witchaffinity: (chambre doubt)

[personal profile] witchaffinity 2022-10-18 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
( He is not in any of the rooms.

The smell of burnt pancakes pervade the downstairs. Julian tried making them that night, but he was never the family cook. That was their father. He never learned. Part of the reason why she worried for her brother. He is actually incapable of feeding himself. But, he and his microwave are big fans. He used her Green Chef subscription for a little while. And when he'd met up with part of the Underground, they all shared cooking and food and meals.

As she climbs the stairs, she can hear the faint sound of a bath being ran from their shared bathroom. The door to her room is open, the door to her brother's is not, likewise their parents. The string to their attic hangs, wind from an open window blowing.

Kol realizes his girlfriend has gone inside.
)

Kieran?

( A hand on his sister's shoulder, he follows. )
transientem: (1)

[personal profile] transientem 2022-10-18 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Upstairs.

[Kol will be able to hear her - Original vampire and all - and she heads towards her bedroom door, deciding to look in the obvious place first. It, too, holds remnants of the girls she used to be. Horse posters and boy band centerfolds printed off of the middle school printer.

It might be embarrassing, given how much of a cool girl she tries to be, but part of her misses it.

And yes, she has a Pokemon bedspread, what of it? Charizard is the best.]
witchaffinity: (I could slip away)

[personal profile] witchaffinity 2022-10-18 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
( The water to the bathtub turns off inside the closed bathroom door.

Kol takes the stairs two at a time to join her in -- her time capsule.
)

Did you find - This is your...
transientem: (6)

[personal profile] transientem 2022-10-18 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
I don't want to hear one word about Charizard or One Direction.

[She holds up a finger and tosses him a teasing smirk, before moving towards the bathroom door. She knocks lightly, before pressing her ear to the door to see what she can hear (20).]

Jules, you in there?
tuumest: (hey there?)

[personal profile] tuumest 2022-10-26 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
( You won't hear one word from Kol. Pokemon skipped him. (He liked Magic: The Gathering.) In the 90's, anyway. And he gets the appeal of the boy band phenomenon. He pretended to be a member of O-Town once - and S-Club 7.

From inside the bathroom, Kieran hears a splash: the exact sound of Julian jumping out of the bath he'd drawn. Soaking wet from the neck down, holding a towel together with one hand, Julian answers the door carefully so the knocker (he knows his sister's voice anywhere) doesn't fall forward.
)

Kier?
transientem: (11)

[personal profile] transientem 2022-10-27 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, dumbass. Want to get dressed and come talk to me about the idiotic shit you've been doing lately?

[As calm as she seems like she's being, Julian would know that as her unhappy voice. Because she is quite unhappy, that this is how they're seeing each other again.]

The clothing is the part that's optional. The answers are not. Just so we're clear.
tuumest: (hey there...)

[personal profile] tuumest 2022-10-29 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
( Yeah, no, this isn't calm. Caught and guilty, he shuts the door slowly again, and takes a second to react. Everything passes through his mind. What went wrong. How did she find out. Is she okay?

Yes, he needs to get dressed. He will. He speaks through the door.
)

What are you doing here?

( Something to address later: Was that Kol Mikaelson? (15) for recognition there, Kieran! )
transientem: (12)

[personal profile] transientem 2022-10-30 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
My pendant cracked, and when I tried to call you to see what was going on, some shady fuck answered the phone instead of you. I was concerned so I came to find you.

[She steps back to wait, arms crossed in front of her chest.]

Barnet abandoned you and you're stuck in a chambre de chasse. I'm here to wake you up.
tuumest: (hey there?)

[personal profile] tuumest 2022-11-02 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
( Through the silence, Kol hangs back letting Kieran lay into her brother.

A minute later, he emerges again, this time wearing their father's Death Cab shirt. All his clothes are meant for a teenager and they don't fit, so being stuck here meant he had to root through his father's closet and rustle up those old ghosts. But, he did this to himself, didn't he. It was his deal to make, damn any other consequences.
)

And you decided to bring Kol Mikaelson in to - what, save me?
transientem: (10)

[personal profile] transientem 2022-11-03 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Kol is my friend.

[And by friend, she means friend, but Julian doesn't have to know about that right now.]

And he volunteered his help because he's my friend. So you should be nice to him.
tuumest: (heeey there)

[personal profile] tuumest 2022-11-03 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Forgive me for not trusting an Original vampire with my sister.

( Guess it's getting addressed now and not later. This is not going to go anywhere, though. He's always sucked at actually being a protective brother. She's never needed it. )

What do you mean, Barnet abandoned me?
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[personal profile] transientem 2022-11-04 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I mean he left your body with his assistant and fucking disappeared. Someone or something severed the connection between you and him, so you're not actually doing anything. You're just stuck, useless and unconscious.

[She should probably be nicer to him, but at the same time, she's frustrated and irritated for the reckless choices he's taking. He still has a life to live, and can do all the things people should want to do. And instead he's throwing his life away for her with poor choices.

She is the one who deserves to be reckless and take risks. She's the one already dying. And she didn't ask him to do this.]
tuumest: (no)

[personal profile] tuumest 2022-11-05 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
He's not - ( His volume goes up first out of frustration, because he's being attacked, because he did what he thought was right - but he catches himself, because this is not the volume hill he should die on. And even though he did what he did and that was his choice, she gets to express her feelings about it. ) his assistant.

( She already knows, he doesn't have to reiterate this. )

I did it for you. If he helped --
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[personal profile] transientem 2022-11-06 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't ask you to! You don't get to say you did this for me like it's some kind of great virtue when I never asked this if you, nor did you consult me before you decided to throw your life away. So don't put this on me, or tell me that I can't be pissed about it.

[Because she will. And she can't really say for sure whether it actually helped, given that she's been fairly asymptomatic as of late. Still, she's angry, and she's going to keep yelling until she feels better.]

You get that the guy you signed up with tends to kill the people he makes deals with, right? Might not have been right now, or tomorrow, or next week even, but eventually, you would die and he would find another desperate human juice box to suck on.
tuumest: (Default)

[personal profile] tuumest 2022-11-07 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
I read the op.

( It felt straightforward. It felt like he could finally do good, good enough to make their father proud, but Barnet wasn't an easy mark. And H had made him a telepathic offer. It was easy to disappear. It was a no-brainer to do everything he could.

He'd spent years trying to find something that could help - yes, without her blessing - that he finally felt like he had.

It didn't matter that he might die in the process.
)

Just like I don't tell you what to do with your personal life, you can't tell me what to do with mine. You didn't ask. I'm going to stand by and let this happen? Again? You remember what it was like with dad. Mom couldn't handle it. We could barely handle it.

( ...He, too. )
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[personal profile] transientem 2022-11-07 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
And do you honestly think I'm just letting myself waste away and not exploring my options?

[Why do you think she's hanging out with that particular Original vampire, Jules? Think about it.]

You didn't ask either. But what's the point of me surviving this if you're dead too? You are all I have left!
tuumest: (yeah)

[personal profile] tuumest 2022-11-07 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
You have a life to lead, Kier! You're young. Too young to have to worry -- It's better when two people are exploring options, one is bound to work.

( Not in this case, so, no point there. But. In other... cases. He just can't think of any right now. )
transientem: (12)

[personal profile] transientem 2022-11-07 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
I don't care if you look. Just talk to me before you go making an executive decision on my behalf. Can you do that?

[Communicate. That's all she wants. And she will spend her time being ninety percent less mad.]