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lydia martin ([info]futureimperfect) wrote in [info]somerealityrpg,
@ 2019-07-21 17:00:00

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Entry tags:inactive: lydia martin, inactive: stiles stilinski

WHO: Lydia Martin & OPEN
WHERE: At the base of the Eiffel Tower
WHEN: 8:45pm
WARNINGS: Low, mild panic attack

This wasn't right. This was so not right. Lydia had been about to fuel up her car and now she was staring up at the Eiffel Tower and there was a note that floated directly into her hands as if it were guided by magic. Leaving that aside for now, she shut her eyes and tried to will herself back to New Mexico. The smell of the gasoline fumes. The heat from the asphalt and her car. The sound of car doors slamming and Stiles coming back from the convenience store with way too many crinkly snack foods. Yup, she was at the gas station. Going to fuel up any second now...

It didn't work.

She could feel her heartbeat pick up, the edge of panic crowding into her thoughts. Taking a slow, deep breath, she opened her eyes again to try and get her bearings. Yea, this was definitely Paris. "Merde." This was definitely the wrong outfit to be wearing in Paris. At least it was a hallucination and no one would actually see her like this.

Reading through the note clutched in her hand, she scoffed to herself. Oh sure, 'the first month's rent is on me' and other ways girls get trafficked into slavery, she thought to herself before starting a second reading. It didn't have much to go on, so she supposed she was on her own for the time being. "Bonjour?" She called out haltingly to the closest passing stranger, not sure if she wanted them to be able to hear her or not.

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-21 11:09 pm UTC (link)
So, this was new. Waking up to Goodland looking like Paris was definitely not something that had happen before. At least this was a better surprise than the evil singing leprechauns. Then again, anything sounded better than those annoying bastards.

Throughout the day, he had been exploring. He probably should have asked Cisco or Scott if they wanted to tag along, but he figured they had already gone out on their own to check it all out themselves. So, off he went once again alone.

As he walked down the sidewalk, he really hadn't been paying too much attention to who or what was in front of him. Every once in a while he'd glance forward to make sure he didn't run into anyone or anything. But mostly he was looking at the buildings and basically just taking everything in. His luck at to run out sometime, though. He ended up running into somebody. He quickly said, "sorry," a bunch of times before he stopped and realized that it wasn't some stranger he ran into. "Lydia?"

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-21 11:25 pm UTC (link)
"... Stiles?" Hope and dread swirled in her then, tears burning just behind her eyes at the overabundance of emotion. If Stiles was here, she felt confident they could be not here. But him being here also meant this was probably really happening. Unless he was just a figment of her imagination, too.

He'd just run into her (and her shoulder was smarting a little, he was like a puppy sometimes but he had mass to him) but she reached out with her free hand all the same to feel that he was really there. Satisfied when her fingers rested on his chest, she shook her head. "Stiles, I don't understand what's happening. Did you get a paper?" She held her own up for evidence.

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-22 12:08 am UTC (link)
Unlike Lydia, Stiles had been dealing with this nonsense for a month now, so he knew she wasn't some figment of his imagination. He knew it was really her. Unless the Entity all of a sudden felt like screwing with people by making them see who they wanted to see. No. That was crazy. Right? She was here.

He didn't move at first. He let Lydia examine him before he finally grabbed her hand. "I got the paper..." he glanced at the paper that Lydia held in her hand, "a month ago." He didn't say anything else. He wanted to let his words sink in before continuing on. "None of us know why we've been taken. I have a feeling we're never going to find out." If it were that simple, somebody would have figure dit out by now? Right? And everyone seemed pretty clueless still even after a month of this weirdness going on.

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-22 12:21 am UTC (link)
It was Stiles. It had to be. It even smelled like him, not that she was in the business of sniffing Stiles. But if this was her own personal Canaan, if she'd manifested Stiles, would the scent be there, too? She squeezed his hand tightly, letting him anchor her as always and derailing her train of thought before it could get too far. "A month? That's ridiculous. I just sent you for snacks in New Mexico." Had something happened where it took her a month to get from New Mexico to France? And why hadn't anyone changed her clothes in that case?

