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Alex Summers ([personal profile] redhotsummers) wrote2016-06-04 08:07 pm
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Alex Summers (29)
I'm a human electric blanket.

And by human, I mean mutant. If you got a problem with that, you can fuck right off.
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[personal profile] medals 2016-11-01 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm good just now. I mean, I might need one after you tell me how you ended up with a little brother dropped on your lap. But so far so good.

[It's possible that Jem came back to Eudio with a hangover. In fact, it's very, very likely. Still: she settles onto the couch (kicks her shoes off for maximum comfort) and curls up at his side.]

Spill.
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[personal profile] redhotsummers 2016-11-01 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)

...do you want the light version, or the depressing version?

[She can choose to skip parts; he still feels weird telling people about his newfound truth about impending doom, like he's ruining their day. But he trusts Jem with things more than most. He sighs and tugs her in a bit closer, keeping her tucked up against his warmth.]

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[personal profile] medals 2016-11-01 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Whichever's easiest, Alex. [Warning bells might be going off in her head, but she's unloaded enough of her own baggage onto people that having some dumped on her only seems fair.]
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[personal profile] redhotsummers 2016-11-01 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)

I don't know if it's easy. [Any of it. It sighs, and just sort of rests his head on hers, breathing out.]

So apparently in a couple years, back home, I meet Scott. I don't know the whole story, but apparently my parents had Scott and kept him. You know, instead of putting him up for adoption like they did with me. He's only 18 though--but I'm 38 when he last saw me. Has powers too--but his beams come through his eyes; has to wear special glasses to keep them contained. He's a good guy I'm-- [Alex lets out a little fond laugh] I've known him for two months, and I love him. It's like I've known him forever. And he's definitely my brother.

[A beat, then just some struggle because--]

He's here to save me. I'm...I died.

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[personal profile] medals 2016-11-03 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's ... well, she can't lie and say it's not a lot to take in. It is. She can't imagine what kind of pain someone must feel to find out they've got a family that's simply lived their lives without them. Or having to adjust to having them suddenly come into your life.

To find out that you're going to die. She's quiet, afterwards. Her hand moves reach over his lap, taking his and threading her fingers through his own. She squeezes and breathes out, and then, finally, quietly:] Oh, Alex.

[There aren't any right words, she supposes. ]
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[personal profile] redhotsummers 2016-11-07 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...yeah.

And--and Raleigh left?

[There's that, too. Left him. Obviously Alex can go visit, but he feels weird, when Raleigh is dealing with reconnecting with his dead brother, and here is Alex being the dead brother reconnecting with his. He just feels...abandoned, when he needed Raleigh most. Still, he just sighs and curls up around her a bit tighter, squeezing her hand back. here is Jem, showing back up when he needed her. Not on purpose, but she always had been a good friend, and he missed her so much. Her being here, being able to rely on her...it means a lot to him.

Letting out a little shuddered breath, he sighs.]

Yeah. I mean, at least I don't die until I'm 38? So I got another ten years? And it's not--it's not even going to be 'me' since I'm changing things so much, by being here. But still. I just--I always knew I wouldn't get a happy ending, but thinking that, and knowing...

[So different.]
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[personal profile] medals 2016-11-08 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Alex really has been through the ringer. Jem, even with her bleeding heart and desire to simply make things better, cannot really comprehend how he must be feeling. Sure, she knows what it's like to be left behind. But, also, she followed. Not immediately, but she did, in the end. She doesn't know what it's like to know how she'll die, but she imagines she'd probably not cope well with it at all.

None of that stops her twisting and pulling Alex down for a very firm cuddle. ] You're just gonna have to make sure you don't bloody die now. Simple as that. What's the point in making a whole new future if you don't try to live by forty?

[Of course he's going to try, though. He's got a brother to meet. A life to live, now. ] You're gonna get a happy ending now. I know it's a bit shit and miserable, knowing the if's and -- and all that. But it's just an if now, isn't it?
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[personal profile] redhotsummers 2016-11-11 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Alex wants to follow; he always planned on it. But it's harder now. So much more complicated. Sighing, he just cuddles, wrapping around her, warm and welcoming.]

It's all about alternate futures though, isn't it? It's all a clusterfuck now. Who knows what will happen, now.

Which--I know, means I might not die. But doesn't change I die and leave a little brother who adores me, alone. I didn't...

--its just never enough.

[He presses his lips to her forehead.]

Yeah, I guess. I'm always just a pessimist.
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[personal profile] medals 2016-11-12 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I think if you're worrying about every outcome it's just ... too much. You might not even go back to the same as him, you know? But he'll have saved you anyway. He won't be alone. And you -- you'll have all the stuff you wanted to sort out sorted and you'll have a little brother to look forward to seeing.

[A weak smile, and an arm wrapping around his middle. She squeezes. ] Sounds happy enough to me.
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[personal profile] redhotsummers 2016-11-13 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Alex laughs; it feels good to, and it sounds through his chest.] Hey, that's what I do. I either don't think at all, or think too much. It's never in between.

But yeah, look at me, joining the ranks of you, having a brother.

It's funny; I've known him for two months but...it just fits, you know? He's definitely my brother. And I love him--it's crazy, how that happens. I don't get it.
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[personal profile] medals 2016-11-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait till you start getting on each others nerves. Or he steals your stuff.

[See, Jem: stealer of stuff. ] I'm really happy for you Alex.
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[personal profile] redhotsummers 2016-11-14 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, all of that will seem sort of neat, at first.

[He smiles.]

A small tiny thing going right, you know?

[He rubs her back.]

Well, besides you coming back, too. Though--if you're back...something wrong?
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[personal profile] medals 2016-11-14 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, just had stuff to fix. Lot's of boring stuff. Definitely not as exciting as you getting the chance to terrorise a little brother later one.
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[personal profile] redhotsummers 2016-11-15 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
I doubt any of it's boring, but I get it. [He sighs, just relaxing.]

I'll introduce you to him, if you want. He's a sarcastic little shit, but I think that's the Summers charm.
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[personal profile] medals 2016-11-20 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I can handle him.

[Almost certainly, actually. ] Me and my big brother made sarcasm a sport, honestly. The only one either of us were any good at it.
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[personal profile] redhotsummers 2016-11-21 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)

[He laughs a little, shifting so he can run his fingers through her hair.]

Yeah well I'd say you'd place in the sarcasm olympics. Part of your charm, of course.

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