boomgoesthedynamite: (delilah)

[personal profile] boomgoesthedynamite 2025-09-02 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Those sound like really reasonable things to be depressed or worried about.

[They're just saying. They're big life changes that aren't always good.]

If we're heading back together, and this happens again, what can I do to help? You and Kieran have that whole sibling ESP and I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but if she's not around to help, I want to be able to.
tuumest: (we do the work)

[personal profile] tuumest 2025-09-02 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Just talk to me. A voice drowns out the despair. It fights through the echo chamber. ( Like a vacuum. ) More if I care about someone. ( He takes their hand. ) If they care about me. If we have a connection.
boomgoesthedynamite: (delilah)

[personal profile] boomgoesthedynamite 2025-09-02 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[They squeeze his hand as he takes it, and glances up at him with a wry smile.]

Fortunately, talking is something I'm very good at, so that I can do.

[Then the smile slips to something more somber.]

But also, if you have something heavy you want to talk about, I can handle that too. You don't have to carry it all by yourself.
tuumest: (earth tones are easy)

[personal profile] tuumest 2025-09-02 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I talked to enough shrinks when we were kids. And counselors. And people who believed they knew best. That I could color my way through it, or visit a rage room, or journal. People tried.

( Kind of. They made some effort. )

Kieran's always balanced me. Been forever since I let anyone else try to hold their side up. I don't - lean well.
boomgoesthedynamite: (delilah)

[personal profile] boomgoesthedynamite 2025-09-03 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
That makes sense.

[Especially when he's likely the one used to being leaned on. With his mom gone, he likely probably had to take up the caretaker role for his father until he passed, and now Kieran is sick too.]

But I'm here if you want to try. Just let me know.
tuumest: (taking in stride)

[personal profile] tuumest 2025-09-03 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Me too. This goes both ways. Even if my was was a little scarier than yours.

( He'll really try and curb it. )
boomgoesthedynamite: (delilah)

[personal profile] boomgoesthedynamite 2025-09-04 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[They will keep that in mind. And with that, they will gather their things and head back out to where their sister is waiting.]

Ready to hit the road, V?
sybaritical: (Vita | Young)

i don't know what that grammar or spelling was, also 🎀

[personal profile] sybaritical 2025-09-05 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
( Julian follows, expecting "Mickey," and that's going to be weird for a while, so once he learns Crash will find another pretty boy, well, he'll stop having a complex about that. She's still in Mickey's clothing, but her features are more delicate. She's shorter in her favorite form. Nobody remembers their original form. Maybe they never had one.

She's sat on the edge of the desk, legs dangling. Her clothing is oversized and she's going to insist on rectifying this first thing tomorrow morning. She knows there will be things and promises and protocols and probably ultimatums. But, it beats being dead.

She looks up from her phone. Yeah, Julian, this is Vita.
)

Just need to do one more thing.

( She powers down the phone in her hand, grabs a heavy paperweight and smashes it. (i rolled for shits and giggles, nat 20 smashes it well and good.) she hops off the desk. )

Now I'm ready.

( And, infuriatingly, when they get back to the car. She calls shotgun like the little sister she is. Unless she has a chauffeur, she prefers the front. )