[log] Lean on me [closed]

[zunesareawesome]

Characters: The Sorcerer Not-Yet-Supreme, Star-Cat, Star-Lord, and the Librarian
Location: Building 318 and various
Date: Day 339-343
Summary: The visiting of Flynn Carsen to the clan of Snow.
Warnings: References to character death, drowning, blood (because this is a scary building), more CW's in ensuing threads.




318: The stench of blood is thick in this garage, with blood long-soaked into the concrete floor, staining nearly the entire expanse. There are empty wooden tables to be sat on if you would rather not sit on the floor, though they've all been flipped as if in anger. One of the tables has been broken into pieces and burned, and another has pieces missing as if someone had begun to break it into pieces but was interrupted. The whole place has a hostile air to it, and the walls sound like they're breathing at night. "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO, CONTACT @LELRIC FOR ANY ASSISTANCE." "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX, PLEASE CALL @LELRIC FOR ANY ASSISTANCE NEEDED." and "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT, FOR ANY ASSISTANCE PLEASE CONTACT @LELRIC ANY TIME." are written on one of the walls.

Comments

[thewarningafter]

...Oh. Oh, that's not a good sign.

"I doubt it," says Stephen, though it's not as though he can offer Peter any kind of reassurance that that isn't what's going to happen. "Just--just don't give Flynn anything else. Whatever happens, don't feed into it any more."

[zunesareawesome]

He still wants to, but after the last debacle, that desire to share things, to give things is tempered.

He nods, feeling chilled to the bone. He's already given so much.

"...okay. Yeah, I won't...I get it, I won't do it anymore."

[thewarningafter]

Stephen lets out a little sigh as he looks at Peter. He reaches a hand out to put on the other man's shoulder, his grip feeble but physical and solid. "This is going to pass, same as everything else," he says.

[zunesareawesome]

And that helps, quite a bit, because right now he's feeling so out of sorts and weird and just...everything seems wrong. But Stephen's reassurance makes all that badness kinda go away.

"...I hope so. How can you be so sure?"

[thewarningafter]

"It always does, eventually."

Translation: he isn't sure, at all. Eventually most things pass here...but not everyone's still alive and well by the time they do.