"Okay, so, say you've been here a month. What have you learned about this place? If anyone can get us out of here, it's you. And if it's not you, it's me."

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-22 01:21 am UTC (link)
So, this was going to be awkward. Stiles knew exactly what Lydia was talking about. Except for him, that happened a while ago. "This is going to sound weird, not that this isn't already weird, but that happened a while ago for me. I was already in Quantico when I got pulled here."

He wished that he could tell Lydia that he had learned a lot in a month, but that was far from the truth. "Well, this Entity keeps abducting people and dropping them off here. It's like its collecting us for something. And it has a bad sense of humor. It made us deal with non-stop singing leprechauns for days. It was horrible. Oh! Also, we can't leave. Even though this place normally looks like New York, it's an island and we can't leave it." He paused for a moment thinking of anything else he could add. "Basically we're all clueless." Or people aren't sharing information. That could be something else, but as far as Stiles knew they were all clueless to everything that's been going on.

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-22 01:27 am UTC (link)
"And you didn't notice I went missing?" Even as she was blurting that sentence out, she knew the answer was obviously that she wasn't missing back home. This was so fucked up. Taking a step back reflexively, the paper in her hand crumpled as she pressed it against her stomach. Suddenly, it was hard to breathe. The blood rushed in her ears as he kept talking, and she caught about every other word. Enough to piece together what he meant in some distant part of her. The rest felt like a red alarm light strobing in her brain.

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-22 01:36 am UTC (link)
Stiles shook his head. "No, you were there with me the whole time." Which now gave him an idea. If she had been with him the whole time and never noticed she had gone missing then maybe they do get out of this place at some point. It was a little bit of hope that he could cling on to and he was going to share this thought of his until he saw the look at Lydia's face. He went quickly to her side and put an arm around her and glanced around quickly until he saw a bench. "Come on," he said as he guided her to the bench so she could sit down instead of possibly fainting. "I know it's a lot to take in..."

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-22 01:45 am UTC (link)
Clutching his shirt, she didn't let go even after she'd sat down. If he left right now somehow, Lydia was sure she'd lose her mind. "It is. I'm trying." It took a few minutes, but eventually her breathing evened out some and she stopped feeling like she was going to die.

Huffing a small laugh, she met his eyes with her own. "We're in arguably the world's most romantic—if over-commercialized and hyped—city and I'm having a freak out."

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-22 02:11 am UTC (link)
He sat next to Lydia and held onto her the whole time. He knew this feeling. He knew it far too well and it sucked. All he could do was wait until it passed. "I know." He almost wanted to say sorry for bombarding her with all of that information, but he didn't think it would make her freak out so badly. He'd never really seen her like this before.

A small smile crossed his lips when the panic attack seemed to be ending. "Hey, it would be us if we did everything perfectly right." Something always happened. That was just life back in Beacon Hills and apparently here too. "Are you okay?"

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-22 02:20 am UTC (link)
It had been a while since her last freak out, and those were always involving dead bodies or mortal danger. And, of course, Stiles didn't know much about Canaan, and she hadn't wanted to tell him after everything that happened. Unless Scott or Malia had.

"I'm feeling like I might be," she answered, her grin a bit lopsided. "Sorry."

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-22 02:51 am UTC (link)
Stiles didn't really know anything that went down. No one really said anything to him, which was fine by him. He hadn't been dying to do know all those details. "Yeah? Are you sure? Need me to do anything?" If she said to smack the next person that walked by, he would. It was Lydia. He'd pretty much do anything for her. "You don't need to be sorry for anything." She was allowed to freak out. She had just been abducted by an unseen force and dropped off here with a letter. They all had. Freaking out was probably a pretty good reaction to all of this. Of course all of the stuff he told her didn't help. And he knew that. But she seemed to be doing okay now. He gave her a quick kiss and then held her close. "We'll be fine."

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-22 03:01 am UTC (link)
"We will be fine." They were together, so it was a bygone conclusion. Snuggling closer, she draped her legs over his lap, wanting to be surrounded by him as much as possible at the moment. Stiles was her safe harbor, had been for longer than she realized. "I love you," she said quietly.

