Locked in a Room

[dishevelment]

Who: Everyone stuck in Pride HQ
What: This load of crap.
When: Nov. 1-5
Where Pride HQ
Warnings: Pg-13 minimum because Carnies. Tag if it gets over that.


Everyone got the same call-- and now we're all stuck in HQ with no hint of release in sight.

The reason? No one knows.

How are you coping?

Comments

[gunslingerqueen]

[While it might be difficult to classify the noise she makes it's a happy one. If she were a cat it might be a purr, but human lungs just don't work like that, so the nearest equivalent has to do.]

So I should start telling horrible jokes, then? [Because Terry hasn't laughed enough, and she's at least got enough energy to try and rectify that.

Especially if he rewards her with more hair-toying.]

[traumatizing]

God no. Not unless you're trying to make me scream.

[She can have all the hair-toying she wants regardless of whether or not Terry laughs, as demonstrated by the way he spends some time toying idly with the hair at the base of her scalp. Evidently he's done brushing it for her.]

[gunslingerqueen]

Why shouldn't kids watch symphonies on TV?

[Too bad, Terry! She's gonna go ahead and tell the bad jokes while also receiving the best form of platonic attention in the world. She doesn't even care about brushing. She actually only thinks of getting him to smile, and enjoying this moment.]

[traumatizing]

Oh no.

[Terry groans, dreading the punchline already. Why is this his life.]

[gunslingerqueen]

There's too much sax and violins!

[She is funny, dammit!!!]

[traumatizing]

Oh my god.

[There is a laugh in there, but mostly he's groaning in despair at those puns.]

[gunslingerqueen]

That was amazing and you know it!

[She pokes both cheeks gently as if this will somehow yank more laughter out of him.]

[traumatizing]

No, it was awful.

[But he'll allow himself to laugh. You win this time, Nariko.]

[gunslingerqueen]

If it was really that bad you wouldn't be laughing!

[And if nothing else the fact that she's beaming with utter joy has to count for something, anyway. This feels normal and right, so far away from their recent events that she's almost back to normal now.]