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Sam Winchester ([info]tallerthanthou) wrote in [info]marinanova,
@ 2013-09-16 17:49:00

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Entry tags::mingle, bak chang, bro strider, buffy summers, charlotte charles, daniel osbourne, dirk strider, elena gilbert, helen magnus, hikaru hitachiin, ianto jones, jack harkness, jake english, james watson, jean-luc picard, jessica hamby, lacus clyne, lelouch vi britannia, lyle dylandy, martha jones, miranda lotto, rebekah mikealson, rogue, sam winchester, sookie stackhouse, sougo okita, terry mcginnis, yuuki kuran, zero kiryuu

[Day 237] Relationship Issues Group Therapy mingle
[The relationships group therapy attendees will all get a message telling them to report to The Winery in Sector 2. Sadly for them the alcohol is locked away, but there is an assortment of food and non-alcoholic beverages along the bar for consumption. Many of the tables have been cleared out and the chairs rearranged into a circle with booths along the edges for more intimate therapeutic discussions.

And don't forget the party favors! The wardens have left some helpful games and activity ideas to get them started. There's a bowl full of folded slips of papers with various questions.]


How many people have you slept with? Do you regret any of them? Why?

How many relationships have you been in? Why do you think that is?

What was your longest relationship? Most serious? Shortest? Most casual?

Why did your last relationship end?

What do you look for in another person?

Are you happy?

Who is your ideal mate?

What was the biggest problem/complication in your previous or current relationship?

What do you need out of a relationship? Sexual experience?

How long have you been single between relationships? Why do you think it was so long/short?

What is the best way to break up with someone?

Do you believe in soul mates? Do you think you have or will meet yours?

Would you rather spend your life with one important person or several acquaintances? Why?

Are there any similarities between the people you've been with? If so, what are they?

Do you have trouble making choices? Give examples.

Do you think with your heart, your head, or your genitalia? Are you satisfied with this behavior?

Do you have trouble relating to people? If so, in what way?


[In addition to the questions there are cards with various prompts. One explains the game, I Never. Another suggests people pair off and roleplay they are in a relationship and then deal with various scenarios like what do to if one partner flirts with someone else or comes home late without calling.]


Who should do the dishes?

When is it appropriate to discuss getting blue bands/having sex?

When should you move in together if ever?

What do you do if you suspect the other is keeping secrets?

What do you say if your partner comes home with a haircut you don't like?

How do you respond if you find your partner crying?

How do you decide how to spend your time together?

Your partner's family doesn't like you. What do you do?

One of you is critically hurt. How does the other respond?

Your friends don't like the person you're with. What do you say to them? What do you say to your partner?

One of you wants sexual relations and the other does not. How do you balance your needs?

How do you communicate your desire for a particular sexual desire to your partner?

It is your partner's birthday. How do you prepare?

At a party your partner leaves you to socialize with others. How does this make you feel and how do you respond?

How do you show your affection?


(OOC: Mingle style. You are not limited to the questions, scenarios, or games listed above. Assume there are more! I recycled a lot of this from last time so if someone was in this group twice they can feel free to notice, but assume there are lots of questions and prompts, so they probably didn't see them all.)


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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-21 08:45 am UTC (link)
[Now he's started, he can't stop himself and it all comes flooding out, in a harsh, painful whisper.]

There were these aliens, the 456. They were threatening the Earth, threatening everyone, and you and I went to confront them because what they were demanding was just... unacceptable. [He's still fighting it, still trying not to reveal everything.] And they gassed the whole place. You died, in my arms, and there was absolutely nothing I could do.

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-21 09:36 am UTC (link)
[Ianto takes an involuntary step back as the words keep pouring out of Jack's mouth, hand slipping numbly out of his. It's still not sinking in, because its too big to be real, but he can feel something starting to build beyond the numb incomprehension. It's all some horrible joke, or its not real or it happens in some far distant future at the end of his life.]

When? [He manages. They've only just helped the Doctor move the Earth before coming here, so how long after that? How much time does he have left?]

