Pandora (pandoros) wrote in nevermore_logs, @ 2012-03-25 20:45:00 |
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Entry tags: | elpis, pandora |
WHO: Pandora & Elpis
WHEN: Sunday afternoon
WHERE: Pandora's apartment
WHAT: Pandora comes back to life
WARNINGS: mentions of murder
When Pandora came back to life she was was lying on the floor of her kitchen, little yellow crime scene markers all around her. With a whimper she touched her chest, expecting to find Iapatos' knife still impeded there. But there was no pain, and since she wore nothing but her own skin she could see no mark either.
She didn't know how long she'd been dead for, and although she had vague images of the underworld in her mind she couldn't put any of them together.
Shivering, Pandora stood and looked around herself as she swallowed the hard lump in her throat. She didn't want to start crying right now. She needed to think logically about what she should do if the police had been here, and if they'd found her body. (Her other body though, since the hair she could see hanging below her shoulders was once again blonde.)
But everything felt too scary and she walked down to her bedroom, trying to be as silent and slow as possible, as though her very presence here might make Iapatos show up again. She expected him in every doorway and flinched, remembering the pain of the knife and the pleasure in his eyes.
Off her bed and pulled a blanket and wrapped it around herself before sitting down between bed and wall, making herself a tiny little space to inhabit. It took a long time before Pandora reached over to take the phone off her bedside table and dial the only person she could think of.
Elpis had known of Pandora's demise, so tied to the once mortal she'd taken notice of it, but she hadn't been able to do much about it. She didn't know the why, or the who and it wasn't her area. She could have asked her siblings, but instead she waited.
Pandora would be back, in due time, and she could ask everything then.
When her phone rang with a familiar name she leaped up and answered it, "mom?" she sounded relieved and happy. "Where are you?"
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[info]pandoros
2012-03-25 08:30 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
To hear Elpis' voice make Pandora almost lose it and actually cry, but she managed to hold it in. "My apartment," she whispered, leaning her cheek against the wall. "Elpis, someone killed me. I- they- killed me."
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[info]done_by_hope
2012-03-25 08:34 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"I know," it wasn't much that was helpful but still. She also knew the box wasn't near Pandora so she couldn't just go there. "Look I'll be right there alright." There was the backdraw the apartment was a crime scene but right now she wasn't worried about it.
She kept Pandora on the phone as she traveled, soon arriving at the apartment and making her way inside. "Okay, not to be all pushy but we need to leave. The mortals will ask too many questions."
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[info]pandoros
2012-03-25 09:07 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Pandora put the phone away and looked up at the daimon standing in her room. "How long?" she asked her in a voice she tried to keep level. "I don't- how long have I been... dead?"
It could have been hours, or days, it could have been years if there wasn't crime scene signs around. She hated the thought of where she might have been when she couldn't even remember it. She swallowed, pressing her chest. "I can feel his knife."
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[info]done_by_hope
2012-03-25 09:33 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
She edged closer and wrapped her arms around Pandora. Both for comfort, and for the fact that she was happy to see Pandora again. "Couple of weeks." More then a couple, but it was as long as she could really pinpoint it. "Not too long."
Gently she set her hand on Pandora's cheek. "You have to tell me who and why you know. Eventually. But there's nothing there. You're alright and alive. Those are the important things. But we need to go to my place. The mortals will come back, and they won't understand."
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[info]pandoros
2012-03-25 09:56 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Pandora held onto Elpis tightly, breathing in the scent of the closest thing she had to a child. (She'd had a mortal child once, but that was a distant time and Pandora didn't even remember if she'd loved them. They were forgotten along with so much about her first life.) A couple of weeks dead, and somewhere was there a dark-haired body rotting in the ground or waiting in some freezer? Pandora didn't know how it worked.
Pandora nodded, knowing Elpis was right. The woman who'd died here would confuse the police. She wasn't Pandora Dolios who rented the apartment, and whoever she had been the authorities would be confused about why nothing here belonged to her at all. Pandora was going to be the one to be in trouble for her own murder.
