[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.

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[huntingtruths]

Sam feels himself relax more and can't help the chuckle at the anger he feels from her. He shouldn't laugh and he knows that. It's just hard when the laughter is from relief. Relief that someone else knows that they were betrayed now. That he was betrayed.

"She probably won't help you since...since she definitely doesn't want me telling you all what she did. But that place Alice...I can't blame her for not wanting to go back."

[closureisformovies]

"Yeah, well, I haven't seen it, so I can," says the bitter part of her. Oh, she can see the logic that led the woman there, sure—she has the baby and everything. But... "Or at the very least I can fuckin' blame her for sending you there when she knew it was shit! Couldn't she've thrown Bouchard through instead?"

Now she's being silly, she knows.

[huntingtruths]

"Yes you can," It's said in the fondest 'yes dear' sort of tone even as he can't help but chuckle. Right now he can laugh because it's Alice, later he'll surly be seething about it alone in his apartment. "Wow, resorting to last names with Gwen now? That bad?"

You may be joking but he knows that tone still Alice.

[closureisformovies]

"Yeah. That bad." She huffs. "I got back to the office the day after you disappeared to her telling me Lena was gone and she was in charge! Still don't even know what she did to oust her, but we've been flying freaking blind ever since! Half the time she still tries to pretend the computers didn't eat Colin."

Beat.

"Yeah so the computers ate Colin. That's how he, y'know. I mean I know we always said the system was gonna be the death of him but, ha, I guess Freddy took that as a challenge."

If she doesn't joke about it she'll cry and that's worse.

[huntingtruths]

There's a long pause where Sam gives her that look like he wants to comfort her, like he knows that Colin's death had to hurt. He'd seen that they were close, watched their banter and recognized it. Even if Alice was similar with a lot of people it was easy to tell when she actually liked a persons company if you knew what to look for.

"Damn it Freddy...now who's going to fix all of your stupid jmj errors?" He tried to joke, before sighing. "Sounds like you're having a hell of a time...wish I could be there with you. At least that'd be one less stressful thing, looking for a way to get me back I mean."

[closureisformovies]

"Yeah, well, nothing's ever that easy." Not in her life, anyway. Everything keeps falling back on her shoulders, somehow—the only surprising part is that it involves monsters and interdimensional portals now, instead of day-to-day crap like keeping Luke from becoming a literal starving artist. "'Least now I know we're not on a wild goose chase and to ignore anything Celia says. And if that universe you've landed in really does have anything to do with Gerry's universe, maybe we he'll have like... a cheatsheet, I dunno."

It will not be that easy. But anything they can learn has to be helpful somehow, if they end up going home again after all this.

Though the idea of being separated from Sam by a whole universe again isn't an appealing through, even if they maybe, maybe figure out how to fix it sooner than later.