Penny Adiyodi (4yourthoughts) wrote in saveatlantisic, @ 2018-10-20 18:56:00 |
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Entry tags: | *andrea, *diana, *melissa, kady orloff-diaz, penny adiyodi, sydney clarke |
October 20
PENNY ADIYODI ✦ KADY ORLOFF-DIAZ ✦ SYDNEY CLARKE
THE RESURRECTION OF PENNY ADIYODI PG? CHARACTER DEATH BUT IT’S TAME OUTSIDE OF ALL THE CURSING COMPLETE |
A pair of machines were beeping somewhere nearby. It was one of the only reasons Penny knew he was somewhere else. Somewhere new. He only vaguely remembered seeing the coin on the side table, and touching it. Then there’d been blacked out sleeping and waking up here. Wherever here was. A hospital of some kind. Too thin sheets tangled around his weak ass legs. God, he hated hospitals. Well, he liked nurses, but the rest sucked hard. He’d have rather died in the other bed, making moon eyes at Kady next to him. The thought made him groan and struggle to open his eyes. “Kady…” Penny blinked a few times and squinted one eye open. “Fuck, dying blows.” “Penny!” Kady exclaimed as she barreled into the room after seeing the alert on her phone, physically threatening a bunch of people for information and access. She ran to his bedside and grabbed his hand almost too hard, forehead on his arm. Sniffling, she looked up and paused for a second. What if this was another “other Penny”? Then she saw his face, the red eyes and dry lips. “Shit. Shit, you’re dying again.” “Uhh-” A purple-haired teenager stood in the corner of the room, having slipped in before Kady arrived and managed to stay out of sight, just waiting for Penny to die. So she could do her thing quietly. She’d hoped there wouldn’t be any fanfare, after hearing from nurses that someone had arrived and was dying and they couldn’t figure out how to save him. How tragic. But now there were complications, and people, and more witnesses. Mitch and Dol had been left outside the hospital on account of them not letting in a large black dog, and so Sydney being alone in a weird place with weird strangers probably wasn’t her smartest move. Didn’t stop her from waving a little from the corner. “Hi, I’m Sydney.” “Again?” Penny frowned, but reached for Kady anyway, burying his free hand in her hair for a moment before dropping it weakly back to the bed. Only then did his too-slow brain notice the girl waving at him from across the room. Wilder was the flash of thoughts he picked up. Something about waiting for him to die and doing her thing? Fuck, was magic back? Fucking figured. No peace even on death's door. “Uhhh…hey?” He coughed painfully and sank down into the pillows. “What’s your thing and...why do I...need to be dead for it.” “Oh, shit, it’s a timeline thing-” Kady murmured, realizing what was happening here. From all she had seen and heard, this could only mean that Penny hadn’t died ever, as far as he was concerned. She was interrupted by the third voice from the darkened corner of the room, causing Kady to let go of Penny’s hand and ready her hands to blast that kid to smithereens. She didn’t respond to the introduction, just started casting. “What the fuck are you doing here?” In a second she was halfway between Penny’s bed and the kid, listening as intently to Penny as she was staring at her. “I’ve been over this once before, nobody’s fucking eating his corpse, okay, no one’s doing shit until he says what he wants to do so scram or you better pray your own magical will is up to date.” “Okay so, I guess I deserved that.” Her eyes were shooting between the pair, narrowing at the guy on the bed because holy shit how did he know that. Which, she knew how he knew that, probably for similar reasons that she could bring the dead back, but still. Sydney’s expressive face wrinkled up at the idea of eating a corpse, and she couldn’t shake her head more vehemently. “I just got here today, and somebody was talking about how some guy arrived dying. So I figured I’d hang out to see if I could help.” She shrugged, in a far-too-casual way that teenagers had perfected. “I can bring the dead back to life.” Penny raised his eyebrows, first at Kady, being all protective and mega hot, and then at Sydney. “Like…for real or like…zombie shit…?” The machine to his right started beeping erratically and Penny clenched his eyes shut in pain. “Somebody shut that damn thing up.” In typical Kady fashion she crossed her arms in front of her chest, puffed it up at the same time, and setting her jaw, tilted her head to wait for the kid to elaborate. Thankfully for the kid, she seemed to take the hint. Kady frowned deeper the more she talked, however, and when she arrived to the crucial point of her babble Kady looked back at Penny, suddenly unsure what to actually say. “Future reference, don’t just sneak into people’s rooms to stand in the corner like a fucking creep. And yeah, what he asked, how’s-” She looked at Penny again when the machine started beeping. Kady had no idea what any of those machines were or what they meant other than that one of them measured his heart rate. Immediately, she tried to figure out the mute button for it, but kept glancing back at Penny to see if he was relatively okay. “This could be the pads acting up. You feel okay?” “He was out of it when I got here and I didn't expect some romantic reunion,” Sydney replied, petulantly and in a defensive tone. She shoved her hands into her oversized hoodie pockets and shrugged. “For real. I've done it before, and the person ends up healed. They just have to be dead first.” Which was always the not-fun part. “Do you guys want me to get lost?” “I’m fucking fantastic,” Penny growled quietly with his eyes still clamped shut. There wasn’t any heat to it. There wasn’t much of anything to it. He managed to look over at Sydney after a few seconds of silence. What were the actual odds she could do what she said? It didn’t especially matter. Whether she could or not, she