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[Texts to Tallulah Waters]

→ Hi.
→ You don't have to say anything to me.
→ But it's Hannah's birthday and I'm making german chocolate cupcakes.
→ And I made extra. And I know you like them.
→ So I was thinking about you and-
→ It's stupid.
→ I just thought maybe you'd want some.
→ If you do, I can just bring them by somewhere and drop them off for you.
→ So you don't actually have to see me.
→ Just. Yeah. Let me know.

WHO: Samuel Church & Tallulah Waters
WHEN: Saturday, January 11
WHERE: Miss Belle's
SUMMARY: Samuel Offers Cupcakes, Tallulah Offers Reconciliations
WARNINGS: None!
BINGO: Truth-Telling Session

( ''I...don't even really know where to start. I never talked about any of this, and I feel like all I've been doing is talking about it recently, and it hasn't gotten any easier…'' )

WHO: Esther Shaw → Essek Thelyss (with a brief vocal cameo of Jester Lavorre)
WHEN: Early morning of January 11
WHERE: Disaster Roommates' apartment, specifically Chase's room
SUMMARY: Esther gets a new memory from Essek for the first time in years and it leaves her comparing her life to the Shadowhand's and feeling very soft, indeed.
WARNINGS: Brief mention of "information extraction". Spoilers through C2E90.
BINGO PROMPT: Family of Choice

( The last time Esther had woken from a dream about Essek, it had been with a start and literal implosion. )

TEXTS TO NAT BALDWIN

-- I have a favor to ask of you.

I just saw this on Facebook and now I am 1) having a lot of feelings and 2) 100% sure that I need a cat. Ro, can I have a cat in the house?

[OOC: CW for mental health and suicidal thoughts. The link leads to images from a twitter thread about pets being the best companions, especially when needed most. ♥]

QOTD: How tf is it 71 degrees outside right now when we literally just had a massive snowstorm less than a week ago??

BRIDGET

Do I get birthday cake today?

I feel like I blinked and suddenly I was already 6 months into this pregnancy and only a few short months away from meeting our son. I'm just going to focus on that instead of all of the other things we need to get done between now and then to be ready for the baby.

For the record, he's sitting somewhere between an eggplant and acorn squash and I am never eating vegetables again. (Okay, that's a lie, but it's weird now.)

CHASE, JESSIE, MICA, NAT, OSCAR

Hello!

I know that I'm still sort of new to town and your lives, but I'm feel particularly [...] appreciative, for reasons that are extensive and cross worlds, so I won't go into them. But they have left me wanting to do something for you all, if you'll let me. Could I possibly host you all for dinner, perhaps a game night? I was thinking next week sometime, maybe Friday?

I don't I'm not Like I said, I know that I've only been here a couple of months, but I didn't have a lot of people in Chicago that I spent time with outside of professionally. You all have been a very nice change of pace.

GABE

I'm asking a few people to come over, probably on Friday for food and things. Obviously you can stay and eat and meet them all too, but I just wanted to give you a head's up on it. I can't even remember the last time I hosted anything, so hopefully I'm not being silly.

note to self: when you run around the park with your dog for four hours, he's going to be totally useless for the rest of the day. i'm pretty sure he hasn't woken up since we got home.

SORA

HEY. would you maybe want to hang out?

REEDS

Hey, guess what. ( Cut for image! )

BEAU

I'm telling my brother and sisters now, just so you know.

I made cupcakes today. I think they turned out pretty good, actually.



[Hannah, Drew, Mo, Halie, Aria]

I know I haven't really been myself for the last little while. And I'm trying to work on that. And I appreciate your patience with me, and the reaching out when I've maybe not been very receptive to it.

But I need to say something and it's not really easy for me to say but please listen, okay?

I know I'm the youngest one of us. And it's probably pretty natural for you all to think of me like I'm still just a kid who needs protecting all the time. I know I'm not the sort of person to lash out or to throw the first punch. Or any punches.

But that's how I want to be.

And being that way doesn't mean I need someone else to stand on guard in front of me forever.

Yeah, maybe it leaves me a little more fragile or a little more susceptible to being hurt. But that's my choice. And I'll deal with those consequences.

And if you think you know better than me what I want or need, and act on that without talking to me about it- especially if those actions wind up hurting someone else- that [...] doesn't make you a very good friend. It makes me feel like I can't trust you, and that's now how I want to feel about any of you.

That's all, I guess. Just... think about it, okay?

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been spending every day since Christmas snuggling the puppy my sweet and perfect fiancee got me because he knows me so damn well. :')

EVERETT

I [...] have terrible news.