Who: Jason Todd (
jaytodd), Quatre Raberba Winner (
ironinvelvet)
When: May 26th
Where: ...in the maze
Format: paragraph, present-tense
What: Jason and Quatre buddy up for safety; and by safety, I mean HORRORS.
Warnings: High Octane Nightmare Fuel. Just...just that.
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we began the weeping and wailing, a hurried high from pestilence, pills, and pride. it's a shame; we could've gone sailing. but Heaven knows; Heaven knows everything )
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- everything shatters. (Or maybe it's just the memory of when everything did; the color bleeds everywhere, and it's hard to tell the difference anymore.) Quatre yells, even though it's choked and muffled by his own breathing. Remember your training: focus, deep slow breaths ( ... )
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When he moves, he only turns the muzzle of his gun toward his closest thigh (I won't hurt you). His finger was never on the trigger, but if that is discernible to Jason or not, Quatre doesn't know; it's not a risk he's willing to taking, either way. Not that he really is remotely threatening, at the moment, but Quatre knows he doesn't have to be.
He waits for the older man.
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Jason licks his lips. It's strange. It feels like time stopped.
They keep going - Jason at arm's lenght to Quatre's back, keeping his eyes moving back and forth, Quatre close enough to the wall to use it to prop him up, sky above and red walls surrounding them, muffled noises -even the almost unheard scruff of their footsteps and their breaths-, weird light.
There's a turn, up ahead. Going right, or going left. It matters little, but the main thing that worries him is going into the wrong direction and getting lost -well... more lost than now-, hitting the Mist deep and dying there. Dying's not on his flight plan.
And if there is still a shadow and a cape up ahead, in his head or outside it, he focuses on the back of Quatre's dusty uniform jacket and tries not to think about it and gets angry at it.
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He stops at the turn, looking left, then right. It doesn't seem to matter which way they go. Quatre scrunches his face, and his skin feels weird, dry from his tears.
After a moment: "you do what's necessary," and he knows well enough that it won't be a great reassurance because it's not from the people that matter to Jason. But maybe it can be helpful; Quatre hopes it is. At least to stop the anger radiating off Jason. ...if he doesn't think Quatre is being cryptic about the fork in the road, even though he is, too. It was an unintentional double meaning.
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He engages himself further up the fork, before he realizes it could have had another meaning. He turns around, facing the teen -allows himself to turn and lose partially visibility, because it's quiet enough but maybe too quiet.
"What did that came from?" Except it sounds more like an order, and like there are dots beginning to get linked together.
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"I know," he says. His voice is softer than before because it's overwhelmingly sad. He isn't sure what to expect of a reaction, but Jason is an intelligent person. Brash but intelligent. Even if he doesn't realize now, it won't take very long for him to understand why there was an episode that has left them in this position in the first place.
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