While You Were Tearing A Hole Inside Of Me, I Was Taking Control; Open

[middlefinger]

Who: Wynonna Earp and YOU
Where: various places among the mansion
When: all during the event + the rest of July
Rating: PG-13? I'll change if it goes worse
Summary: Wynonna tries out some ability disks for fun and profit. Pick a scenario and have fun with her. Prose or Actionspam welcome. Also other threads for the month will be in here too.
The Story:

a. the training room

The first disc Wynonna puts in is one labeled "super strength" and she wanted to test it out properly -- which means she can be found lifting up some of the equipment and putting it back down after, just because she can. She can also be found punching sandbags and sending them flying into the wall with the strength of her punch. It's pretty badass, honestly. And if anyone else with powers is around she might be challenging them to a sparring match to see how she can hold her own against them.

Come on. Let her have a little fun.

b. the beach

The second disc she tries is one labeled fire abilities. She's glathered some wood and other materials and is trying to start an impromptu bonfire but here's the problem -- once she starts the fire she doesn't really know how to control it and it is quickly becoming quite unwieldly and dangerous if someone doesn't intervene and help her control it.

Please help her, someone.

c. damon's bar

After the incident with the fire she's feeling a little more cautious about things. She can be found sitting behind the bar like she often is, holding a disc that she seems to be considering deep in thought. The power listed on this one is magnetism -- an ability that reminds her of Bobo Del Rey and a lot of the unpleasant memories she has of his particular power causing problems for them back in Purgatory. She's almost curious to try it just to see what it feels like -- but she's not so certain. She might need some encouragement.

d. if none of this works/you want to do something else, shoot me a pm and we can work it out!

Comments

a. the training room

[outstandingbalance]

[Natasha hadn't hoped to avoid people trying out powers here. She's not naive, or stupid. She had expected to find herself less distracted by it, though. She's used to people who are super strong.

So what if someone else is?

But it's evidence of how easily Wonderland can play with them. Not a fan.]

That's new. [Wryly. Because why leave when you can pretend you're not bothered at all. That's how this works.] Careful you don't pull something.

b

[madehervows]

[Regina has very little interest in the discs herself -- 28 years without her magic, and the occasional event that takes it away by force is enough for her, thank you. But an event like this means it's a chance to relax.

..Until the smell of smoke reaches her nose as she walks along the beach and the bonfire quickly becomes apparent. From her short distance away, it definitely looks like it's starting to rage out of control, so she rushes over.]

Need some help?

[middlefinger]

[Wynonna doesn't like when Wonderland messes with them, generally speaking, but at least this time there was a voluntary aspect of things, you didn't have to try out skills or powers if you didn't want to and her curiosity had ultimately gotten the best of her.

it just felt too cool to resist.]

You don't think I could, do you? [she hadn't thought that far, that when she removes the disc that her body might be sore from being used in ways it's not used to.]

[middlefinger]

Yes! I thought it would be cool but it's gotten way out of hand.

[mostly because wynonna has no idea what she's doing -- she's never had any powers or abilities like this before and she thought trying out some would be fun -- and it has been for the most part -- thinking things through is not exactly her strong point.]

[madehervows]

Alright, try to focus on one emotion. It doesn't matter what it is, but the stronger the better.

[She has no idea if the fire power Wynonna is using is similar to her realm's magic, but it's all she has to go on. And if it comes to it, she can put the fire out herself.]

[outstandingbalance]

Who knows? I don't have a lot of experience with instant super powers.

[Said with a shrug, because honestly, who even knows.]

I wouldn't rule it out though, all things considered. Being strong doesn't mean you can't throw your back out.

[middlefinger]

I guess I can't say I have a lot of experience with super powers one way or another -- most of the people I knew who had them back home weren't exactly friends.

[middlefinger]

Any emotion will work? I guess it can't hurt to try.

[before it would have been hard, focussing on a single emotion, wynonna was being pulled in so many different directions emotionally when she first arrived here, but after a year in wonderland she's changed a lot, and she likes to think for the better. she finds herself able to focus on the happiness she's found here, not just with doc, but with the friends and other people she's met at well. wynonna has never felt like she's belonged anywhere and this place might suck a lot of the time but she feels like she belongs here, and that's important to her.

and as she focuses on that happiness, the fire pulls itself in and begins to contain itself. it seems regina's theory is working]

d | choose your own adventure! later in the month, idek.

[wildwest]

"I'd ask why there's an entire shelf of half eaten donut boxes in our refrigerator, but I already know the answer."

The answer being a solid, all-encompassing Wynonna.

He busies himself with hauling all six boxes out of the fridge and moving the remaining donuts into one box, depositing the empty ones into the garbage. Some of those donuts looked a touch stale, but he knew better than to toss out the actual pastry. She'd eat them up until the point they started growing mold — and perhaps even past that point. It was maddening, but she wouldn't be the woman he fell in love with if she wasn't a complete mess like that.

[middlefinger]

"They're not all the same kind."

