hugh & yelena
week 40 | two different derleths | teen non-traditional log Direct Messages encompassing Day 2 through 1:33 AM, Day 7.
β brief talk about steve and rose's situation on day 4
Day Two
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:04 AM
you awake?
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:23 AM
For some reason. I mean I guess I know why. What're you up to?
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:24 AM
Dad left
I mean Mobius
I just saw the notification
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:24 AM
OH.
Are you okay?
Wait no, that's such a stupid question to ask right now
Tell me what I can do for you?
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:26 AM
I think I just wanted to be sure you were still here
I'm trying to message Eliot and if he doesn't answer maybe you can check on him later?
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:28 AM
Still here but even more mad I'm not there
I can check on him if you want? Even if he answers you I still can
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:31 AM
Next week you should come find me as soon as you wake up because I need a hug.
You might just casually keep an eye on him?
I'll let you know if he answers - if he doesn't, then maybe nothing casual about it
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:33 AM
I was going to do that anyway, but now I'll set two alarms instead of only one just in case.
I can casually keep an eye on him, that's easy
Or really creep him out and watch him sleep and say you told me to not so casually watch him
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:34 AM
OMG yelena π heβs my brother. He needs to like you otherwise family holidays are gonna be super awkward!
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:35 AM
You know what was nice about sleeping outside last week? No wards was nice about last week
I only watch him sleep because I worry! But okay okaaaay, I won't do anything to make holidays weird
If we're stuck in basically the same week and over and over again, are there any holidays?
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:36 AM
maybe we could figure out a space at the theatre when we get back? I slept over there a couple of nights after the original dorm got destroyed by the pink dragon thing.
We make our own holidays?
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:38 AM
the theatre could be nice. Or I was thinking a classroom or something, nobody uses those and we could
you know what none of this is what you wanted to talk about, I didn't mean to change subjects
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:40 AM
yeah, but thinking about you and I finding a quiet corner together in the theatre or a classroom is a pretty good distraction cause then I'm not thinking about the fact that I'm sitting here by myself while my brother might or might not be making smart choices and my dad's gone and you've got zombie attack possibilities so I'm not complaining.
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:41 AM
he's smart, right? I know he was trying to figure out a magic battery or something like that, so he's probably not going out into the zombies or anything right now which means he's safe
and I'll keep an eye on him it'll be okay. We can just think of this like... long distance right now. Right? People do that all the time and we know we'll see each other after a week!
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:43 AM
people do long distance all the time, and I mean, I always planned on having long distance relationships for at least part of the time because of working away for film shoots
I guess I can try to pretend this is that
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:43 AM
okay I can feel you sliding into Taylor Swift mode from all the way over here
so let's talk holidays since we mentioned those, okay? What's the one you like the best?
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:44 AM
I am not sliding into taylor swift mode gosh although f I could send you New Years Day over the network I would
I like New Years actually - all the parties and it was always one I didn't spend with family which was good
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:45 AM
so one song isn't the same as fully in the mode... I GUESS I can let you have that much since I'm being nice right now
we listened to that one, right? I don't know what all the names are yet, but I think I remember that one
so we should do that. decorate one of the big rooms and find a lot of champagne somewhere, it'd be fun - and reset happens after midnight so it'd sort of really be like New Years with the whole starting over new theme if we want to get that literal about it
Hugh Christian
DAY 2 at 8:47 AM
Yeah, the cleaning up bottles with you on new years day one, we listened to it
sometime when we get somewhere that we can find it - we'll find a streaming bootleg of the long live/new years day mash-up cause it was so fucking gorgeous in concert
but I love that idea, and we could dance until midnight, and you have to kiss at midnight - that's the rule.
