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nebulochaotic2020-07-16 07:33 am
atypically) wrote in nebulochaotic2020-07-16 07:33 am
memory share; random
(( threadjacking is okay! Anyone can see this memory but it's especially targeted to Eddie, Adam, Sally, and Laura ))
They're sitting on the green bench in the park, facing the giant Paul Bunyan statue that still haunts Caleb's nightmares to this day. The memory share-er will be vaguely aware of the fact that Caleb's not entirely sure if he's really in Derry or if this is some trick of the Apocalypse. There's a blur of other flashes of the memory prior to this: Henry Bowers, an arcade; Caleb feeling so full of someone else's rage on top of his own that he cracks Henry Bowers over the head with a baseball bat.
"There's worse things here than Bowers," Richie says, grabbing hold of Caleb's sleeve.
"The—What you saw, it took place before we defeated It." There it is again: It, the kid-killer, the thing in the sewers, the monster in the pipes. "We can't stay here, we have to get out, c'mon," and he makes a grab for Caleb's arm to pull him off with him so they can run like hell when—
"Want a kiss, Richie?"
Shit. Richie looks to the Paul Bunyan statue.
Or where it should be, anyway.
"Run!" Richie snaps out, just as the statue somehow—appears right next to them, only with oh god the teeth why the fuck does that thing have teeth oh Jesus fucking Christ what is that it's holding oh god It's roaring they need off this bench right the fuck now— "Go go go fucking run!"
( read the rest of the memory starting here and ending with Caleb thinking: Cool. Caleb's life used to be split between pre-Atypical and post-Atypical. Then it was pre-Adam and post-Adam. Now it's going to be pre-Paul Bunyan and post-Paul Bunyan. Fuck Jeopardy. Also, disregard any thoughts alluding to Richie's sexuality; that's not mine/Caleb's to share, so let's pretend it isn't there. )
TL;DR: Caleb becomes a part of this scene (memory share) with Richie during the Apocalypse in Jeopardy, NV and very nearly pisses himself trying to trust that Richie's telling the truth when he says it's not real.
They're sitting on the green bench in the park, facing the giant Paul Bunyan statue that still haunts Caleb's nightmares to this day. The memory share-er will be vaguely aware of the fact that Caleb's not entirely sure if he's really in Derry or if this is some trick of the Apocalypse. There's a blur of other flashes of the memory prior to this: Henry Bowers, an arcade; Caleb feeling so full of someone else's rage on top of his own that he cracks Henry Bowers over the head with a baseball bat.
"There's worse things here than Bowers," Richie says, grabbing hold of Caleb's sleeve.
"The—What you saw, it took place before we defeated It." There it is again: It, the kid-killer, the thing in the sewers, the monster in the pipes. "We can't stay here, we have to get out, c'mon," and he makes a grab for Caleb's arm to pull him off with him so they can run like hell when—
"Want a kiss, Richie?"
Shit. Richie looks to the Paul Bunyan statue.
Or where it should be, anyway.
"Run!" Richie snaps out, just as the statue somehow—appears right next to them, only with oh god the teeth why the fuck does that thing have teeth oh Jesus fucking Christ what is that it's holding oh god It's roaring they need off this bench right the fuck now— "Go go go fucking run!"
( read the rest of the memory starting here and ending with Caleb thinking: Cool. Caleb's life used to be split between pre-Atypical and post-Atypical. Then it was pre-Adam and post-Adam. Now it's going to be pre-Paul Bunyan and post-Paul Bunyan. Fuck Jeopardy. Also, disregard any thoughts alluding to Richie's sexuality; that's not mine/Caleb's to share, so let's pretend it isn't there. )
TL;DR: Caleb becomes a part of this scene (memory share) with Richie during the Apocalypse in Jeopardy, NV and very nearly pisses himself trying to trust that Richie's telling the truth when he says it's not real.
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[Adam is tripping over his words a little bit, horror and fear mixed in with about fifty other emotions on his face, eyes darting as he fidgets - in the background there's a table that was blown up in the aftermath of him coming out of the memory, but things here are just getting...weirder and weirder for Adam.
And the idea that his boyfriend went through that kind of horror and held back from even cluing Adam in on all of it - Adam's worried and scared for what Caleb is carrying around....and with the memories springing up everywhere (and not just with him, but with other people to) Adam is so scared of it circling around to him with the memories he's had to experience so far and what people could see of him.
He hasn't been through near as much as the rest of these people, but still...]
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What clown? What are you talking about?
[ Please no...please don't let Adam have seen Paul Bunyan...please God don't let that be the memory of his that's floating around now...
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Did that really happen or am I going crazy from this place, Caleb?
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...that happened. In the last place, though. Not here.
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[And how Caleb lives with those images, that fear, that imagery in the back of his head...Adam doesn't understand, honestly...]
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[ He gives Adam a sad sort of knowing look. Yeah. Caleb knows this shit is crazy. That doesn't stop it from being true or continuing to happen. He just has to keep...adjusting until it feels less shitty. Or, hopefully, get sent home before he masters that. ]
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Christ, Caleb, you've been through the ringer and I had no idea when I lived with you - what the hell all you've been through...
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[She holds back a wince as she says it, but there's sympathy in her voice.]
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Don't tell anybody. Please, I promised I'd never tell anybody. He made me promise.
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Plus, it's not your fault I saw this.
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[ He doesn't realize that she hasn't seen what Bowers said or how that impacted Richie and she hasn't seen him cracking Henry Bowers over the head with a baseball bat before going to comfort his friend and assuring him that it's okay to be gay and it doesn't make him sick or anything. ]
I know, but like... [ He sighs with exasperation. ] I fucking promised. He didn't want anybody to know.
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[Laura keeps calm, her voice taking on a reassuring, and hopefully soothing quality.]
I don't think I know anything, but you didn't control me seeing anything. It's not your fault, you didn't break a promise - and I promise I would never go into nay details beyond what I've said already to you.
[Laura holds her hand up, as if she's swearing to it, hoping to calm Caleb a little bit.]
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Not to anybody. Not your brother, not Diego. Nobody. Promise.
[ It isn't a question and it sounds a lot weaker than she's probably ever heard him. This is important to him. He's not sure why it's so important to Richie, but because it is, then it's also important to Caleb. ]
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so don’t worry too much over it yeah?
also, man, I was such a fucking pipsqueak
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I'm not that worried so much as...I can't unsee it. I can't not have been there. It's just there, now, man.
...I know promised I wouldn't tell anybody, but a couple people told me they saw. I'm sorry, dude. I didn't tell anybody though, not even Adam.
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0/10 would not invite to my niece’s sixth birthday party
sorry I dragged you into that mess
I mostly just thought “hey there’s a weird lady going into that church” and I didn’t realize it was a fucking trap
it isn’t your fault okay?
this is just more of the same old same old interdimensional kidnappee bullshit as usual
you don’t have to be sorry about anything, and I’m glad you didn’t tell anyone
and if it helps I think some of the memory wasn’t complete
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I don't think it was, either. ...I kinda started freaking to my old roommate that I promised I wouldn't tell anybody about the clown or Bowers or any of it and she had no idea what I was talking about with Bowers, so must be not.