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Adrian Jacob Delacroix (stormandshadow) wrote in nevermore_logs,
@ 2017-09-04 21:32:00

Entry tags:

adrian delacroix, isaiah delacroix, jess van der berg, jesse delacroix, nicholas rowland

Who: The Haus of Sausage
What: Yoink
When: Monday evening
Where: Their place
Warnings/Notes: TBC

Since leaving behind the life of a missionary, Adrian had finally begun to know happiness. He had his brothers around him in a home filled with love, his mother was back in his life, and he even had a girlfriend! Things were pretty great, even if they could be damn stressful when the forces of evil (and who knew they really existed!) decided to mess things up. They always stuck together and worked it out in the end.

One of Adrian's favourite pastimes was gardening, and he had cultivated quite the veggie patch in the back yard. JJ often helped him weed, and he loved when she sang as they worked, her voice every so slightly gruff and yet somehow perfect. Isaiah was helping today as well, and Adrian left the pair of them to fetch a ho (a joke which was entirely lost on him, even if JJ giggled).

The shed was all the way across the yard, which was a pretty impressive size, especially for New York. He fumbled around inside it for awhile until he located the needed implement, and had just stepped back out when he spotted the shadows.

And there was no better word for what they were. Shadowy shapes bearing down on JJ and Isaiah, pulling JJ away.

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walkabrokenline
2017-09-04 10:28 am UTC (link)

Isaiah groaned, trying to lift his head, and discarding the idea almost immediately. That fucking hurt.

Jesse had indeed heard the screaming, and he'd come running out to the backyard, just in time to see JJ vanish. Panic flooded all of his senses at once, and he had to actively restrain himself from running into the trees after JJ. Whoever, whatever those things were, they were long gone by now.

He made his way toward his brothers instead, kneeling down next to Isaiah. "Don't move, OK?" he said. "We're gonna get your head checked out real soon, just...try not to move."

"Fuck moving, the sky is spinning," Isaiah groaned.

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stormandshadow
2017-09-04 10:34 am UTC (link)

Isaiah was Adrian's little brother and seeing him hurt like that nearly made him forget some kind of shadow monsters had just made off with JJ. He bent over Isaiah's form, brushing his hair out of his eyes gently. "It's going to be okay, Isa. It's going to be okay," he soothed.

Nicholas had heard the commotion too, though he was much slower than Jesse. He had shoved Bastian into his mother's arms and made his way outside, trying not to fall over as he did so. "What happened?!" he asked, panicked.

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	walkabrokenline 2017-09-04 10:51 am UTC (link)
	"Say that now," Isaiah mumbled. "I think I might vomit." His stomach was churning like he was on a particularly rough sea, and he was not at all enjoying the feeling. "Nicky," Jesse breathed, standing up and all but falling onto the other man. "Nicky, they took JJ. They dragged her away, I couldn't stop them-she was just gone." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	amending 2017-09-04 10:55 am UTC (link)
	Nicholas felt like he had been punched in the chest. Someone had taken JJ?! "Who was it?!" he hissed wildly. "It was...just shadows," Adrian shook his head, not letting up soothing Isaiah. "We need to get him to the hospital!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jdelacroix
2017-09-05 09:07 am UTC (link)

"They just took her," Jesse moaned. "They took her, and they clobbered Isaiah, and I am so fucking over this shit happening." He clenched his hand into a fist, trying to resist the urge to punch a nearby tree. All that would do is break his hand.

"I don't want us to move him ourselves, I'll call the paramedics," Jesse said, once he'd gotten more of a hold on himself. He stepped away, digging out his phone and placing the call. He gave the address to the operator, and hung up once she promised they were on their way.

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	stormandshadow 2017-09-09 09:44 am UTC (link)
	Nicholas stalked away, surveying the perimeter of the house, seeing if there was some way they could follow a trail or something, but there was nothing. Adrian was sure that Isaiah was about to die, and so he clutched his brother's hand and put his head to it. "Please be okay," he whispered. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jdelacroix
2017-09-09 10:12 am UTC (link)

"Gonna take more than this to get rid of me, Ade," Isaiah said. Slurred, rather, despite his best efforts to hang onto consciousness.

The wail of an ambulance siren cut through the air, and Jesse ran around the side of the house, returning with two paramedics wheeling a body board on a gurney. They put Isaiah in a neck brace, carefully strapped him to the board, and wheeled him away. Jesse got the name of the hospital from them before they left again, lights flashing and siren screaming.

Jesse sank down onto the ground next to Adrian, resting his head on his knees. A long stream of curses in English, Creole, Spanish, and French poured from his mouth, before he finally got up and went to find Nicholas.

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stormandshadow
2017-09-09 10:17 am UTC (link)

Nicholas saw Jesse heading towards him, and he stopped his searching to return to his boyfriend's side. "I can't figure out which way she went," he breathed, feeling like the world was tipping on it's side.

As they spoke, Adrian rose to get the car ready so he could head to the hospital to wait for Isaiah, when a shadow appeared again. He was so afraid it was going to take him, that he yelped and fell backwards. An envelope was dropped on his chest, and the shadow disappeared again.

"Shit!" Adrian hissed loudly.

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	jdelacroix 2017-09-09 10:35 am UTC (link)
	"And I only saw the end of it," Jesse sighed. "By the time I got down the stairs, she was gone. I couldn't-" He cut himself off when he heard Adrian swear, whipping his head around so fast he was surprised he didn't give himself whiplash. "Ade?" he called, moving toward his brother. "Everything OK?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

stormandshadow
2017-09-09 01:32 pm UTC (link)

Adrian plucked the envelope off his chest and he stood shakily. "Uh...mail? It has your name on it," he said to Nicholas.

Nicholas furrowed his brow and he closed the distance between them so he could take the envelope, which was sealed with wax. "What the fuck?" he asked, ripping into it. He read aloud the words, written in fancy script.

"Greetings. Your girlfriend shall be returned to you soon. Whether or not she remains unharmed is up to Victor Brannigan. If his loyalty and sense of honor remain steadfast, she won't be harmed at all. Upon completion of my experiament, I will turn her loose for your collection. Yours truly, Jos- ...yours truly, Joshua Dawn." Nicholas swallowed roughly, his voice grating over the final words.

"Who is Joshua Dawn?" Adrian asked, horrified.

"The Antichrist," Nicholas answered, before turning aside and vomiting his dinner onto the lawn.

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jdelacroix
2017-09-11 05:04 am UTC (link)

"Nope," Jesse said flatly, running a hand over Nicholas' back. "Nope, nope, nope. Fuck this shit." He took a few steps away, breathing in deeply through his nose.

"So we just have to trust that she's going to be OK, based on what that says?" he continued. "Because I don't buy it for a minute. I know Victor's a good guy and everything, it's the fucking Antichrist that I don't trust to keep his word."

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	amending 2017-09-11 05:42 am UTC (link)
	Nicholas felt like his chest was tightening and he wasn't able to breathe. "I can't-" he rocked back and forth a little, as if that would help him get some air. "He starved- He's the one- She- I can't do this," he hissed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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