glastonbury ♔ they came snapping at your heels

[behindcloseddoors]

See You Soon- Coldplay

WHO || Faye, Lila, Gold? [closed]
WHAT || Faye finally has a clue to Gold's location, and goes to confront him about his absence
WHERE || Glastonbury, England
WHEN || After this
HOW || Actionspam

[ Gold's been gone now for long enough to leave most people assuming that he isn't going to come back. Driven off by confirmation that he was, in fact, the Dark One from the Enchanted Forest by Gaston and Emma, the only indication that he's even alive came in a dream delivered to Belle, where he admitted that he was looking to understand more about this Dark One, perhaps seeking a way to refute the claims of the others. Plenty of people are worried, however, about what direction his search might take him. Others, however, are just plain pissed that he would abandon them without a word - and it's that anger that drove Faye to ally with GLADOS to discover that he was in Glastonbury, and with Lila's help enlist Zero to pinpoint his exact last known whereabouts, at a shitty motel. Together, the girls take a car and head out, hoping to find him once and for all.

There's only one car in the lot when they pull in, the VACANCY sign flashing forlornly above the office door. No lights are visible in any of the rooms, but a COKE machine provides some illumination, along with the lone pair of streetlamps that dully lighten the parking lot. ]

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[autorevive]

[nathan just happened to be looking for his lemur in the lobby (while wearing a beanie and looking like he's cosplaying jesse pinkman) when he sees ... this merry crew teleport on in.]

Fuck, you lot look like shit!

[ welcome home, gold :') ]

[impetere]

[Oh hey it's Gold.

Not that she's ever met the guy to know, but she's guessing by scent basically (survival 14). She doesn't dwell on it much however because she's more concerned about horrifically injured Lila at the moment and will be cutting past Nathan to get to her.]

What happened?

[She won't wait to be given permission and just reach forward to pull Lila's pain as gently as possible - she looks like the worst off out of the three of them. Lila is also probably in more pain than Cora should really be taking, but at least she's taking some of the edge off.]

[reallywicked]

[Faye is still prickly about what Cora said to her the last time they spoke, so she's got an instinct that she has to fight back- one that involves smacking Cora to get the hell away from Lila. But she doesn't do that, thankfully. Visibly shaking from the whole ordeal, she shakes her head. There's no time to get into it.]

Solace. We need Solace.

[She looks at Nathan like excuse, why aren't you moving yet?]

Now!

[bittersweeter]

[ lila is the one that smacks cora's hand away, honestly. her eyes are glazed over with pain and she's trembling from the effort of keeping her grip on her weapons piled in her lap so she doesn't lose them and as something to focus on, meaning cora probably gets whacked with the barrel and not lila's blood slick burned hands, small miracles. but nope, not letting the wolf touch her. ] Don't be stupid.

[impetere]

[Cora knows Faye isn't happy with her, but that's something they can hash out later. Right now, her focus is on Lila and making sure she doesn't suffer just because she's trying to look out for Cora's well being (diplomacy 20 total).]

You're hurting. I can handle it.

[She doesn't force her, but she will hold out a hand for her to take if she changes her mind. Her baby diplomacy will do nothing against Lila's hella high will save mod, but she's going to try.]

Just until Solace gets here.

[So you better be moving, Nathan.]

[bittersweeter]

[ yeah, lila's will save was actually only a 22, she's flagging and fast but she is not going to let cora touch her. she is fairly certain the pain is all that is keeping her conscious at the moment. ]

Just get Solace! [ it's a barked rasp, lungs burning from all the acid and flame she's inhaled. ] Faye needs Anastacia. Or Risa. [ faye gets the other best, the bastions of good and light. gold gets... well, lila doesn't request anyone for him. :) ]

[undealt]

[Gold is just quiet over here, concentrating on breathing in and out. The pain isn't really what's bothering him- it's more of an afterthought. It's everything else that's weighing on him, so as Lila lists off clerics, the only thing he manages to spit out is:]

Get Belle. [he can take the pain, but Belle needs to know he's back.]

[impetere]

[Cora grits her teeth, but she'll do as she's asked, pushing to her feet and getting ready to turn and head towards the cleric's wing until Gold says that and she stops, turning back to look at him for a moment. Part of her doesn't want to simply because he's asked but she also knows that Belle would want to see him - she was going to tell her that he was back anyway.

Also his son. And his grandson.

So for right now, she'll just nod to him and then turn back to Lila and Faye.]

