You know, if you don't like it, we don't have to give it a try. It's the same situation as the pool. We can try a hot tub instead of the lake. It doesn't really matter to me where we are. Just as long we're together.
( that hole in Midwich is hilarious, when it's the killer slipping off the edge. not so much when it's him. and he lands like a box of rocks. there's a silver lining, though, and the funny looking bruise on his on his shin is it. well, according to Steve, it is a silver lining.
so he sends Dwight the picture, and to his credit, it an impressively detailed looking monstrosity. )
It's a ... what did they call Gizmo, when they fed him after midnight? One of those things. Teeth and all, how'd that happen, right? Crazy.
[ oh, for the love of christ, that's... hideous. dwight cringes just looking at it and adjusts his glasses as if that'll somehow make it look less brutal. ]
Gremlins.
[ he tilts his head, squinting at the picture partly because it's gross and partly because he's trying to see what steve sees in it, and... ]
Yeah. Actually. That's exactly what it looks like. If you tilt your head a little, I mean.
How's it feel? Gotta be a step up from... well, pretty much everything else, right?
Gremlins! Fuck. Yes. Those things. You don't think I squished one of those little guys on the way down, right? Shit. Imagine a trial and they're all the size of the tiny twin, only there's like 20 of them.
( it makes a great movie, slightly horrifying when it's real. sorry in advance if he gave the Entity an idea for a feral baby army, Dwight. )
It's not that bad. At least when I'm sitting still. I've had way worse, and those bruises weren't even kind of funny, so.
[ dwight already can barely handle when that little demon baby thing is running around like a feral animal, he does NOT need to imagine a swarm of gremlins chasing everyone around, thank you very much, steven. ]
No. No, I don't think I will imagine that. Every time I hear the one we've already got, I feel like my neck is gonna shrivel down into my shoulders. One kind-of-Gremlin is more than enough.
[ but now that steve's said it, dwight wouldn't put it past the entity to drop a bunch of little gremlins into its realm just to watch them run wild. and what better test subject that dwight himself? steve better hope the entity has other plans!! ]
Way worse? You fell from the second story and landed on concrete, Steve. After being stabbed. I'm not sure I want to know how it gets worse than that...
[ you know, aside from... being chainsawed to death, or drowned in vomit, etc. but dwight assumes steve's talking about his life before the entity dragged him here, so. those things don't really count. ]
I don't really remember what it was, either, but if throwing yourself off a balcony wasn't enough to prove it, then I don't know what is.
Have you tried running a trial on a pot brownie? Ash had some, for some reason. It was a great time. For me anyway, you seemed a little grumpy, but then again your face always looks like that.
Who says you wouldn’t be warm eventually? But if you’re gonna be a baby about it, there’s always Autohaven. Let Wraith see your manly chest hair too. He won’t judge if you happen to be lying.
[ Susie gets it. He really is kind of just like a sad ghost. Trying to convince her not to kill by saying it damages her soul or whatever… Nobody got time for that guilt trip. ]
You’ve never had Dead Dawg hooch? Well, I guess that settles it. Fair warning though, I don’t know what you did to deserve it, but Caleb fucking hates you. So we gotta be careful not to get caught by the cowboy.
( Steve wasn't expecting the touch. it makes him shift, just for a moment, before he decides he doesn't hate it. kinda sad that a girl tracing the line of a hideous bruise is the best spontaneous touch he's had in awhile. if you don't count a heal here or there, just enough to keep his guts from falling out on the floor. and Steve chooses not to count that, actually. )
Maybe it'll be gone by then. ( or maybe he'll be stuck already injured, running around already sore and weakened, and the Entity will like that because he'll start the trial already miserable. hard to say. like running No Mither, only somehow even worse. Steve figures Laurie has admired his bruise enough, shifting his shirt back down over his ribs, and leaning back against the log she's sitting on. braced on his elbows so his sore back doesn't have to touch anything, for right now. )
What's that supposed to mean, ( Steve wonders, brows tucked down, the picture of feigned offense. ) I'm a model survivor. Head down, do gens, hide in lockers, that's me. ( no, he is not a model survivor. he blows up any gen he touches, and spends most of his time trying to make sure people get out alive. maybe that would piss the Entity off, actually. people are supposed to be sad and die, maybe refusing to believe that things are hopeless is slightly less delicious for their spider overlord. )
[ the one thing about Steve is he doesn't get mad as easily as some of the others, which is both irritating as hell and convenient, because it means Laurie can push more before she loses out on socialization. it may seem like she fucking hates him - and maybe she does, who knows - but she also doesn't want to move around by herself, staring into space or the fire. that's boring as fuck. bickering at least keeps her brain from atrophying, even if it makes people hate her a little more each time.
they'll all start to hate each other in the end, won't they? ]
You sound like a girl when you scream and you last time you threw a flash bang you fucking blinded me and I still didn't get out. The only person you suck less than is Dwight.
