stuff on their porch today?
[Private Network to Kara]
So...hi. Are you okay?
What's Happening? Finding things on the porch, delivering a gift to Steve and a network post - OTA
When: March 5th - ?
Content Warnings: None so far.
I. [Spam - Open to Housemates/People Who Might Be Visiting]
[There's a huge box on the porch when she arrives home from her quiet maintenance duties and for a moment, she just stares at it. She approaches it with caution, poking it lightly with her left shoe. When nothing happens, she moves to kneel down beside it, carefully pulling the lid off and staring at the contents inside for a full moment, shock running through her.
Because right at the top lay her skateboard from home. Broken, but held together with gray tape. She wonders if she's hallucinating, but she reaches out and picks it up and when it doesn't crumble to dust, she hugs it to her chest. Tears prick her eyelids and she rolls her eyes at herself for getting so emotional over something so simple, but it's her board. And it's here, even if she can't actually use it.
After a long few moments, she carefully moves into the house, setting her board down on the couch and then hauling in the box to see what else is there.]
II. [Spam - Open to Steve Harrington]
[The moment she finds the bat, studded with nails, she knows exactly what to do with it. Who it belongs to. She has no clue why things are showing up here that are from home, but it's something she's relieved to see. She's seen Steve in action with it once before. There's not exactly a door to the family room, but she lingers in the door frame when she sees him sitting by the fireplace.
She lifts her hand in a wave to try and catch his attention, hiding the bat behind her back for the moment.]
[UN: MadMax]
So weird question but did anyone else get a big box of random stuff on their porch today?
[Private Network to Kara]
So...hi. Are you okay?
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He props his chin into his hand and considers her concern very seriously, flipping her hair idly around a finger.)
Okay, yeah, I could get why that'd make you a nervous wreck. If someone came into our group and Bill didn't like them....
(There were leaders in groups for reasons. And Eddie understood the mentality of having someone like that in his life. If Bill didn't like someone, Eddie automatically assumed there was a good reason for it and trusted Bill to make fair, good choices. He isn't so sure Bill would ever react to someone the way Mike did to Max though.)
Why does he hate you so much?
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Yeah, exactly.
[Her lips tug downward. She's extremely glad Bill hadn't taken to her presence the way Mike had. Here, at least, she has a place where she feels like she belongs.]
Honestly? I have no idea. He said I'm annoying and that the Party doesn't need anymore members in it.
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(They take care of people like their own. The social outcasts. They'd had friends outside of their little group, and it hadn't been a problem, except when those people rubbed the wrong way against one of them. Like that one kid who had called Bevvie's mom a whore. But either way, Max was nothing but good and kind. She was an outcast like them, and that only made her fit even better with them. If Max had been back in Derry...
Eddie really thinks maybe there would have been an eighth member to their club. The potential felt real.)
...(Eddie's quiet at first, frowning hard. Mike had seemed honestly kind and open to making friends, so he didn't...really understand it. But he also didn't not believe Max either.)
Is it cause you're a girl? (It seemed unfair, maybe, but boys were also idiots about girls too. It wouldn't shock Eddie if that was the reason.)
You're not annoying, and honestly, aren't Parties supposed to be stronger with more members? We have seven in our Club. Well. Eight now, I think. (He gives her hair a playful tug to make it clear he means her.
And Jake....Well. That was different.)
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[She's quiet for a moment, thinking about the way Will talks about his best friend, about the way Lucas and Dustin had, too. Bad guys didn't generally get admiration from good people, and the three of them were good people. Kind. But maybe she and Mike's personalities were just too different for them to be able to get along and be friends.
Or.
Because she's a girl. Her eyes narrow at that and she huffs, annoyance rising at the thought. Maybe that was the problem. Maybe Mike just hated all girls who weren't Eleven. Well, that was certainly stupid and sexist.]
It might be, I guess.
[She looks up at him, tiny smile on her face when he tugs on her hair, because she gets what he's saying and her cheeks grow warm. She chews her lower lip for a moment, then turns so she's facing him, hands resting on the sides of his bed.]
If we find a way to get out of this place, maybe we can all go somewhere different, together. You know, not your world and not mine, but somewhere else. Somewhere that doesn't suck.
[It's a thought that's been plaguing her for awhile now, as she lays awake at night, worrying about what's going to happen. She worries about what's going to happen to Eddie, specifically. To his friend Stan, whom she hasen't even met. To what it will do to Richie and Bill if it all plays out the way he'd described to her.]
cw; child abuse in...p much every aspect.
(And that was the truth. Nothing about Mike struck Eddie as a bad guy- or even a jerk. Eddie had met Mike and within the first hour of knowing him, he knew that he was a good guy. Worth being friends with, for sure.
So it was a little baffling this whole...Max and Mike thing.)
But good people can still be idiots sometimes. (Good didn't mean perfect, after all.
Eddie shrugs at her huffing- not that he can really blame her for it. He'd be pretty angry if someone hated him for such a baseless reason too. And hell, people hated him for that kind of thing all the time.)
Boys can be really fucking dumb about stuff like that.
(Eddie knows it isn't much of a comfort but well...It's honest.
When Max turns to face him, he lets go of her hair so as to not hurt her. He raises his head some, and for a second, he says nothing at all. The real funny thing was, or maybe it was real sad, he didn't...even think of there being a place 'better'.
