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Tweak says, "Badger, badger, badger, badger"

Rebecca Crane (needmymp3) wrote in erato_dr,
@ 2012-05-27 21:30:00

Entry tags:

!meme

[home sweet home] returning to your world ; meme

You wake up in your bed, maybe. Somewhere. Somewhere you know.

Familiar scents fill your nose, the scents of home. You get up and look around and you come to a stunning, breath-taking (and sickening?) realization. You're home again. Somehow, just now, you were whisked away from that strange place you were, for however long you lived there, with how many people you came to know, and plunked down in your home, your own world. The bubble popped and now you're left wondering... was that even real? Could it have been?

What do you do now?

The phone's ringing. Maybe you should answer that.

How To Play

- Comment to the thread with your character. It will be their "world" they've returned to.
- Other people comment to them, reconnecting or awakening next to them in that home world.
- The where, when, setting & that sort of thing are up to you!
- Freak out, panic, try to figure what to do next.

Bonus:

- Work in a time difference, Lake House style!
- Is something off about this home world? Is it even really yours?

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	thisiscalm 2012-06-02 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	Sure. I know a good place. [Which is what he would've suggested in the end anyway, but hearing her say it first was so much better.] Absolutely. I think we'll have to, actually. They might not let you in otherwise. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-02 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	I thought you might. ...Really? [She can't tell if he's kidding or not and she pulls back to look down at herself.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-02 08:25 pm UTC (link)
	Kidding. [She can probably tell by the way he's trying not to laugh right now.] You look great. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-02 08:43 pm UTC (link)
	Great? Someone needs his eyes checked. [Looking into those eyes. Also...leaning in toward him in a way she hasn't the entire time she's been here.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-02 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	[It's not much, but it's enough to make his heart beat harder. He reaches up to brush his fingers over her cheek.] Maybe I just look at you in a different way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-02 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	I like your way. [She pushes in closer, hesitating just before the first brush of lip, but then she lets them meet softly.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-02 09:09 pm UTC (link)
	[He hesitates a little, not so much because he doesn't want to but rather because he doesn't want to push too hard. It doesn't take very long at all before he feels confident enough to reciprocate. Gently. Chaste.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-02 09:15 pm UTC (link)
	[She lets the kiss linger, but she doesn't try to push it in further right now. It's just nice to be close like this. She wonders why she's been avoiding it for an entire week, but of course she knows. It just doesn't seem to matter right now. When she finally pulls back, she just looks at him.] Hey. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-02 09:21 pm UTC (link)
	[This is good. After a week, this is all he could ever want. He meets her eyes with a smile.] Hey. How're you feeling? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-02 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	[Not like she used to. Not great. But not miserable. She doesn't want to give him too much hope as much as she wants to be positive.] Better. [Just not all better.] We should go soon. [There's only this one day left.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-02 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	Good. [Better is good. Actually, he would've had a hard time believing her if she claimed anything else.] Yeah... let's go. We have a lot to do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-02 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	[She brings her hand down to rest in his with a soft squeeze.] Lead the way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

thisiscalm
2012-06-02 10:17 pm UTC (link)

[Normal.

That was the best way to describe it, really, and for someone who constantly claimed that he didn't know what normal was like, Reid kind of enjoyed it. A lot. Just going out with her, keeping her company while she picked out clothes, paying for it like it was the most natural thing in the world... and then filling the perpetually empty fridge, taking turns in the shower, getting dressed, going out - actually going out, on a proper date. Dinner and a movie, and unlike the times they'd done it in Marina this felt so much more... real. Less of a pleasant excuse to waste time and more like they spent what little time they had on things they really wanted to do.

It felt like they were going back to what they were in prison, only more so. Maybe things weren't great yet, but after tonight it at least felt like they'd have a chance to be.

So when Reid unlocked the front door late that night, he felt good. Confident that he could leave in the morning and it would still be fine - he still didn't want to, but it would be fine. Phones existed, he'd be back at some point and until then... well. They'd manage. They had options. It wasn't all pitch-black and that was enough for him to turn to Kitty with a lopsided smile before pushing the door open for her.]

Welcome home.

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kitty_has_claws
2012-06-02 10:31 pm UTC (link)

We live together. [Maybe that hadn't really hit her in the time she'd been there despite the fact that they had spent nearly every moment in his apartment. It didn't really feel like a temporary arrangement. She smiles a little—something that had gone from very common to extremely rare since their relocation. But it also wasn't the first one that night. There was one when she leaned her head against his shoulder to watch the movie and even before that when he bought her junior mints before they walked in. She even shared.

She steps inside and looks around the very place she'd been living for a week and looks at it as if seeing it for the first time.] Do you have any music? [She really hadn't investigated her surroundings much.]

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	thisiscalm 2012-06-02 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, we live together. [Softly, a remnant from handling his mom. And maybe it's nice to say, despite the rapid progression. It leaves him with a gleeful tingle.] Music..? I, uhm... I got some classical? Or you could fiddle with the radio settings, if you want. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-02 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	I think I'll fiddle. [She moves over to the radio, turning it on and then adjusting the knob, looking for something more fun than Mozart. The station she picks plays oldies—things she recognizes.] I know this song. [She says it with some small measure of wonder.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-02 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	You do..? [Dimensional overlap. Maybe. Their worlds had plenty of things in common after all.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-02 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	Mmm, I recognize lots of things here. Older things. You recited Chaucer to me. We had Chaucer too. It's a lot like how things were when I was a little kid I think. We had an FBI too once upon a time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-03 12:33 am UTC (link)
	Huh. So maybe it was the same... at least up until a certain point. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-03 12:40 am UTC (link)
	There were mutants for a long time. They usually hid, so weren't always known, but... [But then why is she different here? It can't really be the same.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-03 12:43 am UTC (link)
	[He nods.] Maybe not the same then, but... close. [And then he thinks to ask a question he can't believe he hasn't asked before.] What year was it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-03 12:55 am UTC (link)
	[She gives him a knowing look. After all, she's been reading the papers. She knows the date here.] 1996. So, kind of from the past too. Kind of makes me older, right? [No, not so much.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-03 12:59 am UTC (link)
	1996? [This should come as less of a surprise. Alas.] I was 15 in -96. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2012-06-03 01:03 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I would never date a 15-year-old. [Smiling a little.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2012-06-03 01:05 am UTC (link)
	Too big of an age gap? [Yes, good. Smiling is good.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)