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Tweak says, "you done bad thing!"

the lady door (door) wrote in thedoorway,
@ 2013-08-14 18:31:00

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!network post, annabelle / anna (tvd), annie sawyer, chloe sullivan, di lestrade (bbc), dorian gray, enjolras, fox mulder, francine peters, lady door, marguerite blakeney, rory williams, septimus smith, sherlock holmes (elementary), stephen dedalus, steve rogers / captain america (616), walter blythe

Sometimes I forget my father's dead. It's easy to do here. Just visiting, home still a snapshot from the last time we were all there at once. His smile and my mother's laugh, wet with wine and glowing in warm orange candlelight. And a wicked glint in my brother's eye and my sister's baby blonde curls just peeking over the table as he chased her.

And then I remember that no matter how much I practise, I will never open a door to them.

But I have learned to open doors to friends, so that's a small victory to be proud of. And it's all right to grieve and be happy at the same time.

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	door 2013-08-14 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	Regular doors that are locked, sometimes things that aren't meant to be opened, sometimes pictures of doors or doors with pictures on them. Anything, really. Anything that wants to open. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	basilhallward 2013-08-14 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	I see. I am not entirely unfamiliar with opening doors that shouldn't be opened. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	door 2013-08-14 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	Metaphorically speaking? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	basilhallward 2013-08-14 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	And literally, but perhaps in a different sense of the word, "shouldn't." But you could not open a door to your home? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	door 2013-08-14 11:33 pm UTC (link)
	What sort of sense? No. I suppose it may take more practise to open something that far away... though I have opened far away places before. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	basilhallward 2013-08-15 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	A much stronger caveat. I wonder if we cannot go home because one of us is still there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	door 2013-08-16 01:13 am UTC (link)
	I'd find that comforting. I want some version of me to save my sister. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	basilhallward 2013-08-16 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	I have faith that someone will. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	door 2013-08-16 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	It's very hard to have faith in something like that. The universe is not really a kind place for innocents. At least, mine certainly wasn't. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	basilhallward 2013-08-16 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	Nor was mine. But I know that I was both here and home at the same moment, so I trust that you were, too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	door 2013-08-16 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	How do you know? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	basilhallward 2013-08-16 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	I died. But I am quite all right now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	door 2013-08-16 09:09 pm UTC (link)
	But you could have been taken before you died. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	basilhallward 2013-08-16 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	I was. But I also know that I died, as another person here is from a time after it happened. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	door 2013-08-16 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm. That is very logical. But I have no one here from after my time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	basilhallward 2013-08-16 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	Are you from a book as well? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	door 2013-08-16 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	I am. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	basilhallward 2013-08-16 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	Then perhaps the book can tell you what happened. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	door 2013-08-16 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	It doesn't. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	[Blank msg. not posted] doriangray 2013-08-15 01:55 am UTC (link)
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