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Tom Sully (notaskxawng) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2017-04-23 09:18:00

Entry tags:

!closed, ~adele, ~jr sully, ~tom sully

Who: Tom and JR
When: After this
Where: The garden
What: Bad news
Closed/Ongoing

Thomas was nervous. He had managed to water the same plant for the third time now. Then given up in frustration and got the spade out of the shed. This endeavour lasted another five minutes until he figured out that he had forgotten what he wanted to do with the spade.

There had been too many bad news recently. Too many. He had a bad feeling about this too. If Jake was back, he would have known. Had they found traces of him? Was someone else gone? He could check the phone list. It would be so easy. But, really, he couldn't.

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jrsully
2017-04-23 09:08 am UTC (link)

JR walked through the garden towards his father, hating what he was about to do but unable to think of a different course of action he could live with. Tom deserved, needed to know what happened to Rhiannon. He was the patriarch of the family, even if the murdered child hadn't been born yet in this time line.

"Dad, " he greeted his father, observing the shovel and the distracted look in the other man's eyes.

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	notaskxawng 2017-04-23 10:13 am UTC (link)
	He hadn't noticed JR approach. He had been too busy staring ahead and wrangling with the potential nightmare that was to follow. "Oh, eh, hey," Tom said and almost dropped the spade. He caught it just in time. Any thought of pleasantries like asking for his or Elyssa's well-being were forgotten. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jrsully 2017-04-23 10:35 am UTC (link)
	"Here, let me take that." JR plucked the spade from his father's hand, not wanting the other man to swing it at him without thinking. He could see from the expression on Tom's face that drawing it out would just prolong the agony. "I've got bad news, pop. You'll want to sit down for this." He didn't want to tell him, he didn't want to believe it himself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaskxawng 2017-04-23 12:18 pm UTC (link)
	Tom looked around. He couldn't find anything to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He wanted to know what it was and he didn't. "No, it's fine. Just tell me who vanished." He hoped he was wrong with his guess but he had already gone over the list of possible victims many times. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jrsully 2017-04-23 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	"It's Rhiannon, and she didn't vanish." JR told him, watching him closely. "Someone killed her, a man. Adele saw it but couldn't catch him. She told Elyssa to tell me, I'm going to talk to her to get more information." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaskxawng 2017-04-23 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	Rhi. One of his youngest. His daughter. Killed. Tom took a deep breath. He mulled every word over and analysed every detail of it. "Killed..." He took a step back, eyes darting around in a search for nothing. "Killed." People did not kill people here. "Why? Where is he?" Why was he still free? He was a danger to everyone and everything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jrsully
2017-04-23 02:38 pm UTC (link)

Ok his father didn't take a swing at him. That was good.

JR tried to keep his voice even, to keep the emotion from overwhelming him when he wanted to scream and rage at the sky. "Yes, killed. I don't know why and I don't know who did it, but I'm going to find out and I'm going to kill the son of a bitch who murdered my sister."

He looked down at his phone. "That's Adele now, hopefully she'll have more information than she told Elyssa."

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	notaskxawng 2017-04-23 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	He nodded. Nodded and waited. His mind was empty and full. He didn't what to think and thought everything at once. It wasn't real yet. He how it would go. Realisation would settle slowly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jrsully
2017-04-24 08:48 pm UTC (link)

"She says she can show me. I just have to close my eyes." That was a little freaky but it would be better than just getting a description of what she saw, it would be if he were there.

He did as she asked and a flood of images entered his mind, showing him exactly what the murderer looked like.

"Oh god." JR groaned, putting one hand to his head and swaying on his feet. It wasn't so much the images, he'd seen far worse during the war. It was more that he was looking at his sister's murderer and having the unfamiliar sensation of having the new information pushed into his mind.

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	notaskxawng 2017-04-24 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	Hours had passed until JR spoke again. Okay, maybe not quiet but it had felt like that for Tom. His heart immediately began to race again. "Yeah, what's she..." He stopped when JR's eyes looked absent for a moment. "What did she show you?" Who was it? What had that man done? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jrsully
2017-04-25 09:10 pm UTC (link)

"She showed me what she saw." Though he noted she'd quite obviously chosen not to show him his sister's body, something he already was conflicted over. But introspection could wait for later.

"She showed me everything she knows about the son of a bitch." He smiled, but it wasn't a pleasant expression and his eyes were very cold. "And I'm going to nail his ass so hard he'll wish he was never born before he dies."

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namedaftergran
2017-04-25 01:49 am UTC (link)

Adele teleported directly in front of JR, her fairy light flashing at the tips of her fingers. Her eyes were flashing too, though she maintained her human form.

She wasn't sure how that man, that thing's, powers worked or if they'd work on a guy. She wouldn't take any chances with her cousin. "Don't let him touch you." She ordered without even a hello.

(Having Adele enter because of this - http://asylums.insanejournal.com/compass_comm/1150209.html?thread=18017537#t18017537 )

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	jrsully 2017-04-25 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	"Hello to you too, cuz." JR snarked after taking an involuntary step back at her sudden appearance. That was a nice trick. He had a few bones to pick with her, and he had to step on his temper to avoid going into it now. It wasn't the time or the place. "Why don't I want him to touch me?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

namedaftergran
2017-04-25 10:19 pm UTC (link)

"He can mess with your mind. He got through my shields like they were nothing." Adele answered. "My shields aren't at their best when I'm emotional, but they ain't nothing." And JR was human. No shields.

"I only felt it when he put my hands on me." It was the only word she wanted to use. She had little experience with sexual desire, most men on the island were related to her, too old or in relationships. And admitting that she felt those feelings for a man that killed Rhi would make her feel like a monster.

