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Jack Hollis [Captain Hook] ([info]floreat_etona) wrote in [info]bellumlogs,
@ 2010-03-03 20:51:00

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Entry tags:gretel, peter pan

Who: Jack & Evie & Nick
What: Hollis family reunion
Where: Bellum Letale and mental hospital
When: After he writes to Evie and the building
Warnings: Surly, resentful teenagers.

When it became clear there would be no way for him to get into 1202 to wait for Evie, he went back to his apartment to unpack some of his clothes. It didn't take him long: he had only packed a week's worth of clothes, wanting an excuse to have to leave. Despite his feigned enthusiasm for the coming family reunion, Jack was petrified at seeing his siblings again. Evie's angry emails only confirmed his fear.

Once finished with the luggage, he paced his apartment for an hour before trotting back down the stairs to the twelfth floor. It was pathetic, but he couldn't think of anything else to do: he slouched against the wall and waited.


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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-05 04:57 am UTC (link)
"Well, what do I look like, an elevator mechanic? How should I know why it doesn't work." Seriously, hadn't Jack been to college? She almost laughed at his childish face but stopped herself just in time.

"Just because the elevator doesn't work doesn't mean it isn't nice." Evie didn't know if she was defending the building or her father. "It's this thing called exercise. And you'd think that you would be used to it. Did they even have elevators when you were growing up?" The eight or so years since she'd last seen him seemed to be an enormous amount of time, now that he was back and old.

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-05 01:10 pm UTC (link)
"No, back when I was a kid we only used pulleys." His voice was amused though and by the time they reached the lobby, he skirted around Evie to hold the door open for her with a dramatic flourish. "Good thing you're around to catch me up with technology." Another face, then he straightened and lifted an arm, flagging down a cab.

"Listen," he said, suddenly serious. "I'm going to need your help with Marissa. She doesn't know Nicky's coming back and he's...uh..." It dawned on him how badly he planned this. "...Well, I think he's going to live with you so...she might be pissed."

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-05 09:41 pm UTC (link)
"Don't stress it." Evie sounded almost bored as she opened the door to the cab and got in. "A, she probably doesn't remember he exists; B, she won't notice he's living with us for three weeks at least so you have time; and C, she'll probably think he's a boyfriend or something anyway." The cab wasn't moving, so she looked back over at Jack. "Where exactly are we going?"

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-06 03:20 pm UTC (link)
"Milstein Hospital," he told the driver, then he gave Evie a look. "Well, you're going to have to help me with her if she does notice." Nick is 18, so he can't be automatically committed again, but Jack worried that their stepmother might try. God knows how awful she was going to be.

Once the cab pulled into traffic, Jack awkwardly stared at his hands and out the window, occasionally glancing at Evie. He didn't know what to say to her, and he knew she'd jump all over any stupid thing should he be so dumb. Finally: "Do you have a boyfriend?" That seemed like the kind of thing a big brother should know about.

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-06 03:50 pm UTC (link)
"Whatever, I'll deal with her." Marissa was a bitch but she was a really stupid one, so Evie wasn't so worried. She watched Jack out of the corner of her eye, enjoying how awkward he looked. It was totally his fault, after all. "Do you have a girlfriend?"

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-06 03:56 pm UTC (link)
"No way, I asked you first!" He pretended to frown. "Come on, give me the details. I'll tell you about my life," and he grinned, as if his offer had some serious appeal. He sobered a moment. "You're not really going to be pissed at me all night, are you?"

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-06 04:26 pm UTC (link)
Evie just looked at him, almost pityingly. "You wish it was all night." He really thought she was going to simply forgive him, didn't he?

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-06 04:45 pm UTC (link)
He groaned then and threw up his hands, exasperated. "I'm sorry, okay? What more do you want?" He frowned, frustrated. "Look, you were little, I don't think you understand what was going on--"

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-06 05:10 pm UTC (link)
"Some groveling might be nice," Evie was glaring at him again, eyes accusing. "Maybe, like, ten years worth." The dim light that filtered through the cab seemed to highlight the tense set of her jaw and her folded arms. "Right, because I was little and my mom had just died, that really made it okay, Jack."

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-06 05:24 pm UTC (link)
"Dude, she was my mom, too!" He felt the urge to shake Evie and he stared at her, as aggravated with her now as he had been when he was 18. He didn't like the feeling. Automatically, he crossed his arms as well. "Look, I did what people do: graduate high school, leave home, start life."