"... So. Leprechauns? Were they violent?"

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-22 03:13 am UTC (link)
They would definitely be fine. They had each other and they weren't alone. They had others from back home here as well. They'd survive whatever was thrown at them. He was sure of it. "I love you too."

Oh god, the leprechauns. He could vent about them for hours. "No, they weren't violent. But they would sing. It was like having an endless radio that never shut the hell up since there was no off button. I tried to shove mine in a closet. Cisco, our roommate, he kept sending his into space. All that did was make them both sing horrible songs. The nicer you were to them the better the songs. Treat them badly and they belted out some horrible stuff that none of us wanted to hear. Oh! And they were clingy. Couldn't go anywhere without them. Except for the bathroom. That was the only safe space even though they just stood by the door and kept singing."

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-22 01:26 pm UTC (link)
All things considered, it could have been worse. But she could understand how small annoyances like that built until they felt unbearable. Especially combined with both being trapped in one location and being kidnapped out of time itself. "That sounds terrible." Humming a bit, she reached for his hand so she could play with his fingers. This was a good distraction, the new information going into a mental file about this place she'd found herself in. "What made them go away?"

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-23 01:15 am UTC (link)
"It was horrible. I hope we never experience anything like that again." Of course, he knew that things could get much worse for them if the Entity wanted it to. He glanced down at their hands when Lydia started to play with his. Having her do something so simple just reminded him how much he had missed her and he was glad that she was here. "I don't know," he said with a small shrug of his shoulders. "They sang a horrible song and then left. I didn't question it much. I was just glad that we were finally getting our peace and quiet back. You are very lucky to have come now and not a few days ago. You would be going insane right about now if they were still here."

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-23 01:29 am UTC (link)
"It could have been a clue, whatever made them leave." She shrugged, keeping her eyes on his hand. It was big, especially compared to her own, and strong. Usually always moving. She had a bit of thing for them, and the person they were attached to. "Maybe I could have screamed their skulls in. Maybe they would have left me alone," like the Ghost Riders. Probably unlikely, if they'd been conjured somehow. She could already feel that this place was going to test her.

"So..." her voice comes out light and airy, "you've been at your internship. And then here a month. Anyone I should be worried about meeting?"

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-23 05:00 am UTC (link)
"The song? I somehow doubt that." Even if it had been, it hadn't mattered. The annoyance had finally gone and life got back to normal. Or as normal as this place could be. "It would have just come back and started singing songs that you really hate. Any kind of harm or meanness towards it made it sing stuff you hate. The nicer you were, the better the songs," he explained.

Stiles laced his fingers with her's and shook his head. "Nope. I've mostly been hanging around Cisco and Scott." He paused for a moment before saying, "If you think I've moved on from you, you're crazy." Lydia was pretty much his dream girl. Had been since he first laid eyes on her back in elementary school. That still hadn't changed even with his time apart from her. She was still it for him.

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-23 02:34 pm UTC (link)
Moving on was maybe a bit strong for what she'd been assuming, but it was nice to hear. "Technically, I didn't exist here to cheat on." Not that existing or not had ever been a requirement for her previous boyfriends. She really knew how to pick them... except Stiles. She didn't really deserve someone like him, had struggled for a long time with accepting a love like his, but she was working on being good enough. Squeezing his hand, Lydia flashed him a small smile. "I wouldn't have blamed you."

Playing back the part of his statement that hadn't been confirming she needed to be concerned, her brow furrowed a bit, head tilting as she looked at him. "Who's Cisco?"

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-24 12:31 am UTC (link)
"Doesn't matter," he told her. "I only want you." Maybe if he had been stuck here for years and never got to see Lydia again then he would have probably moved on. But it had only been a month. He had eyes for nobody other than Lydia. He brought her hand up and kissed the back of it. "It was only a month and I love you. I didn't need to look at anyone else." Or even think about moving on.

"Oh, right. He's my roommate. I'm pretty sure you'll get to meet him."

He glanced around and then looked at Lydia. "Okay, since we're in Paris or a version of it, maybe we should explore a bit. Unless you're not feeling up to it still."

