st_abby: (paladin_wings)
st_abby ([personal profile] st_abby) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2018-10-01 08:35 am

[EP/GP] Check-In: I Assure You We Are Open

The damp, cool, chilly morning clouded with fog seemed to fit the mood about the Madonna Inn. Nobody had been quite right since the undead invasion. Definitely not Vax'ildan. But for him, it was less about their sense of day-to-day calm and safety shattered, less about undead specifically. It was a lot more to do with losing Scanlan and Pike, and the new memorials installed in the Temple.

He wondered about it, not for the first time, even as he readied for the fresh arrivals that might be coming today - or not, because they didn't always. What decided who came and went? Was there any sense in how many and when or why? Not so far as he could tell, but he'd never been the brains.

Gathering up the great heap of cloth and rope in his arms, the lean figure summoned the wings of his armor, the black of his silhouette merging with the other dark and shifting shapes skulking about in the first light of dawn. With a crouch and a lunge from the roof, he spread his wings wide and circled through the air right up to the face of the main building, unfurling the massive banner he'd sewn of spare bedsheets and painted with dark dye to tie it up taut:

WELCOME NEWCOMERS
YES, THIS MEANS YOU
NO REALLY WE'RE SURE


Life kept going on around you, no matter how confused or scared or fucked-up you were. And the best thing, the kindest thing, the sanest thing he could think to do in all this was to start up the coffee machine, stack some decorated pumpkin-shaped cookies on a platter in the lobby, and prop open the doors for whoever would join them in being confused and scared and fucked-up today.
st_arkintern: (Resigned.)

Re: Liz/Peter

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-10-08 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not mad," Peter repeats, and he finds that he isn't. He's something else, and he's not quite sure what that is. "I just need time to figure things out."
st_hotflashes: (worried)

Re: Liz/Peter

[personal profile] st_hotflashes 2018-10-09 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Liz wanted to ask 'figure what things out?' but she had been here before and on the other side, though her side she knew that Max had kissed back and he had wanted to.

She pressed her lips together, her hand moving up instinctively to hold onto one of the strings of his hoodie that she was wearing.

"I love you..." And a part of her was worried that was the last time she'd get to say those words to him.
st_arkintern: (Heartbroken.)

Re: Liz/Peter

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-10-09 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I know. I love you too."

Peter looks over at Liz and attempts a smile that doesn't quite make it all the way there, then turns and heads for the stairs.