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-06 05:30 pm UTC (link)
"No one expected you to stay home. But you could have visited, or at least, you know, tried to stay in touch. Normal people do that too." Evie suddenly wanted to hit him, but she checked herself because he was bigger now, and he probably wouldn't be as easy on her as when she was eight.

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-06 05:54 pm UTC (link)
Jack made a growling noise of frustration and he cracked his knuckles. It was a bad habit he picked up years ago and even the nagging of his ex-wife and various girlfriends hadn't broken him of it. "I stayed in touch--" he protested weakly, aware that it was a blatant lie. Still, he couldn't admit that and he frowned at Evie. "Anyway, I said I was sorry. What more do you want? I'm here now." Cut me a fucking break.

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-06 06:04 pm UTC (link)
Evie didn't even bother contradicting him, since they both knew it was a lie. Clenching her hands once, she turned her head away. "Whatever." She leaned against the side of the taxi and stared out the window and refused to talk anymore until finally they pulled up to the front of the mental institution.

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-06 06:12 pm UTC (link)
He was grateful for the silence, even if it was awkward and loaded and implied he was in the wrong. At least Evie wasn't shooting him the fish eye anymore.

Once the cab stopped, Jack got out and held the door for Evie, then tossed cash to the driver. He didn't know how long it would take to get Nick so he didn't ask the driver to wait; instead, he gestured at the hospital's entrance and followed Evie into the imposing building.

At the information counter, he flashed his best smile. "We're here for Nick Hollis. He was just discharged." The receptionist nodded and made a call, murmuring quietly on the phone before telling them: "He'll be down in a moment with his caseworker." Jack grinned as if relieved, but his heart was pounding with fear.

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[info]never_old
2010-03-06 08:59 pm UTC (link)
Nick didn't know a lot of things, but what he did know is that he did not want to be going down the elevator to meet his family.

"You'll be fine, Nick. You've been adjusting very well," Nancy, his caseworker, kept telling him as the elevator made it's descent to the hospital entrance. He didn't bother to look up in response, rather just focused straight ahead at the cold, steel doors. His reflection no longer showed the ten year old that Evie would remember, but the gangly young man who hid his eyes behind his hair.

The twist of some unidentified emotion grabbed his guts, but it never passed his face. Wondering if Evie would be there to greet him, Nick stepped off the elevator behind Nancy. He clutched his small bag of things as they approached the group.

Nancy was the first to speak, "Nick, look. Your brother and sister are here." Then reached out to shake Jack's hand, "I'm Nancy, his caseworker. We just need you to sign some papers..."

Nick looked beyond Nancy and Jack to Evie. He blinked once. Twice. Then managed, "Is that really my little Evie?"

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-06 10:29 pm UTC (link)
Evie ignored the caseworker, focusing solely on her brother. Her nice one. The one she still liked. "Nicky!" As soon as she saw him, she jumped, hugging him tightly, like a girl who hadn't seen her brother in ten years.

"Oh my god, I am so not little anymore," she told him, grinning broadly. "And neither are you, oh my god, I missed you so much!" After a couple more seconds, she released him, stepping back to actually look at how much he had changed.

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[info]never_old
2010-03-07 01:11 am UTC (link)
Nick tensed for a moment before he reached up to hug Evie back. She was a lot bigger than he remembered, though he had to remind himself it had been ten years. Anything he really wanted to ask seemed stuck in his throat, so he just held on for a moment.

Dropping his arms awkwardly at his sides, he managed a crooked smile. "I missed you too. I have stuff. For you. It's not much but I missed birthdays and they don't let us mail things. But you...didn't come to see me, so I..had just saved them.."

He dug in his small bag and pulled out folded up paper, handing them to Evie. Ten drawings done in colored pencils -- different subjects, but one for each birthday he missed. With a look around, Nick finally noticed someone was missing from this family reunion.

"Evie...where's dad?"

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-07 02:17 am UTC (link)
Jack felt a pang of jealousy -- hard as a slap -- when Nick greeted Evie and then asked for their father. What about him? He was the one who paid for all this, back when Dad and Marissa said they couldn't afford it, even after Nick attacked him with a knife --

He managed to rein himself in, enough to croak, his voice weak and thick with unshed tears: "Nicky, Dad, uhm, Dad..." Fuck, this was hard. Clearing his throat, he took a shy step toward his brother, arms opened, wanting to hug Nick. "Dad passed away."

