[OPEN] And I'll dream each night of some version of you

[closureisformovies]

Who: Alice Dyer (closureisformovies), Samama "Sam" Khalid (huntingtruths) & you!
What: Alice and Sam arrive back from their canon update
When: Early May
Where: Around, locations in prompts
Warnings: Reference to gun violence; typical horror protagonist things; specifics in headers. Magnus Protocol Spoilers up to Episode 40.
Notes: Open prompts for both Alice and Sam will be down in the comments! Body of the post is meta/closed to Sam.



It's just her luck, really. Goes to talk to some spooky external— thing and don't even die because it's dangerous, oh no, that'd be too logical. She was prepared for that risk. Getting accidentally shot by her overeager bodyguard she didn't ask for? That's the level of absurdity that her life is made of, these days, so of course that's what happened instead.

(Gwen Bouchard, when she fucking sees you again...)

The memories hit when Mortanne welcomes her back and with it, the fact that Sam was here, too, the first time, so if she's here again, then surely— maybe— she almost doesn't dare to ask but she does and Mortanne says yes, and, well, after that it's all she can do not to cry with relief.

She's alone on the ferry, except for ferryman. It's the most nervewracking few minutes of travel of her life and she spends it shifting from foot to foot, scratching at her arm, pulling at her hair—nervous, scared, anxious, excited, she doesn't know. She just knows that Mortanne wouldn't lie. So she pays her fare, steps off the boat, and then stands on the dock to wait.

She's not going anywhere until he turns up. She doesn't care how long it takes.

Comments

[skeletonkeay]

"External. Those are monsters and avatars, then? Things that cause fear? What sort of thing was it?"

[closureisformovies]

"The sort of thing that makes people tell it their worst fears until they die in uncannily relevant ways. There was this—" she squeezes her eyes shut and breathes out, "this girl, she drowned on dry land right in front of me, talking about endless oceans or whatever. A few other cases like that came in. It traced us back to the OIAR. Tried to attack Bouchard and then Sam. I only caught a glimpse of it, but..."

She shakes her head. "It was all eyes."

[skeletonkeay]

"That just sounds like Sims. Christ," Gerry grumbles. "Definitely tied in with whatever version of the Eye you all have. Thankfully that's the one I'm most famili--- Wait, did you say fucking Bouchard?"

[closureisformovies]

Alice is all geared up to ask more about this Eye stuff before he record scratches in real time. "Uh—yeah? Gwendolyn Bouchard. She's annoying but she's, like— well okay she's not harmless she's dangerously incompetent and self-absorbed but—what is she like evil in your universe? That'd explain some things."

[skeletonkeay]

What. "Who the fuck is Gwendolyn? No relation to Elias Bouchard?"

[closureisformovies]

Alice snorts. "Fuck if I know, mate, the only thing she hates more than me or marginal tax rates on the wealthy is talking about her family. They're stupid stinking rich and like, aristocrats or whatever. So—maybe? 'Elias' sure sounds like the kinda name those types give out. Same name genre as Gwendolyn."

[skeletonkeay]

"Well, if you ever see her again, let her know someone in her family might have been hollowed out and body-swapped with Jonah Magnus. That'll be a fun conversation over Christmas dinner for her."

[closureisformovies]

"...okay now you're having me on. What, like, Magnus like namesake of that goddamn institute Magnus? Is everyone in my fucking office connected to the Magnus Institute but me. Am I being punked."

[skeletonkeay]

"Yes Jonah Magnus like the goddamn Magnus Institute, he's a body-snatching monster who picks useless hot rich idiots every time he has a system upgrade. His last one, in my universe, was Elias Bouchard."

[closureisformovies]

Alice thunks her head against the table. "Every new thing I learn about this bloody institute makes me wish I'd been the one that burned it to the ground—"