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Tweak says, "It is known."

Joseph Van der Berg (cup_of_joey) wrote in nevermore_logs,
@ 2013-11-27 16:30:00

Current mood:	grateful
Entry tags:	jess van der berg, jesse delacroix, joseph van der berg, monique reppyi

WHO: Joey, JJ, Jesse and Nikkie
WHAT: Siblings :D
WHEN: Backdated to last Saturday
WHERE: Sleepy Hollow Homestead
WARNINGS: Language

Joey and Nikkie had had a wonderful first night in Sleepy Hollow and he had spent the morning showing her around. When they both wanted lunch, Joey led them back to the homestead and headed into the kitchen. "I can make something really nice and if you want, we can make a picnic or something? Eat it outside?"

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insolentia_
2013-11-27 09:12 am UTC (link)

"I can believe it," Jess hissed. "Bunch of assholes." She slid off the counter and went to stand in front of Joey.

"Did you get hurt, Joseph? Who took you? Are they in prison?"

Joey bit down on his lip and then he nodded. "I did, I- It's complicated. Hard to explain. I-I couldn't tell the police."

Jess blinked at that and then she glanced back at Jesse before turning to her brother again. "Hard to explain, like...you think if you say who took you I might think you're crazy? Because if that's why, I might not think you're as crazy as you assume I will."

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	likesachallenge 2013-11-27 09:33 am UTC (link)
	Jesse looked back at her and raised an eyebrow. This wasn't exactly how he thought a reunion between these two might play out, but life was weird, something he learned a long time ago. "This conversation is sounding remarkably like one I had a few weeks after I got to America," Nikkie added. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

insolentia_
2013-11-27 09:39 am UTC (link)

"You don't want to know how I found out," Jess shook her head. "Tell me, Joey."

"It was uhm- Okay seriously, you can't- I swear I'm telling the truth. It was Lucifer. The devil."

Jess froze, her eyes wide open for an instant before she shook her head. "Holy fuck." Clearly she believed him, and was horrified by the very idea. "That's- Joey..." Then she burst into tears, which was quite out of character for her.

"I'm alright now," Joey tried to reassure her as he stepped forward to hug her tightly. "He got bored of me."

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jdelacroix
2013-11-27 10:23 am UTC (link)

Jesse's eyebrows were now pretty close to getting stuck in a permanently raised position. "And now I've fallen down the rabbit hole for real," he muttered.

"I'd tell you it gets easier to process...but I'd be lying," Nikkie told him. "Joey, on the other hand, he's not, and he isn't crazy. There are things out there in the dark, and they love nothing more than fucking with humans until they break. Or until they got bored."

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cup_of_joey
2013-11-27 10:29 am UTC (link)

"Pretty much," Joey said sadly in Jesse's direction. "But I'm also proof we can survive it. It's okay, Jessica. I'm here now." He held her tightly and let her cry into his chest.

When she finished sobbing, JJ pulled away from Joey's arms to look him all over. "You're really thin," she said appraisingly.

"I'm always like this," he was quick to assure her. He had gained back the weight he had lost while with Lucifer and while he was still skinny, he no longer looked skeletal under his clothes and his joints didn't look enormous any more. He was glad for that. "And so do you, by the way. Did you say you left home?" Worry immediately showed on his face. He knew what had happened to him when he left home and he hated the idea of it happening to Jess.

"Yes, but I moved into a friend's house instead of running away. When I saved up enough money, I got a place of my own."

"I always knew you were smarter than I was," Joey said with a smile. "So are you her boyfriend then?" he asked Jesse, finally going to shake the poor young man's hand.

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	jdelacroix 2013-11-27 10:48 am UTC (link)
	Jesse just shoved his hands into his pockets, feeling really out of his depth. "It is good you made it through everything," he said after a moment, for lack of anything else to say. He shook Joey's hand. "Naw, not anymore," he replied. "We're friends, and we work together. She's good people to have in my life, though." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cup_of_joey
2013-11-27 11:08 am UTC (link)

"Oh you work together!" Joey said with a smile. "Where's that?"

JJ bit her lip then and she shook her head at her brother. "Just- Just a job," she said, a little lamely. "It doesn't matter. What matters is you're alive and here. Any chance you'll let me get away with that?"

Joey arched his eyebrows and he glanced back and forth between the two of them. "Any chance I should let you get away with it?"

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	jdelacroix 2013-11-27 11:18 am UTC (link)
	Jesse glanced at JJ. "An argument could be made both for and against letting it go, but since every time I open my mouth, I just seem to step in it, I'm gonna shut up." Nikkie snorted quietly, hiding her grin in her hair. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

insolentia_
2013-11-27 11:17 pm UTC (link)

Jess chuckled and she moved to kiss Jesse's hair. "You didn't step in anything. You wouldn't approve, Joey, but I like what I do and I'm safe about it. Okay?"

"Warily okay," Joey finally accepted. "I can't believe you left them. I was so worried you would grow up just like them with their brain washing and racism."

"Nope," Jess grinned brightly, now able to at least calm down because her brother seemed okay. "I took after my gawky and awesome older brother."

Joey flushed a deep red and he waved his hands around. "Oh stop."

"Seriously. Ask Jesse, I talk about you a lot. I mean...I talked about you like you were dead a lot, but you know...it was still complimentary!"

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	jdelacroix 2013-11-28 01:25 am UTC (link)
	"Mmm, if you say so," he said, smiling slightly. "She does," he agreed. "Nice things, stuff y'all did as kids, that kind of thing. In past tense, sure, but like she said. Still good things." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cup_of_joey
2013-11-29 06:20 am UTC (link)

"Oh god, she was the only sane one," Joey said with a shake of his head. "So you just came up here to get away?"

"Yeah, what are the fucking chances, right?" Jess said, moving to hug him yet again. "God damn I am so glad you're here and alive and not devil killed."

"I was devil crucified just a little bit, but you know...time heals," Joey said dryly, his arms around his little sister.

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	jdelacroix 2013-11-30 08:17 am UTC (link)
	"Getting out of the city seemed to be the best idea," Jesse agreed. "Just go somewhere that didn't have so many fucking people around." That made him raise his eyebrows again. "I still can't believe the devil is actually a thing, it just sounds so crazy." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cup_of_joey 2013-11-30 08:23 am UTC (link)
	"Well there's plenty of room," Joey said easily. "We were making lunch. I'll make a bit more," and he set about making more sandwiches. "Yeah, Lucifer and Satan. And Satan can make his face look different. He wasn't as bad as Lucifer though." He waved a mayonnaise-y knife around. "We shouldn't talk about it, it's not nice." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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