we should find fireworks maybe
yelena
DAY 2 at 8:48 AM
I keep talking about starting a list of all the things to buy or find when we get to a place that has them and I never do it, but it starts right now
with a bootleg of taylor swift
if we can't find fireworks then we probably know magic people who can do it for us, we can promise them a whole bottle of champagne to themselves for bribes
oooo, we could do it on a roof? so dancing and music don't have to stop for us to go outside and see fireworks, we're already outside
and if you say kissing at midnight is the rule then that's the rule, I'm not going to argue about this one
Day Three
yelena
DAY 3 at 6:13 AM
Fun facts from middle of the week zombie land: sunsets are much nicer than sunrises you see because you never slept
SHIT I HOPE THIS DIDN'T WAKE YOU UP
Hugh Christian
DAY 3 at 6:34 AM
Only a tiny bit lol
sunrises you see because you never slept are the actual worst always even in normal non-zombie land
yelena
DAY 3 at 6:35 AM
I'm sorry you're a tiny bit awake now
I think if you were awake for a more fun reason than making sure nobody got zombied it'd be okay but right now it really sucks
but nothing really happened on patrol so a little good news I guess, now you should sleep more!
Hugh Christian
DAY 3 at 6:36 AM
I don't know, I've seen the other edge of the morning because of a film shoot gone way way way over time and do not recommend that either
I mean, I guess maybe if you made love all night and then watched the sunrise with a cup of hot tea and then curled up in a king size bed with like blackout blinds like whoa and slept until two in the afternoon, maybe that would be acceptable
yelena
DAY 3 at 6:38 AM
Sooooo just curious for no real reason at all but where exactly does this place normally stand on stockpiled blackout blinds
Hugh Christian
DAY 3 at 6:39 AM
Just out of an abundance of curiosity?
yelena
DAY 3 at 6:41 AM
Sure, I was thinking I could have a room in one of the buildings to be decorating over and over again and I don't know how many windows they have but you know
IF there was tea and blackout blinds and... okay maybe not moving a whole bed into a classroom because that's probably so heavy, but. All I'm saying is that someday maybe this place won't be so awful and maybe too that people wouldn't mind sunrise in the right conditions, that's all
Hugh Christian
DAY 3 at 6:43 AM
There are some basement classrooms right? Wouldn't require the blackout curtains to be quite so large at that point
We might have to figure out the bed situation though
It feels like an essental piece of the whole all nght long situation
yelena
DAY 3 at 6:44 AM
This makes you officially the smart one, I think
I GUESS we could move beds for this, it's... you know, probably worth it and everything
or if the gym has those annoying mats you roll out we could drag those in and turn them into a bed, but they're probably even heavier than the beds
...now I really am going to figure this out
Hugh Christian
DAY 3 at 6:46 AM
Your committment to figuring this out is definitely a turn on
yelena
DAY 3 at 1:42 PM
Do me a favor?
tell me what you had for lunch so maybe I can fool myself into not being hungry?
Hugh Christian
DAY 3 at 1:45 PM
Are you sure that's going to help?
yelena
DAY 3 at 1:46 PM
Not at all but do it anyway?
Hugh Christian
DAY 3 at 1:48 PM
You're ridiculous
I just took this pasta, and I cooked it and then I threw it in a skillet with olive oil and some herbs from the greenhouse, and I warmed up some chicken pieces, and threw them in there, and just had sort of this garlic chicken pasta thing.
Alright I feel guilty now
yelena
DAY 3 at 1:49 PM
Why would you feel guilty for doing a thing I asked for you to do?
the good news is congratulations, that sounds amazing and I don't know why I kind of figure that the greenhouse only has things that probably want to eat you and not actual greenhouse things
The bad news is now I really want this garlic chicken pasta thing instead of whatever it is I don't feel bad taking that people found for us?
maybe I should just take a nap so I don't think about it, that could work right?
Hugh Christian
DAY 3 at 1:50 PM
I mean you asked, but I could have said something boring like cereal.
Here's a deal - next week I'll make you garlic chicken pasta stuff and we could eat it near the greenhouses.