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-21 10:33 am UTC (link)
[He swallows.] Three months? Maybe four?

[Whispering, as if that'll make it any better. He really, really hates that Ianto's let go of his hand, that he's lost even that one point of contact between them.

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-21 11:04 am UTC (link)
[And all at once it hits him, the enormity of this because he knows that look on Jack's face, knows he isn't lying. He can feel real panic starting to build along with the shock and confusion and all he can think beneath it all is that this is real, and oh God he's going to die. He wants to scream.]

You've known this whole time? [Another involuntary step back.]

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-21 11:42 am UTC (link)
[He nods, helplessly, because there are no words for this.

And Ianto's moving away, fading away from him like he did back there in Thames House, and once again, there's nothing he can do.

He tries, anyway.]

It might be different for you. Divergent timelines and all that. It might not happen.

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-21 06:49 pm UTC (link)
[There's anger now, along with the fear, and Ianto can't help focus it all in on Jack because its either that or scream at the entire world. Anger that he hid this, anger for telling him now, for not being able to protect him, for letting him die and now, especially for that comment because they both know it's not true. His voice is shaking with it.]

Don't. Not when we both know perfectly well that you're always going to let me die if there's even a tiny chance it might help you save the world. [He doesn't have to add fuck you to the end of that statement. They both know its there.]

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-22 09:12 am UTC (link)
[He opens his mouth to say that's not true, and then shuts it again because perhaps it is? It's what happened with Steven after all, even if Ianto doesn't know about that, or even that Steven exists at all. He just says softly, helplessly, because it feels important to clarify:]

That's not what happened. There was nothing I could do!

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-22 09:39 am UTC (link)
Then what happened? [Theres a challenge to his voice because he needs to know even though it terrifies him all at the same time.]

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-22 03:41 pm UTC (link)
It all went wrong. [His voice shakes as he finds himself back in that room, desperation running through his veins.] We went there to threaten them, to scare them off. But they called our bluff. They killed everyone in the building. I tried to bargain with them, tried to surrender - anything, to save you. But you were already dying. We both were. We died together.

And then I... came back. Without you.

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Anyone who wants to get in on/react to this drama tooootally can!
[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-22 05:14 pm UTC (link)
[Ianto isn't hearing the part about Jack scrambling to save him or that desolation in his voice as he recalls waking up alone. There's only one thing he can really focus on here.]

So I die because your bluff went wrong? Not saving the world or keeping you safe but because you don't think a plan all the way through?

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-23 05:03 am UTC (link)
[It tugs at his heart in horrid, painful pulls.]

Yes.

[Whispered, accepting full responsibility. It had been Ianto's own decision to go with him, but that's never going to stop him feeling responsible.]

It was pointless and futile and didn't help anyone.

[Putting it there, baldly, because that's the thing that tears him most about the whole thing. If Ianto's death had meant anything, if he could have felt that Ianto would have been proud of laying down his life to save people, he might not have spent the next six months (plus) of his life in utter despair, trying to forget.

But he's not saying any of that, not yet. It's not going to help at all.]

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-23 10:00 am UTC (link)
[Ianto can feel tears building, and blinks furiously. There's a horrible tightness in his chest and he can't seem to catch his breath properly as a horrible thought occurs to him.]

So what, all this, [A gesture that seems to include their whole prison.] The closeness, agreeing to be exclusively with me is just you trying to make yourself feel better because you didn't get it right the first time around? [And somehow that's the worst part of all this so far, the realization that Jack has been trying to fix things because he knows he won't get to at home, not because he suddenly cares.]

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-23 11:07 am UTC (link)
No. No! That's not – it's not like that!

[All right, it is, a bit. Or at least, that's how it started, combined with the wristband rulings. But it's grown to be so much more than just that. He stares at Ianto, breath hitching as he reaches out hopelessly for him.]

It made me realise how I felt about you. Ianto, please...

[Don't do this. Don't slip away from me again.]

