[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

[abhorrently]

"Gucci?"

Give her a second, it's been a moment since Alice explained that one. Then the recognition kicks in, and Fever gives a little nod.

"It's a long story meaning it needs an evening out to explain everything, or..."

If she needs more time to adjust to being back.

[closureisformovies]

"To get into all the gnarly detail, probably, but honestly the stuff you're gonna get outta me three drinks in is the stuff no one should ever have to think about. Though I'll probably need 'em anyway after a few days of us having to make up for Radar being gone."

Seriously, talk about a heavy lifter being knocked out of the game.

"Already drove myself to drink trying to understand the work left behind by another guy back home, apparently there's a theme going."

saving alice from being eaten by the couch

[abhorrently]

"Don't worry, he had it organized enough that all we need to do is just upkeep what he's doing, and I'll ask him about anything that's completely out of sorts. After he settles into the ranch and all - I expect that'll take some time, but I've made a note to reach out to anyone who lives in the area if I know them or they drop by, ask them to check on him."

He's being handed a heavy burden, after all. The least they can do, as his friends, is find a way to directly or indirectly carry some of the weight.

"And listen, I won't make you say anything, but what I will say? When it comes to things no one should have to think about? Try me."

If nothing else, she's good at listening.

[closureisformovies]

"Well to give you the real TL;DR: Sam and I accidentally unleashed a soul-sucking monster that killed multiple people and probably wanted to kill us. We found out our computer system was both listening to us and evil, and it ate one of my best mates. And Sam's new girlfriend took him out to a crack in reality and only didn't shove him through 'cuz the monster beat her to it and he went missing for weeks whilst said girlfriend lied to my face about it being a total accident and tried to convince me he was dead."

...yeah, that's the short version. She's had a weird three months.

[abhorrently]

There's a definite face journey Fever goes on while Alice talks. The soul-sucking monster is normal, yes, because that does happen, but the evil computer system gets a furrowed brow that deepens over it eating someone. And then Sam's girlfriend, who ought to be slain in the streets for that, lying to poor Alice who must have been eaten up with anxiety about the whole deal.

She opens her mouth.

Closes it.

And tries again.

"...why don't you sit at my desk with me today? Just...until you get caught up, because hells."

[closureisformovies]

"Yes please I would like that very much."

The OIAR offices have been even lonelier than usual and she really is glad to be back in a building with living, breathing people who aren't either lying to her or her annoying new boss that she wants to throttle.

She's very tired.

[abhorrently]

"Grab a chair and a cup of tea and take up a post at mine. No one will question if it takes a few days to get back on your feet after everything."

And it means people won't be hunting Alice down too much, and she'll be nearby while Fever strains her mind trying to note down everything Radar left in the lurch. But she'll be damned if she puts more on that boy right now as he's trying to shoulder a whole farmstead. Fuck. Isn't there another adult out on that land?

[closureisformovies]

"Yeah that's already more grace than my new boss at home gave me. I had to get right back to sorting cases literally the day after half of what I just said happened."

Granted they have every reason to think if they don't keep sorting cases then something horrible will happen but that doesn't make it feel any better.

Right. Tea and Fever's desk.