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Chaos Plot Reactions!

Who: Anyone/Everyone affected by Helios' nasty bout of Possession Sickness
What: Picking up the pieces
When: August 11th/12th
Where: Wherever there was bad mojo!
Summary: Apep, an Egyptian god of Chaos, possessed Helios and wrecked havoc. Those involved are going to have to cope with their injuries, mental traumas, and newfound night terrors!
Rating: R, for possible trigger warnings for descriptions of violence and bad language.

Nothing is ever easy for them House 46 folks. Gawddamn!

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[Lupin pauses and looks at her--and follows her gaze at his odd gift.]

...

You mean Wilhelmina?

[Adele's waiting at the house when Sabriel returns. She'd heard, distantly, that the young woman had been pulled into the situation. As Sabriel lives with her and Helios she's not entirely surprised. The details of the situation aren't something she's aware of. All she knows is that the girl hasn't come home yet, and she's worried.

Helios she couldn't do anything for.

But Sabriel was someone she could help.

She's the one that unlocks the door and blinks down at the burnt and bruised woman.]

...Petite Cloche? What happened?

Soleil.

[Adele's voice is soft and rough around the edges when Helios enters house 44. Whatever happened? She doesn't understand. She wants to understand, wants answers, and only one person can give them to her. And this once she hopes he'll actually tell her what she'd like to know rather than lock up completely.]

Edited 2012-08-14 02:48 (UTC)

...not in your home.

[It comes out before she can stop herself.]

I just. I can't be there right now. I don't think anyone can...but I do agree. Another Movie marathon would be just the thing to help us all feel. Normal. Again. Or as close to it as we can manage here.

...yes. Yes I am referring to Wilhelmina.

[Luke nods]

Adele, you don't even need to say it. I'm not staying there for at least three nights. The Dark Side is strong there.

I was actually going to suggest we just watch 1 or 2 films, on the beach, with Artoo acting as a projector. He won't mind.

...

A gift from Grune. I had no choice.

[He sees that smile...]

You had something to do with this, didn't you?

...

That. That monstrosity. That gigantic stuffed thing is what she found to give you?

[It just. She can't. Give her a moment to just double over and crack up with much needed laughter.]

So it was your fault!

[He grins anyway--seeing her laugh like that was worth it.]

...

It is terribly ironic, you realize. Bringing a stuffed Kraken to the home of the Kraken-Slayer.

Sabriel...

[Rei doesn't exactly know what to say]

Don't...apologize. I've heard what happened from Grune. That wasn't you. That was some dark magic that twisted who you are. I couldn't even begin to blame you for the actions of someone else.

[She leads the way over to some outdoor chairs and sits, gesturing for the wounded girl to take a seat.]

We...need to talk.

I- it was during the festival, right after my performance!

[Given into giggling, laughing hard enough to hiccup. It almost hurts. Almost.]

I. I told her you weren't well and needed cheering up. And that squids would pull a strong reaction from you. She took it to mean it would make you smile.

[ He goes deathly still the moment he hears Adele's voice. He hears the roughness and winces. He bites his lip which is now slightly sore from his anxieties and phobias and everything else that creeps up on him in that moment. He doesn't say anything for a long while; his eyes burning and stinging from trying not to sob or cry. ] A-Adele...

[It's beyond the lingering stain of Apep's actions- it's where this darkness in the back of her mind was caused. Just being close to the front door made her ill that first day afterward.]

I didn't know he could do that. [She huffs a soft laugh.] What films have you brought back?

...you know I do not blame you, yes?

[Best to get that out of the way immediately. As much as she'd like to walk over and pull him into a hug, right now it wouldn't help anyone. It'd only make him more anxious.]

You are not at fault for this.

[Really?]

She's Grune! How did you expect her to take it when you used such ambiguous wording?

I want you to see the truth.

[Saori closes her eyes, and sends a thin tendril of power from her hand into Adele's, briefly affording the doctor a glimpse of her true form as she had done for Lupin some days before. The doctor's eyes would see a truly large humanoid form, almost nine feet tall, with long flowing hair the color of nightshade and dressed in cloth made of molded thunderclouds. It possessed a noseless face, similar to her human form, but with eyes made of pure lightning, and a mouth that exhaled the scent of rain. Her hands were different too, impossibly long fingers, with ribbons of blue-white energy pulsing down their length. An alien visage, used only in dire need or when the goddess wanted to prove her nature to someone in doubt. Adele deserved proof

Then she pulled back]

The Truth.

I intended for her to take it that way! I know how you feel about squids and if I told her the whole truth she'd have never gone along with it.

[Sabriel tenses at the sound of the footsteps beside her and glances warily over her shoulder...and is honestly surprised to find Luke there. She had known he had gone but after everything that had happened it felt like it had been months since she last saw him.]

Luke...hello.

[Gently, the goddess bends down further, and does something that may frighten him even more. She kisses him on the forehead, as one might a small child. For a brief moment, the wetness of her lips glows the same as her eyes, a spiritual magic meant to dull the awful ache in his joints: the blessing of the divine.]

No, you didn't know. You are mortal, I do not expect you to know everything.

[She stands up and offers him a hand up]

I will allow you to leave. On three conditions. The first is that if you feel nauseous, or if you have nightmares you come to me. Immediately. The second is that you will check in with me, once a week at minimum, for the next two months.

And finally, I have a request. A favor. Penance, if you wish to consider it that.

I figured~

[He doesn't have it in him to be angry at her, not like this. She had seemed almost like she was still stuck in Apep's nightmare in the hours and days after the encounter. The smile was enough.]

Enough on Wilhelmina. She'll find her uses, and the cats seem to like her right now.

You brought coffee, and you wanted to tell me something?

The truth? What-

[It's similar and at the same time entirely different from the flashes. This wasn't soaked in blood and full of anguish and rage. This was cool, serene, almost a balm against her senses despite the strangeness of what she was seeing. Were there ever a doubt in her mind that Saori was more than a mere woman; it's been erased. She can't wrap her mind around the figure, the details flit through her consciousness but forming a whole of them was difficult. All she can rationalize is that this, not a bearded man in starched robes, is what she'd always thought a deity ought to look like. Old. Powerful. Primal. Almost entirely inhuman. She's gone still in the meantime, blinking rapidly to clear her eyes of the damp that had sprung up.

Saori was herself again. Or rather what she normally appeared to be.]

...I don't. I do not have the words.

Some that you suggested, three Indiana Jones movies.

And one that was suggested to me by Tony Stark. It's called Superman?

[ His breath hitches and he fights away those tears with several consecutive rapid blinks. He shakes his head and looks away. He looks awful he feels awful for everything. ] S-top. Please. D-Don't, don't say that.

[ God he is tired of everyone saying it isn't his fault. It is his fault. ] It's all my fault. I-I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

[ He is a terrible friend, gods, he doesn't even know why Adele is talking to him right now. ]

I should have- there must have been something more that I could have done to fight it.

[But lingering on the past will not change what has happened. Heaving a shaking sigh Sabriel dips her head in a resigned nod, following Rei to the chairs and takes a seat with the box resting across her knees. Just a week or two before they would have been chatting happily together, but now Rei sat sternly in her seat, Sabriel bowed in shame in hers.]

[Adele wipes at her eyes, still hiccuping as she offered Lupin his coffee. Black, sweet, and hot. Her own was twice as dark and twice as bitter as usual.]

I had to do something for you forcing me to perform Lupin.

[Her smile fades now that they're on more somber topics. She clears her throat and looks back out, away from Lupin.]

He didn't just throw me into a wall. Were it that and that alone- I'd be better off.

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