Lindsey McDonald (oklahomalawyer) wrote in btvsal, @ 2010-06-07 17:21:00 |
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Current location: | Their Home |
Current mood: | drunk |
Entry tags: | lilah morgan, lindsey mcdonald, place: la, plot: future problems |
We're Screwed
Who: Lindsey and Lilah
When: May 19, 2019 (the night before the world goes away)
Where: Their Home
After going out to Avarice to trade information with Ben, Lindsey drove back home. He wasn't sure what he was going to do with himself now. They didn't have long at all now. He wasn't sure exactly how long they had, though. A couple of days, or maybe a week? Either way, they were so fucked and doomed that it was almost funny, except it completely and utterly wasn't. He didn't know exactly how much Lilah knew about all of this, but he knew that she couldn't quite be in the dark about it. That would just be a bit too much to hope for. Besides, she'd know soon enough. When the world ended.
When he arrived at home, he pulled up into the driveway, killed the car, and got out and walked inside. He actually wasn't even sure if Lilah was home right now.
Lilah had been trying to keep herself busy with work to keep her mind off of the fact that her only daughter was missing and that bad things were going to happen soon. She'd been home for a few hours and was now sitting in Vikki's room holding onto her stuffed Tigger.
Lindsey saw walked around for a few minutes before finding Lilah in Vikki's room. He couldn't help but feel relief in that Vikki was safely in the past right now. "You OK?" he asked Lilah.
She looked up at him as he walked into the room. "No.. she's gone.." She'd had a few glasses of scotch before she came home. Part of her blamed Lindsey for Vikki being gone, but she knew it wasn't really his fault,but he was the one that was with her last.
"I know she's gone," Lindsey said. He wasn't sure if he should explain just how *safe* that made her, though. "She'll be OK, Lilah," he said to her simply after thinking on it for a moment.
"We don't even know where she went Lindsey! So how can you stand there and tell me she'll be ok?" she asked him. She set the stuffed animal down and walked around the room.
"Because I do know where she's at," Lindsey admitted to her after a moment. "I'm just still not sure how she got there."
Lilah looked over at him. "What what do you mean you know where she is?" Lilah asked him, a slight annoyed edge to her voice. She thought that he didn't know where Vikki was. "Alright then where is she then?" she asked him.
"Just what I said," Lindsey said. "You're gonna have to trust me here, Lil. She's somewhere where she's safe." Safe from what was about to happen to them all.
"Sorry,but that's just not good enough Linds. Just tell me where she is." What harm was there in knowing where it was exactly if she was going to die soon anyway? She just wanted a general place really, it had little to do with trusting him, because he already knew when it really came down to it Lilah trusted him with her life, just not in moments of alcohol induced panic.
"She's actually very, very safe in the past," he finally told her. "And I mean safe because there isn't going to be a 'here' much longer, as I'm sure you already know," Lindsey finally admitted to her.
"So she's in the past? How far back?" She asked him as she sat back down on the bed. She now couldn't help,but be curious about it. "How did she even get there?" She still felt like she was going to need another drink,hell with everything that had happened since Vikki vanished, Lindsey was lucky if Lilah got out of bed in the last few months.
"About eighteen years," Lindsey told her. "Around when we first started to get more serious, actually." So Lilah from then might not even believe her when she said who she was.
Lilah looked at him and blinked. "What?!?" Great and you're sure she's safe there? with you maybe.." She sighed and looked at a picture of the three of them.
"Who do you think she would have went to, Lilah?" he asked. "She's a smart kid. We don't need to worry about her." They had much bigger problems ahead.
Lilah sighed. "I don't know Linds.. I just miss her." Lilah said as she moved the picture and drank more of her drink.
"I know you miss her. So do I," Lindsey said back to her. "We've just kind of got to trust that she's gonna be alright, you know? Like I said, she's smart. She can take care of herself." And she's safer where she's at, he added silently.
Lilah sighed. "Fine I trust you so what do we do then?Because I want to see her again." She said as she had another sip of her drink.
"I'm not even sure that's possible at this point, Lil," Lindsey said to her. "Do you know what's going on?"
"If she got where she is then it can't be *that* hard for us to change something" She knew what was going on,but she was trying to deny it.
"I'm still not one hundred percent sure about how she got where she is," Lindsey admitted. And he could tell that she did by the way that she didn't answer the question.
"Great so then what do we do?" Lilah asked him. She drank some more.
"Possibly stop drinking so damn much, for one," Lindsey said to her. "And...well, there's really not much more we can do than that."
Lilah glared at him. "You know magic why can't you just find a spell?" She asked. She was getting tired of not being able to do anything.
"Because bringing her back here at this point would get her killed, Lilah!" he finally snapped. "You know what's going on here. We can't leave, and she can't come back."
Lilah glared at him. "It's all your fault she's gone in the first place!" Lilah shot back angrily. She blamed his dealing with magic, even if it wasn't his fault really. she was fairly drunk at this point and just pissed off and scared about their situation.
"How is this my fault?" Lindsey snapped back at her. "I didn't sent her back there in the first place, Lilah!"
"You're the one that's always screwing around with magic." She snapped. She got up and started to leave the room.
And Lindsey followed her. "Lots of people use magic, Lilah. Vikki wasn't the only one who disappeared. Lot's of people's kids disappeared." And one popped back, it seemed.
"Yeah,but they don't all make a living off of it like you." She shot back as she kept walking away from him. She just didn't want to deal with everything that was going on, no Lilah wanted to crawl back into bed and forget that everything she knew was going to hell in a hand basket.
"But lot's of them do, and in more ways than you'll ever realize," Lindsey pointed out. "Anything could have happened to cause this, Lilah! Two or more spells could have bounced off of each other in a way that caused this fuck up.; NOTHING that has to do with me."
"Fine so it's not your fault." She sighed. "What happens to her if we end up dead?" She asked him, as she stopped in the kitchen.
"She'll be fine," Lindsey tried to reassure her. "It's kind of wonky, but timestreams are crossing and converging...I think. Just trust me, for once."
Lilah sighed. "I trust you, and you didn't answer me about what happens to us."
"Lilah, you can't tell me that you don't already know that," Lindsey said with a defeated sigh. "If I know about it then you've had to of known about it for a while."
She sighed. "Yeah I've known for a while..." She'd been trying to live in denial land when it came to knowing they were going to die.
Lindsey sighed as well. "Figured you did." She had been drinking a lot more lately, and he figured it didn't have all to do with Vikki.
"So I don't guess there's a bunker or something we could hide in and wait it out?" she asked him.
"We can go to a bunker, but I don't think it will actually do any good," Lindsey said. "Remember the movie "2012"? I think it's going to be kind of like that."
Lilah stopped and leaned against the kitchen counter. "So I'm what, supposed to just sit around and wait for everything we have to just disappear?" she asked as she started to refill her glass.
"Actually, I was thinking of having more than a few drinks before it happened. If you know of a way to get around it, I'd love to hear it. I've gone to everyone I can think of to try and get around this, but everyone tells me that it's happening and there's no way we're getting around this or out of it."
Lilah sighed. "Drinking works." She said with a small smile as she refilled her glass with more scotch.
Lindsey ended up grabbing a glass of his own and filling it with scotch. "So, at least Vikki will be alright." And a version of them as well, actually. Still, that was hard to swallow when you knew that you'd be ceasing to exist yourself in a short while.
Lilah nodded and downed her glass of scotch. She wasn't sure how Vikki being in their past would affect things for them,but she hoped it wouldn't screw things up too much.