[ somehow, this is a roundabout compliment, but... he really had fucked up that blind, and maybe Steve ought to serve some penance. he's since dropped his shirt back down, but the bruise is so big that she doesn't need to see it again to bring her hand out and press her fingers into it. ]
You sound like a girl when you scream. ( it's the same insult, a lazy return to sender, but it's the truth. nothing damages Laurie's feral girlboss routine than her regular old terrified teenage girl scream. which Steve really hates, by the way. not that he can claim to enjoy anybody's screams. okay, Claudette's is a little funny, if he can forget the context. sounds like something you'd hear on Looney Toons. Laurie's, though, cuts through an entire realm and sets his teeth on edge. Steve is glad she likes to play gone girl, means he has to hear it less.
Laurie talking shit? expected. Laurie deciding to goose the bloodstains under his skin through his shirt? not expected. he's stiff at the surprise, and then he's not when it passes. it hurts, a little, because of course it does. mostly it's just a weird thrill to have someone touch him so casually. like his brain just forgot people could do that, because they wanted to. has it really been that goddamn long? Steve shifts to catch Laurie's fingers before she can press again. he doesn't let go as he leans toward her, despite the unbalanced way they're positioned. Laurie with the high ground, his fingers still curled around hers. ) Knock it off. What if I'm ticklish?
( Steve is not that ticklish, and even if he was he has an ancient babylonian artifact perfectly imprinted up his side and back, there's little chance provoking Laurie to touch him more would result in laughter. it's stupid to even suggest. Steve usually is a little stupid, when there's a girl around he is trying to impress. it's his toxic trait, dumbassing his way into a laugh. in his defense, it does usually work for him. )
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Date: 2022-09-05 09:33 pm (UTC)2. I can't remember what I did last night, but judging from the state of my hair I had a pretty good time.
3. I really get why people get high. I sat in the same chair for about 3 hours and the only thing I worried about was how far away my Chinese food was.
4. No. No! We are not having sex in the pool. Not happening.
5. ...or text him!
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Date: 2022-09-07 03:03 am (UTC)( he's done his time. He's been a good bestie. it is her turn to do the same, she should be grateful it won't take three hours. )
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Date: 2022-09-07 03:53 am (UTC)show me the bruise
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Date: 2022-09-05 09:48 pm (UTC)I guess it'd be worth a try. And if all else fails, we could see how much you like camping, and we'd have tent options.
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Date: 2022-09-11 03:42 am (UTC)It sounds like a lot of fun. I don't know why you think I'll hate camping.
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Date: 2022-09-05 09:58 pm (UTC)so he sends Dwight the picture, and to his credit, it an impressively detailed looking monstrosity. )
It's a ... what did they call Gizmo, when they fed him after midnight?
One of those things. Teeth and all, how'd that happen, right? Crazy.
pizzawhere.
Date: 2022-09-07 02:00 am (UTC)Gremlins.
[ he tilts his head, squinting at the picture partly because it's gross and partly because he's trying to see what steve sees in it, and... ]
Yeah. Actually.
That's exactly what it looks like.
If you tilt your head a little, I mean.
How's it feel?
Gotta be a step up from... well, pretty much everything else, right?
PIZZA WHEN I say again bc I'm clearly hungry
Date: 2022-09-07 03:51 am (UTC)You don't think I squished one of those little guys on the way down, right?
Shit. Imagine a trial and they're all the size of the tiny twin, only there's like 20 of them.
( it makes a great movie, slightly horrifying when it's real. sorry in advance if he gave the Entity an idea for a feral baby army, Dwight. )
It's not that bad. At least when I'm sitting still. I've had way worse, and those bruises weren't even kind of funny, so.
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Date: 2022-09-08 02:47 am (UTC)No.
No, I don't think I will imagine that.
Every time I hear the one we've already got, I feel like my neck is gonna shrivel down into my shoulders.
One kind-of-Gremlin is more than enough.
[ but now that steve's said it, dwight wouldn't put it past the entity to drop a bunch of little gremlins into its realm just to watch them run wild. and what better test subject that dwight himself? steve better hope the entity has other plans!! ]
Way worse?
You fell from the second story and landed on concrete, Steve.
After being stabbed.
I'm not sure I want to know how it gets worse than that...