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-24 12:39 am UTC (link)
"I love you, too." Lydia pressed her lips to his shoulder, hiding a grin in the material of his shirt. She knew she didn't have to say it, but she really, really liked to. Especially when he was being sweet.

"I'd hope so. I'm already planning on claiming your room over mine. For safety reasons. Though I suppose you could try to keep me busy enough to never meet him."

She nodded enthusiastically, swinging her legs back down so her feet were on the ground. "A walk along the Seine?"

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-24 01:48 pm UTC (link)
"I was hoping you would say that," he said with a smile. "Safety reasons? Hmm...I'm pretty sure that I can keep you busy." He liked the idea, but he knew sooner or later Lydia would have to meet his roommate.

"Sounds good to me." He stood up and then waited for Lydia to do the same. "After that, we should check out the Eiffel tower." If they were going to be stuck in this version of Paris, they should at least do some of the touristy things.

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-24 09:35 pm UTC (link)
Keeping hold of his hand, Lydia tugged Stiles along as per usual. His stupidly long legs would catch up with her in no time, but she only made it a few steps before she whirled back toward him, bringing up her free hand to keep him from running into her. "Wait. You were going somewhere before you ran into me."

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-25 12:11 am UTC (link)
Stiles didn't really need to be dragged along, he easily followed Lydia until she stopped walking. He stopped right before smacking right into her. "I was just wandering around. I had nowhere specific that I was heading to." He had just wanted to take in the sights before Paris went away.

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-25 12:23 am UTC (link)
She watched him for a second, lips pursing as she tried to decide if he was telling the truth. Figuring he was, she whirled once more and started walking. "Except for right into me, somehow." The odds weren't quite astronomical, but they weren't commonplace either.

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-25 12:27 am UTC (link)
He knew what she was doing. She was trying to figure out if he were telling the truth or not. He really had no destination in mind before he ran right into Lydia. "You're a magnet and I was drawn to you?" He flashed her a quick smile and then started to walk again.

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-25 12:33 am UTC (link)
Snorting, she shook her head. "A magnet for trouble, maybe." The Seine wasn't far from where she'd landed, and the sun was dipped low in the sky, dappling the water in a way that felt magical. "The note said I need a job. Do you have one?" After a month, rent must be due for him. Even thinking that felt slimy. Hopefully, that feeling would wear off, or she wasn't sure she'd be able to sleep.

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-25 01:59 am UTC (link)
"Heeeyyy..." he stopped before he even started to defend himself. "Okay, you might be right." Then again it felt like they were all magnets for trouble. "I don't have one yet. I'm still trying to figure out if I can just continue the whole FBI thing or do I need to rethink what I can do here." It would be nice if anyone had any real information. Maybe then he could figure out what he needed to do. But finding out stuff was slow going. "I would ask what you're going to do, but you just got here. I'm sure you have no idea."

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-25 02:05 am UTC (link)
The idea of him continuing his FBI training made it feel like they could be here for years. Like this wasn't some kind of blip. Seeking comfort at the thought, she moved closer and wrapped her hand around his bicep. "I think you should if you can. You're clearly suited for it. If I can help..." She'd just gotten here, she had no idea what she could actually do, but she'd try anything. "I don't think anyone's going to pay me to pursue a doctorate in mathematics."

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[info]sarcasticfriend
2019-07-27 05:09 am UTC (link)
"I'll find out once we're back," he told her. "I will take any help that I can get. Especially if it's coming from you." He wasn't sure how she could help, but it was Lydia. He'd take any offered help that she was willing to give. "They might. You never know." He glanced out at the water for a moment before looking back at Lydia. "What do you want to do next?"

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[info]futureimperfect
2019-07-27 02:00 pm UTC (link)
There was more than one way to take his question, and Lydia's mind jumped to the macro version first, even logically knowing it wasn't what he really meant. Not that the micro answer was much easier. She was silent in thought for a moment before she answered him. "You mentioned the Eiffel Tower? Then some food—I'm starving." She hadn't eaten since they left California, she just realized. An empty stomach didn't make processing all of this new information any easier.

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