Goodbye Joe

[start_a_rumpus]

Max has been crying for days. Not in public or around other people because he's not a baby and he hates crying around anyone who isn't Joe. And Joe's gone. Joe promised to take care of him and now he's gone. Max loved him and the stupid island took him away. And it'll take Jason away and then Bill and then Coraline and there won't be anyone else to took after him. Things had even been kind of nice. Nothing super bad had happened and that Eric kid had gone away and sometimes he even liked it. And then he woke up and went to find Joe and there's just nothing. And Max loved him so much it feels like someone punched him in the heart and it'll never stop hurting. Joe one showed him where to find lots of wood and scraps for when he wanted to smash something and Max has gathered them all up, intent on smashing things all day long. He's just passing the compound when he realizes he's not going to make it all the way back home without crying. And he doesn't want people to see. He doesn't want to be a baby so he climbs up to the roof with his haul and settles down for a good, long cry. He wants Joe. He wants his sister. He wants his mom. He's too little to be all alone and he just wants to go home.

It doesn't take too long before that makes him even more angry and he starts tossing stuff up and off the roof. Maybe if he smashes enough stuff, Joe will know. Wherever Joe is, he'll know and he'll miss Max and he'll come back. He's heard that. He's heard people come back sometimes. Tears stream down his face as he hurls boards, sticks, half formed furniture and the occasional jar off the roof, growling with satisfaction when it makes a big noise. He has to come back.

[ooc: Feel free to have your pup catch any part of that, including dodging flying debris. He's an angry little kid but mostly he's just sad.]