Barnabas Jones-Elias (findthethoughts) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2012-08-27 23:59:00 |
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Entry tags: | #group scene, 2009-09-15, aetheria, aurora, barnabas, lilith |
trying to turn the world right-side up again
Who: Aetheria, Aurora, Barnabas and Lilith
When: Later afternoon
Where: Landers' residence
Barnabas was doing his very best to stay his normal, calm, centering self around his family. He really was and the only reason he knew for a fact that they were buying the act was because he could hear their thoughts. He'd gotten better at tuning them back out, more like he used to be before the demons came, but he still couldn't keep them shut out always and when he couldn't he heard things. Like that Diana still leaned more heavily on him than anything, or that they all believed everything could be fixed just because they wanted it to be. Was that true? Barnabas didn't know. Aetheria and Aurora's thoughts were by far the worst; it wasn't right that they should be linked so firmly that this thing happening to one affected the other so deeply. But it did and one didn't need to be a telepath to see that. How to help, had been Barnabas's question of the week and he had sought for a way. Now he had it. Now Aetheria had had such a striking, personal dream that it couldn't be denied and she knew just what that person looked like. A woman. Barnabas had been able to draw on his Finder abilities using Aetheria as his focus. Those powers were well-rested, having been used only when one of the girls lost something small, and ready to be put back into action like they had been all those years while they searched for their children. Barnabas hadn't been sure how to look, knowing that a search by foot would take too long while also being too risky for the only Elias he'd ever known who was afraid of the air. The only one who'd nearly been struck by lightning. Barnabas would've been able to taste that tension in the air if he hadn't heard all the cries over it. Yet now, having used her as a focus, he had flipped through the phonebook for half an hour solid until he finally found himself focusing on a few pages. And then just one. And then a block of names. And then he had settled, with dead certainty, an aching head and a bloody nose, on Neil and Lilith Landers.
The phonecall had been stilted and awkward, but it had been given while things had been explained and it had been decided somehow that Aetheria was to go to this Lilith's home since she had no desire whatsoever to step out into a world where it was raining. Barnabas supposed he couldn't blame her. He didn't want Aetheria out in the open air, but it'd been decided it was necessary. And he didn't want Lilith to be overwhelmed by the entire family so it had also been decided that they'd take Aurora. Aetheria simply wouldn't go without her and she'd be good to help protect her from the element that seemed very, very angry. But that meant Diana couldn't go. Barnabas knew his wife wouldn't stand for that so he'd done the only thing that made any sense to him -- he drugged his wife's tea so that she wouldn't tear the house down around their ears when he said he was only taking the twins.
And now, a taxi cab and two shaking, clinging daughters later, Barnabas was stood in front of the door of a house he didn't know. Yet with the residual effect of his abilities still lingering in the corners of his mind he knew this was where the woman in Aetheria's dreams lived. "Remember what we talked about, girls," Barnabas said before he rang the doorbell. "She might not know what to do either and you shouldn't press at her too hard. She cannot be in a good place if she's been going through the same thing that Aetheria has." His eyes flickered to the older twin and he smoothed down a piece of her hair. "Especially you, Aurora, there are to be no raised voices. I know you are worried, but if I'd thought shouting would help... I'd have brought your mother with us." He just hoped that Diana wouldn't be so full of rage that he couldn't explain his reasons for leaving her at home and that yes, it was necessary because they both knew Diana wouldn't have willingly stayed behind. Once Barnabas was sure that the twins weren't going to break down and cry again, he finally pressed the bell and waited for the door to open. And when it did he just smiled politely. "Hello, I'm Barnabas Elias and these are my daughters, Aetheria and Aurora. I called earlier?"