impetuous: (felt like I was in a cockfight)
VI ([personal profile] impetuous) wrote in [community profile] paradisa2012-05-28 10:27 pm
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this fight he cannot win

[ Forward dated to Wednesday ]

[ clinic filter ]

[ Gwaine opens and closes his fist. The needle is stuck to his hand with some sticky white bandages. He cannot remember doing it, but apparently he tried to rip it out more than once. Finally, they practically bound his entire hand stiff.

He itches to get out of the bed, but the last time he tried he felt so weak and dizzy he almost collapsed. His head feels a lot clearer now, but his body is still heavy. Gwaine had been sleeping for the past few days. Not castle-induced, he'd been told, but drug-induced. To treat him for withdrawal, they'd said. He hadn't understood much of the explanation, but he got the gist. He drank too much; it was bad for him; stopping like he did could have killed him; resuming would probably eventually kill him.

Didn't seem like he could win any way he looked at it.

He returns to picking at the tapes. They left a dark grey sticky mark that does not come off no matter how much he rubs at it. Finally, he gives up and returns to staring out the windows. He catches sight of the journal out of the corner of his eye. Picking it up, he flips it open. Gwaine stops breathing.

The damn thing recorded him when he was out with his daughter and her sister.

Gwaine hurls it away from him.
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[ room filter ]

[ Sneaking out of the clinic was almost ridiculously easy. He had half a mind to flee into the town and as far as he can get from the castle in his current state. Instead he is in front of Morgana's door. Gwaine has no idea what brought him here. No, that's a lie. He knows why he is here. He hates himself and feels like death warmed over so why shouldn't he seek out the one person here who can destroy him with a flash of green eyes?

She is dangerous. She does not need magic or steel. She is a weapon. A knife from her words to her body twisting in your wound as you already lay on the ground bleeding. Smooth and cold and sharp and beauteous. There are no happy endings. This isn't a song. And yet.

Vindictiveness lines in his actions as well. She will not want to see him. Some small and spiteful part of him wants her unhappy, wants her to feel even a shadow of what he does, wants to know he can drive her mad as she does him.

A smaller piece just wants to see her.

He is weak and she is vicious and this is treason and he will pay for this and yet. And yet.
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[ Jo ]

I, uh...I need a place to lie low for a few days. Know of a good one?
save_the_souls: (have a little faith)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-05-29 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a voice coming from the entry area of where Gwaine is located, Allen's in the doorway.]

Gwaine. You're awake.
huntersdaughter: ([expressive] on the way)

Gwaine ]

[personal profile] huntersdaughter 2012-05-29 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
I've got a spare room. It's yours if you need it. [She'd missed out on seeing him lately, but Gwaine was family - a screwed up castle built family, but she is always going to be there for him.]

Otherwise, I can see what I can find in the city if you need something to yourself.
save_the_souls: (he's still alive)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-05-29 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He takes a couple steps in]

How are you feeling?
save_the_souls: (an uphill road)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-05-29 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
A train?

[He'll let him save face. For now]
huntersdaughter: ([expressive] sure)

Gwaine ]

[personal profile] huntersdaughter 2012-05-29 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[She's a bit worn out from Hannah leaving, personally, Chase is still a Ken Doll... who recently lost is head, and so she can understand the not-alone part.]

Come by the house whenever you're ready. I'll leave the back door unlocked. I don't open tomorrow so I'll be up all night. [She has to keep the same hours on nights before she closes, it just helps her to stay up for those long late shifts.]

Plus, I have to put the gallery back to the way it was. [Before it became a finger painting gallery.]
save_the_souls: (listening intently)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-05-29 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, well I'm hardly surprised about that.
save_the_souls: (chilling with a coat)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-05-29 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Please stop that, it could take out the needle.

[He stands at the side of the bed]

What happened, Gwaine?
huntersdaughter: ([expressive] Crop over shoulder)

action → forever

[personal profile] huntersdaughter 2012-05-29 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[She hears the door open and moves down the stairs to see if he needs any help... which he does. She won't judge and isn't going to make him feel bad for walking all this way alone. She could've gone to him, walked with him, but now she'll just help him up the stairs.]

C'mon, we'll get you some water.
save_the_souls: (you just don't know)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-05-29 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Gwaine you are not that stupid, you know what I mean. What happened.

And I want the truth. No more runaround.
save_the_souls: (its you and me against the world Tim)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-05-29 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Gwaine!
huntersdaughter: ([expressive] Thoughtful Eyebrow Raise)

[personal profile] huntersdaughter 2012-05-29 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[She helps him to the couch and moves to the kitchen to get him some water. She'll try juice later, but for now she figures the fluids are the important thing. Returning to sit beside him, she hands him the glass.]

Here's some water. I'm gonna get a cool clothe to try and help you get cleaned up a bit. You probably don't feel so hot. [Since you look like Hell. She'll get a washcloth and wring it with water before returning to sit beside him. Jo folds it up and presses it to his temple.]

If I'm a hassle, lemme know. I'll back off.
save_the_souls: (cause I'm not here)

WOOOO

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-05-29 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
If you had- what?

I don't blame you for not knowing that this could occur -a lot of people don't. But I'm trying to understand what is going on. [did he quit by his own free will, was he stuck in a bind that wouldn't let him? Allen sadly....is completely in the dark here]
save_the_souls: (huff)

[personal profile] save_the_souls 2012-05-29 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Because we weren't going to let you die, of course.

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