belligerentwarrior: (Here to take care of a broken l'Cie?)
Oerba Yun Fang ([personal profile] belligerentwarrior) wrote in [community profile] recolle2017-06-17 10:49 am

[Closed] Ashes ashes in the air

WHO: Freya and Lucy, Minako later
WHERE: Their apartment
WHEN: Saturday Evening
WHAT: Someone takes a hallucinomemory very poorly
WARNINGS: None at the moment

[When the first major vision struck her, a few months ago, it left Freya shaken and fearful down to her core. Even though she knew (believed) it wasn't grounded in reality, she couldn't help suspicious glances at the too-normal moon at night—even though it was ludicrous for some giant, flying metal creature to live behind it. Time had tempered the vision's intensity, making it feel like some old, faded, but still chilling nightmare.]

[A nightmare she assumed done. Freya knew she was wrong when that shock of terror returned, causing the glass in her fingers to slip and shatter across the kitchen floor, not unlike the phantom rain of stone and rubble that overwhelmed her senses.]

[When it was over, with that thing departing into the sky with land and ore in its colossal hands, the terror was gone; grief and seething hatred wholly replaced it.]

[And Freya knew, deep down, inexplicably, that her family was dead.]

[She tried to reject it. Freya pulled out her phone with trembling hands that felt too large and like they should've been battered and bruised. She had parents. She remembered them raising her. They lived in the same damn part of the city as her. Still, she couldn't steady her fingers; she kept hitting the wrong app and contact and closing the wrong screen and—the frustration of failing to make a simple phone call was too much, on top of everything else. Freya wheeled about pitched her phone at the window with a furious shout, but she couldn't even take satisfaction in the way the device or the pane cracked.]

[Freya leaned over the countertop, eyes screwed shut, trying to ground herself. The emotions were overwhelming, too vivid, and squeezed her chest as a vice would. It was hard to breathe.]
long_live_the_queen: (????)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-17 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Work had been exhausting today. Normal hours, sure, but there was an awful lot of running back and forth moving product around the warehouse while orders and orders flooded in for the upcoming holiday. Lucy had flopped over onto the couch almost immediately, kicking off her shoes and lapsing into a half-doze for a hazy length of time. Fang had curled up on her stomach in the meantime, contentedly purring. All was well.

Then glass shattered in the kitchen, and Lucy's eyes blinked open. Who else was home...? Her roommates didn't really drop things, and she didn't hear Freya's cursing or Minako's startled shouts. She rubbed at her eyes without sitting up; she didn't want to dislodge the cat.

Suddenly, something smashed into the kitchen window—not quite more shattering, but far louder than just a bird making a terrible mistake. And Freya shouted, wordless, angry, loud, and startled the cat awake. He launched off of Lucy in a panic, vanishing into another part of the apartment with his back and tail bottlebrushed out. She made an 'oof' when the cat kicked off of her like that—he was heavy—but not any more recognizable words.

Was someone breaking in? Was Freya in trouble? The teenager scrambled up, tumbled over the couch and towards the front door first—to grab one of the baseball bats there. By the time she stumbled into the kitchen it was already raised to her shoulder, though she stopped suddenly at the glitter of glass on the floor.
]

Freya?!
long_live_the_queen: (another blank stare icon)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-18 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[There was just Freya in here, and the broken glass—and a cracked window. But it didn't look like someone had tried to force their way in, more like something had hit it. From the inside.]

Why, yours broken or— [oh. There it was, on the floor.

...that screen didn't look very intact. Yikes.
]

...I'll get a broom. Too. [Lucy added, baseball bat dropping away from her shoulder as she shuffled off. She leaned the bat against a potted plant as she passed by; she'd get it later, right now she needed to get other things.

When Lucy returned, she had the phone in question, along with a long handled broom and a set of cheap sandals. The teenager gingerly picked her way through the broken glass, stopping in place near Freya's elbow expectantly.
]
long_live_the_queen: (guess she doesn't need a nose)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-18 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucy blinked, suddenly not sure she had even woken up. Freya didn't drop things. Freya didn't cry. What was going on?

