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[entrapments]

Just so it can't be said that I'm a girl who doesn't follow through- ta daaaa.



And before you think about making fun of it, consider that I am seriously hung over and still managed to make this stupid thing without using comic sans, okay? That's an act of mercy. I'm pretty much a saint with that kind of self-restraint. [ it's hard to see the girl in question, when she's busy flashing this ugly calendar at you, but glimpses of Hayley's face can be seen from time to time, peeking out from under the hood of a sweatshirt. ]

I took the liberty of arbitrarily assigning holidays after what everyone was kinda talking about the last time I asked? And then like, threw in a few of my own. Holidays are in red, because hey nothing terrible ever happens when things in red end up on the network right? Okay! Ummmmm.

Something-tember the 4th is go find a personified country that gardens and follow him around for an hour asking the most irritating questions you can think of day.

Something-tember the 14th, as every second decided upon Wednesday of every made up month, is slap a lawyer on the ass day.

Annnnnd Something-tember the 21st through 23rd is Space Thanksgiving, because I like eating and holidays built around food should always last more than one day because. Food-comas. And you know, pie. Which is a thing that frankly, should just happen more than one day a month, alright?

But there you have it. Ask and you shall receive etcetera etcetera.
Man what does this say about me and my free time.



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Alright so I know I don't actually know some of you guys or whatever, but we're a bunch of teenagers running around a ship with murdering whackos, nightmare fog, and maneating monster-beasts. Not to start a mousketeers group or anything, but like- I figured it couldn't hurt to start checking some stuff out on our own for a change?

It's not like anyone else is getting stuff done.

Thoughts?
And for the record, I'm immediately vetoing any and all Scooby-Doo suggestions.

Comments

[entrapments]

What this is like some- some kind of assassination attempt?

[theyalldieforme]

Something like that, yeah.

[He scratches the back of his head, pausing for a minute]

That's about as much as I can explain.

[entrapments]

[ she bites her bottom lip ]
You're still in danger.

[theyalldieforme]

My mom thinks so.

[entrapments]

Your mom does, but you don't?

[theyalldieforme]

I think I'm never safe.

[entrapments]

Doesn't it get tiring?
Constantly wondering what's next?

[theyalldieforme]

[He looks at his bottle of water, just so he doesn't have to look at her]

Yes.

[He almost shot himself, once, because of it.]

[entrapments]

[ there's something in that. something he isn't saying, and something, maybe, that she can pick up in the air between them.

her hand crosses the distance where her voice doesn't, and she covers his fingers with her own. ]

[theyalldieforme]

[He turns his hands, his fingers catching hers]

[entrapments]

What's it mean for you, if you go back home.

[theyalldieforme]

My sister's dead. My uncle's dead. I'll never see my mom again.

[He leans back a little, but he's still holding onto her hand]

My girlfriend's dead.

[entrapments]

[ god.

her mouth tightens into a line, the place where i'm sorry should be, and isn't. hayley don't look at him, but she stays. a fixed point. ]

Why don't you just- give up?

[theyalldieforme]

If I give up then they died for nothing.

[entrapments]

They died for you.

[theyalldieforme]

[Those are Derek's words, almost exactly, and John says them to Hayley without thinking about it.]

They all die for me.

[entrapments]

[ how anyone, let alone a kid, is supposed to do anything with that kind of baggage, is totally beyond her. Hayley's brows draw together, but her voice stays quiet. ]

You're, you're some kind of hero then, is that it?

[theyalldieforme]

[He shrugs]

I don't really think I believe in heroes. My dad was one, I guess. He taught my mom a lot. My uncle was supposed to be one.

[entrapments]

But other people think you are. That you're supposed to be.

[theyalldieforme]

Yeah. I guess they do.

[entrapments]

What're you supposed to save them from?

[theyalldieforme]

[He takes a breath]

A computer system called Skynet.

[He's never said that to anyone. Anyone except Martin Bedell, who dies for him one day, who dies to protect him. It's so stupid, so preposterous, what if Hayley is a machine, some sleepy part of his brain wakes up to say.

Too late. The words are out there.]

[entrapments]

[ okay wait, stop everything. her eyes squeeze shut. it's not that she doesn't believe him- because that haunted look in his face says everything. but- her hand slips loose of his, and she scrubs at her face. ]

So- so you're like, raging against the literal machine here, this is some War of the Worlds, Terminator stuff.

[theyalldieforme]

[He turns his head, fast, so fast that it's not just a gaze. He's looking at her now, his hand tightening on her wrist.]

What did you say?

[Terminator, she used that word, Sarah calls them that, the machines.]

1/of wait for itttttt

[entrapments]

[ she goes unnaturally still in his grip- it isn't the first time he's touched her without warning. isn't the first time she's reigned in impulse, and her eyes search his face. confusion. ]

War of the Worlds? HG Wells book about martians sending killing machines down to Earth that lay waste to London?

And Terminator was the Schwarzenegger movie about a cyborg assasain sent back in time to kill a lady so she doesn't have a ba-

[ oh.


oh no. ]