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-07 02:26 am UTC (link)
Evie froze when Nick asked where their dad was and she was extraordinarily grateful when Jack answered instead, enough that she mouthed thank you to him before looking hesitantly to Nick to see his reaction to that.

"Nobody let me come see you," she told Nick, just to break the painful silence. "I didn't even know where exactly you were until Jack told the cab driver where to go." She had always had to give anything she sent to Nick to Marissa to be posted. "That's why you never answered any of my letters, I guess."

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[info]never_old
2010-03-07 06:14 am UTC (link)
Nick froze for a moment before he stepped forward, giving Jack a tense hug. It was too much already. Too many people, too much news. He didn't like any of it, he wanted to go back upstairs. Back to his little white room and his therapists and the safety.

His face was still impassive, except a little flicker of sadness behind his eyes. "Oh.." was all that he managed. What did he have to say about his dad? He knew he should be sadder than he felt. Mostly, it was just a familiar numbness and his slow creeping anxiousness.

When he found his voice, Nick managed, "I never...got any letters, Evie. Except stuff from Jack...um. Thank you, Jack."

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-07 01:32 pm UTC (link)
At Nick's quick hug, Jack thought he might cry, but he managed to keep his shit together -- until Nick's quiet thank you. He turned for a moment, blinking hard, and he rubbed his face before he got control of his emotions.

"It's was no big," he said gruffly, and he dragged a hand down his cheek again, awkward and nervous. "Are you...uhm...ready?" He gestured vaguely at the doors. "Do we need to get anything else?"

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-07 04:16 pm UTC (link)
Folding her arms again, Evie barely managed to keep the scowl off her face. Of course he would have gotten Jack's letters and not hers. She knew she had sent stacks of them; every picture she had drawn in school, every time she had extra time, every clipping about the soccer team that had made it into the paper, all of it had gone to Nick. Or...to Marissa to send to Nick. "That bitch," she swore under her breath.

And then-- oh god, Jack was practically crying. What did he even have to cry about? Inwardly, she rolled her eyes. He needed to pull himself together if he wanted to live at Bellum. "Let's go home." The statement was directed at Jack, even though she was still looking at Nicky.

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[info]never_old
2010-03-07 05:50 pm UTC (link)
Nancy was careful to hand Jack a manila folder, thick with papers. "That should cover what Nick's medical history -- there's numbers for his psychiatrists and counselor, a schedule for outpatient group therapies, numbers to call about making sure he gets his blood work done, and prescriptions."

Nick's hands tightened around his bag strap again, looking out the door. He spoke quietly, only enough that Jack and Evie could here. "I don't think I'm ready to go..."

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[info]floreat_etona
2010-03-07 05:56 pm UTC (link)
Jack listened intently to the nurse until Nick's quiet statement grabbed him. Swallowing, nervous, he leaned in a little, appealing. "They said you were." Now he looked to Evie for help. "We miss you, Nicky. We want you home." Now that their father was dead, they were all that was left -- and Jack knew he barely 'had' Evie. He wasn't sure he could live without Nick too.

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[info]lostintheforest
2010-03-07 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Evie scoffed at Jack's statement. He was so full of bullshit. There was no way he had missed them. He would have had to remember them first.

She also couldn't understand why Nick would want to stay here instead of going home with her. "It will be okay Nicky. There are some really nice people on our floor." Not above using a little coercion, she pouted slightly and pleaded with him with her eyes, the way she used to when they were kids and she wanted to get the last cookie or to go first during a game. She hoped they still worked on him, because there was a lot more at stake now. I'm your little sister, remember?

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(no subject) - [info]never_old, 2010-03-08 01:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]floreat_etona, 2010-03-08 01:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]lostintheforest, 2010-03-08 02:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]never_old, 2010-03-08 06:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]floreat_etona, 2010-03-08 05:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lostintheforest, 2010-03-08 11:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]never_old, 2010-03-09 01:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]floreat_etona, 2010-03-09 02:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lostintheforest, 2010-03-09 05:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]floreat_etona, 2010-03-09 05:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]never_old, 2010-03-10 06:33 am UTC

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