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Bruce Wainright has (onerule) wrote in doors,
@ 2013-12-24 17:41:00

Entry tags:

batman, catwoman, harley quinn, red hood, wonder woman

[text to wren h.]

[Early morning. After his last shift before Christmas ends.]

Hi.

[locked to jack c.]

Scale of one to ten, how traumatic was it? Not too bad? I think our childhoods were normal.

[locked to matt + jenny]

How'd we all like being kids again?

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	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 05:39 am UTC (link)
	You'll get mad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke onerule 2013-12-25 05:43 am UTC (link)
	I won't. Promise. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 05:44 am UTC (link)
	I shouldn't be here. With the kids. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke onerule 2013-12-25 05:51 am UTC (link)
	Why not? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 05:51 am UTC (link)
	I feel [pause] bad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke onerule 2013-12-25 05:53 am UTC (link)
	[Surely.] You're not. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 05:53 am UTC (link)
	I propositioned [pause] someone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke onerule 2013-12-25 05:56 am UTC (link)
	[Brief pause.] That doesn't make you bad. And you were younger, right? Things were different then. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 06:04 am UTC (link)
	I scared him. He was scared of me, because he was normal, and I wasn't. Why aren't you scared? You're supposed to be. I- You saw. You saw what I was like. It wasn't- I wasn't- [Frustrated.] And you got hurt, and- [Breath, and she stops, because the ranting made the sleeping baby wake up. Pacing and shhhhhing.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Call: Wren/Luke

onerule
2013-12-25 02:58 pm UTC (link)

I'm not scared because I know you, Wren. I love you. I'd never be scared of you, the same way you'd never be scared of me. Neither of us are kids anymore. That's in the past, it's behind us. You can't-- [Pause when the baby wakes up, and his voice is a little quieter.] I'm not hurt. I'm fine. And no, I didn't see what you were like. I saw what your mother was like. I saw what that bastard cop was like. I saw that it wasn't your fault, the way you were raised. You couldn't help it. But you've come so, so far, baby, and you're so much better. You'd never treat Gus and Lia the way your mother treated you.

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	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	[Pause, sadly.] You were sweet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Call: Wren/Luke

onerule
2013-12-25 05:52 pm UTC (link)

[Fond.] So were you. [Quickly.] I know you're going to disagree, but don't. Just listen Everything we've been through, all of it, led us here. So what if the hotel made us kids again? We're not. That's in the past. It doesn't change what we have now because nothing ever will. You say I saw what you were like, but that's not true. I already knew what you were like. Now, I'm just even more sure of it. You're amazing, and you're strong, and you're good. Most people aren't any of those things and they haven't even experienced what you did.

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	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	[Stubbornly, but still quiet, so as not to wake the baby again.] If I hadn't been so insistent about having you, you wouldn't have gone through anything bad ever. You were sweet and good and trusting, and I just messed it all up for you. [Long pause.] Did you meet anyone nice? Did you meet anyone you liked? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Call: Wren/Luke

onerule
2013-12-25 06:06 pm UTC (link)

No, you didn't. Don't say that. It's never, ever been true, and it still isn't now. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me. Don't you remember that I was doing the vigilante thing before I knew you? And you had nothing to do with me meeting Thomas. [No hesitation.] No. There's no one else in the world for me but you. I met some guy who was running away from home, and a girl who showed up the day I broke my ankle skateboarding. That's it. Neither of them were anything special.

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	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	[A sigh, knowingly.] Even if you met someone wonderful, you would still say that. [A long, long pause.] It was Jack. The boy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke onerule 2013-12-25 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	[Long pause.] Because it's true. Or are you saying you think I don't mean it? [More silence.] I know. He said he thought it was you. [...] Was he nice? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Call: Wren/Luke

spacecowboys
2013-12-25 06:14 pm UTC (link)

I'm saying you're stubborn. Really, really stubborn. And good, and moral, and you'd never admit that your life could have been better, even if it's true. [The baby fusses, and there's a few minutes more of shushing, along with the sound of dog nails scratching at the door. She lowers her voice.] I think your son is eavesdropping. [Quieter.] He was innocent and sweet and I tried to mess him up.

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Re: Call: Wren/Luke

onerule
2013-12-25 06:19 pm UTC (link)

I'd never admit it because it's not true. Of course I'm stubborn, baby. You are, too, and I'm not going to just let you believe things that aren't true without at least trying to convince you otherwise. I'm happy with the life we have. I don't want anything else. [Quiet fond.] Probably. He gets curious. [Pause.] I don't think he sees it that way. He wanted to make sure you were okay. [Hesitant.] Did-- did you like him?

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	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	No- Not like that. He was scared of me. Everything I said scared him, and he thought I was strange, and he was right. He is right. He lied to help me avoid some cops, so I tried to give him a blowjob as payment. That was all. I read him Baudelaire and told him that his mother was a whore. It wasn't a very good thing, Luke. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke onerule 2013-12-25 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	Oh. [Pause. Quiet.] You're not strange. You're not. That was when you were younger, Wren, it's not now. Can't you see that? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	[Telling quiet.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke onerule 2013-12-25 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	[After some quiet on his end, too.] How long will you be in the attic for? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	I'll come down. I don't want to ruin Christmas for Gus. [Pause.] and I know it was a long time ago. I know, but it feels like yesterday, like it just happened all over again. [Quieter.] my maman died three days after that, what you saw. I went to live with the sheriff. Well- kind of. I miss her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke onerule 2013-12-25 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	[Long pause.] Oh. I didn't know. I'm sorry, baby. I didn't mean to-- to tell you how you should feel. [...] We'll keep it quiet. Low-key. What matters is that we're all together, and Gus will be too distracted with his new bird anyway. [Another pause.] Can I ask you something? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Call: Wren/Luke spacecowboys 2013-12-25 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	[A very long pause. Then, eventually:] Okay. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)