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Stiles Stilinski ([personal profile] teenyoda) wrote in [community profile] eachdraidh2014-07-15 12:25 am

Video - Seelie/Unseelie (Memory)

[If Stiles had been asked which memory he would have thought would have been forcibly pulled from his brain and broadcast to the entire Drabwurld, he never would have thought it would have been the one chosen by the star. With how his life had been lately, he would have expected something along the lines of screaming and death and pain and blood. Hurt. He'd expected to hurt.

He did, but in a different sort of way.]
[The boy that came running down the stairs had to have been about six or seven, dark hair tufted and sticking up, pajamas emblazoned with iconic little Batman symbols as bare feet padded over carpeted floors, down a set of stairs and over to the large Christmas tree set up in the corner. There was no snow outside (duh, California), but there was fake snow sprayed all over the windows, snowflake decals added to give it a winter feel. There was a gasp, little hands moving up to cover a mouth open in an 'o' of surprised glee at the presents piled up under the tree. The boy went over, pulling one out and shaking it, then looking up the stairs with a sort of thoughtful look. Maybe he could open just one before...]

Put that down, Stiles. Let us at least get a little coffee in us first?

[His dad came down the stairs, flannel pj pants and a tshirt half covered by a robe. He was yawning and scratching at his belly as he shuffled towards the kitchen. A woman followed after, looking just as sleepy but giving him a fond smile as she came over, her robe closed as she went to sit on the couch.]

Oh, let him open just one. It'll help him take the edge off, right, baby?

[The woman smiled at the boy and the boy jumped up, coming over to throw small arms around her neck and give her an enthusiastic kiss. The woman laughed and ruffled his hair, pushing him back over to the tree.]

Go on, then. One to tide you over until your old, grumpy parents get some caffeine in them.

[His dad sighed and looked over at her, but he clearly wasn't actually all that put out.]

You know you spoil him.

He's a baby. He's supposed to be spoiled.

I am not. I'm almost seven. That's practically all grown up.

See, mom? Practically a man already.

[The man laughed and set up the coffee maker before coming over and sitting heavily in a chair.]

Well, go on, then. It's two against one. Majority rules.

[The boy grinned, coming over and giving his dad a thankful hug before he went over to the tree, picking out one of the medium packages because he wanted to build up anticipation for that big one in the corner.

There were flickers of how that morning continued; paper everywhere, ribbons tied in hair both long and short, happy smiles as socks were oohed and ahhed over, gifts made by small hands fussed over and elated squeals of glee over the large box, which turned out to be a Star Wars compilation present with Lego sets and a pair of light sabers that would be used the next day with Scott. They'd both be broken in four months. The image flickered and faded with the three of them on the couch, the boy sitting on the woman's lap, playing with a strand of hair as the man sat beside them, showing them something in a book he'd gotten from his wife.]

IN THE MORNING
[With eyes a little red, he addressed the network.]

So... guess there's nothing we can do to stop that, huh?

[What he really wanted to ask is if there was a way to save it.]
steeledskin: ( neutral: action, sewing ) (# sings hymns at heaven's gate)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-20 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps it is some...naturally unnatural mode possessed by the lockets. [ indeed -- they have not been here for long. is it not possible that this is something the artful jewellery could do, and only over time its function becomes known? she shivers at the thought.

she, too, has things she doesn't want others to see. ]
And if so, we needs must be more careful how we keep them.
steeledskin: ( neutral: conversational, stoic, curious ) (# i have looked at it so long)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-20 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
-- Would it be enough to make you stop keeping it upon your person?

[ because that, she suddenly realizes, would disappoint her. she likes her would-be allies being so easily contacted. ]
steeledskin: ( neutral: concern, conversation, stoic ) (# they're just dreams)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-20 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I understand.

[ and she did. so much so that she would not question his statements. she would not probe them. ] Then -- for my sake -- I pray the lockets are not at fault.

[ it could be taken one of two ways, really. that she preferred being able to ring him up with ease, or that she dreaded having to commit their contact only to in-person encounters. ]
steeledskin: ( negative/neutral: stoic, conversational ) (# strength of women)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-20 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ a soft hum. there is little more to be said on that subject.

except: ]
Why was there a tree inside?

[ back to that vision. that memory. she picks at the part she hopes is least scabbed. ]
steeledskin: (# i wouldn't kill to win a war)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-20 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
But trees can't grow if they're not outside.

[ what is this. ]
steeledskin: (# the one about a lover)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-21 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ she wants to leech of his nostalgia. she wants to take vicarious comfort in his old memories, mingling them with her own craving for easier days. happier months. a whole family! so she leans in nearer the locket and picks for details: ] When you were seven, was yours...fake? Or real?

[ not that she entirely understands the concept of a fake tree. but at least she understands the concept of fake itself. ]
steeledskin: ( negative/neutral: snark, coy, conversational ) (# most of the time i meditate)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-21 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ the more she dwells on the thought -- the more she considers it -- sansa chooses to interpret this festival and these trees as one thing her northern family might have in common with stiles's strange otherworldly existence. it isn't a point she can share with him, just as she cannot tell him about her own mother. or even her own father. but she can nurture it in her thoughts like a little seedling. a tree of friendships to come. ]

I confess it's rather pretty. Twinkling and glittering.
steeledskin: ( negative/neutral: action, stoic, scheme, sad ) (# and twist your arctic heart)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-21 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ tinsel. logic dictates that the tinsel must indeed be the pretty sheening wreaths 'round the prickled branches. and so sansa finds she does not have to ask. she guesses, instead. ]

Christmas. [ she remembers the word. she tastes it on her tongue and imagines it like candied oranges. ] When is it celebrated? You ought to find a good tree and make it just as pretty. Here in the castle. I would like to see it.
steeledskin: ( positive/neutral: stoic ) (# i'm really not the killing type)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-21 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ the best dinner. in winter. she finds it difficult to believe -- given how low the stores become in those cold years. ]

I can't say I've ever met anyone who feasts for winter. [ she cocks her head at the locket like some sort of curious historian studying a strange artefact. ]
steeledskin: (# the parts i dread)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-21 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
...And lemon cakes?

[ she sounds straight-up hopeful. alayne, she supposes, should not be so invested in the treat. but it once again slips through unheeded. ]
steeledskin: (# hearts on a string)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-22 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Winter brings a kind of...scarcity to lemons in my lands. How decadent it must be to have just the possibility of those cakes in the dead of ice and snow.
steeledskin: ( neutral: action, blush loras ) (# like to the lark at break of day)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2014-07-23 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh, she would tell him about the glass houses in winterfell if she could. she would explain the pretty hothouse flowers that grew there. but she cannot. will not. would not. ]

It does not sound so greedy. It sounds...comfortable. Is it greedy to be comfortable, Stiles?

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