The Grand Paradise Hotel

WHO: Temperance Llancaster and Justice Llancaster.
WHEN: August 7th, 2019. Night.
WHERE: Their shared room. Aha.
SUMMARY: These two siblings realize they're sharing a room together.
WARNINGS: Substance abuse. Feelings. Language? Temperance's anger.


( You’re twenty years too late with that, Jay. )

WHO: Sydney Cubb and Wes Atwood
WHEN: Following this. Late March. Night time.
WHERE: Syd's room in the Rho Iota Pi house.
SUMMARY: Wes tells Sydney about his Abuelita and that he can't go on the trip.
WARNINGS: PDA. Talk of hospice care/death of a grandparent.

( Jeremiah Blake is a teddy bear. He won’t lead to my downfall. I’d just have the other Rhos bring him cookie baskets to keep him plump and content. )

WHO: Temperance Llancaster and Wes Atwood
WHEN: Day one; afternoon.
WHERE: Castaway Bar.
SUMMARY: Temperance is avoiding people with feels. Wes is avoiding people in general. It's fate that they'd meet.
WARNINGS: Light language. Mention of The Boatman. Temperance is reasonably nice to someone. Feels.

( So now I get to ask the deep, probing questions. [...] What did you think about the boatman? )

WHO: Wes Atwood & Asher Montgomery
WHEN: Day One
WHERE: paradise beach
WHAT: Wes and Ash catch up and pretend that things are Totally Okay
WARNINGS: none

( How are any of us? Truly? )

WHO: Jeremiah Blake, Jude Maraschino, Wes Atwood.
WHEN: Late March; roughly a week before the trip, 2016.
WHERE: Tres Amigos; Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
SUMMARY: Wes explains why he can't go on the trip, the bros have bro time.
WARNINGS: Mention of dying/hospice care for a grandparent. Feels.
( If I stop moving, everything catches up. The work, being tired, worrying about home. If I’m always in motion, nothing changes. But the moment I pause to catch my breath, it’s too much. )

WHO: Hope and Jeremiah
WHERE: Shipwreck Cove.
WHEN: It starts on Day 1 and then transitions them both to Day 2, morning.
SUMMARY: Hope confronts Jeremiah about whether he had anything to do with the girls waking up on the beach. They might subconsciously be trying to tell each other something that they’re both in too much denial to face yet.
WARNINGS Some spooky images. Blood.

( Look, I woke up here confused, same as everybody else. )

WHO: Mable & Brand Gardner
WHEN: Friday, April 8th 2016
WHERE: Brother's Pizzeria in Queens, NY
SUMMARY: Getting dinner together before May leaves
WARNINGS: Just sibling stuff!

( You know the pizza in California isn't gonna be this good. )

WHO: Randall Bereta and Tessa Callahan
WHEN: Friday, April 8, 2016 around 7:00 PM
WHERE: Ice Cream Jubilee (Washington, D.C.)
SUMMARY: A father/daughter ice cream date, pre-Spring Break trip.
WARNINGS: Probably none

( Tessa Callahan inhaled a deep breath, her expression a study in concentration. The weight of her current predicament lay heavy in the set of her slender shoulders. )

WHO: Wesley Atwood and Leilani Blake
WHEN: April 7, 2019, before 6:00 AM
WHERE: Logan International Airport (Boston, MA)
SUMMARY: Wes and Leila reunite for the trip
WARNINGS: None, other than general sadness and talk of banana hammocks.

( Losing Jude and Jeremiah had been catastrophic. Grieving with the one person that had lost them both, too, was impossibly hard. )

WHO: Sally Rogers, Max Kingman, and Jude Maraschino.
WHEN: Day One, shortly after THIS but before THIS.
WHERE: On the beach before heading into the hotel.
SUMMARY: This motley crew heads inside to clean up and find themselves stuck in a frustrating situation when the elevators don't respond to their touch and the stairwell doors won't open either.
WARNINGS: Eh. Language. Sally's rage.

( It's illegal to lock a marked exit. Fire safety. It must be stuck. But you're welcome to try yourself if you don't believe me. )

WHO: Teddy Lawson & Asher Montgomery
WHEN: April 10th-16th, 2016
SUMMARY: their last evening together and their texts throughout the week
WARNINGS: sappy and gross until, you know, Teddy dies. also long

( No, but see I’m the dashing hero. I’ll just suddenly know how to fight, because that’s how it works )

WHO: Leila Blake and Andrea Fletcher
WHEN: December 28, 2018 around 11:30 PM
WHERE: Emergency Room, NYC
SUMMARY: "Now that I'm without your kisses, I'll be needing stitches…" (AKA: Leila gets hurt and runs into Andrea for the nth time at the ER)
WARNINGS: injury, implication of reckless behavior, possible suspicion of previous self-harm, drinking

( When she'd been younger and dreaming about moving out on her own, Leila had always thought it would be fun to find that special place where she belonged... )

WHO: Ian Fletcher, Adam Clermont, and Andrea Fletcher
WHEN: Day 1, around 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: The senior Clermont grand suite.
SUMMARY: A moment of nope.
WARNINGS: Nope.

( Don't let appearances deceive you )

WHO: Veronica Clermont & Sam Lawson.
WHEN: Right after the Meet and Greet.
WHERE: On an Elevator. Going up.
SUMMARY: Veronica and Sam have a brief exchange in an elevator.
WARNINGS: Veronica uses grief as a weapon.

( Day drinking isn’t your idea of fun, either. )

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