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entrancelogs2018-04-17 11:28 am
thesamurai) wrote in entrancelogs2018-04-17 11:28 am
° Open re-arrival
Who: Michonne, possibly you
Where: Roof, Grounds
When: April 17th
Rating: R for mentions of violence and most importantly, death of a child.
Summary: Michonne's back. Again. Tell a friend.
The Story:
[ She's back. And for the first time in all of the coming and going she's done in the three years she's been in Wonderland, this is the first time she's not pissed at leaving in the middle of something. As she stands on the rooftop, holding a letter in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other it's the blink of an eye and slow realization when her setting has changed. Alexandria becomes Wonderland, the smell of the dead is almost startlingly gone, and the memory of everything she's built in this place comes back.
I don't want you to be sad after this.
Closing her eyes, she drops her chin to her chest and lets out a breath as her eyes move over Carl's letter to Negan. It wasn't going to work. It was never going to work, hoping that his words might inspire some kind of truce. But she had to try, for him. She had to try and make it right. Staring out at Wonderland, she lets herself have a single fleeting thought, that Carl could come here. That he could come here and have a life and be a kid for a little while. But every time he does show up, he leaves in a matter of days or weeks. Still, she'd do a lot to see him again, to say the things she didn't because she couldn't believe she was losing another child. She'd vowed never to get close again, and yet somehow there'd been Carl and Judith and Rick, and here she is: carrying Carl's letters in her back pocket, grieving when he told her not to.
You're gonna have to be strong for dad. For Judith.
The rooftops of Wonderland have always seemed busy, so when she hears the door open behind her, she takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. Folding the letter carefully, she tucks it into her back pocket with her own letter and then stands and waits for whoever's arrived to either join her or go do their own thing. Her walkie-talkie is still in her hand, the static lightly hissing.
For yourself.
Later, on the grounds, she sits by the garden she made last summer, the beautiful dahlias a reminder of everyone she's lost both here, gone to their own worlds, and at home. With the letter Carl wrote for her out now, in her hands, she reads it over and over again, face tense and tears right there at the rim of her eyes but not falling. When the letter drops, she looks at the flowers, speaking, not to anyone, just to Carl. ]
We're going. We're going now to make it better. I'm here right now, but there? We're ending it with Negan. And I promise - I promise you - Judith has me. She'll always have me. World's gonna look good. I'll fight for it, for you. For her. We can be how we were. We will be.
[ She doesn't realize it, if anyone overhears, and she goes back to the letter in her hands. ]
Where: Roof, Grounds
When: April 17th
Rating: R for mentions of violence and most importantly, death of a child.
Summary: Michonne's back. Again. Tell a friend.
The Story:
[ She's back. And for the first time in all of the coming and going she's done in the three years she's been in Wonderland, this is the first time she's not pissed at leaving in the middle of something. As she stands on the rooftop, holding a letter in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other it's the blink of an eye and slow realization when her setting has changed. Alexandria becomes Wonderland, the smell of the dead is almost startlingly gone, and the memory of everything she's built in this place comes back.
I don't want you to be sad after this.
Closing her eyes, she drops her chin to her chest and lets out a breath as her eyes move over Carl's letter to Negan. It wasn't going to work. It was never going to work, hoping that his words might inspire some kind of truce. But she had to try, for him. She had to try and make it right. Staring out at Wonderland, she lets herself have a single fleeting thought, that Carl could come here. That he could come here and have a life and be a kid for a little while. But every time he does show up, he leaves in a matter of days or weeks. Still, she'd do a lot to see him again, to say the things she didn't because she couldn't believe she was losing another child. She'd vowed never to get close again, and yet somehow there'd been Carl and Judith and Rick, and here she is: carrying Carl's letters in her back pocket, grieving when he told her not to.
You're gonna have to be strong for dad. For Judith.
The rooftops of Wonderland have always seemed busy, so when she hears the door open behind her, she takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. Folding the letter carefully, she tucks it into her back pocket with her own letter and then stands and waits for whoever's arrived to either join her or go do their own thing. Her walkie-talkie is still in her hand, the static lightly hissing.
For yourself.
Later, on the grounds, she sits by the garden she made last summer, the beautiful dahlias a reminder of everyone she's lost both here, gone to their own worlds, and at home. With the letter Carl wrote for her out now, in her hands, she reads it over and over again, face tense and tears right there at the rim of her eyes but not falling. When the letter drops, she looks at the flowers, speaking, not to anyone, just to Carl. ]
We're going. We're going now to make it better. I'm here right now, but there? We're ending it with Negan. And I promise - I promise you - Judith has me. She'll always have me. World's gonna look good. I'll fight for it, for you. For her. We can be how we were. We will be.
[ She doesn't realize it, if anyone overhears, and she goes back to the letter in her hands. ]
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[ After nearly five years. Yeesh. ]
Been back home? [ He tests lightly. ]
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[ And it does. Same shit different day, every day. Then, she lets out a quiet breath and nods. ]
Yeah. I was there a couple weeks, maybe. Maybe not even that long, felt like longer.
[ She pauses for a beat, closing her eyes for half a second, remembering the event that brought the neighborhood they'd tried so damn hard for to Wonderland. ]
We lost Alexandra. Most of it, anyway. Got burned out.
[ She's just...so tired. ]
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... I'm sorry. [ He replies quietly, but sincerely. ] I wish we all could've been there to fight with you.
[ A naive thought, maybe, but an honest one. What it have meant for Michonne's people-... What would it mean for everyone if their new allies could travel to their worlds and provide aid? ]
You'll find another one. I know you've been in a bunch of places, but... your group's strong. You'll make it through.
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We're gonna rebuild it. No more running, no more hoping we find somethin' better. We're staying. Take the asshole who's trying to kill us all off one by one out of the picture. I'm not leaving the place I buried my family.
[ No more running. She's so sick of running. ]
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[ He knows how strong Michonne is and can only imagine what the rest of her group is like. They won't take this lying down. ]
If any of those guys that attacked you show up here, let me know. [ Unless they already have, in the past... ]
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[ She smiles, just a little at the memory. ]
But I will. [ Evie was supposed to be that person...things change. And she trusts Sam, at least. ]
Then what, though? Can't really lock people up here.
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[ This is somehow news to him, and his expression shows it. He's encountered face doubles before - back in their world and here, a handful of times - but that Michonne's enemy back home looks like John... ]
... I thought it was just 'cause he's an asshole.
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No. I came back after watchin' this guy, Negan beat two of my friends to death. So when I saw John the second I opened my eyes here I tried to kill him. Didn't even register until he broke my nose it wasn't the same asshole. Just glad he never held it against me. We got drinks a few times after that.
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[ He knows a thing or two about face twins, after all. ]
Glad you managed to make up afterward. [ Sam chuckles, shaking his head. ]
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[ Of course, she'd have to verify it was really him. She learned her lesson with John. ]
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[ Not the Colt, right...? Come to think of it, in the moment, Sam isn't sure if that's in his own possession, or Dean's, or... ]
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[ He didn't name it, if it had a name, in his letter to her. ]