I'll be right back.

[And with that, off she goes to the Dragon's Light to find Solace and whatever other clerics are available. She'll go find Belle after that's done.]

[undealt]

[Once she's gone, Gold slumps a bit on the floor, glancing over to Faye and then to Lila... before glancing at the floor.]

I know it likely doesn't mean anything, but... thank you, Lila. [the next part is a struggle to get out, because it just doesn't feel like it carries any weight. he succumbed and he nearly killed both of them for the sake of that corrupting darkness. If Lila hadn't snapped him out, he'd be lost and they'd be dead, and he probably wouldn't care enough to feel much of anything for it, and here these girls took it upon themselves to bring him back. He has no illusions about who Lila did it for. Faye deserves for more than what she got going into this.] And I'm sorry. [his eyes fall on Faye again and he looks like he might be considering reaching out to her, but he holds back.] I'm sorry I put you through that, Faye.

[reallywicked]

[As Cora takes off to get the clerics, Faye just slumps next to Lila and tries not to think about how close of a call that was. This is why caring about people is dangerous. This is why it's always made her uncomfortable. She finally tears her eyes away from her broken and bloody best friend to meet Gold's gaze.]

We're not done here. [The way he asked for Belle already gives her the impression that he's probably going to run off to explain himself to her fairly soon while they get themselves patched up. But Faye isn't done with this conversation and she's not going to try to have it while Lila is laying injured on the floor and she can't give it her full attention.]

There's a lot we need to talk about.

[Emma. Jordan. The fact that glados is going to want payment for her part in finding him and Faye can't exactly make good on that now. Basically everything sucks and she wants him to really understand that. And then help her fix it.]

[undealt]

[he nods somberly.] I know. I'm not going anywhere.

[bittersweeter]

You're welcome. [ it's delayed because her throat hurts, but she refrains from adding that she only did it for faye because she knows he is well aware of her motivations for "rescuing" him.

and she can always shoot him later. ]

[sirsolace]

[ solace arrives not much later, hurrying along, and raises a hand instantly to cast a mass cure critical wounds on them, restoring 43 hp to them each. ] Let's get you all upstairs.

[bittersweeter]

[ lila audibly sighs as some of the pain fades, or at least stills to the point that she doesn't feel like she's still on fire, and the raw and bleeding skin begins the slow process of knitting itself together, turning pink and shiny instead of red and bloody. finally having the strength to put her weapons away, she does that before leaning on faye to stand up. it's gonna be slow goin' y'all. ]

[reallywicked]

[Faye isn't in any rush. She feels completely fine now, thanks to Solace's healing boost. So she's just here to help Lila get where she needs to go. Slow and steady wins the race.]

Easy... [She gives a glance to Gold just to make sure he's doing okay over there.]

[undealt]

[That was pretty much most of his HP (or possibly all of it because I forgot he has some fire resistance), so he's doing a lot better, beyond the horrible shakey feeling from getting smacked in the face with all that horrible burny stuff. He stands with the help of his cane, leaning on it heavily.]

Make sure the girls get taken care of, Solace. There's someone I need to speak with.

[He's fine. He's totally fine. Just gotta talk to his ex. nbd.]

[bittersweeter]

[ while gold is peacing out, lila glances at faye, dropping her voice as they slowly trudge along toward the dragon light wing. ] You should talk to Wynn. He needs to know what happened. [ she coughs, eyes watering. ] I'll tell him, but I think you should.

[ and someone doesn't trust gold to illuminate wynn on what just went down. ]

[sirsolace]

[ lmao solace's listen check. THESE AIN'T JUST OLD MAN EARS. ] Wynn will come to speak with you both in the cleric's wing. [ he watches gold leaving with a frown. ] He'll want to speak with all of you in time.

[bittersweeter]

[ lila doesn't mind solace overhearing, honestly. it's not like word isn't going to get around after they showed up in the castle in the manner they did, she'd expected wynn to want to speak to them. she just didn't want to walk to wynn's room, okay. she wants to get healed and then knock herself out for three days. she supposes she can pause for wynn. ]

Even better.

[reallywicked]

Yeah, that's fine. We just need to get her healed up, okay? [Less talky, more walky, old man.]

[bittersweeter]

[ she squeezes faye's hand gently (weakly, more like), as if to say "relax, girl". walking and talking is a skill. idk how long it takes to get to the cleric's wing so. IDK THEY PROBABLY GET THERE. a+ writing, you're all so lucky to read these. ]