Yes, that is me asking you on a date for next week. So there's something to think about.
yelena
DAY 3 at 1:52 PM
How is it a deal when I don't know if I have things to bring to this date?
So it's like you ask me AND you bring the food and all I do is show up which doesn't seem like a very good deal for your side
Not that I'm saying no, I'm saying yes and thinking about it a lot for the rest of the week.
Hugh Christian
DAY 3 at 1:52 PM
Good, my work here is done
Day Four
yelena
DAY 4 at 5:57 PM
I think it's my fault they
Wait I can't remember when you're supposed to be watching us so I don't know if you're busy right now but when you're not will you let me know???
like as soon as you're not?
You didn't see, did you? I hope you didn't see how it - just tell me when you can talk
Hugh Christian
DAY 4 at 6:13 PM
I can talk
I didn't see everything but I think I saw enough and Yelena it's not.
yelena
DAY 4 at 6:14 PM
Steve told me he was hurt and wasn't as strong this week as usual but that he'd be fine and I was stupid and believed him even though I wasn't sure about it
and Rose is so strong so I thought it would be fine?
Natasha says it wasn't my fault either and that they knew what they signed up for and I know she's right but what if me doing something different would have saved them?
Hugh Christian
DAY 4 at 6:16 PM
You can do the the what if game from here until next thursday but the truth is you'll never know and you will drive yourself crazy - trust me I know
Both Steve and Rose have been here for a while, Rose I think for longer than I have, and Steve long enough to know how this works. They didn't sign up without knowing the potential risks. At this point none of us sign up without knowing the potential risks.
yelena
DAY 4 at 6:17 PM
And this is so dumb because I saw girls I knew the whole time in the Red Room get hurt
sometimes it was me who did it for training so we would care less if it happened outside
so I shouldn't care, you know? I should be used to these things happening on teams even if I lead the mission, but now I care a lot and I don't know what to do with that
Hugh Christian
DAY 4 at 6:19 PM
It's not dumb, Yelena
It just means that you have a dfferent perspective now - like your team members are important and not just things that can be replaced
yelena
DAY 4 at 6:21 PM
I know it's still selfish but I'm even more glad now that you aren't here. I worry all the time about the people I send on patrols and right now I feel like I want to be sick, and I think it would be at least fifty times worse if it was you.
Hugh Christian
DAY 4 at 6:22 PM
You're doing your best in a crappy situation and you're pretty amazing like, just know that, that's how I see it anyway
This is how I feel this whole week, especially cause I can't actually rush in and do something stupid and try to protect you if you're about to get hurt
yelena
DAY 4 at 6:23 PM
You're really sweet. You saved me from the faeries though when I didn't even realize weird stuff was happening, so I kind of owe you? So next time one of us rushes in to do something stupid to protect the other one it should probably be me
Hugh Christian
DAY 4 at 6:24 PM
Darling I think we should just accept that we're both going to rush in to do stupid things to keep the other one safe at this point
yelena
DAY 4 at 6:25 PM
I want to say that if things look really bad and you know you won't be able to help me to leave me and make sure you stay safe, but I know I wouldn't do the same thing
so I guess we're going to be stupid, huh?
Hugh Christian
DAY 4 at 6:25 PM
Yeah, I think so. It might have been inevitable from the point we realized we were both here.
Day Five
yelena
DAY 5 at 11:54 AM
It seems like a lot of new people are showing up this week and I keep thinking how much it sucks for them. I got to show up during a party and see my sister and then the week after was Empire City
I don't know if it's better or worse to come during a bad week. Did I ask what it was like when you showed up? Good week, bad week?