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-23 11:28 am UTC (link)
[He's still so angry, furious at everything but there's that tone in Jack's voice and that look on his face and here he is, standing just out of reach and unable to make himself move even though suddenly all he wants is to be held and told its going to be alright. He's lost any attempts to control the tears now, and he can't make himself say anything or move because underneath it all he's so desperately scared, terrified even and all he can think is I don't want to die.]

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[info]notrosesshadow
2013-09-23 07:19 pm UTC (link)
[Martha had been watching both Ianto and Jack for a while now. She was trying not to listen, but things were heated and now Ianto looks beyond upset, and Jack is freaking out and... she finally steps forward.]

Jack? ... Ianto?

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-24 07:37 am UTC (link)
[He can see the tears rolling down Ianto’s face and he feels utterly wretched because he knows this is completely his fault. Not his death – though honestly? He feels pretty damn responsible for that anyway – but him knowing about it, him having to find out this way? That’s down to him, and he’s regretting every second of it.

He’s so focussed on Ianto that he doesn’t even notice Martha coming over till she speaks. He stares at her, remembering that she doesn’t know either, yet, and the idea of the sheer effort involved in telling her, too, is exhausting enough to overcome the unnatural desire to get the revelation off his chest. So he just stares at her, arms dropping wearily to his sides.]

This fucking therapy has a lot to answer for.

[It comes out as a snarl but it’s clear the anger’s not directed at Martha. It’s equally clear, however, that he’s not going to come clean about this unless she asks him directly. If she does, of course, then he’s going to be bound to answer.]

((OOC: I had a great long response to this typed out and then my fucking work computer network (which is completely up the creek) went and lost it! Arghhhh!!))

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-24 08:05 am UTC (link)
[Ianto nods miserably, choking out in a quiet, lost sort of voice that Martha is easily close enough to hear,] I don't want to die.

[And maybe its the simple act of actually voicing that fear but suddenly he can't bear to be so far away from Jack and stumbles those last few steps forward into his arms. He's sobbing, loud and ugly and so hard he can't breath and he can't tell if its that or fear that's making him shake so hard.]

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[info]notrosesshadow
2013-09-24 09:52 am UTC (link)
[Martha starts to answer Jack's statement, but then Ianto chokes out his revelation and suddenly it all becomes clear. Well, clearish. Martha doesn't know what happened, but obviously Ianto dies in the future. And Jack, being Jack, doesn't.]

[She watches Ianto stumble into Jack's arms, and, aware of the scene this is causing, turns her back on them so she can start waving other people away. In fact, she fixed the room with a glare strong enough to make people back off. Ianto and Jack needed some time; Martha would make sure they got it.]

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-24 11:45 am UTC (link)
[This is pretty much breaking his heart. He collects Ianto into his arms as he stumbles forwards, pulling him close and wrapping around him, trying to calm the tremors he can feel running right through him.]

I know. [Whispering.] I know. I’m so sorry. I didn’t want you to find out like this. I didn’t want you to find out at all.

[He casts Martha a grateful glance, but doesn’t say anything out loud for fear of drawing Ianto’s attention to the potential onlookers who’re being kept away by her fierce glare.]

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-24 02:14 pm UTC (link)
[Ianto is well past caring about or even really being aware of their audience. He hasn't even really noticed Martha's presence, so he can't shoot her the grateful look she deserves for being such a good friend.]

[He's already regretting the harsh words he'd flung at Jack, because he knows he hadn't deserved them, but he can't stop long enough to catch his breath and say that. Instead he just nods in agreement and clings to him like he's drowning, as if he's the only thing keeping him standing and grounded when it feels like his world is ending. It occurs to him for the first time that Jack looses him, too, that all this ends so much sooner than he ever thought it would. He tries not to think about what Owen said about death, and how there's nothing but darkness. He can't decide if he wants to know how much the way he's going to die hurts.]

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[info]notrosesshadow
2013-09-24 02:22 pm UTC (link)
[She nods to Jack when he throws her the glance. Martha knows she's saying too much, and she figures if she stays here as an unobtrusive guard for Jack and Ianto, then she won't have to say anything to anyone else. It's a win-win situation in this joke of all jokes the wardens have thrown at them.]