The protest comes from where Wynonna is sitting on the couch, cleaning and polishing Peacemaker. Doc had taught her how to do so properly a while ago, insisting that it was important to keep her weapon in good shape for whenever an event shows it's ugly face. For as much as her libido gets her distracted during his lessons sometimes she does actually listen to him. At least sometimes she does.

[wildwest]

"Well, they're in the same box now regardless," he says, pointedly dropping the box onto the rack inside the fridge so it shudders audibly. "Under normal circumstances, your teeth would have already rotted clear out of your mouth."

Leave it to him to get in a good comment about the state of her teeth. She's got untreated cavities she won't let him tend to as it is.

[middlefinger]

"Lucky for me we're not in normal circumstances, huh?"

Truth be told, Wynonna's teeth were in bad shape, but back home she had gotten used to dental pain. She didn't have dental insurance and it was easier to self medicate with alcohol and tylenol. She doesn't have the kind of money that it would cost to fix them, and here it doesn't matter. She wonders if he knows what a racket his profession has become.

[wildwest]

"I am an immortal gunslinger who ought to have perished a good hundred and thirty-one years ago, and you are the cursed great-great-granddaughter of my former best friend who spent her days sendin' revenants back to hell. You and I have never existed under normal circumstances, my dear."

Oh, he knows. And he may amp up said racket from time to time for the sole purpose of being an asshole and rattling her cage.

[middlefinger]

"True, but I also think that's probably why it's worked with us -- we'd both get hella bored under normal circumstances."

The awkwardness or weirdness of the situation would be a turn off for a lot of people, but neither Wynonna nor Doc are people who beat to the sounds of other people's drums.

[wildwest]

It helps that Wynonna has somehow managed to keep her last name under wraps. Who would have thought Doc would be exposed for the living relic he was before Wynonna outted herself as an Earp? There are days when he wonders if she'll ever come clean about that (and others where he yearns to ensure she'll never have to).

"Hopefully that ain't your way of sayin' you're startin' to." Get bored, that is.

[middlefinger]

Wynonna has no idea how she's managed to keep it under such good wraps, honestly. There are a few people who know her last name, but they are few and far between and a few of them have been sent back to their original worlds by now.

"If I was bored, you would know it."

Whether by her complaining loudly or acting out, he would know.

[wildwest]

"Good. I don't want you to ever get bored."

For a while, Doc had been waiting for her to. She'd get bored and move on and that would be that, but as time passed, that became less and less of a possibility. Wynonna was now a permanent fixture in his life, and it was a bit surreal to think that they've been together for almost a year.

[middlefinger]

"Luckily, I don't think there's much chance of that."

Honestly? Wynonna had assumed she would get bored and move on too. She had assumed there was an expiration date on all this, but the longer they were together the more she found reasons to stay and that boredom simply never came. And now he was a fixture to her life she wouldn't willingly give up ever (unless she was given the chance to go home).

[outstandingbalance]

So now why not go wild, right?

[Natasha can think of reasons, but she's not here to police anyone.

She just doesn't have to like it either.]

[wildwest]

He turns towards where she's resting on the couch, gaze flickering momentarily to whatever's playing on the television. Sometimes he would sit and watch her films with her, other times he just tuned it out completely, reducing the blare of the speakers to background noise.

"That right? Think you could do this — you and I — for a couple more years to come?"

[middlefinger]

"I made it a year, didn't I?" She asks with a small shrug of her shoulders, pausing in her work to look back towards him now. "I can't really imagine being in this place without us -- without this -- now. I think I can last however long we get here, even a few more years if it comes to it."

[middlefinger]

Exactly. What's the saying -- go big or go home?

[exercising caution is not one of wynonna's strong points, she acts first and thinks later no small amount of time.]

[outstandingbalance]

I feel like whoever said that never made it all that big.

[wildwest]

There's an impulse that's been coiling up within Doc for a few months now. One that is perhaps reckless and a bit foolish, but one he's managed to keep wound up — until now. It was sitting on a hair trigger at best before their conversation veered off in this direction, and there's no stopping it now.

His gaze meets hers and he smiles at her adoringly. "Neither can I. You have been my constant. You keep me grounded and do well to remind me of who I am, who I was, and who I ought to be."

[middlefinger]

Wynonna is blissfully unaware of the impulse he's been sitting on -- maybe even willfully so. She once went to the library and researched about courting rituals from his era and then freaked herself out when she realized most of it led to marriage, it had been the first time she considered that the joke he had made about them running off together during the Willa of it all might not have been a joke at all. She buried that knowledge and tried not to think about it because marriage isn't something she ever hoped for -- girls like her don't get married. But if her time in Wonderland has taught her anything it's that she's capable of a lot more than the people back in Purgatory had given her credit for.

She can't help but smile, her eyes closing briefly as she almost basks in the warmth of his affection. "So much for thinking I was only a bad influence on people -- but for the record, it goes both ways. You've kept me grounded too, supported me even when it was bad for you to do so, have offered me more patience and understanding than anyone else has -- I'm really glad that for once, I didn't ruin things."

There had been a few close calls, especially after he first admitted his feelings for her, but despite the odds, they've made it.