[closed] So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road

[reconnaissance]

Date & Time: forward dated: Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th March
Location: a fair way into the Outlands
Characters:
Asami Sato chittybang, Cedric Diggory theboywhodied, Collette whatsupcroc, Ellie Linton reconnaissance, Fi Maxwell burnsinvisibly, Katniss Everdeen accidentalrebellion, Mitsuki Ishikawa drowns, Peter Parker arachnoid, Steph Brown controlledvariable
Summary: Nine teenagers with varying degrees of trauma decide to go camping.
(Actually, eight teenagers get bullied into going camping by Ellie.)
Warnings: Not sure yet; I'll add them as they come up. At the very least some language, and fallout from PTSD.



Ellie had found the place once before on her wandering into the Outlands; a dilapidated old barn, with stone walls and a roof that was, by some miracle, completely intact despite all the evidence of nature clambering up its walls and trying to reclaim it for the land. There's a hill leading down to it, and if you follow that hill down, you meet the woods, a big lake. It's beautiful, she thinks. Nowhere near so wild as Hell, but that was better.

Finding that place had been how it started, before thinking about getting some of the others together had kicked in. A way to unwind, after the body swap. At the very least a chance to get some decent people all together in the same place (and maybe a way to apologise to Asami for pointing a gun at her that one time).


OOC: Party style, adventures everyone.Just go wild, if you want it to be set at a particular time, maybe specify in the subject line? I'm doing some starters just... in case that helps but do whatever you like tbh. YEAH. There's also the ooc plotting post so chuck folks in there and scheme and let the madness and CR unfold.

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[reconnaissance]

( How long they're there, she has no idea, just that eventually she can breathe without it being a battle. Her hands are knotted in Steph's shirt and the blanket, anchoring herself, holding on for dear life. Eventually, she doesn't feel her entire body revolting against her, nerves alight. It feels more steady and more safe, and she's checking her own breath, again.

Without thinking, she's pressing closer to Steph. She's warm and safe and just Steph, who's been better for soothing away nightmares than anyone else. She's not quite there, but she realises Steph, recognises her, and there's no one else she'd want here. No matter what way she jumped there was disaster, but Steph made it better. Just her being there now, that meant it might get better.

Her fingers loosen in Steph's shirt, and then curl again, before she murmurs a near-silent apology. ) Sorry.

[controlledvariable]

[There really is nothing to do but wait, no mattr how much it might hurt to see Ellie like this, to know she was the one who caused it, Steph doesn't even think about leaving. She's been on Ellie's side of this, know what that panic feels like, and she hates that it's sunk into Ellie's bones, too.]

It's okay.

[She relaxes as Ellie does, pressing another kiss against her forehead, lightly running her fingers through Ellie's hair.]

It was my fault.

[reconnaissance]

Don't be daft.

( So quiet and distant, as if she were speaking over some massive distance, as if the wind was stealing her voice. )

I asked you a question and you answered. You were honest.

( If she were at full force, it might sound flippant, harsh, downright rude, but for now she just kisses' Steph's neck and resumes her huddlings. )

You're not responsible for this.

( The way they weren't responsible for Kevin in the truck, Chris drink driving andj just, actually just the mess everything was. )

[controlledvariable]

[The press of lips against her neck is - surprising, but she figures Ellie is working on automatic and dismisses it as nothing, just continuining to gently card her fingers through Ellie's hair.]

I should've answered it better.

[Should have been more careful, instead of getting caught up in a story, an explanation. She knows better than to be careless with people who can have a minefield of issues. Ellie is her friend, she should've been more careful.]

[reconnaissance]

Don't argue with me.

( Normally that would sound more assertive. I don't want to argue about this, we aren't going to argue about this, but this time there's just the slightest pleading note to it. She doesn't want to argue about it and have to convince Steph that it isn't her fault. )

You didn't do any of it. Not the big stuff.

( None of the stuff that needs apologising for, in the end. She didn't betray their homeland, lead people to death, kill Robyn. ) It's not your fault.