[CLOSED] I am not okay and I need you to see it

[littlefairytale]

Who: Ruby (littlefairytale), Darcy (saltwaterlungs), Dimitri (prince_of_beasts) and Phil (goodweather)
What: Ruby finally talks about some things
When: Earlyish September
Where: 499 Winter's Avenue Farmhouse
Warnings: Explicit discussion of suicide, plus a likely side of discussion of child soldier stuff and mass casualty events



The last few months have been a series of ups and downs. In many ways, Ruby is doing better recently—living in the farmhouse has been good for her, she's made progress in therapy, the medication Sally gave her is starting to work, and the shawl she got from Celestine is comforting even on bad days. But doing better doesn't mean she is better, and with the disappearance of people like Peter and Erin, and now the looming spectre of that Visitor's Centre, there have been a lot of bad days.

She's not sure what kind of day it is when something finally gives—good or bad or something else entirely. It doesn't really matter, she supposes. All that matters is that something in her shifts and she knows that if she doesn't let it happen now, then it might be months before she finds the courage again, if she ever does. She has to do this. She has to tell someone before something does it for her, or something stops her, or— or anything else happens.

So, that evening, Ruby comes downstairs to join the others in the family room and just says: "Can— can we have a talk? All of us? Please?"

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[prince_of_beasts]

Dimitri had been making notes on the farm's progress. He looks up at Ruby's entrance, and snaps to attention immediately, waving his journal to dry the ink before shutting it and setting it aside.

"What is it? Has something happened?"