hypoxic: (though I'm alone)
Leo Fitz ([personal profile] hypoxic) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2017-08-08 11:53 pm

I would break the laws of gravity

Who: Leo Fitz and OPEN (log is for all, some closed starters in comments)
Where: Checkerboard Hills
When: August 9th, just past midnight
Rating: PG+
Summary: Man returns to Wonderland after two months at home under heavy stress. Man throws toddler-level tantrum in public space. As adults are wont to do.
The Story:

[Apparently, the stories are true. When one leaves Wonderland, one is thrust back home without memory. There's nothing to prevent the mistakes he should know to avoid, no way to apply the emotional developments he's earned. It's just the harsh progression of time, doing what time wishes. And there's no way to stop it from bringing them back before they're ready to come back.

When Fitz arrives, it's facedown into a patch of eternally-manicured grass. The memories hit all at once, but they're not memories he wants. He doesn't need to know about a ridiculous fantasy dimension holding people hostage. He was kind of in the middle of something a little life-or-death...!

It's too much to hold, and far more than he can process. Instead of wandering back to the mansion and settling back into his personal space, he stays where he is, pulling himself up to his hands and knees and tearing at the grass in open distress, shouting out at nothing and everything all at once.]


Not now! There's no time for this!

[Some people hit pillows. Right now, he's technically landscaping. And he's definitely not tearing up. That's probably all the dirt he's dislodging.]
bravejemma: (skeptic)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-14 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you're going to have to fill me in on what it is you know. Since I... well, I wasn't technically there.

[She pushes herself up and out of bed, towards him. She isn't going to forget to get the story out of him.]
bravejemma: (i'mma cut you)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-14 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't mean I had half a notion of what I was doing.

[To say nothing of the fact that was quite awhile ago -- nearly a year now. After all, it was really more his wheelhouse than hers.]
bravejemma: (uncertainty)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-14 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never found you difficult to trust.

[Of the two of them, it's usually herself that she opts not to trust.]

But of the two of us, I'm also not the one who's been secretive about what they're doing.

[She's not throwing it in his face, or blaming -- but he has a pattern of not telling her things. And it's hard to feel as though the pattern is going to continue, now that he knows things she doesn't.]
bravejemma: (go away)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-14 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[There is something of a BIG MOOD about the portals, as the kids would say. But truthfully, it sounds like her.]

If I handled it poorly there [you know, where she isn't] then I'm sorry. It's -- surely you must know it was complicated. I know how I would feel if you asked me what I've clearly asked of you.

[A lesser man would walk away and not look back.]
bravejemma: (crying)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-14 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[For a minute she wonders if she's still asleep and dreaming, all that coming from Fitz, Mr. Box It Away And Never Speak Of It Again himself, but this is, of course, not the case."

I'm not suffering -- not any more than anyone else around here, and usually for Wonderland-induced reasons. I told you about Will, and what... happened...

[Is this that? Is this that being new and fresh for him, having experienced it again, at home, like an old hurt being made in new and interesting ways?]

I'm sorry this is fresh for you. But -- it's been almost a year, for me. I can only know how I feel here. Now.
bravejemma: (oh please)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-14 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[The air leaves her as quickly as if she'd had the breath knocked out of her. Of course not Will, he was just a man who couldn't say no to the promise of adventure, as much a pawn as anyone else has ever been. She feels a little cold and has gone numb.]

Of course it was. It's always goddamned Hydra.

[She is going to light them all on fire.]
bravejemma: (fighting)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-15 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Of course they do.

[That thing -- Will only ever called it It, and he'd known enough to give it a wide berth -- and was crazy enough to hold it off as she ran to Fitz, ran to home.

She swallows. Maybe she isn't as okay as she'd professed.]

It will always be them, won't it?
bravejemma: (oh please)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-15 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Jemma is SO TIRED of Grant bloody Ward. If she were a less composed woman, she might scream.]

Like a bad penny, that one.
bravejemma: (fitzsimmons)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-15 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Small favors, then.

... That he's not here. Not what Klaus did.

[That's actually a pretty big favor. But it's not enough to calm the agitation, and the feeling that she should be able to help this. But none of that is Fitz's fault.

She comes to sit by him, close and uncertain at first.]

So what do we have to do here?
bravejemma: (hand porn)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-15 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Her smile is muted, but genuine. She laid her head on his shoulder, all the closer.]

That's perfectly all right.
bravejemma: (swimming)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-15 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Part of her wants to say not to make promises he may not be able to keep, but she doesn't. Because if anyone will keep that promise to her, he will, come hell or high water and anything else that should happen.]

And I to you.

[She pauses.]

Though I suppose in practice, that's been more "I'll try, and if it doesn't work, you can come get me."

[It's supposed to be a joke, but it's a little too self-deprecating to be funny. Oh well.]
bravejemma: (home)

[personal profile] bravejemma 2017-08-15 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[A long, dusty party where she kissed another man? Some metaphors were really not worth carrying to their logical end, she reflected.]

Precisely that.

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