open ♔ october socialization

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, Andres Isle, etc!
WHEN || October
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of the first half of the month. Because not everyone is into parties, ok.

Also, following the promotion and squiring parties at the beginning of the month, Wynn will be taking any willing Knights back to Andres Isle to further reconstruction efforts there.   There's plenty to be done - and an election to gear up for, to find out who will rule Andres Isle!

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:
Wynn & Section Heads @ Andres/London
Felicity @ the Desk
Damon @ the Desk
Gar and/or Kat @ Andres
Cordelia & Bambi @ Andres
Mark @ Andres castle, village, graveyard
Belle @ London castle
Amara @ London castle, Round Table room
Zero/Wheatley @ the Hoard labs
Cora @ the woods / Andres / London
Buffy @ Andres / London
David @ the Castle training room / Andres
Lydia @ England, the lab
Emma F @ London castle
Alanna @ Andres
Willow @ Andres/London library
Faye @ library
Abigail @ London castle/cleric wing/training room/library
Stiles @ Andres
Myri & Elena | Closed
Rose @ London / Andres
Han @ London/Andres
Carol @ Andres castle/ construction
Kenzi @ London armory / Andres throne room
Spike @ Andres
Killian @ Andres construction / London castle
Avaleen @ Andres
Thea @ castle firing range
Frankie @ Andres
Damon @ the castle
Malina @ London bday celebration / Fire wing / Gardens / TV room
Rocket @ London TV room
Jordan @ Andres
Alainn @ Andres
Glasya & Sam  | Closed
Nathan @ Andres / London training room
Astrid @ London
Alex @ London firing range, airfield
Finnick @ Various
Sylar @ London kitchen/library
Lissa @ Andres medical / London light wing, various
Hayley @ Rebekah | Closed
Glasya & Sam | Closed
Alice @ Andres/ London

Comments

[likedillinger]

[ oh thank fuck. he manages to not look entirely too relieved but she can probably read it anyway ] Oh yeah, I'll uh. Be right here. You got this part.

[littledhampir]

[He is, maybe not the only one who's relieved at his choosing to stay outside. Rose just maybe hides it a little better, her smile more of a grim line as she forces herself through the doors.

Where... She spends way too much time because I seriously just crit failed her Will Save so rather than run in and gtfo of there, Rose maybe spends far too long reading the boxes and trying not to have a meltdown in the middle of a friggen drugstore IDEK.

Anyway! When she does return, the bag she's holding looks like it's holding... a whole lot more than one pregnancy test. Because maybe, Rose took the whole only 99% accurate thing a little too seriously and bought three. What?! Don't judge her Wisdom Checks.]

I - [She looks like she's about to explain exactly that and then. Nopes the hell out of that one.] We should, back. [So awks.]

[likedillinger]

Yeah, 'course. [ let's not pee on a stick in the road, rose. he puts one hand on her back, glancing over her shoulder too as he steers her back. ] No problems?

[littledhampir]

Not really... This woman who works there kept asking if I needed help and after the third time I considered just, punching her in the face but otherwise, fine. [Just take a moment to appreciate that image. You're welcome.]

[likedillinger]

About par for the course, then.

[littledhampir]

[She can't even be offended because...] Pretty much.

I might have gone... kind of overboard though. [Three pack ftw.]

[likedillinger]

Overboard? Why overboard?

[littledhampir]

I bought three. [A beat.] They had all these numbers about accuracy on the back of the box and... they didn't come in two-packs.

[likedillinger]

Accuracy? You mean these things can lie?

[littledhampir]

Apparently. [A beat.] They're 99% accurate so I figured, best two out of three? [ ... ..... yep.]

[likedillinger]

They don't really show that part on TV, huh.

[littledhampir]

Heh... Not so much. [Like Rose has ever seen an after school special anyway.

She's quiet for a while as they walk, working through something in her head and when the words start tumbling out, it's not from a place of panic but more like, a warning, like she feels he should know this before they find out what they're dealing with.]

You realize I'm basically the last person on earth that should ever be a parent, right?

[likedillinger]

Yeah, well that probably makes two of us. [ honesty hour, i guess ] I loved my Dad, don't get me wrong. Looked up to him.

But... [ look, it's a lot, just tacking the word 'but' on there, whether she's aware of just how hard that is for him or not. he just lets it sort of hang there, lost in thought. ]

[littledhampir]

[She gets it at least on some level (SM 22). They'd said enough to each other in the last four months to be painfully aware of the dysfunction that was his family and the lack of existence that was hers and she couldn't say which was better or if anything, they just both sucked. Rose used to think she would have given anything just to have a Mom who seemed to care but sometimes Dean would say something and she wondered if maybe no expectations were better than having somebody falling short of even your low ones.]

You'd be a good dad. [Hesitant at first to explain why.] I mean, I saw how you were when Sam got hurt...

[likedillinger]

[ c r y. no man tears dean. ] ... Our whole lives, I was the one who was supposed to take care of him. Our Dad was always gone, even when we were kids. Guess I basically raised him, in most ways that count for something. [ and look how that turned out lmao ]

[littledhampir]

[This would be the point where a normal person would point out he was just a kid too, that he did the best he could, that it was too much for any one person to take on, let alone a kid and that whatever happened after that wasn't on him.

