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Tweak says, "SPLADAOW!"

Alice (inadvertently) wrote in indarkness_logs,
@ 2010-09-03 07:04:00

Entry tags:

!complete, 2032 09, bella swan, john allerdyce

RP: Where the Line Used to Be
Characters: Bella, John
Time/Date: Mid-morning, September 3
Location: Where the line used to be behind the hotel
Warnings/Rating: None
Summary: Bella is curious but untrusting
Status: Complete

There'd been a lot of posts on the network. None of them had been really funny - at least by content - but the Dave guy's post did make her grin. While she had the vague idea to go get milk to put it in the fridge in the kitchen, when she checked to see what else they might need, she saw that there really was plenty of it in there. So clearly he'd just been doing it for laughs.

But, it had worked. She'd laughed.

Since she was downstairs, she decided to go see if it was true about the line. Letting herself out the back door near the library, Bella made her way past the garden growing there (and wow, was it ever growing. Some of the plants were huge). She moved to the scuffed-looking spot that had always been just a foot or so from the line ... which really was gone. Or, invisible. Which wasn't the same thing, because if it was invisible, it was still there. She thought about stepping across where it had been, but it wasn't exactly like she trusted these people not to say it was gone and the traps were gone, and have that not be the case at all.

She was fragile and prone to accidents even when there wasn't a killer line on the ground.

So Bella crossed her arms over her chest, peering over the line and kind of hoping someone a little braver than her came along to walk across the non-line with her. Or a little ahead of her.

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down_in_flames
2010-09-03 09:52 pm UTC (link)

John still had his lighter. It wouldn't do him any good at the moment, unless he wanted to light a cigarette, but it was a comfort to have just the same. It had been bad enough to find his power had been weakened, but losing it completely was like having his arm chopped off -- or his toes, he thought with some morbid amusement.

He held the Zippo loosely in his hand as he explored, flicking the lid open and swinging it closed rhythmically until he saw a girl not horribly far away from him. She appeared to be just standing and staring which ... well, it wasn't as if there were a lot of productive activities to be done in this place, as far as he could tell.

"Is this where the line was?" John asked once he was close enough to not have to shout, coming to a stop next to her and following her gaze. He'd obviously never seen it and he was in just a little bit of denial about how dangerous the place was, but truthfully he knew that if the people in charge here had ways to steal everyone's power, they could do all kinds of crazy shit. "Think if you stare long enough it might come back?"

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inadvertently
2010-09-03 10:03 pm UTC (link)

Bella jumped slightly when she was approached. "I ... what? Oh," she said as his words finally caught up with her distracted mind. "Yeah," she said with a gestured toward the slightly worn patch.

"Lily used to ... stand here a lot," she said as she shrugged a little. "It's why it's so ..." she made another gesture toward the ground. While she was fairly certain she knew how to finish a sentence, she wasn't completely certain it was going to happen today.

Bella glanced over to him again, actually looking at him this time. "Are you ... new?" she asked, her brow furrowing a little. It made sense, if he hadn't known where the line was before. "I'm Bella," she added as she awkwardly extended one hand bearing evidence of nerves in the appearance of raggedly chewed finger nails.

	down_in_flames 2010-09-05 04:14 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, I'm coming," he agreed, still feeling a little off about his joke, but pushing those feelings away. While he didn't really expect anything to happen out here at this point, he wasn't inclined to hang around and he imagined she didn't want to walk back on her own. With a final glance at the water, he turned to fall into step beside her to head back to the hotel. (Reply to this) (Parent)