[And maybe if she stays close enough, she can find out more. She's an excellent eavesdropper after all.]

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-24 04:31 pm UTC (link)
[Jack doesn't blame him for the accusations. He did keep secrets, for right or for wrong, and it's got to be hell to find out like this. He's just glad Ianto's come back to him now, that he can hold him tight as if that'll stop him ever being torn away from him.

Gently, he gets his back against the wall and slowly starts to slide them down it. His legs are feeling trembly enough; heaven knows what Ianto's feel like!

And all the time, he's gabbling away with soft nonsense words as the tears roll down his cheeks.] Shhh, it's all right now, everything's all right, I'm here, I'm here and you're not going anywhere, not while I have any say in things, because I love you, Ianto Jones, I love you and I am not losing you again.

[...Okay, maybe it's not quite all nonsense.]

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-24 05:28 pm UTC (link)
[Ianto lets Jack pull him down until with him until they're huddled in the corner together, practically in his lap. He's still crying but it's becoming quieter although he still feels just as helplessly terrified. He's shivering harder than ever, even with those arms around him, and his head hurts from sobbing. Jack's shirt is soggy where he's been crying on it and he wipes at it futilely with one hand.]

[He's hearing the words without really listening to them, letting Jack's voice wash over him. But suddenly they start clicking, and he realizes what he's saying, words he never thought he was ever going to hear from Jack, and long ago given up on hoping for. He peels his face away from the damp blue cotton of Jack's shoulder, and stares at him, eyes red and wet and slightly stunned looking. His mouth opens and closes a few times before he's finally able to make his voice work.]

Could you say that last bit again?

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[info]foreverjack
2013-09-24 06:13 pm UTC (link)
[His arms come round Ianto even more strongly when Ianto starts trying to fuss about his shirt, curling round him protectively, demonstrating that he's fine, that it's Ianto he's concerned about, not his stupid shirt.

Even when he feels Ianto start to try and pull away to stare at him, his arms try to tighten, but then slip loose once he realises what Ianto's trying to do. He doesn't get why Ianto's staring, though, not until he speaks, and then it's his own turn to gawp. If he could stare at himself, he'd be doing it.]

I... [Okay, that just kind of slipped out, didn't it! Huh. He does the goldfish impression for a moment longer, and then it turns into a sheepish little smile. He lets out a breath, and the smile turns warmer, affectionate as he finally says it again, somehow both experimental and sure at the same time.]

I love you.

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[info]readystopwatch
2013-09-24 07:52 pm UTC (link)
[Ianto is still staring like an idiot. If there's one thing that could get the tears to (mostly) stop its this. It might be rather insulting to see how shocked he is, but he's still so emotionally raw he can't do anything to hide it. He's always just accepted that when it comes to love their relationship is always going to be a bit one-sided because that's just how Jack is. He's always known he cares, but he just assumed they were always going to leave it at that. He's always planned on taking the words I love you to the grave, and wonders with a horrible sort of shock if maybe he did.]

I wish I didn't have to die for you to realize that. [Its not accusatory or angry, just very wistful and sad, because right now he feels like he's never going to be able to feel anything else again. He wants so badly to return that shaky smile but he can't seem to make himself and he hopes Jack can understand that. He leans his forehead against his, still trying to catch his breath from earlier, before whispering, so very tiny and far away,] I love you, too.

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(no subject) - [info]notrosesshadow, 2013-09-24 11:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]foreverjack, 2013-09-25 05:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]readystopwatch, 2013-09-25 08:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]foreverjack, 2013-09-25 09:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]readystopwatch, 2013-09-25 03:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]foreverjack, 2013-09-25 03:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]readystopwatch, 2013-09-25 05:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]foreverjack, 2013-09-25 06:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]readystopwatch, 2013-09-25 06:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]foreverjack, 2013-09-25 06:34 pm UTC

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