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Tweak says, "why the long face?"

kate bishop 🏹 the best hawkeye (kateaccompli) wrote in madisonvalley,
@ 2017-08-21 23:36:00

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!closed, !log, ~2017 august, ~25 points, ~~~john mitchell (thisiswhatiam), ~~~~~kate bishop (kateaccompli)

Who: Kate Bishop and John Mitchell
Where: Mitchell's place
When: Monday evening
What: Definitely some sadness with the loss of their friends :(
Warnings: TBD?
Status: Closed/In-Progress

The loss of friends to the dome was becoming increasingly frustrating, and Kate hadn't even been there a year. She couldn't imagine what it was like for those who had been in Madison for much longer. Did you ever get use to getting the news that someone had been sent home? How long did people hold on to the hope that they would return?

Had she put her friends though this kind of stress when she had gone home? That hit her harder than anything else. She would greatly miss Scott, Annie, and Tom. Annie's arrival had been good for Mitchell, and Kate had been hoping they could find a way for her to see Annie. Tom was always there to help with Eve, even if he and Mitchell didn't see eye to eye. They were both good people. People who deserved something good here as well.

The loss of Scott hit hard just like the loss of Clint. Kate had Cassie here now, but losing anyone was never an easy thing to stomach. She wasn't looking forward to trying to soothe Cassie, and wondered if her friend had seen her message yet.

The door was open as Mitchell had promised. Kate let herself in, closing the door behind her. She locked it this time, and made a beeline to locate Mitchell. She didn't announce herself, didn't pause to ask anything. Kate simply made her way to him, wrapping her arms around his torso into a tight hug. With her face semi-buried against his shoulder, she let out a heavy sigh. "Who knows? Maybe they'll come back like I did, right?"

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thisiswhatiam
2017-08-22 04:19 pm UTC (link)

"They've already come and gone once. More than that, actually. But since I've been here it's been the once." Same as Kate, actually. Mitchell didn't like that. but he wasn't going to think about it. Kate was here now. He'd lost Annie and Tom, but she was still here. He was going to hold on to that for as long as he could.

"And me, I can deal with it. hell, I don't even like Tom. But he was helpful with Eve. And she adores him. How do I tell her they're both gone?" She was too young to really understand. The doctor had said she was about 10 months when they took her. Mitchell had given her an arbitrary birthday of September 25 since had had no way of knowing her actual birthdate.

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kateaccompli
2017-08-23 03:47 am UTC (link)

"Maybe she won't remember." Kate didn't want to say it, but it was the best solution for the problem at hand. Sometimes babies could tell when things were wrong. Kate knew Eve was a smart kid, even at her young age, but she was hoping maybe this time they'd stay away.

Keeping her arms wrapped around him, Kate leaned back a bit to look up at him. "And I'm not leaving again. I don't care what it takes, but I'll be damned if that dome takes me away." Selfishly, Kate hoped that more for her own sake than anything else. It was hell back home, and it was not a place she wanted to be. Not now, and not ever. "Even if I have to go up to it, and - I don't know - throw a stick at it."

Reaching up, Kate smoothed a bit of hair back from his face. "What can I do right now, though? Tea? Alcohol? Ice cream?"

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	thisiswhatiam 2017-08-23 03:56 am UTC (link)
	Mitchell shook his head. He tilted his chin up when she smoothed his hair back. "No. You're all I need right now. Well, you and Eve, but." He lifted one shoulder in a half shrug. "It's times like this that the desire to drink is strongest." He wasn't talking about alcohol. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kateaccompli
2017-08-24 02:10 am UTC (link)

"If you need to," she offered, clearing her throat. "I mean, if it would help? I don't know." How did you really word an offer to allow someone to bite you and drink your blood? Of course, Kate had a slew of other questions like if it would hurt, turn her, kill her, cause the earth to implode; the usual things.

"I mean, you sent me flowers. And kept me from going too crazy when I thought I was going to be stuck in bed for weeks. That pretty much opens the couple gates to hand out offers for things that the other needs, right?" Right. Yes. That made perfect sense.

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thisiswhatiam
2017-08-24 02:25 am UTC (link)

Mitchell shook his head. "No. It's not...I can't." Even if she was willing. It was a bad idea. It was the most epic of bad ideas. "I've worked too hard to dry. And if I let myself drink, even if I say it's just once..." He shook his head again.

"And I can't do that to you." Because it would hurt. And if he couldn't stop himself, it would cause her to turn, or die. And he wouldn't risk either. He fought too hard to get dry in the first place, and he knew what a homicidal bastard he was when he was on the blood.

He'd be dead in a matter of days, in a small town, trapped under a dome, with people like Faith Lehane and the Winchester brothers who hunted and killed monsters like him. "Or Eve," he said, with a glance toward the hall where the little girl was sleeping.

"Just because I'm tempted doesn't mean I'm tempted to actually do it."

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kateaccompli
2017-08-28 03:01 am UTC (link)

"I know, I know. Believe me when I say that sometimes my suggestions are really terrible. I just know that this is--" Kate sighed with frustration at herself. Helping people she cared about was something she did; something she wanted to do. Not being able to fix the problem never sat well with her. Even now, Kate wanted to do whatever she could to just make everything better. It was what she always did.

Plopping down on the sofa, Kate gave a gentle tug to Mitchell's arm. She considered offering a movie, but maybe that wasn't the best either. Tea, Kate feared, would remind him too much of Annie.

Taking one of his hands into her own, Kate pressed a kissed against it and held it tightly. "I was going to try and see Annie. I mean, find a way to see her. I wanted to. I was actually going to bring Lucky over to see if he could see her since animals are pretty good at sensing ghosts." Maybe talking about them, at least Annie, would help a little. Kate did that at first when she lost Cassie.

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thisiswhatiam
2017-08-28 04:45 pm UTC (link)

"I wish you could have seen her," Mitchell said with a sigh. He felt a little empty, for having someone offer blood and he'd refused it. He knew it would help his mental state. he'd feel warmth again, he'd feel alive. And then he'd go on a rampage and kill everyone he could before someone killed him. It wasn't worth it, but more than that, he wouldn't put Kate in that position.

"She was beautiful," he said softly. "In another time and place, she could have been the love of my life." She would have been, if they had been able to make it work. "We tried, you know. Because Annie can feel through a living person, if she has hands on them. So I made out with this bird so Annie could feel it but..." He shook his head. "It went bad. Sex makes me bloodthirsty, so." He shrugged, but there was nothing dismissive or casual about it.

"After that, we knew it wasn't going to work. We were insane to think it could ever work." He was a vampire and she was a ghost. What sort of relationship could they really have? "But I never stopped loving her. I never will."

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