thought she could and if her thoughts could be trusted, she’d watched people die before. And what the fuck options did he have? He could feel darkness gathering at the edges of everything. Penny swallowed. The pain suddenly got more intense and he glanced sharply at Kady, but his words were directed at Sydney. “Stick...around, kid. Might have to…put you to work…” With the last bit of strength he had, Penny reached to pull Kady’s hand to his mouth and kissed her knuckles gently. “Sorry about...this.” With that, all the tension rolled out of him and his head lolled to the side. “It’s still fucking creepy? Who are you, Edward fucking Cullen?” Kady spat back at the kid. She didn’t actually allow herself to think it, but truth was this kind of kid riled her up because she’d been that kind of kid. And no way would she tolerate that kind of bullshit again. Kady rolled her eyes at Penny’s flippant response but as soon as she hit the right button and the thing shut up she was back beside him, eyes wide as her throat dried out from fear. Back the first time he had died, Kady had been sort-of too busy to really experience the entire ordeal. It had hit her like a freight train all at once, sure, but when she had really looked, it had already happened. And she’d been the one who had failed and made it worse. Now, though, she wasn’t doing anything, because the best bet seemed to be some kid who needed him to die first, and she’d had nothing prepared regardless. So Kady stood there, half leaning over Penny as she saw the life just get sucked out of him for what felt like a century and a millisecond at once. It was fucking awful. And he had been the one to apologize. Typical. Kady fretted silently for a little while and then, when she finally regained her breath and managed to conjure up some moisture to be able to speak, looked up at Sydney with some intensity. “You better be good for it because I swear to God this time around if he goes he’s not going alone.” Knowing time was no real issue - for her - Syd let Kady have her time or for both of them to have their moment or whatever. She got it. Instead of feeling threatened by the woman's comment, she rolled her eyes. It was a good thing she'd been used to Victor's abrasive nature for a while now, at least. “I've died before, it didn't stick.” And shot, and stabbed. Sydney uncovered her hands and walked forward. Practice had made her more confident, someone freshly dead was easy these days, and as soon as her hands rested on Penny's arm, she found his spark and mentally pulled. It would only take a matter of seconds for him to gasp for breath and open his eyes. He’d only meant to take a pause, of course. Breathe through the pain and then ask necromancer girl the weirdest crap she’d ever brought back to life. Death was a sneaky fucker. But apparently, so was resurrection. Penny sucked in air, eyes going wide and freaked out. “What the fuuuck,” he hissed. His too-big eyes looked at Sydney then at Kady, then down at himself. “Holy shit, did I…did that seriously just happen?” He lifted his hands to pat at his chest, eyes still stupid large in his face. He felt like he’d felt before the poison. Healed, but still unable to cast with his hands. Not that that made it any less fucking incredible to not feel like he was decaying with every breath. He still felt tired as hell, but that seemed like a tiny ass price to pay. “God, I really hope I don't wanna eat brains now.” Somehow all that flippancy only made Kady angrier. This was Penny, her Penny, dying before her eyes again. The last thing she needed was to threaten someone with death and have them shrug it off. She almost said something she didn't really mean, but suddenly she wanted to scream and destroy everything around her and then her own self again. No, it did not get easier, as it turned out. Kady leaned against the wall then, feeling a numb sort of persistent pain, this time without the hope for heroin to make it ten times easier to stomach. Her eyes widened and she twitched up in tension when Sydney finally made her move. Whatever this was, it wasn't going to make Kady any less protective of Penny, body or soul or both. She wasn't even sure if she hoped he was out there again. Oh, fuck. What if he wasn't, and she had missed her chance to tell him exactly what he deserved to hear this whole time? What if the one time she'd ever meant it, she'd used on the wrong fucking Penny? A strangled kind of sound left Kady's throat the moment Penny gasped for air, her legs giving in as she knelt a little too quickly by his bed again. She felt her knees bruise up a little, but holy shit he was moving! And talking! And he looked fine. Healthy and normal. Kady gave a nervous laugh that seemed to just not want to end, and she grabbed Penny's wrist with one hand and cupped his face with the other. "I'll get you brains. I'll get you anything, I don't care." She looked from him to Sydney and back, like she was waiting for the other shoe to drop and this to be a fluke. The heart monitor seemed to think he was fine. But what the fuck did that thing know of Magicians who were brought back to life? Sydney was back off again, cold hands removed from Penny so she could shove them back into her hoodie pocket. The newly dead were always the easiest, and it wasn’t like she could sit and explain how she could do it, since it was just her thing. But it worked, and she got to live to see another day - and so did he. That and Penny’s zombie joke was enough to warrant a grin in his direction. “I mean, I won’t judge. But It won’t be my fault if you do. But everything should be fine now?” She shrugged and thumbed a hand at the door. There was no point in talking about the occasional issues EOs had being brought back, since he wasn’t actually an EO, and she had a weird feeling they were about to get all lovey-dovey. “I’ll just go now? You can find me around unless my other