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Connor ([info]leconnortemple) wrote in [info]vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-12-06 02:02:00

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Who: Connor Temple and Kimberly Corman
What: Look, she's not dead!
When: Bright and early in the morning
Where: Their library hideaway
Rating: Slap a PG-13 on it for safekeeping
Status: Active



He was still reeling. Sure, it had been more than 24 hours, but that didn't stop it from hurting. It had been weeks since Cutter, and months since Stephen, and those still hurt. Well... Less Stephen now that he was...well, here. But it still felt weird. And now, seeing it the way he had, unable to do a thing, had been downright painful. It had felt as awful as if he were sitting by Cutter's side, being told to do nothing all over again. Only Kimberly hadn't told him to do nothing. Well, she had. Sort of. But only if Fate were playing its part. That wasn't fate. That was cold, calculated, twisted and manipulative murder.

Connor slowly and painfully woke up from his position where he'd clearly just been dropped off wherever the powers that be had chosen. Fuckers. The others that had been in that stupid pharmacy with him were there, too. Was he going to stop and chat? No. As soon as he got his bearings, figured out where he was, and grabbed his well-loved fedora off the ground, he took off.

At first he wasn't sure where to go. Going back to the gym sounded possible. Go back to where he was at least somewhat safe, where Chris and the others usually were. Or maybe he could go by the clock tower, where they'd first met. A proper mourning, really.

But his body must have known before he did where he was going. It would hurt, but he had to go back to their saferoom. The place he'd worked so hard on for her, to keep her safe. The place where only a few nights before, he'd lay curled at her side, hoping she was warm enough and worrying about the next day. Even walking in there would make him feel about two inches tall, but he had no choice, really. His journal was in there and what few supplies he had.

The door to the library made an extra loud squeak in the early morning silence and Connor froze before realizing no one was actually around for it to bother. With a mournful sigh, he walked the rest of the way inside, glancing towards the office they'd been using. He couldn't do it. Not yet. So he wandered instead. Browsing the shelves, glancing over books that hadn't entirely molded and fallen apart. Maybe one day he'd get the urge to actually read one. Maybe.


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[info]leconnortemple
2009-12-07 01:33 am UTC (link)
She was close. Unbelievably close. Few women had ever gotten that close to him and not run away moments later and Connor didn't dare hope she'd be in that group. But to be honest, he didn't want to let go. He was scared to let go. And maybe it would shame Cutter and Stephen and Lester if he ever admitted how scared he was to lose one solitary life, but he hated death. And he thought he'd been about to lose her and then she was there and even if he knew it wasn't likely to help considering where they were, he held the irrational fear that if he let go of her in that moment, she'd be taken away from him all over again.

That didn't, however, mean his expression wasn't shy as Kimberly looked down into his eyes like that, leaning her face so very close to his. "I couldn't," he told her quietly, gently brushing the tears off of her face with his thumb. "They had me and a few others locked up in the drugstore. That bloke who thinks he knows everything, some Asian guy who had a bunch of his fingers broken, that crazy bitch you woke up here with..." Pausing, he gave a little laugh, realizing she knew all of one person he was talking about and likely didn't give a damn. Leaning up a bit, he impulsively nuzzled her face with his, knowing he'd likely regret being this sappy and emotional later when someone, likely Kimberly herself, called him on it.

He took a deep breath and shook his head. "I didn't have my journal. I thought you were gone... I wouldn't have come looking for you anyway. I must have passed out before they pulled you out and... Well, revived you, I guess." It was still hard for Connor to believe she was still alive, all real and somewhat warm and right there with him. "Don't worry, love. It takes a lot more than that to hurt me."

Which wasn't completely true. How many times, exactly, had he almost been eaten? But Connor was relatively sure this wasn't the time to tell her that. Hopefully, if this awful Management didn't go and take away this perfect moment, there'd be plenty of time for that later.

"I need to check in with the others," he said, though he was still in no rush to get up. Despite the majority of her slight weight resting against him, he hadn't been so comfortable in at least forty-eight hours. Absently, the hand that had been resting comfortingly against Kimberly's cheek ran through her hair, letting it fall between his fingers. Considering the last time he'd seen that hair it had been swallowed up by the water, giving her a ghostly mermaid look, he was just grateful it was there and dry and still perfectly soft.

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