chicago ♔ it’s a tragedy to be left only with memories

[savemyself]

WHO || Failboat and friends [Closed]
WHAT || As the trial drags on, the Knights spend their last few months in Chicago and tensions mount
WHERE || Various locations, Chicago
WHEN || November 21st - The end of the trial?? [Back AND Forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam, don't sweat tag order


Everybody loves a media circus and the trial of Rafael Giovanni is no exception. If he was famous before, in the days following the shooting, now he's all people are talking about, and all the tabloids want to focus on. The complications presented at some of the early hearings by Jaka, regarding the identity of the Black Scourge and Rafael's alleged reaction have only made the story more appealing to the millions watching.

They've also caused the trial to drag out for months as facts are checked, evidence is poured over, and the jury becomes only more split on the issue. In the meantime, the holidays fly by, and one of the most terrible winters in years blankets Chicago in blizzards.

This log covers any work and non-work related shenanigans the Knights have while staying in Chicago, immediately following the last log and continuing for the next couple months. This will be the Knight's last time in Chicago before the trial: after which they plan to return to the castle to fully Knight Violet and Elena and decide where to head next.

Make your own threads, don't fuss about tag order, feel free to threadjack multiple people into one thread for hang-outs, ask me if you want a certain scene with an NPC, etc. forever whatever.

Comments

[graveflowers]

Don't be. I hate that you have to feel this. I try so hard to stop feeling it when you're around, but it's debilitating. You shouldn't have to feel it. [ she looks down at her hands, gives amaranth a fond pat. she needs myri. she knows finnick does, too. but she wouldn't wish what they're feeling on anyone, least of all myri. ] Walking away isn't a crime, Myri. Protecting yourself protects us.

Maybe. Maybe Chicago just isn't the right place for us anymore. [ myri shouldn't have to hide herself away because vi (and finnick) can't handle their shit. ]

[witchwoman]

This mission is all I've known. It was the first that Wynn selected me for. I would hardly know anyone anywhere else. [But she has thought of leaving. It comes to her when the pain is the worst, an idea that leaving the city and returning to the castle might help. Perhaps that's why she was so quick to offer to join Mark. Maybe she saw it as a way out of everything.]

Sometimes I feel as if you all might resent me for my magic, might wish that it were different or that I wasn't so close with you to know what you're feeling. [Sometimes she fears that her family will turn into a mob of angry villagers and chase her out. That's her nightmare.]

[graveflowers]

I don't resent it, I could never, it's part of you. I just hate that it's hurting you. [ she reaches up to put her hand against myri's cheek. ] But I didn't mean you should leave, you belong here with your family. I meant me and Finnick.

[witchwoman]

[Myri pales nearly instantly.] What? You think that you and he should..? [The thought has never occurred to her and is somehow so much more troubling than the idea of excusing herself.]

[graveflowers]

[ she shrugs a little, letting her hand fall. ] I'm sick. I can't do anything here. [ not that she would be able to do anything if she went back to the castle, but at least her pervasive depression wouldn't be seeping into the walls and hurting myri. ]

[witchwoman]

I can't imagine Gar would let you stay if she thought there was nothing that you could do here... and if it was hurting you like it seems to. You're important to all this.

[graveflowers]

My nightmares are important, not me. [ it's really sad because she... actually believes that. ]

[witchwoman]

That's not.. [She stops.] You really think that's all that makes you important? Vi, I can hardly imagine what it would be like here without you. And that has nothing to do with the nightmares. You were able to connect with Jade in a way that most of us would have never accomplished. In all the time that I was here, I barely knew her. But you...

[She shakes her head.] You're so special- to me, to all of us. And we need you here. I need you here.

[graveflowers]

I didn't know her. [ that's not really the point. ] You don't, though. You have all the others and being around me just hurts you, Myri, and I hate seeing you hurt. That's the last thing in the world that I want.

[witchwoman]

There's always going to be something that pulls at my gift. It's the nature of it. I've felt it since I was very small. And... yes, it's harder with you and the others. I'm closer to you. The connection is stronger somehow, but... If all it does is drive away the people I love, what sort of gift could that possibly be?

[graveflowers]

[ she shrugs, helpless. she wants to help, but she can't. because she can't really do anything right now. the idea of getting out of bed it a lot to handle, she can't even imagine herself in a fight if it came to it. even on her good days, they're not that good. ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri sighs and edges closer in the bed, as if to try to make that point that she doesn't want to put distance between them.]

If you want to go, I won't ask you to stay. But... don't leave for me. Don't leave because you think you're hurting me. Because the good of being near you far outweighs any bad.

[graveflowers]

[ another shrug. ] I don't know what I want to do.

[witchwoman]

That's fine. I'm not asking you to have the answers. I just don't want you to make a decision based on what you think is best for me.

[graveflowers]

[ she swirls her spoon around the melting ice cream absently before her head dips in a nod. ] Okay.

[witchwoman]

[Leaning over, she kisses Vi on the forehead. Deal with it.]

Do you want to watch something else?

[graveflowers]

Nah. I'll stick with the Cory and Topanga show.

[witchwoman]

Good. [That was the correct answer. Myri settles in for another episode. They can watch in silence. She knows that's what Vi would prefer.]