Hugh Christian
DAY 5 at 11:59 AM
yeah, this is a week to show up - I guess on the bright side, it's bad so everything else is gonna look better for the most part
It was a void week, like I didn't have a key to a room & neither did a lot of other people, and the people who didn't ever get one only stayed a week, but I got one mid week. It was weird - But not bad.
yelena
DAY 5 at 12:00 PM
And if you're dealing with zombies you don't have a lot of time for your brain to break about how this place is even possible, so maybe showing up during a bad week is the best way to do it
so did you just have to find a bench to sleep on or something? I bet you spent all the days wishing you wouldn't get a key until you got one, huh
Hugh Christian
DAY 5 at 12:02 PM
Right? They'll all find next week to be amazing.
Eliot found me a couch so long as I promised not to tell anyone that I was a barista in my other life. I think if I'd realized that the lack of key meant I might be leaving sooner, I would not have wished for one. But then I wouldn't be here to keep you sane during the zombie apocalypse.
yelena
DAY 5 at 12:04 PM
You'd be home, though. I mean I'm glad you were here for keeping me sane but it's the whole issue again about how complicated it is being happy somebody is here. You know? or I think it should be complicated but maybe I'm not a great person... whatever, I talk about this way too much, huh?
Hugh Christian
DAY 5 at 12:09 PM
No, I mean, I do miss Marce. But home has it's own... shit. Remind me sometime and I'll tell you about it, but not here - like, when we can lie awake in the dark with our arms around each ther, because I don't like talking about that stuff.
yelena
DAY 5 at 4:34 PM
Okay. We both can talk about things we don't like talking about much when we have a time like that to do it. So it isn't just one of us, we can take turns? That could make it better.
Hugh Christian
DAY 5 at 4:35 PM
It would make it better even, so yeah, let's do that.
Day Six
yelena
Yesterday at 4:26 PM
Iiiiiii got you something! Hopefully it resets. And doesn't smell gross or anything, I feel like I might not know anymore
Hugh Christian
Yesterday at 4:27 PM
you got me something?
Like what?
It's not going to smell gross probably? Unless it's dead or rotten, then it might but Im assuming you didn't get me something dead or rotten
yelena
Yesterday at 4:28 PM
Like a present, that's what! Which means it's a surprise and I can't tell you
It's not dead and it's actually in pretty good shape so I think it's probably okay? But also things might just smell funny here and I get used to it so I'll smell test it after the reset to be sure
if you don't get a present that means it was old gym bag bad and I hope it's the thought that counts?
Hugh Christian
Yesterday at 4:30 PM
It's not even my birthday. I don't think. I actually don't know if it's my birthday? But the thought defnitely counts and I'm really curious now. Why can't it be tomorrow?
yelena
Yesterday at 4:32 PM
We're going to say it's your birthday because otherwise I don't know if anybody gets one here? It can't be tomorrow because it's today, but tomorrow will be tomorrow and then I guess it's going to be your birthday!
Hugh Christian
Yesterday at 4:33 PM
I'm really confused about when my birthday is now, but then again, who knows what day or month it is here, so it might as well be my birthday.
Which is July 11, like my actual birthday.
When's yours?
yelena
Yesterday at 4:34 PM
July 11. I'll ask people every time we go somewhere new what day it is just in case, but first day of next week is definitely your birthday no matter what
Um... 1989? I think? Maybe January, we used to celebrate then when we were in Ohio but it might have been made up
Hugh Christian
Yesterday at 4:35 PM
1990.
And you should be January 11. If you don't know for sure.
Because then every year we can celebrate our birthdays and half birthdays together. Assuming we ever get somewhere with a normal calendar that is.
yelena
Yesterday at 4:36 PM
Who needs a normal calendar? If the first day of our next week is July 11 then we start our own calendar now.
Hugh Christian
Yesterday at 4:36 PM
Derleth is insane, we make our own rules? I'm okay with this.
Day Seven
yelena
Today at 1:30 AM
See you in like five minutes.
Hugh Christian
Today at 1:31 AM
Meet you in the theatre?
Did you set your two alarms?
yelena
Today at 1:31 AM
Two alarms but pretty sure I only need one
Be there as fast as I can run!
Hugh Christian
Today at 1:33 AM
Kiss you soon darling