[ you know, aside from... being chainsawed to death, or drowned in vomit, etc. but dwight assumes steve's talking about his life before the entity dragged him here, so. those things don't really count. ]
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Date: 2022-09-05 10:05 pm (UTC)Have you tried running a trial on a pot brownie? Ash had some, for some reason. It was a great time. For me anyway, you seemed a little grumpy, but then again your face always looks like that.
listen i ALWAYS have time for david's new bestie
Date: 2022-09-06 09:37 am (UTC)Fucking explains why you blew that gen four times in a row.
Don't know if I should be more annoyed you were in the trial high or that you didn't share.
his bestie???? 🥹 who says we can't have nice things in the fog
Date: 2022-09-07 03:36 am (UTC)I figured you were gonna give me the stern, disappointed tough guy lecture, figured I'd save that for after the buzz.
just don't tell david we can't let him know his new bff is a kid
Date: 2022-09-07 07:27 am (UTC)I don't do lectures, I'm not your dad.
no problem. steve won't tell everyone they're friends at all
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Date: 2022-09-05 10:13 pm (UTC)( he's joking. right? mostly joking. let's say mostly joking. )
i was gonna move it but then we got a heatwave and it’s been too hot to think lol 😭
Date: 2022-09-05 10:20 pm (UTC)Who says you wouldn’t be warm eventually? But if you’re gonna be a baby about it, there’s always Autohaven. Let Wraith see your manly chest hair too. He won’t judge if you happen to be lying.
look it took me like a week and it wasnt even hot here... i have no excuse...
Date: 2022-09-06 01:20 am (UTC)( something about that vacant head tilt. like a murderous puppy. )
What about the cowboy place? Not cold and some nice background music. Maybe one of the bottles is even still drinkable.
but you have school!! so that is fair. our heat yesterday got to 112F huff
Date: 2022-09-06 02:52 am (UTC)You’ve never had Dead Dawg hooch? Well, I guess that settles it. Fair warning though, I don’t know what you did to deserve it, but Caleb fucking hates you. So we gotta be careful not to get caught by the cowboy.
✨yikes✨ i do not blame u whatsoever it has been 95ish here and it sucks
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Date: 2022-09-05 10:18 pm (UTC)( Steve is choosing not to unpack why the Wraith's weapon seems to have a skull on the end of it. )
Look, you'll get it when you see it. Trust me.
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Date: 2022-09-06 01:30 am (UTC)Maybe it'll be gone by then. ( or maybe he'll be stuck already injured, running around already sore and weakened, and the Entity will like that because he'll start the trial already miserable. hard to say. like running No Mither, only somehow even worse. Steve figures Laurie has admired his bruise enough, shifting his shirt back down over his ribs, and leaning back against the log she's sitting on. braced on his elbows so his sore back doesn't have to touch anything, for right now. )
What's that supposed to mean, ( Steve wonders, brows tucked down, the picture of feigned offense. ) I'm a model survivor. Head down, do gens, hide in lockers, that's me. ( no, he is not a model survivor. he blows up any gen he touches, and spends most of his time trying to make sure people get out alive. maybe that would piss the Entity off, actually. people are supposed to be sad and die, maybe refusing to believe that things are hopeless is slightly less delicious for their spider overlord. )
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Date: 2022-09-14 02:59 pm (UTC)they'll all start to hate each other in the end, won't they? ]
You sound like a girl when you scream and you last time you threw a flash bang you fucking blinded me and I still didn't get out. The only person you suck less than is Dwight.
[ somehow, this is a roundabout compliment, but... he really had fucked up that blind, and maybe Steve ought to serve some penance. he's since dropped his shirt back down, but the bruise is so big that she doesn't need to see it again to bring her hand out and press her fingers into it. ]
laurie please u have to know that's his favorite kind
Date: 2022-09-14 09:11 pm (UTC)Laurie talking shit? expected. Laurie deciding to goose the bloodstains under his skin through his shirt? not expected. he's stiff at the surprise, and then he's not when it passes. it hurts, a little, because of course it does. mostly it's just a weird thrill to have someone touch him so casually. like his brain just forgot people could do that, because they wanted to. has it really been that goddamn long? Steve shifts to catch Laurie's fingers before she can press again. he doesn't let go as he leans toward her, despite the unbalanced way they're positioned. Laurie with the high ground, his fingers still curled around hers. ) Knock it off. What if I'm ticklish?
( Steve is not that ticklish, and even if he was he has an ancient babylonian artifact perfectly imprinted up his side and back, there's little chance provoking Laurie to touch him more would result in laughter. it's stupid to even suggest. Steve usually is a little stupid, when there's a girl around he is trying to impress. it's his toxic trait, dumbassing his way into a laugh. in his defense, it does usually work for him. )
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