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nebulochaotic2020-11-17 01:01 pm
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WHO: Allison and Klaus Hargreeves
WHAT: Power switch between the sibs.
WHEN: Tuesday, 11/17
WHERE: Starting at Allison's, and then Klaus's
WARNINGS: Oh, the usual Hargreeves umbrella. I'll add more specifics as they come up.
On most mornings, Allison tends to wake up thanks to her alarm or because one of her dogs is trying to hog the bed despite the very plushy ones they have at their disposal, but today is a little different. Or, well, very different considering the way it sounds like someone keeps whispering somewhere near her. For a moment she almost thinks that it's a dream, or one of her brothers snuck into her room, so even if she starts to wake up, she doesn't open her eyes just yet. She just stays in that comfortable spot between consciousness and sleep, as if it will help her fall back asleep since she had ended up picking up an extra shift the previous night at the jazz club, but the whispers change. They're not just a distant sound, they're suddenly so close to her, so angry, and--
With a gasp she wakes up, just in time to see someone slip through her wall and out of her room. It's no one she has seen before, and considering the way they just disappear, for a moment she wonders if it's all a dream. She closes her eyes again, as if that will help somehow, but the whispers start again. More than that, in that darkness behind her eyelids she can see people. People she has never seen before, some talking to her, some reaching out to her as if expecting her to reach back, and--
Zeus nudges at her, making her open her eyes and she tries to ignore...everything as best as she can. She even gets out of bed and gets ready for the day, as if she's not hearing things in her head, and after taking the boys out for a quick walk, she walks over to Klaus's instead. Especially after seeing a woman at the front of the apartment building, someone that initially started off pleasant but then seemed annoyed that she wasn't making conversation, and what the hell is happening.
The apartment is quiet, but Klaus should be getting ready for work, so she can only assume (and hope) that he's awake because she needs ... Hell, she doesn't know what she needs.
"Klaus?"
WHAT: Power switch between the sibs.
WHEN: Tuesday, 11/17
WHERE: Starting at Allison's, and then Klaus's
WARNINGS: Oh, the usual Hargreeves umbrella. I'll add more specifics as they come up.
On most mornings, Allison tends to wake up thanks to her alarm or because one of her dogs is trying to hog the bed despite the very plushy ones they have at their disposal, but today is a little different. Or, well, very different considering the way it sounds like someone keeps whispering somewhere near her. For a moment she almost thinks that it's a dream, or one of her brothers snuck into her room, so even if she starts to wake up, she doesn't open her eyes just yet. She just stays in that comfortable spot between consciousness and sleep, as if it will help her fall back asleep since she had ended up picking up an extra shift the previous night at the jazz club, but the whispers change. They're not just a distant sound, they're suddenly so close to her, so angry, and--
With a gasp she wakes up, just in time to see someone slip through her wall and out of her room. It's no one she has seen before, and considering the way they just disappear, for a moment she wonders if it's all a dream. She closes her eyes again, as if that will help somehow, but the whispers start again. More than that, in that darkness behind her eyelids she can see people. People she has never seen before, some talking to her, some reaching out to her as if expecting her to reach back, and--
Zeus nudges at her, making her open her eyes and she tries to ignore...everything as best as she can. She even gets out of bed and gets ready for the day, as if she's not hearing things in her head, and after taking the boys out for a quick walk, she walks over to Klaus's instead. Especially after seeing a woman at the front of the apartment building, someone that initially started off pleasant but then seemed annoyed that she wasn't making conversation, and what the hell is happening.
The apartment is quiet, but Klaus should be getting ready for work, so she can only assume (and hope) that he's awake because she needs ... Hell, she doesn't know what she needs.
"Klaus?"
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But he doesn't factor into a place like this, where they're all trying to forge something more, something better here than they ever could have back home where being a family seemed like an impossibility. But he'd be a fool to deny the idea of a break from it all is tempting, is so enticing because it's what he's yearned for his whole life. For someone to come in and flip a switch, turn it all off, even for a little while. He has it now, but at what cost.
"But you're right, nothing to be done about it now, huh?" He leans into her embrace, smiling when she kisses his hair. He doesn't deserve her, he really doesn't. "I'm not okay with it but as long as you know you're not alone. I seem to remember there was a little girl who would slip into my bed when I was younger. It was all very scandalous, because she'd rock me to sleep. That boy was very lucky. Because of her, he's never felt alone a day in his life."
He grins a little and leans his head to hers, giving her a little squeeze and shake. What would he do without Allison here? He loosens his hold on her with a little sigh, though it doesn't stop him from smoothing her hair where his frantic embrace mussed it.
"I should get to work before the rich, old bitties get mad at me. I've heard Lou's got this fantastic chocolate fudge cake and I have been making eyes at her for months so she'll give me one. Would hate to spoil all of my hard work."
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Besides. It's not like she doesn't need the distraction, anyway. She has been dreading this week, and now that it's finally here, it almost feels like some cosmic 'payback' for her wanting to be distracted from the fact that she can't bear the reminder of her daughter's birthday on Friday.
"I do know I'm not alone," she assures him, smiling at the memory of them as kids. How they'd curl up together, as if somehow that way it would erase the shit that they would deal with in the morning. Just how she wanted to protect him then, she wants to protect him now, and she kisses his hair again. "Good," she says softly, "because that girl felt very lucky, too, to have such a great brother." A beat. "Even if he stole her make up later on."
It's said fondly, a smile on her face before she laughs at what he says.
"Yeah, I've got to get to work, too, actually." She gives him one last kiss before she stands, looking considerably calmer than what she had looked like earlier. The effects of the ghosts are still there, brewing within her, but now that she at least knows what's happening, it's helping to not freak out about it.
"Have fun with your old bitties. And I'll give you a call if something comes up, I promise." She gives him one last hug before she smiles reassuringly at him and heads towards the door. The ghosts are still there, lingering and talking at her especially as she makes her way towards the front gate, but she just tries to breathe through it. It'll chip away at her, she knows that, but it'll be fine. She'll be fine.
Yeah. Everything will be fine.