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Lacey Burrows (lacey_burrows) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2021-10-12 15:36:00

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dan torrance, lacey burrows, reeve adler

Who: Lacey and open!
Where: Food court
When: Monday, October 11th.
What: Thanksgiving Dinner
Status: Open to threads and sub-threads
Warnings: None.

Lacey set out the food, buffet-style, feeling a little pang of sadness as she noticed her hand, specifically her ring-less finger. Daniel had been gone a long time, years, and she'd come to accept that he wasn't coming back. She no longer grieved from him. She did have the occasional moment when she missed what might have been. Plus, it was thanksgiving, sort of their holiday; they'd even be engaged in the fall.

Lacey pushed those thoughts to the back of her mind. This was the time of year to be thankful. She had seen and done so much more that she ever thought she would in Dog River. She had a station full of people to appreciate and things were calmer than they had been last year. They should all find a way to be like family on the station, in her opinion. She began carving the turkey and smiled as some of those people began to arrive. "C'mon over and fill up a plate."

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AU Dan and Abra

abra_stone
2021-11-08 08:41 pm UTC (link)

"It's handy now that I don't break plates or send them up to the ceiling." Abra said with a smile. "There are teachers here that help with that sort of thing. You're one of the teachers. Or the other you was. He helped with the telepathy part."

She carefully filled the plate with various appetisers, then floated the plate over to their table, landing it gently between them. "Never done it? Have you tried? Back home, we gave Rose a little push." Her smile grew wider. It was a nice memory, killing that monster. "Actually it was a big push. We were strongest together."

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AU Dan and Abra

dr_sleep
2021-11-12 12:14 am UTC (link)

God, the idea of him teaching kids anything, except maybe how not to spend your teenage years or your twenties... or your thirties, Christ. He almost laughed, except he could see one of the classes in a memory, and those kids from Derry asking questions and... that was pretty cool, actually.

The plate settled down onto the table, and then Abra was talking again. "Well, I mean. I might have, back when I was a little kid, but I don't really remember," he admitted, before telling her something he'd never told anyone else before. "I made my eyes change color, after... afterwards. I had brown eyes as a kid, but my mom, she couldn't stand to see them after my dad died so I turned them blue. But I don't think that's the same as moving plates or spoons up to the ceiling or anything like that. And then I, I just stopped using my Shine. Until you showed up."

He lifted something small off of the plate and popped it in his mouth after all that talking, before looking back over at his maybe-niece. "How did you deal with her, then? No... us. How did we deal with her?"

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Re: AU Dan and Abra

abra_stone
2021-11-23 10:35 pm UTC (link)

Abra picked up one of the mini cornbread muffins and put it in her mouth, eating it as she listened to Dan. After she finished, she grinned. "Eyes changing colour? Cool. I'll have to try that one." She'd have to do it soon too, or the station might do it for her. She shrugged. "Shine's supposed to get weaker as you get older, isn't it? Whether you use it or not. I think maybe it's different here. Like there's so much magic on this station that it boosts shine. It's not just me. Bill and all his friends' shines got stronger here too."

"We pushed her off the roof of the world." Abra answered, sending him an image of Rose's fall and death. "The roof of the world was a place built where the overlook used to be. It was your idea to go there."

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AU Dan and Abra

dr_sleep
2021-11-27 09:01 pm UTC (link)

He nodded at her question; he wasn't nearly as strong as he'd been as a kid, but then again, he'd actively stopped doing anything consciously with his Shine for a long time. Innate ability or not, a lack of practice at doing something was bound to make it weaker, right? "Bill and his friends, they're the Derry kids, aren't they? From your class."

He'd been about to lift one of the cornbread muffins to try them, when Abra showed him how she'd helped his other self deal with Rose. He grabbed hold of the image and looked closely at it, both his eyes briefly clouding over as he used his Shine to amplify and see all the details; yes, watching Rose fall to her death was amazingly satisfying and he might just replay that part later, but the scenery around where it happened was different. He knew that the Overlook's outcome had been different for Abra and her Dan, but he didn't recognize those mountains at all. Weird.

He still didn't like them, though.

In response, he showed her his memory of how he'd dealt with Rose, by letting all the ghosts in his lockboxes out and then watching as they tore her apart and fed on her Steam. He stopped the memory just as they all turned to face him, though. "That was the last thing I saw before, well... here."

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AU Dan and Abra

abra_stone
2021-11-30 07:14 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, that's them." Abra smiled, snacking and sending him images of her and the boys from Derry riding bikes. "Bill was the first one to show up. The others didn't come until later. And there's a girl in our class who's got something like shine. She's really strong. We call ourselves losers, not in a bad way. That's what the Derry kids already called themselves."

Abra looked just as closely at the image he sent, grinning as Rose died. No matter how it happened, it was always very satisfying. Her grin faded. So many ghosts. There were a few she recognised, either from evicting them from Dan's head or stories that she'd been told. She tried to look beyond the ghosts, to the staircase and more. She was searching for her own face. She'd never leave her Uncle alone with that monster and never miss the chance to get revenge for the baseball boy and all the rest of the children. "Where was I?" She asked softly.

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AU Dan and Abra

dr_sleep
2021-11-30 11:25 pm UTC (link)

"I told you to leave. The Knot had already killed Billy and... they'd killed enough people, and Rose wanted you dead. There was no way I was letting her get near you," he explained, only hesitating when he almost said about Abra's dad being killed by the Crow. He had no problem with telling her anything else about what happened on his side of things, but telling someone that a version of their dad died? That wasn't needed.

He smiled a little after that, humorless and somewhat sad. "They'd missed me when I was growing up. I guess the Overlook saved me from the Knot. Weird, huh? If I hadn't stopped using my Shine when I did, they'd have found me and I'd have just been another missing kid on the side of a milk carton or the back of one of those flyers. But Rose was distracted enough by me because of that, so you managed to get away from her. And then she was gone."

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Re: AU Dan and Abra

abra_stone
2021-12-01 06:39 pm UTC (link)

Abra looked at Dan sadly. "I'm sorry." There was a small angry voice in the back of her mind, a temptation to blame him for telling her to leave. It wasn't fair. She hadn't really been there at the end in her timeline, either. Just a projection. "He made it in our timeline. I used to think of him as being on pause back home. Along with everyone else. But this place is home now, so I think the people back home have a different me with them."

Abra frowned for a moment. Was there something when she mentioned the people back home? A dark spot in Dan, like a secret. She might have to ask about it later. She didn't want to ruin Thanksgiving.

Abra looked at him. "I never really thought about why the didn't get you, or the man you told me about - Dick. Maybe it was supposed to happen that way. Like fate knew you needed him and I needed you. It all happened so the Knot would be destroyed." She suggested slowly. She didn't want him to think she saw the Overlook as good. More like it was necessary.

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