She let Elpis help her stand and then shrugged off the blanket, no shame of her nakedness in front of Elpis. Elpis knew her inside and out. "I have to find clothes," she said, looking at her wardrobe and trying not to feel like this was a massive effort. "And I need to pack some things."
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[info]done_by_hope
2012-03-25 10:26 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"I'll help you," subtly her own presence filled the room. Hope wasn't a very good thing around things like this but she figured it couldn't hurt. Despite what she was, she was still a daimon. Comfort wasn't always something she understood.
Smiling she rose and gently sat Pandora down on her bed before finding her some clothes and passing them to the woman. She knew this may be confusing to Pandora so she focused on packing. She knew what would be necessary, and what they could buy again.
She glanced to Pandora as she worked, "what happened?" She'd figured the Olympians would keep an eye on their product, but then again she could never tell with them.
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[info]pandoros
2012-03-25 10:49 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Pandora smiled up at her gratefully as she sat, taking the offered clothes. It was going to be okay. Pandora didn't know what to do next, but she felt sure that she could take this step by step and be alright.
She took the offered clothes and dressed slowly, her hands still shaking a little. When Elpis stop she stopped, halfway through buttoning up her top, and touched her chest where the knife had been. Frowning she said, "Epimetheus' father... he came here to find me. Said I hurt his family and-" she looked at Elpis and shuddered. "I've never been murdered before. People have hurt me and- but dying..." Her expression faltered and she took a deep breath. "He enjoyed it."
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[info]done_by_hope
2012-03-25 10:56 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Gently she set her hand over Pandora's and smiled. "It's alright. It'll be alright. You can explain more when you feel up to it." She'd ask the Titan's then. She'd rather know then offend someone. And she loved Pandora, but she also knew her. This may get complicated. And if she got the Olympians involved they'd all have another glaring match at the Titans.
It was easy to fill a small suitcase and she went to help Pandora up. "we'll walk. The air will do you some good and it's nice out." She gave Pandora an encouraging smile.
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[info]pandoros
2012-03-25 11:09 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Pandora grabbed a big pair on sunglasses off her dresser and put them on, deciding it would probably be better if she wasn't seen by any of the other people in the building. She assumed that the police would have talked to them about what happened.
In one hand she carried the suitcase and with the other she refused to let go of Elpis' hand or even loosen her grip. She held close to the spirit of hope as though it would cure everything.
"The box," she said, startled into remembering it. It was the first time she'd really been concerned about it since before her face had changed. The Dark Lady didn't care about what happened to the box, but now that Pandora was alive and herself again she needed to guarded. "Prometheus has the box!"
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[info]done_by_hope
2012-03-25 08:20 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
She kept Pandora's hand as she led her adopted mother out of the building and into the sunlight. When Pandora mentioned the box she tightened her grip. "I know." She'd been confused when her safety had changed locations but she knew the fire stealer. He was a decent sort and he had made the thing. It was safe enough.
"He'll keep it safe until tomorrow. We'll go get it then." Or she would. Whatever hung between Prometheus and Pandora always made their encounters a bit awkward.
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[info]pandoros
2012-03-25 09:18 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Pandora shook her head quickly. "I can't go near Prometheus," she told Elpis. "His father will kill me. You'll have to get it for me?" Then she looked at Elpis, stopping in the street to look at her. "Hey, I love you," she said, feeling it was especially important to say it now. "You know that, don't you?"
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[info]done_by_hope
2012-03-25 09:31 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
That was something she didn't know about. But she'd ask the Titan. She'd get to the bottom of this, seeing she was unwilling to be kept in the dark. But she smiled and nodded, "of course I will. Tomorrow though."
She stopped besides Pandora and hugged her after the comment. "Of course I know mom. I always know. I love you too." She kept the hug for a while before releasing Pandora. "It'll be okay. Trust me."
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[info]pandoros
2012-03-25 09:38 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Pandora gave Elpis a little smile and nodded. "I trust you," she told her, taking her hand again and letting Hope lead her to something better, far away from death.