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carter bennett (heydude) wrote in dunwichgame,
@ 2023-09-07 16:22:00

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!log/thread/narrative, ∙ plot: 008 i let you in, ◌ inactive: carter bennett, ◌ inactive: leon s kennedr

LEON & CARTER

So he'd gone for a run.

WHAT: a run in and tbd
WHERE: Sidewinder State Park
WHEN: Late Night/Early Morning September 7/8
WARNINGS: TBD
STATUS: Incomplete

Carter was..itchy. He didn't know how else to explain it. He was hearing Kelly's voice more often, seeing him present in reflective surfaces. He wasn't..feral, but he certainly wasn't entirely grounded. Luke's presence had been a big help, but Carter also knew it wasn't fair for either of them to depend solely on the other. He didn't want Luke to think he only wanted him around to keep him sane. He had to find other ways to cope. Mark had been busy with other things, and Carter hadn't wanted to intrude, and while he probably could have messaged the other werewolves, he didn't think that he was at a point that he was a danger to anyone. Except maybe himself. His eyes flashed purple in the mirror, and honestly- he thought it would be longer, thought that he'd be able to fight off the Omega pull. So he'd gone for a run. He'd made his way out to the state park, stripping his clothes and only barely folding them before tucking them among the roots of a tree a little ways off the path. His bones cracked as he transformed, unable to help the howl as he started off on a long, long run.

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cantgetabreak
2023-09-08 11:45 pm UTC (link)

He couldn’t sleep. It’d been months now, and he still couldn’t sleep. Leon kept trying to do things to tire himself out. Training with Spike helped, but the vampire had his job as a bouncer, and Leon had his job as a cop, sometimes their schedules just didn’t line up. On those nights, if Leon wasn’t working, he’d taken to going for runs. He usually circled around through town, but he was getting bored of the same old route. It was probably a terrible idea to go to the woods to run by himself at night, Hopper would no doubt chew him out if he knew, Spike too, but having survived zombies, and then the whole Vecna thing with the spiders, Leon felt he could handle it.

While it still felt like summer during the day, you could taste fall just around the corner at night. It was easy to imagine how creepy this place would look in another month once the trees started losing their leaves. Flashlight in hand, Leon warmed up with some stretches before starting down the path into the woods. He went at a light jog at first, being unfamiliar with the trail, he didn't want to trip and break his ankle or something. Maybe that’s why he noticed the clothes, he wouldn’t have seen them if he’d actually been running.

The folded pile brought Leon to a stop, the cop in him unable to resist investigating. His first instinct was to look up. After Vecna made people float he half expected to see a naked person flying above his head. There wasn’t of course, nor were there any signs of a fight or struggle nearby. He knelt by the clothes, carefully prodding the pockets, looking for a wallet where he could find an ID. The clothes being folded and tucked away made him nervous, he didn’t want to think the worst, but he sincerely hoped it wasn’t a sign someone had come here to end their lives alone in the woods.

Standing, he cupped a hand around his mouth and called out into the dark, “Hello…!?”

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heydude
2023-09-09 10:34 pm UTC (link)

Carter was still a wolf when he heard the voice call out. He'd lost track of how long he was running for, but was on his way back, tired, but still restless. He growled low to himself when he realized there was someone near his things.

runbrotherloveruncatchrun

He heard Kelly in his mind, and his eyes flashed violet in the dark before he skidded to a stop.

No. He wasn't going to attack. It took a long minute, fighting the voices in his head, the pull, before he felt more himself. Slowing his pace, knowing he was still larger than the average wolf, he approached the voice from the path, huffing a woof to catch his attention.