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

[punchesyu]

[He sighs, looking down at the spot where Maxxie's nudged him.]

I don't know dude...I keep having these weird visions. I know it sounds sorta nuts...

[He doesn't want to say "But I'm not the only one" quite yet.]

[notahobby]

[Maxxie frowns, but it's a worried frown of someone who can relate.]

What... kind of visions?

[punchesyu]

[For some reason, he feels weird telling Maxxie now. He shifts uncomfortably, but takes a deep breath. Calm down, Yosuke.]

Just...stuff that I don't remember ever happening. Stuff that's way out there that shouldn't be real.

[notahobby]

[Maxxie's hesitant, looking over his shoulder to make sure no one else can hear them.]

Like things you did but you know you didn't really do? Or people that you feel like you know but you never met them before?

[punchesyu]

[Maxxie is repeating words that he's heard before from other people, with a small deviation. His eyes widen, knowingly, before he speaks again.]

You too, right? [He says in confirmation to Maxxie's own question.]

[notahobby]

[He hesitates again, wondering just how much he should tell Yosuke.]

It's just little things, like... this fight I had with my dad, except I never actually fought with my dad like that, and he seemed... different. I don't know how to explain it.

[punchesyu]

Nothing to do with dead people or anything?

[That was the most important question right now, a theory he and Jamie had formed.]

[notahobby]

[Maxxie frowns.]

...no.

[punchesyu]

[On one hand, he looks relieved, on the other, he looks perplexed by that information.]

I was talking about it with someone else, and it seems like a lot of people are suffering from the same thing...and so there might be more to the fight you had with your dad.

[notahobby]

[Maxxie looks nervous and defensive. Something tells him they shouldn't be talking about it, that he should be dismissing all of this as unreasonable.]

I told you, that fight never happened. And my dad's alive, he's...

[...with his mother, in Bristol. Still. Right, no reason to get upset. It's totally normal that Maxxie hasn't spoken to them in months. He's just been so busy.]

He's fine.

[punchesyu]

[There's something in the way that Maxxie says it that has Yosuke going along with it- like that sounded right, that there's probably nothing that happened at all, like it was all in his head...

...but he shakes his head a few times. It's been a lot of people, not just him and Maxxie.]

When was the last time you talked to him?

[notahobby]

[Maxxie shrugs his shoulders, frowning deeply and anyone who knows him knows that this is the hackles going up. He wants to stop talking about this now, please.]

I dunno! I've been really busy, alright? Can we stop?

[punchesyu]

Okay, okay! Forget it then.

[He says apologetically, dropping it. His hands come up in front of him, and Yosuke decides for a topic switch.]

Let's get the chefs to make us some shakes or something. So we can chill till this stupid ass lockdown is over, that cool?

[notahobby]

[Maxxie relaxes a little, though he still gives Yosuke a suspicious glance before he nods.]

Sure. Sounds good.