Rose doesn't really understand any of that however, so the silence lingers for a moment as she walks with him, leaning in just a little as if leaching the warmth from his side.]

Maybe... [Now was not the time for this conversation but if they were going to be dealing with things they were wholly unprepared for today, perhaps it was.] Maybe you should talk to him... I don't really get how family works but, maybe it's worth the risk.

[likedillinger]

It's been crossin' my mind. [ there's hesitation on his features, and he looks distracted by an avalanche of things as they head up the road. ] I tried, at the squiring party.

It's just-- [ his jaw twitches, as he stares distantly ahead ]

I don't know how to hold him at arm's length like this. To keep him around without being his brother. Without letting myself worry about him, without wanting to be there for him when he needs me to be.

And if this is a trick, that's exactly what someone's counting on.

[littledhampir]

[This is exactly what Rose spends her quiet time worrying about, coming to a point where she feels like she could potentially try and push Dean one way or another and having no idea if she was going to be doing the right thing or making the biggest mistake of her life. She hadn't been lying to Sam when she'd said she wanted this for Dean and she even understood how it all seemed, too easy, too good to be true but... She'd gone out of her way to try and push Sam, to try and find answers on her own and there still wasn't a right or wrong answer, no way to be sure of what was going on.

Then she looked at them, how they had gotten together, the words she'd said to him when he'd tried to give her an out for being with him. She didn't want to regret the things she didn't do.

Rose pulls in a deep breath, slowly lets it out and finally finds her voice again. (Wis 21).]

So don't. [She slows to a stop and moves to stand in front of Dean, worry etched across her features and yet it doesn't stop her from speaking.] Last time, you had to do this on your own, right? [Her shoulders lift in an infinitesimal shrug.] Not this time.... It's like, changing the way things happened, like that, butterfly thing. [Thanks Gar.] You, look out for him and let me look out for you.

[likedillinger]

[ dean stops walking to stare at her, and his expression practically crumples at her words. his eyes skate down to her stomach, to the bag in her hands, and he looks back up at her, pained, and torn. ] And if two outta three of those tests come out positive? [ his head shakes slightly, voice gruff with emotion ] Rose, I can't go dragging a kid into the middle of all this. It wouldn't just be me anymore I'd be putting at risk reaching out to Sam, or even you.

At least you've got the choice to stick around or not. [ a baby would just have to deal with daddy's awful fucking decisions about whether to keep potentially evil uncle sammy around. ]

[littledhampir]

[She shifts a little uncomfortably, just a simple glance and her hand drops to her stomach though it's hard to say if it's an instinct to protect or just a desire to hide it as she clutches the bag a little tighter in her hand, the worry twisting into something that cuts far deeper, not hurt but a pain that's difficult to describe.]

He's family.

[Those two words hang in the air for a long moment as she tries and fails to find a way to explain herself.] Ya know and... I never had that, I never had Aunts or Uncles or cousins or, anyone really and...

[She pulls in another deep breath, lets it out, a pained expression twisting her features, lips pulled into a thin line as she meets Dean's gaze.]

We're fooling ourselves if we think any kid of ours wouldn't be smack in the middle of this. [(Breaking out the Nat 20 Wisdom checks)] So maybe this is what could change everything.

[likedillinger]

[ he stares down at the ground, face screwed up as he wrestles with the logic of it, but her last words at least pull him back to reality. ] Maybe. But hopefully, we're gettin' ahead of ourselves. I mean... not that I wouldn't be happy, but I think we got enough on our plates as is.

[littledhampir]

[Trying to wrap your head around Rose!logic was like staring at the sun for too long. After a while everything looked weird and you just ended up with a headache.]

I don't - [She starts to shake her head, another Rose!Logic argument on her lips but after a moment she looks away, sweeping her hair back behind her ear as she stares at the people wandering past, people moving in and out of focus as she tries to gather her thoughts.

Finally she looks back of Dean, another shake of her head, expression more guarded and yet still pained.]

I don't want to be the reason you don't try with him... Whatever - [She raises the bag then lets her arm drop to her side again.] Whatever happens.

[likedillinger]

[ he looks at with her some surprise, which turns into a hint of concern, as he reaches out to brush his hand against her lower back. ] Hey. It ain't like that, alright?

[littledhampir]

[She scans his face and after a long moment of silence, Rose's gaze falls to his chest, the smooth, blue and white surface of the Nazar staring back at her.

With a raise of her hand, fingertips brush against the cool stone as whatever conversation she's playing out, stays in her head until finally, she meets his gaze once more.]

Okay. [Hand flattening against his chest and it's pretty clear, there's a lot she's not saying but it seems that at least she doesn't think it's important enough to hash out right now. (WS 14, Wis 19)] Let's just... figure out where we're at.

[likedillinger]

Good call. [ he lapses into silence for the rest of the walk, no longer able to even try keeping a light dialogue running like he had on the way there. lmao no not tense at all ]