guardian doesn’t show, then we’re going to head back home.” Kady offering him brains made Penny laugh – the first laugh in ages that didn’t hurt like a bitch. His whole face lit up. “How messed up are our lives that you offering me brains is kinda hot?” Despite wanting to just stare at Kady for an embarrassingly long time, his eyes shot to Sydney as she moved to leave. “Hey, wait, I—“ He risked pushing himself to the edge of the bed and lowered his feet to the ground. When the world didn’t do somersaults, he made a ‘huh, well okay’ face and stood up fully, one hand on Kady’s arm just in case. There was a thank you on the tip of his tongue, but Penny was a realist, so the doubt came out first. “That kind of magic…It doesn’t come free. Are you gonna come back in a year and demand my first born or something?” So, Kady liked to think she wasn’t a sentimental idiot. And she often wasn’t, because that messed up any magic. Maybe she ought to examine the whole ritual of bottling her entire shit up to deal with “later”, now that she thought about it, but as always this was not the time. She wasn’t a sentimental idiot, was the point; and yet seeing Penny’s face light up, healthy and beautiful and laughing made her smile and cry at the same time. Like an idiot. That someone had gone out of their way to save someone she loved also made her feel a bunch of eyeroll worthy feelings, and she saw herself holding up one hand to ask Sydney not to leave. The other was wrapped firmly around Penny’s waist and she would also examine later how that made her feel. She might or might not be congested from keeping a continuous stream of tears from falling down her face. Meanwhile, Penny had a point. “Usually those deals are made before one of the parties fulfills their side.” She eyed Sydney suspiciously. “Even when the faeries they demanded Eliot’s kid...Nevermind. It would be kind of shitty to spring invisible ink smallprint on us now, is all. So?” Sydney looked between the two like they'd grown extra heads, her level of disgust peaking at the mention of first borns. “Dude, I'm seventeen. I don't even want my own kids let alone yours.” The crying and laughing and emotions was enough to make her slink back a little as she smothered down a smile - Sydney didn't have that with anyone, platonic or not. Victor and Mitch would be upset if something happened to her, but her closest connection was dead. Most people she brought back were alone and had no idea a person had helped them, and she never stuck around much. It felt weirdly intimate, sticking around. “I don't want anything. Just to help people when I can.” Kady in tears made Penny want to distract her, hold her, hell, maybe cry too, but he settled for brushing some dampness away from her cheek with the back of his hand. It was a quick gesture, before he was back to squinting at a necromancer teenager who claimed she didn’t want anything. Literally everyone wanted something, in Penny’s experience. “Not sure I believe that,” he said, raising an eyebrow, “but I’m not exactly looking a gift horse in the mouth here. But look, I’m not great at this kind of thing, so just...” He paused for a second and then cleared his throat. Feelings were so stupid. “Thanks.” It was a murmured word, but there was intensity to it. While Kady went on feeling stupid, she felt a little less so when Penny consoled her with that small gesture. And then there was the issue of this girl being too good to be true. Kady blinked away her derision for what she thought was a lie - this kid was going to be back later for a favor. And that would’ve been fine if she wasn’t being all faux-noble right now. Rather than saying anything, though, Kady nodded in agreement with Penny’s sentiment. “Yeah… thank you.” She told the kid with a sideways smile, which turned into a sheepish chuckle. “Promise not to threaten your life ever again.” “Uhhh, thanks, that’d be great.” Sydney thought about mentioning that they really weren’t the first people to threaten that, and it rarely even phased her anymore. She waved a hand towards Penny’s everything, “Good luck with all of that. I guess you’ll probably need it.” And then she was gone, disappearing out the door before Mitch could barge in, trying to find out where she’d disappeared to. Penny frowned as Sydney slipped out the door. Her been there done that thoughts aside, I guess you’ll probably need it stuck in Penny’s mind. It was probably just the kind of cavalier bullshit teenagers said but it still left him wondering how big of a watch what you wish for situation he was in. He shoved that thought aside, though. They’d cross whatever crappy bridge was coming when they got to it. For now, he pulled Kady over, spreading his feet so she could fit between his legs. “So. Threatening necromancer kids and offering me brains.” Penny smiled, eyes going soft in a way they only did for her. “I get the feeling you’d make it a trifecta of weird if I asked where the fuck we are, but how about we save that for later and just scratch have sex in a hospital off my bucket list?” Kady frowned again with Sydney's ominous parting statement, but then again, they always needed luck with all of that and with this place too. She had been hanging from a bridge by yarn only hours ago, after all. None of that mattered right now, though. She let Penny pull her closer and smiled, stopping very short of telling him he was absolutely right about how weird what she had to tell him about this place was. His mind was otherwise occupied. Immediately, so was hers. It felt like ages since she had even seen him, let alone touch him. And the added bonus of the location being a bucket list item only sweetened the deal. Kady wrapped her arms around Penny. "Mind reading still on point..." She laughed, and then she kissed Penny for the first time in forever. Hopefully he was reading how that made her feel, too. If not, she'd show him soon enough. |