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Charlotte "Chuck" Charles (pushedback) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-05-03 17:40:00

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charlotte charles, nathan harris, nico di angelo, ton phanan

374 - open dreams
[ Dust to dust ]

[ It's a quiet old house, filled with more flowers and folding chairs than anyone could possibly need in their day to day life, unless they're a funeral director. There's a clock ticking somewhere, an eerie stillness in the viewing room, a sturdy white casket making up the center feature. The lid is off and inside, cushioned by plush silk and dolled up as if she's going out for a nice day, is lonely tourist Charlotte Charles. Her skin is dull and pale, her lips a faint blue.

What do you do now? ]

[ Heart of hearts ]

[ Another house, this one bright and worn from generations of life, the rooms stuffed with scuffed furniture and the faint smell of cheese and birds. There's sunlight and a buzz of bees from the backyard. The smell of breakfast food is hanging heavy in the air, as does a perhaps very familiar voice: ]

Pancakes are ready!

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	2 wraith_7 2016-05-03 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	[It feels normal being here, sneakily rearranging knickknacks to mess with her aunts but at the same time some distant, aware part of his brain knows it's not, leaves him feeling like he needs to take the most of this opportunity, remember every detail of this special house.] They better involve honey not cheese. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pushedback 2016-05-03 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	What do you have against cheese? Pancakes with a sharp cheddar in the batter could be really good. [ But not today. Today it's just pancakes and honey and maybe some blueberries. She's feeling fancy. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wraith_7 2016-05-03 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	I just question its place in pancakes, that's all. Are your aunts joining us for breakfast? [Again something that feels so normal except for that tiny sensation that it's not, the part of him that desperately hopes they are because it's so, so important that he see them.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2016-05-04 07:19 am UTC (link)
	They are as long as you don't question the rightful place of cheese. [ Like he'd get kicked out for anything. ] Set the table and I'll go get them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wraith_7 2016-05-04 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	I wouldn't dare make that comment in front of them. [He wanders into the dining room to find her and maybe steal a kiss while he locates the silverware.] I'll get it set up, you go get them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

quietly cheats

pushedback
2016-05-05 04:48 pm UTC (link)

[ Kissing is very important in all this domestic bliss. She smiles at him with so much love and adoration before wandering off to find her aunt and her aunt-mom, returning shortly with them in tow, chattering about one petty argument or the other. Breakfast can begin and probably continue in a vague blur of conversations and bickering that'll feel really good but be fuzzy on the details, much like dreams. ]

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	wraith_7 2016-05-05 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	[Fuzzy as it is he grabs onto a few details that are never going to slip away, no matter how dreamlike everything is. Things like Lily's sharp tongue and Vivian's unsure disposition and the way they look at Chuck and how she smiles when she talks to them. He doesn't have to remember the conversation, just his impressions of who they are.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2016-05-06 06:21 am UTC (link)
	[ That's what it is, isn't it? An amalgamation of her memories of them, all the conversations they've had in this house and now Ton is here like the most natural thing. Maybe this is what they can come back to. Eventually breakfast is over and aunts go wherever aunts go, leaving them alone again. She reaches out across the table to take his hand. ] I love you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wraith_7 2016-05-06 11:52 am UTC (link)
	[Coming back to this is all he wants and even if it never happens he has this memory he's going to treasure. This dream is one he won't be forgetting when he wakes up. He squeezes her hand back.] I love you. [His free hand finds a blueberry and throws it at her though because things were getting way too sentimental here.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	2 nico_di_angelo 2016-05-04 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	Be right there! [He'd been standing outside, blinking at the world. Never had anything felt so bright and surreal. He feels a bit outside himself as he enters the house and follows the smell of pancakes (and cheese?).] What do you need help with? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2016-05-09 01:21 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, sure. [Of course they do. He sets to work, pulling down plates from the cabinet.] It smells good. Who's joining? The usual? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pushedback 2016-05-09 12:17 pm UTC (link)
	Yep! [ The usual being Ton, right? And her aunts? The vague memory of a group of people eating at this table that will almost entirely fade into a feeling of eating at this table in a little while, rather than a clear memory of doing it. ] Do you want some orange juice? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2016-05-14 12:04 am UTC (link)
	[The usual means Ton. To him, it also means Hazel and Bianca or Jason, Percy. But if her Aunts show up, it will mean that, and it will have always meant that. The table is set. It looks very domestic.] Yes, please. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)