I would break the laws of gravity

[hypoxic]

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.]

Comments

[poppycock]

[ he would give in a heartbeat. this klaus knows. this he's witnessed. he's witnessing it now, not only in fitz's offer but in his continued willingness to help —

to find a way home. to create stratagems against their mirrors.

to be his confidante, his partner, his friend. ]

You were thinking with your heart, and your head. [ there's a reason he got up to do what leo asked, and not only because of friendship. because he understands. he understands the paranoia and the anger, needing action to facilitate a grasp on the situation.

leo would not settle without it, and he — well there's a reason why his paranoia has served him. it's often right. leopold's could easily be as well. grant ward is by all accounts a viper. he is dangerous and deadly and would hide, if given the chance.

he blinks at fitz's offer to help him. klaus thinks if marcel or lucien or any one in the long line of klaus' enemies were to knock on his door, he wouldn't involve leopold unless absolutely necessary. he wouldn't want to invite him into harm's way. better his enemies know nothing about him so he cannot be harmed and used against him.

he will not lie. ]

If necessary, I would.

[hypoxic]

I've been told that thinking with my heart's the source of some trouble. It's routinely counterproductive from logic.

[Klaus' reassurance and understanding is a relief for Fitz, and he'll sink a bit lower in his chair as he texts.]

I'd appreciate it if you would. I understand that things can be tense among yours. I'd like to do what I can to keep everyone safe. There's been too much bloodshed on all sides.

[poppycock]

Perhaps. But it is what drives you, what gives you power, and that can't be ignored. [ klaus out of anyone knows what it is to be told that softer feelings are to be belittled. he has championed such rationale; he knows where it comes from. he knows too that tender or violent, the heart cannot be contained.

and his friend truly is a miraculous mix of good intentions and ruthless impulse. klaus presses his lips together. thankfully: ] There's nothing to report now. All prior complications have been dealt with. [ caroline is no longer an issue, is what he means. ironically, he's avoiding the intimacy of her name, of his feelings, of those very real complications of the heart. ]