Event: Consolidation Theory, Part One and Two

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Characters: red-marked characters
Location: ???
Date: Morning & Day 353
Summary: You wake up in a cell.
Warnings: general horror warnings; please note in subject lines for anything specific that comes up

Consolidation Theory OOC Post
Part Two OOC Post

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[bywolves]

Mm. Was sleeping off a hangover.

[ There's no point in not being honest. Whatever. House isn't here and he doubts anybody else cares enough to keep information like that. ]

You jumped?

cw: suicide

[sleight_of_fate]

[Rhys rubs his eye wearily.]

Yeah. At the end. No one else was left.

[Less jumped as just...fallen, quietly tipped over into the blackness in the hopes of it being over for a little while.

It hadn't helped.]

...Alfie here, too?

[bywolves]

Mm. After all that talk you gave me.

[ Royce, this is not the time. In fact, he almost even seems like he regrets saying it, because his next answer is quieter and vaguely sheepish. ]

... Yeah. Alfie's here too. Across from me.

[sleight_of_fate]

[Rhys is quiet for a second because yeah, that stings, but what can he say? That other peoples' lives have more value than his?

It's kind of true, but, well. Royce does have him on that, and he just shrugs.]

Never said I was consistent.

[He sighs, and tips his head back, closing his eyes.]

Sucks that he's here, but good that he's close.

[bywolves]

[ If it makes Rhys feel better, Royce actually feels bad for saying it. That comes out a bit in his voice. ]

I used to be consistent. Norfinbury has changed a lot of things.

[ He sighs. ] And I don't want him here. I don't want to watch them do to him what they did to us.

[sleight_of_fate]

I think I'm more myself here than I ever was back home. Which is incredibly fucked up.

[What he means to say he's a bigger mess here than he was even back home, and that's saying a lot.

And Rhys hears the regret in Royce's voice, and notes it. No harm done, friend. It's all a mess.]

I get that. I wouldn't want anyone I- cared about, here, either. Only a little, selfish part of me, maybe.

[bywolves]

[ Silence, for a few moments, and then: ]

Yeah. Selfish part of me is glad. Trying not to indulge that side as much anymore, not that it matters.

[sleight_of_fate]

Hard not to be selfish when it's hell like this. to just want something good.

[He feels a faint twinge, remembering his fight with House. All that pain, over words that would have been so simple to say: thank you, because for a little while, he'd felt safe. For a little while, they'd chased away the pain and the fear, and in this place that was worth a lot, even if it had been mostly just a dream.]

At least we can try and gain a little strength from each other. Try and...comfort.

I can't imagine doing this alone. No fucking way.

[bywolves]

I've done this alone before. Something like it. [ Royce mutters. ] Memories were never taken from me. That's new.

This will end eventually. Just have to live through it, like always.

[sleight_of_fate]

I did a lot of this alone before. Been tortured. Been alone. Been fucked up. I got through it, but...

[But now he's the person he is right now and he's pretty sure that person is really messed up because of it all.]

Yeah. "This too shall pass", right?

Just gotta get through it.