Somewhere that doesn't suck.)
You really think there's a place like that out there?
(It's....Almost hard to believe. A place where picket fences sat in neat yards tended to by loving people who didn't want to beat their children or take their clothes off or tell them to take a bunch of pills they didn't really need. A place where if an adult saw some big kids breaking the arm of a little kid, they'd actually do something. Places where people didn't kill people's dogs just cause they were black, or where bigger boys didn't yell real bad at little girls just because they were angry at their fathers. A place where boys with abilities (and girls, he thought) could be left alone.
And he supposed, as an afterthought, a place without monsters would be pretty nice.
Did a place like that even exist though? It was...It was hard to believe. It was harder yet to think that his life could ever be something so nice. He worried too, he wouldn't lie, and he worried for Stan, and he worried for Richie and Bill. God, he never wanted to hear Richie cry like that ever again in all his life.)
All us kids?
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Max nods slightly in agreement because Eddie's right - good people can be idiots. So Mike doesn't like her for whatever reason and thinks she's annoying? That's on him, not her. She's done wasting her time worrying about it. She can't do anything about it, so she'll just do her best to avoid him the way she's used to trying to avoid Billy.
So she shifts her focus entirely to the new topic at hand: the possibility of getting out of this place and to another place.]
I talked to Sora and Teddy. They've both done some traveling to other places. Some of them sound nice.
[She, too, has her doubts that they could find a world where kids were just safe from adults and even each other. But maybe there are worlds where there aren't actual monsters, and that would be something at least. A world without It and without demogorgons and sound eaters and asshole stepbrothers and stepfathers. At least without hers.]
Any of us who wanted to go, yeah. And Teddy. [She's nearly certain that Will won't join them because Will has a family to go back to, plus Mike, and the rest of the Party back home.]
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Eddie grows still and quiet. Jake had mentioned other worlds. Not only other worlds, but he had seen evidence of Pennywise in his own world. And he had spoken to both Sora and Teddy about similar things. That and his own experiences from going to Derry to the station...Well, anything was possible.
But a worry was burning a hole through his gut. He curls his hands into loose fists and then forces them to relax.)
I really like the idea of that. (There was a 'but' hanging in the air, though maybe not the one Max would expect. He swallows thickly, and admits to her quietly.)
I'm....I'm kind of afraid though. What happens if the next time we move worlds...we all get separated? I don't....I don't want to lose any of you.
(Not his friends from home, of course, but Max and Jake too. And Teddy, honestly. That dog was so good to him, to all of them. He deserved the world.)
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Oh.
[Max leans her chin on the bed, looking deep in thought.]
Hot Dog is pretty sure we'll figure a way to either save this place or get home. But, if we all go to our own worlds we're separated then too. And...I don't want that either.
[She looks up at him.]
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...Yeah, well, he can't promise that. No one here can. I can't go back home. I can't...(His voice spiked desperately at the end but he was quick to lower it.)
And I don't want to lose you and Jake. You guys are-. Special. (He rolls his face down so that it was pressed into his mattress. He felt panic fluttering in his chest and tried to remind himself to calm down and breathe.)
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[She can't imagine seeing one of her friends vanish right in front of her and her chest feels tight when his eyes water. She holds her breath when he rests his head down and then pushes herself to her feet, climbing onto the bed and lying down right beside him, reaching out and resting a hand on his back.]
No, you're right. No one can promise that. I'm pretty sure no one here knows how to open a portal, so I think we're okay for now, Eddie.
[She lays her head down so it's facing him even though his is facedown in the mattress at the moment.]
Breathe.
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He hopes she's right, and he does believe it enough. He doesn't think anyone was able to do that either. He gives a shaky breath when Max tells Eddie to breathe. He drags in, and then exhales. Then slowly he rolls his face out and rests his cheek against the mattress. He smiles shakily.)
Sorry. (He sounds a little breathless, but at least the panic was subsiding.) I'd fight like hell to...to keep you all with me. Just so you know. If we can, we'll go together to a new world. And we'll stay there.
(He really hoped so anyway. Really.)
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It's okay. You don't need to apologize.
[She nods her agreement with his words, because she's going to fight to keep them with her, too.]
Yeah, we will. We'll be okay. All of us.
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Everyone was here now. He had to think about that instead of future what-ifs. He had to stop letting the future cast its shadow over him so much.)
We will be. (He agrees firmer this time, and smiles slowly.)
And we'll take Teddy. He deserves a safe place too where can be a dog instead of a constant protector.
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Damn right we will. We'll take care of each other. And Teddy.
[And they would be okay because they have to be. She thinks about how awful it would be here, to have no one, to be afraid all the time and not be able to talk about it. It would be like being at her house.
Somehow, this is much better. Monsters and all.]
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(Because Teddy deserved to be taken care of. Teddy who went out of his way to get a vial to Eddie that could save Eddie's life if Teddy's world's virus ever came here. He was never going to forget that kind of action.
It is. It's a hell of a lot better and not for the first time, Eddie's glad Max is here. He figures that she deserves to know too.)
You like, became one of my best friends ever in no time. I hope you know that.
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Yeah, well. You too.
[In reality, Eddy has become her first best friend in years.]