She stayed frozen, as if moving would cause this surreal scene to shatter too.
]

...you sick, or something?
long_live_the_queen: (kouta put your pants back on)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-18 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucy was probably one of the worst people in the city at conflict deescalation. She wasn't angry before, but Freya's response blew those coals alight all the same. She didn't snatch her phone back, but her bewildered expression readily changed to something agitated.]

The fuck is your problem?
long_live_the_queen: (he's lying)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-18 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her immediate impulse was to snap back, or smack Freya with the broom. Then Freya looked away from her, and extinguished her anger just enough that the crunch of broken glass under her shoes reasserted itself. If they were going to fight in the kitchen, broken glass on the floor would make everything astronomically worse.

So Lucy started sweeping up the fragments of glass. Angrily.
]
long_live_the_queen: (half turn)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-19 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucy gathered up the bits and shards with short, agitated strokes, listening despite herself. It...made her feel jealous, hearing someone talk to family like that.

Hearing Freya slam her hand down made her jump, though, and Lucy glanced over her shoulder irritably.
]

Done yet?
long_live_the_queen: (ANGRY STABS)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-20 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucy's first snap was immediate, a piece of glass skittering away across the floor tiles as her next sweep of the broom was just as agitated.]

Because

[She was like that. She'd always been like that, since she was small; it was how she survived, how she was listened to, and so what if people didn't want to talk to her again? It's not like anyone—

...said as much, to her? Confronted that anger, and threw it back into her face?

The irritation on Lucy's face wavered and she looked away, brows still furrowed and shoulders still tense. She didn't finish the sentence.
]
long_live_the_queen: (hope they don't die)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-20 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
[The teenager got a few more sweeps in before responding this time, voice still agitated.]

Because I've always been like that! I had to be!

[No one...really talked to her about it. If someone mentioned it was bad, it was because everything she was doing was bad. Bad people were like this. And she was a bad person. It made comprehending everything that had happened to her much simpler.

...not necessarily any more pleasant.
]
long_live_the_queen: (fucking stairs)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-20 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucy flinched away from the new sound, though new glass didn't crunch underfoot. Most of the glittering pieces were gathered into one pile now; she ran the broom under the counter to make sure there was nothing else there, and didn't look at her roommate.]

What else was I supposed to do? You have all the answers, spit it out!
long_live_the_queen: (hope they don't die)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-22 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Like it's that fucking simple!

[Ugh. Ugh. She was going to hit Freya if this kept up. Lucy ground her teeth together and stalked stiff-kneed across the kitchen, grabbing after the dust pan. It was only a few feet of space between them; it might not be enough.]
long_live_the_queen: (are you for serious)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2017-06-22 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucy didn't say anything; she didn't trust herself to say anything remotely nice.

...and she didn't have an answer or a comeback. Just more angry thoughts, and...confused, frustrated thoughts. Freya didn't know what it was like, what Lucy had been through, she didn't understand, just—

Sweep all the little bits of glass into the dustpan. Forget her roommate was there. This was fine. Lucy was facing away from Freya, she could pretend she was alone.

...until she had to dump all the glass bits into the trash. She looked up—and saw her roommate again. More importantly, she was reminded of the state of the window.
]

You going to fix that?
Edited 2017-06-26 00:17 (UTC)
complementing: (✿ instant regret [ BERITH ])

june 21st;

[personal profile] complementing 2017-06-25 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[The woods expedition went as well as it could have. Nobody died! Big achievement. Nobody got mauled by monsters or attacked by spirits, either. The only thing is, Minako isn't really sure if they learned anything of importance with this trip-- it didn't really feel like it, even though Sorey had assured her that he'd learned something new from the last time he'd been in the woods.

She's mulling the thought over as she waters the echo plant in its pot. She has an appointment to take it to Rosalind in the afternoon, but other than that she's taking some well-deserved rest and wondering why Freya had seemed so sullen earlier in the morning on the walk back to the apartment.]


I should ask her about it...

Ask her about it, [The echo flower demands, and Minako groans.]

I can't wait to get rid of you.
complementing: (✿ what rice on my face? [ UNICORN ])

[personal profile] complementing 2017-06-28 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Minako watches Freya from behind the plant, tilting her head. Well, here's the perfect opportunity to ask Freya, but she isn't sure if she should, with her looking so tired...

Hm, food always makes things better. Maybe Freya will perk up once she's eaten.]


Want me to make an omelette for you?

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