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	jrsully 2017-04-25 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	JR studied her for a moment and then gathered his cousin in for a hug, her trespasses forgiven. He kept forgetting how young she was and how sheltered here on the island, with no big cities or wars to force her to grow up fast. "Did he hurt you at all?" He asked after a moment. It had to have been a very traumatic experience for her to stumble across that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	namedaftergran 2017-04-25 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	Adele hugged him back gingerly. Thinking about what happened to Rhi brought sparks of anger to her mind, and it took an effort not to have sparks flying off her fingers as well. She shook her head. "No." He hadn't caused her any physical harm, though she knew the memories would always be with her. "He ran away." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaskxawng 2017-04-26 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	Tom watched in silence. JR was gathering information for a man hunt. A man hunt that shouldn't have had to happen. The most horrid of images disturbed his mind. "Uhm, Adele... I'm sorry, I've got to ask. Do you think she suffered?" While his son's mind was set on revenge, Tom pictured his kids - his babies - in pain and alone. It was unbareable. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jrsully 2017-04-30 03:20 pm UTC (link)
	JR closed his eyes at the question, one he'd had himself but hadn't wanted to ask. It wasn't relevant to hunting down her killer and if the answer was that she had suffered, well, he wasn't sure he could handle that right now. But if his father needed to know he'd hold his tongue. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	namedaftergran 2017-05-01 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	"No." Adele shook her head and looked right at Tom. "Honetly, I don't think she suffered. I think he did some trick with her mind. She wasn't a telepath; she wouldn't have felt it the same way I did. I don't think she even realized what was happening." She hoped that gave him some comfort. She didn't have much else to offer. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaskxawng 2017-05-02 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, okay, yeah, that's good..." He fell back into the silence. He didn't know what else to say. Izzy. His wife needed to be told. How could he do this? Why wasn't there a checklist to follow? This is what you do in case your child is murdered. He wanted to scream but he could not find a voice. So he just stood there and stared. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jrsully 2017-05-04 01:29 am UTC (link)
	There was no checklist or procedure to follow when a sibling was murdered. JR had done his duty as a child and informed his father. What he wanted most now was to hunt down the bastard responsible and make sure that both his sister was avenged and nobody else was hurt. At least she hadn't suffered he could take comfort in that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	namedaftergran 2017-05-04 03:10 am UTC (link)
	"I'm sorry." Adele practically whispered. She didn't know what else to say either and their thoughts and feelings were getting harder to filter out with each second. "I should go. I have to go. I can't be around people now." It wasn't safe. Too much anger and grief and could lead to lightening flying everywhere. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jrsully 2017-05-05 01:31 am UTC (link)
	"C'mere before you go." JR gathered her back into a hug and kissed the top of her head. "Thanks for everything you did to try and save her, and for trying to get him yourself. I'll take it from here." He squeezed lightly, then let her go and stepped back. "Take care of yourself cousin, we'll still be here when you trust yourself to be around people again." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaskxawng 2017-05-06 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	Tom nodded. "Thank you, Adele. Take care." He couldn't say more. Wasn't able to. Nothing was right. "I- Izzy," he said as if it was a whole statement. Almost aimlessly he started to walk towards the house. Then stopped and turned back to JR. "Do you- err... maybe I should tell her alone." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	namedaftergran 2017-05-06 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	Adele hugged JR back gently and gave a nod to both of them. Sometime, there were no more words. There was a flash of light and she disappeared, back to a spot where she could hide out from the rest of the island. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jrsully 2017-05-10 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	JR faced his father after Adele left, uncertain. "Are you sure?" The last thing he really wanted to do was tell his mother one of her children was dead, but he also didn't want to force his father to do it himself. "I can go with if you want. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaskxawng 2017-05-17 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	"Uhm, no. I'll do it." It was something he had to do. It was his duty. As much as he hated that word, it felt right. "Just find that bastard. Just..." He wanted to help, to offer aid but there was nothing he could do to help, was there? He was useless. He couldn't protect anyone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jrsully
2017-05-17 10:24 pm UTC (link)

"I will." JR promised, wishing there was something, anything, he could do to make things easier on his father. What could he say? In this sort of situation Tom Sully didn't know how to set out to take the life of another sentient being. Not many people did, and in JR's opinion it was a good thing. It wasn't something done lightly or for frivolous reasons.

His father was one of the best men he'd ever known, and JR had always felt like he let him down precisely because he'd grown up taking a different path. Because he'd followed his uncle's example instead of his father's. It was another punch to the gut seeing the man broken like this. But what else could he say? It wasn't the time or the place to try and tell him how much he was respected by his eldest son.

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notaskxawng
2017-05-20 10:09 pm UTC (link)

Tom's own thoughts were far from JR's. He gave his son a nod and stepped inside. The lump in his throat restricted his words. The few ones he thought he might manage were reserved for a much more horrific situation.

He almost stumbled over one of the kid's toys - a tiny Na'vi figure - and cursed. Thomas Sully rarely cursed. "Uhm, Izzy?" he asked as loudly as he managed. Then he stopped and listened. Usually the sounds of kids gave her position away.

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	izzyshaw 2017-05-20 11:28 pm UTC (link)
	"In here!" Izzy called out, sitting on the floor with Vi and Lily beside her. The girls were playing with toy horses, squealing and talking, wanting to tell their mother the story they'd come up with for what the horses were doing. It had been a good day so far. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaskxawng 2017-05-21 10:15 am UTC (link)
	Tom poked his head through the door, watching the content family. There was a part of him that wanted to diverge. That wanted to dive into a conversation about toy horses and baby food. But he couldn't do that to himself. "Uhm, Izzy, can I talk to you for a moment?" (Reply to this) (Parent)