60 - Phone/Action
Dec. 25th, 2011 01:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceasetoexist[Phone - Filtered away from Black Mage]
Hey.
So, you know. I could shout and scream and rant at how people got suckered in by the town again, how I got suckered in again, how everyone got suckered in again by the town, but you know what? I actually have something more important to talk about.
Look. I dunno how many of you idiots heard, but there's a little kid here named Mindy. And, being a little kid, she thought she could fix everything by asking everyone coming together under the stupid Christmas Tree this town put up. She's just a kid, like eight or something, and so she thinks like a kid. And you know? As dumb as thinking that young is...she shouldn't have had what happened.
For those of you not in the know, some psycho killed her yesterday apparently and hung her corpse on the Christmas Tree. I don't know for sure, but I have a pretty good idea who that was, and if you'd like to have a talk with him I don't mind giving you a name and address for him.
...But she shouldn't have had what happened to her happen. Not even here, where half of us are psycho in some way anyway. A lot of us deserve to be here but she...she doesn't.
I'm not going to give her address out, not to most but...I guess what I'm asking is, if there's any chance I can get people to agree to maybe, I dunno, give her something small, like even a Christmas card or something I could give to her...I'd give it to her. The kid deserves at least that much for this bullcrap. She actually deserves a Christmas.
And you know? For what it's worth, even though I said I wasn't going to do it?
It was us the entire time. We weren't fakes. The town lied.
Surprise.
[Phone - Filtered to Picky]
Where. Are. You? Are you at home? You better be, and you better be safe, because I'm coming over, got it?
[Action - Locked to 945 Beulah]
[Hey folks living at 945? There's a blue-skinned, twelve-year old boy knocking at your door, a Christmas package under his arm. He kind of has a gift for his little friend, and he's damned determined to get it to her and see how she is.]
[Action - Around Town]
[Pokey can be found slowly walking around town, a large spider-mech following him. What used to be commonplace until September has only now started up again, but whereas he used to ride on the mech with gleeful abandon, destroying and smashing anything in front of him for fun, right now the walk is....calm. Like a boy having his dog, who had been sick for a while and was just now recovering, very slowly follow him.
Pokey had been pushing Josephine to her limits the last few days. Now he felt he just needed to let her recuperate. And as she follows, he says small words of encouragement.]
That's it. Just a little more girl. That's good...
[There are few things a boy has more love for than his dog, even if his dog is a giant, monstrous mech.]
Hey.
So, you know. I could shout and scream and rant at how people got suckered in by the town again, how I got suckered in again, how everyone got suckered in again by the town, but you know what? I actually have something more important to talk about.
Look. I dunno how many of you idiots heard, but there's a little kid here named Mindy. And, being a little kid, she thought she could fix everything by asking everyone coming together under the stupid Christmas Tree this town put up. She's just a kid, like eight or something, and so she thinks like a kid. And you know? As dumb as thinking that young is...she shouldn't have had what happened.
For those of you not in the know, some psycho killed her yesterday apparently and hung her corpse on the Christmas Tree. I don't know for sure, but I have a pretty good idea who that was, and if you'd like to have a talk with him I don't mind giving you a name and address for him.
...But she shouldn't have had what happened to her happen. Not even here, where half of us are psycho in some way anyway. A lot of us deserve to be here but she...she doesn't.
I'm not going to give her address out, not to most but...I guess what I'm asking is, if there's any chance I can get people to agree to maybe, I dunno, give her something small, like even a Christmas card or something I could give to her...I'd give it to her. The kid deserves at least that much for this bullcrap. She actually deserves a Christmas.
And you know? For what it's worth, even though I said I wasn't going to do it?
It was us the entire time. We weren't fakes. The town lied.
Surprise.
[Phone - Filtered to Picky]
Where. Are. You? Are you at home? You better be, and you better be safe, because I'm coming over, got it?
[Action - Locked to 945 Beulah]
[Hey folks living at 945? There's a blue-skinned, twelve-year old boy knocking at your door, a Christmas package under his arm. He kind of has a gift for his little friend, and he's damned determined to get it to her and see how she is.]
[Action - Around Town]
[Pokey can be found slowly walking around town, a large spider-mech following him. What used to be commonplace until September has only now started up again, but whereas he used to ride on the mech with gleeful abandon, destroying and smashing anything in front of him for fun, right now the walk is....calm. Like a boy having his dog, who had been sick for a while and was just now recovering, very slowly follow him.
Pokey had been pushing Josephine to her limits the last few days. Now he felt he just needed to let her recuperate. And as she follows, he says small words of encouragement.]
That's it. Just a little more girl. That's good...
[There are few things a boy has more love for than his dog, even if his dog is a giant, monstrous mech.]
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[Action - 945 Beulah]
Date: 2011-12-25 07:34 am (UTC)Hey.
I, uh....
I have some things for Mindy. From myself and some others.
For Christmas.
[Action - 945 Beulah]
Date: 2011-12-26 05:50 am (UTC)I see... Would you like me to give them to her for you, when she wakes up? Or do you want to wait here for a while? [She died yesterday, so she should be back sometime soon... right...?]
[Action - 945 Beulah]
Date: 2011-12-26 06:21 am (UTC)...Could I wait.
I
I'd like to see her.
[Action - 945 Beulah]
Date: 2011-12-26 07:13 am (UTC)[Action - 945 Beulah]
Date: 2011-12-26 07:18 am (UTC)[He says simply, as he steps into the house. And just stops. He really has no clue where to go from here. It's odd, and confusing. What can he do? Or say? I'm sorry your not!daughter died, when does she get back? What do you say with something like this.]
....I'm Pokey. Nice to meet you...
[Except for the circumstances.]
[Action - 945 Beulah]
Date: 2011-12-26 07:24 am (UTC)[Action - 945 Beulah]
Date: 2011-12-26 07:30 am (UTC)I'm sorry.
[His voice cracks when he says that. Slight, but it's still there, and he's finally trying to fight back tears. He didn't cry when he saw Mindy was dead, or when taking her down from the tree. But now he just can't keep it back. ANd he's struggling still to do so.]
That shouldn't have happened. I'm sorry.
[Action - 945 Beulah]
Date: 2011-12-26 07:41 am (UTC)It's not your fault. Even though she's not really my daughter, I tried treating her as such... so it was my responsibility to keep her safe. I failed... I should be the one to say sorry.
[Action - 945 Beulah]
Date: 2011-12-26 07:52 am (UTC)Now? He doesn't cling or hug back like any other child would, but he doesn't outright reject it, but rather just stands there, gritting his teeth and still trying not to cry.]
No. I told her I'd protect her. The last year, I told her that.
And then I didn't. I'm sorry. I just-
I'm sorry.